Internet Co. wanted to utilize the voice of a singer for the creation of Vocaloid but felt it would be difficult to get a singer to agree. They consulted Dwango Co.,Ltd. who managed Nico Nico Douga, and Dwango suggested Gackt (神威 楽斗 Camui Gackt), a singer and actor, as he had previously provided his voice for Dwango's cell phone services [2]. He lent his voice and named the Vocaloid, Gackpoid. The product was originally intended to be released in June 2008, but though Gackt existed as a model for the Vocaloid, its illustrated avatar was yet to be determined. Finally a popular manga author, Kentaro Miura, famous for his dark fantasy epic Berserk, was asked to do the illustration [3]. Due to Miura's affection for Nico Nico Douga, he agreed to offer his services as a character designer for free. Gackpoid was released on July 31, 2008. Two of Gackt's songs and three other songs are also included as samples.[4][5]
An update with Gackpoid includes a new program, OPUS Express, for mixing vocal parts with accompaniment and phoneme data. There are 10 demo songs on the official site. [6][7]
Song Competition
In 2009, Gackt also challenged users of Vocaloid into a competition using Gakupo with the best song not only winning 10 million yen, but Gackt would also sing the song and include it on one of his next albums if he liked it enough.[8][9] In 2011, the winning song "Episode 0" by mathru/KanimisoP and runner up "Paranoid Doll" by natsuP (SCL Project), were featured being sung by Gackt in his 39th single set for release on 7/13, 2011. The producer of the runner up song also received 300,000 yen while the producers of the other 8 top ten songs received 100,000 yen each.[10][11][12]
This album is set to be released on the 13th July 2011, and will be Gackt's 39th single album under the title "Episode.0". The short preview for the original version of the song "Episode.0" in Gackt's version was released during the month of May 2011 Gackt-Episode.0 (Short PV However during the early days of the month of June an official video of the complete version of the song was uploaded on Nico Nico Douga Gackt-Episode.0 (Unofficial PV)
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