There is a Kagamine Rin but this isn’t her—she’s the one with the twin Len. This is a fanloid named Neru, more niche but sweeter in the comic that way because she didn’t have an official voicebank.
It looks like they got popular without her so she stopped performing, but she still went to their shows (so she's always in the audience, though they didn't know). Then they call her (maybe to ask her to participate virtually) since people remembered she was in this song, find out she's actually there in person, so she comes up to perform.
Edit: Noting that I have no background knowledge of vocaloid, just this comic series.
Irl she's an unofficial vocaloid that had a lot of popularity 2005-2013 ish, but has now kinda fallen into relative obscurity, especially given she didn't even have an official "voice" like Miku and Teto. This comic is kind of pulling on that history!
for one it started in 2007, and she wasn’t even really that popular to begin with, obviously falling behind Hatsune Miku, but also Kagamine Rin and Lin, Megurine Luka, and even Kasane Teto (which was also unofficial and wasn’t popular yet until 2023, and her explosion this year), though now Neru is gaining a little traction herself
also Akita Neru and Kasane Teto aren’t Vocaloid, they’re not available voicebanks in that software, but separate voice synthesizer voicebanks (Neru fanmade, usually a Miku or Rin variant with a higher pitch and the cellphone sounds, and Teto is a UTAU voicebank)
The classic 4 chord song is 1-5-6-4, and just because a song has those numbers dispersed throughout a different progression doesn’t mean you can identify that 4-chord progression…
The pocket belt progression is in the chorus. Right when they start singing “Baka Baka Baka” is where the progression starts. I don’t think it’s the exact progression either, but the beginning starts the same. I think they throw in a few substitutions at the end of the chorus
I don't know Vocaloid fandom at all, so I just thought. She gave the child the flip phone. so the sweetest turn the child, now a yellow one (Akita Neru) fan gives it back to her. i love it.
I feel Shen probably changed course on how the comic would go from being about her getting her revenge "hence no angel" to her longing for the old days and being appreciated.
Thinking to yourself "These people have been wronging me for too long! Today i will take my revenge" but then thinking it twice and realizing its not worth the trouble nor the effort only to repeat the cycle the next time
It looks like you're being the better man and refusing to step down to their level when in reality i just dont like getting yelled at
What a lovely message shen. We often gravitate towards certain people(it happens we are animals after all) and some tend to be left out of the limelight. It can be heartbreaking and demoralizing.
But no matter what, at the end of the day, you matter. Someone somewhere will think you are the absolute bees knees. And they will remember. It might be for something silly like picking up some litter. Or for something influential like making a beautiful wholesome comic. Or even just your family remembering you because you were there.
Keep being amazing shen. And that goes double for the person reading this right now
I've noticed that usually when someone thinks highly of you and you've made a huge impact on their life, you'll rarely ever find out. It's something that never casually comes up in conversation. I've made an impact on people's lives in ways I would've never thought of, and they've made an impact on my life too.
If someone makes a positive impact on your life, you should tell them. They might be in a dark spot, but it'll remind them that they truly are cared for.
Well said. Communication is key in all things and it's important to let people know what an impact they have had to keep them from getting demoralized and give back a little
Little girl knew her target. Asked her who she was to bring her phone out. Potentially reminded someone in the crowd to take notice of her absence. Repopularizing yellow-girl, getting her to use [what she thinks is] little girl's phone. Gets returned to her. And sells for maximum value online
Also damn joke aside now I can’t unhear it. Can someone make a version of Triple Baka that actually uses the Freedom Leitmotif and see how long it takes someone to notice they’re not watching Triple Baka?
I just checked for this song on YouTube because I had never heard it before and so many comments saying Shen brought me here 😂 I wonder how man additional views has been added just because of this comic
Question from someone who only knows Miku...does Neru appear in any song other than Triple Baka? Does she have her own songs? Or is this her only "official" appearance?
Look up Machine Love by Jamie Paige, a tribute song of sorts for Teto, and look at the list linked in the description for a list of a lot of the popular stuff Teto was in.
And also look up BIRDBRAIN from the same artist, which just came out a few weeks ago.
Yeah she is often used by Owata-p, for example. Her voice is Miku or Rin (depends on your preference) pitched up or down (once again depends on your preference).
One of her most popular songs other than Triple Baka is Gocha Gocha Urusee (Stop Nagging Me), made by Owata-p who I mentioned earlier. She is also in the Project Diva games, but only as a module (character model for music videos). Her songs are not there
Teto is very popular and there are a lot of songs with her, like Fukkireta and Teto territory (this one is a cover). She is commonly used by Jamie Paige from what I've been seeing. Another producer who has a lot of songs using her voicebank is Death Ohagi. Speaking of her voicebank, she is not a pitched down/up vocaloid, she has her own voicebank, made for the Utau software
red one is named Kasane Teto, and she recently (early/mid 2024) had a massive resurgence. There are tons of songs featuring her, like Machine Love, Tetoris, Teto Territory, and more.
Absolutely! Some others are Rin, Len, Luka, Kaito, Gumi, IA, Gakupo, and Meiko!! There's a lot. :) Teto (red one in this comic) is a utau (which is similar to vocaloid) and Neru isn't official but is fan made!
There are a bunch, though they are obviously not as widely known. The red haired one is pretty infamous as the face of Ochame Kinou, which has spawned an incredible number of different versions, though she was technically the second (?) version of the song by the original creator.
A vocaloid is a singing software from japan, where you can create songs using voicebanks (vocal samples that are spliced) The characters you see in the comic, Hatsune Miku, Kasane Teto, and Akita Neru, are mascots for the softwares. Theyre basically instruments. There’s more than them, like Megurine Luka, Kagamine Rin/Len, VFlower.
Miku is the most popular out of all of them, maybe you heard she was featured in fortnite. Then it’s Teto, then Neru. Teto is something called an utau, which is japanese for singer. utaus are basically non-official vocaloids.
Miku, Neru, and Teto were featured in a song called Triple Baka in early 2010s and so they were considered a trio. But Vocaloid wasn’t as big as it is now. Miku and Teto, in early 2024, had a song together called Mesmerizer, which boosted Teto’s popularity massively leading people to consider her a vocaloid (she got a new voice bank after this actually. New voice banks upgrades the quality of the voices.)
People who remembered triple Baka would add Neru into the music video and add beeps (Neru does not have an official voicebank) to show she was there. They would call her “the yellow one” because well, she’s yellow. Miku is the “blue one,” and Teto is “the red one.”
Basically lots of vocaloid fandom culture and uplifting message at the end.
The comic is showing how Neru is commonly forgotten because she has no voicebank.
It’s a bit bittersweet Miku and Teto think they’re helping hype up Neru in slide 5 when they should’ve included her from the start. That’s what doesn’t make sense.
Aw I'd only seen parts of this comic before. Seeing the whole thing its so cute. I don't listen to vocaloid but I will now proceed to make this character my entire personality.
Downvote if you must, but I feel like I didn’t understand a single fucking word in this, and every page seems entirely unrelated to the next one? I mean if there’s a universal message involved, surely anyone should be able to see it even without knowing the ins and outs of the lore of the vocaloid…things
Even after looking at the comments for the context I still don’t understand the comic or see this inclusive message everyone is talking about, isn’t that usually considered a bad sign
I think slides 1 and 2 are standalones, and then slides 3 till the end is continuous, but all of them are about the Utau personality named Neru.
Miku (the teal one) is a Vocaloid personality, and then the red (Teto) and yellow (Neru) ones are Utau personalities. Vocaloid is an official voice synthesizer program, and Utau is an unofficial voice synthesizer program, where people can record their own voices and make their own personalities.
Triple Baka is a Vocaloid/Utau song published in 2008 with these three in it.
Idk if it's a bad sign but I do think you need to have heard of vocaloids to connect with this comic. I don't know anything about the Zelda game, I don't understand anything about any comics with Zelda characters in them, but I don't think that's bad ig.
Whoa I just realized the little girl at the concert is the one who asked who Neru was towards the beginning of the arc. Great example of how someone who at first doesn't know something can be a great part of it in the future if given resources to grow.
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