Zundamon

1. #1Crypton Future Media, Inc.

   Keys: Zundamon, Vocaloid

   Crypton Future Media, Inc. is an importer of sound devices based in Sapporo, Japan. The company is also known as the developer and distributor of VOCALOIDs such as Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin & Len, and Megurine Luka. It was the very first of the VOCALOID companies to produce a series. Key people: Hiroyuki Itō (president). Founded: July 21, 1995. Status: Active. Location: 11F Nihon Seimei Sapporo Bldg., 1-1 Nishi4 Kita3, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-0003 Japan (060-0003 札幌市中央区北3条西4丁目1-1 日本生命札幌ビル11F). Service: Japan, USA. Type: Music software, Online shopping, Online community, Mobile content, Sound generator software, Sampling CDs and DVDs Sound effect libraries, Background music libraries. Products: MEIKO, KAITO, Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin & Len, Megurine Luka. Website: http://www.crypton.co.jp/. Crypton Future Media, Inc. was established in 1995 as an importer and seller of music software. Crypton joined the project in May 2002, Crypton's handling of the two Japanese Vocaloids were MEIKO (released in 2004) and KAITO (released in 2006), they also were the Japanese distributors for Leon, Lola and Miriam. Meiko and Kaito were developed by Yamaha with Crypton Future Media being used to get the product commercially released, similar to the role of Bplats, Inc. in regards to the releases of VY1 and VY2. They were not acknowledged as "Crypton Vocaloids" at the time since they belonged to Yamaha. According to Crypton themselves, they were also charged with recommending English studios for the English version of the software, these companies were Zero-G and PowerFX. Crypton's role in the VOCALOID era was public relations, promotion, ditributor and potential recruiter of English companies for production of English voicebanks. They did not produce their own Vocaloids at this stage and would not do until early 2007 when Yamaha announced VOCALOID2. The company was small and mostly unheard of. Crypton Future Media began production on actual voicebanks in early 2007, after the announcement of VOCALOID2, originally planning only the Character Vocal Series with 3 members,which would later produce a trend of using 'avatars' or 'mascots' to represent the VOCALOID program. The success of this commercial strategy made Crypton the leading VOCALOID developer. It was not until Hatsune Miku was released in August 2007 that Crypton, along with VOCALOID, became popular. The success of Miku lead to the Vocaloid craze in 2007 and 2008, which continued for many years afterwards. According to Crypton, because professional singers refused to provide singing data (because they feared that the software might create clones of their singing voices), Crypton changed their focus from imitating certain singers to creating characteristic vocals. This goal change led to them sampling the vocals of voice actors. Yuu Asakawa noted that each recording for an update is a new recording. Pressure from rival companies cause systems and microphones to be updated regularly.

2. #2Zundamon

   Keys: Zundamon

   Zundamon (ずんだもん) is a Japanese vocal synthesizer character developed and distributed by SSS LLC. since May 2017. Since then, she has received voicebanks for UTAU, released in May 2017, VOICEVOX (August 2021) and NEUTRINO (August 2022), as well as a VOICEPEAK text-to-speech library (developed in collaboration with AH-Software Co. Ltd.) that is not sold as a standalone product, but rather bundled with VOICEPEAK products Tohoku Zunko (released in January 2023),Tohoku Kiritan (released in June), and Tohoku Itako (released in October). She received a CeVIO AI Song Voice and a VoiSona Song Voice in June 2024, also distributed by AH-Software. She has also been released on voice conversion software, such as Seiren Voice, in November 2022. Her voice is provided by the Japanese voice actress Itou Yuina (伊い藤とうゆいな), who also voices Mitarashi Mary from jamBAND, the music band which Tsurumaki Maki belongs to. Zundamon is a zunda-mochi sprite who is capable of transforming into Zunko's "Zunda Arrow". She also carries a somewhat unlucky attribute and often goes under everyone's radar, unnoticed. Her mascot form, which debuted in 2014, is used for her UTAU voicebank. Zundamon can transform into a human at will. Her human form, called bishoujo (美び少しょう女じょ) and which debuted in 2021, is used for her later voicebanks.

3. #3History

   Keys: Zundamon, History

   2010s: [Zundamon first made an appearance on April 10, 2014 on Zunko's official homepage. In June 2016, SSS LLC., in collaboration with WAO Corporation and Studio Live, applied for the young animator development project "Anime Tamago 2017"; they were selected as the commissioned production organization. The film was animated under the title Zunda Horizon (ずんだホライずん). As requested by the commissioning organization, it was produced in full animation, as were the other animations. It also introduced five singing songs –all made in vocal synthesizers like VOCALOID for Zunko and UTAU for all other characters–, some of which featured musical-style performances. On January 13, 2017, Zunko's Twitter account asked fans if there was anyone who would like to produce a demo song with Zundamon, should the latter ever had an UTAU. On February 11, the anime film's full cast of characters and their voice actresses was published; it listed Zundamon as being voiced by Itou Yuina, although there she would have no speech lines other than "nano da", as remarked by a later tweet posted after the fact. On March 11, a completion announcement screening for Zunda Horizon was held at Ikebukuro HUMAX Cinemas along with three other films, followed by a late show screening at Theatre Shinjuku from April 22 to April 28, and an in-flight screening on JAL. The UTAU soundtrack recorded for the anime was also released, featuring demo songs of various of the new characters. Zundamon's voicebank recording was completed on March 12. On May 9, the anime was released on YouTube and NicoNico for free for a month, and the production story was broadcast on Studio Live's channel. A crowdfunding campaign was also conducted for this anime; if a certain percentage was to be achieved, then the next production would be considered. Zundamon's UTAU, produced under the direction of Higenashi (also known as Higeoex), was released as a free download on May 21 along with the debut on NicoNico and YouTube of her demo song "Sweet Green"] 2020: [On July 3, 2020, a crowdfund campaign for an AI singing voicebank for Tohoku Itako on the NEUTRINO engine was launched; its second stretch goal (which was met at 217%) included funding for talk voicebanks for both Zundamon and Shikoku Metan (Zunko's classmate) on the VOICEVOX text-to-speech engine, which was still under development] 202: [On July 31, 2021, the first demo of Zundamon and Metan talking on VOICEVOX was published by Zunko; the next day, VOICEVOX went live online, and Zunko encouraged her followers to give it a try and play with Metan and Zundamon's voices there. On October 9, their VOICEVOX banks were announced to receive a major update soon] 2022: [On February 1, 2022, a crowdfund campaign for Zundamon to receive her own AI singing voicebank for NEUTRINO, as well as a Whisper mode for her VOICEVOX, was announced; it was set to begin on February 9. After the campaign's main goal (and all its four stretch goals, which included not only a Whisper mode for VOICEVOX Shikoku Metan but also a NEUTRINO version of Metan) were met,[31] AI Zundamon (as her NEUTRINO was dubbed, following the same pattern as the Tohoku sisters' NEUTRINO voicebanks) and her VOICEVOX's Whisper mode were developed, completed, and set for release on August 1; crowdfund backers received both early on July 18 but were told to postpone publishing their works with them until the general public release date. In November, on AH-Software's YouTube channel, Zunko's demo video for VOICEPEAK (an AI talking software co-developed by AH-Software and Dreamtonics Co., Ltd.) announced that Zundamon would be included with Zunko as a bonus voicebank (along with Frimomen); they were expected to be released in December but later delayed to January 2023] 2024: [Zundamon and Shikoku Metan were announced on May 21, 2024 to be receiving Song Voices for the CeVIO AI engine; pre-orders were opened for both of them at the AHS Store, with release date set for June 18.[7] They were also announced for the VoiSona Song engine] Marketing: [In October 2023, Zundamon and her voice provider Itou Yuina launched ZunPARAdio (ずんパラじお), a weekly live-broadcast radio program on NicoNico Channel]

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