We never get enough Sonika news so when this little treat arrived in my inbox I was more than pleased. YouTube user TheIndisputed21 released his first Vocaloid album earlier this week titled “The Beautiful Stories” starring Vocaloid Sonika. It is available free to download, with 12 tracks total, and cover art by Shadman. The cross-fade demo is embedded below.
1. k.
2.The Other Sky
3.Li(f)e
4.You Come for Me
5.Neuro
6.Her
7.Cynical Chemical
8.Silent Sleep
9.Lovingly
10.Red Flag
11.Because
12.The Beautiful Stories
Speaking of Vocaloid album The BIG ALbum is in its final stretch, now is your last chance to pre-order on Kickstarter and recieve free shipping. [The BIG Album]
E-Capsule, the corporation responsible for the distribution for the English Vocaloid in Taiwan, redesigned all English Vocaloid2 today. The boxarts of the upcoming release were showed to us together with a profile for each English Vocaloid. Now each Vocaloid has an ‘official’ profile along with Sonika. For more info on their redesign check out our previous E-Capsule Overview.
Here are the new box arts. Feel free to click them for the full profile.
Crypton made ‘new’ boxart based off the original Engloid designs for their Japanese retail release.
Crypton made ‘new’ boxart based off the original Engloid designs for their Japanese physical release.
Previously we had a feature on Ecapsule & Their Redesigns and the old Engloids blog took a look at Sonika’s Mandarin release. So other companies reselling Engloids in their respective regions is hardly anything new.
That being said the fact that Crypton is reselling the Engloids as “Virtual Instruments” in the Crypton Marketplace along with providing a fancy physical DVDs and boxes is news to me. I know I only recently found out when browsing Vocaloid.com’s 3rd Party Vocaloid 2 Listing and found them linking to Crypton Market pages.
They are priced at 19,950¥ or roughly $260. A bit expensive compared to the digital downloads available direct from PowerFX/Zero-G but about on par with many retail box releases of other Vocaloid 2s. I am unsure if like Sonika in Mandarin they come with additional native language usage materials but they are stamped onto physical DVDs.
The designs are the same as the PowerFX & Zero-G but the 3d renditions of the retail boxes are something new. Check them out for yourself at Crypton’s website following the links below.
Doujin Circle “いんぐろいど” is set to release an Engloid themed anthology at The Voc@loid M@ster aka Vom@s, a quarterly Vocaloid convention held in Tokyo & Kanagawa Prefecture.
The Circle is being lead by Tama and 9 other contributors. Full details can be found on this infopage and samples can be viewed in this pixiv album.
If by some miracle one of you is attending the event, look for them at booth F64 and expect it to set you back 800 Yen (roughly $10) for 104 pages of Engloid goodness.
Special thanks to Karlita & sleepysheep for contributing to this report.
Zero-G’s Vocaloid sale continues into August with an additional 10% off their July discounted prices. With the additional 10% off these are now the lowest prices that their Vocaloids have ever been!
Sonika, Prima, and Tonio are available for $79.99/£56 at their respective websites:
Leon, Lola, and Miriam are available here and are still $55.99 but now come with a $25 discount coupon for your next Zero-G purchase.
You can always keep saving for Vocaloid 3, likely the reason for this sale, but the editor should be backward compatible with all Vocaloid 2s. This sale should be good for the rest of August.
