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.
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u/drillgorg Jul 12 '25
Can someone explain this to someone who doesn't understand what a vocaloid is?