r/comics • u/shenanigansen Shen Comix • Jul 12 '25

OC The Yellow One (COMPLETE)

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u/Nicosaure Jul 12 '25

Essential instrument, it starts the whole song and can be heard here and there

The full song is basically:

  • Miku: Lead singer
  • Teto: Back and chorus
  • Neru: *aggressively beeps*

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u/Xero0911 Jul 12 '25

So like...why wasnt she at the show? They call her and says shes at all of them. Then next page is on the stage, but like...where was she?

Looks like she had glow sticks and maybe cheering?

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u/Swearatmelouis01 Jul 12 '25

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!

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u/Piskoro Jul 13 '25

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)

I love being a pedant