Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Now you, too, can watch a man's self-esteem crumple in real time w
Outside of that, it suddenly occurs to me that unless you were following me pre-2013, most people on this channel probably haven't seen my animation things? And to be fair, I haven't done much animation since I lost access to Flash circa 2015 or so—and this is certainly the most ambitious thing I've done since then!!—but it's nice to finally be able to share one of my Pencil2D projects w Please enjoy the spoils of my solid week of work w
That being said, there's definitely a bit of context to be had here. If you're active in the vocal synth community there's a good chance you've run across rice/rice_deity and their work at some point, whether through their PVs, ask blogs, webcomic world building, or other miscellaneous projects.
Back in September I had a dream that they'd come up with a new AU for one of their ask blogs and that I'd finally taken the dive and made my own blog to participate in the story line, which took the form of a decommissioned KYO android who'd become a journalist after a faulty voice chip cut their idol career short (you can find that original thread here: twitter.com/miodiodavinci/status/1433523343467048962 ).
Except rice drew a literally iconic response to my KYO doodle ( twitter.com/rice_deity/status/1437522512255066119 ) and I loved it so much I immediately started working on a talkloid for it because I Actually Make A Great Deal of Talkloids I Just Never Show Them™ and I really wanted to get a rough concept going for what Journalist KYO's voice would sound like (and here was the perfect opportunity ! ! ! ) w
and well i got to the mixing stage and then uni proceeded to eat up every single moment of free time i had so i had to put the project on hold (along with that one i teased back in december—which i'm finally back to making progress on, by the way!!)
But now it's here ! ! ! Frantically put together in the single week of time I had between finishing the ZOLA Pride Knight stickers (which you can find here by the way whoops: redbubble.com/people/miodiodavinci/shop?asc=u ), working on the aforementioned teaser project, and deep cleaning our house for five consecutive 8 hour days.
Does this count as a proper ZOLA anniversary milestone? It does in my book! It may not be music, but I've got something to show for my effort and that's really what matters to me w. Besides—if I manage to play my cards right and my next year of uni isn't total hell, I should have something a bit bigger in store next year (which—incidentally—will probably be the last time I'll do an anniversary).
Either way—enjoy! Stick around to the end for a bit of bonus art, why don't you? w
Inspired by the original "Wouldn't you like to know, Weather Boy?" clip w
Now you, too, can watch a man's self-esteem crumple in real time w
Outside of that, it suddenly occurs to me that unless you were following me pre-2013, most people on this channel probably haven't seen my animation things? And to be fair, I haven't done much animation since I lost access to Flash circa 2015 or so—and this is certainly the most ambitious thing I've done since then!!—but it's nice to finally be able to share one of my Pencil2D projects w Please enjoy the spoils of my solid week of work w
That being said, there's definitely a bit of context to be had here. If you're active in the vocal synth community there's a good chance you've run across rice/rice_deity and their work at some point, whether through their PVs, ask blogs, webcomic world building, or other miscellaneous projects.
Back in September I had a dream that they'd come up with a new AU for one of their ask blogs and that I'd finally taken the dive and made my own blog to participate in the story line, which took the form of a decommissioned KYO android who'd become a journalist after a faulty voice chip cut their idol career short (you can find that original thread here: twitter.com/miodiodavinci/status/1433523343467048962 ).
Except rice drew a literally iconic response to my KYO doodle ( twitter.com/rice_deity/status/1437522512255066119 ) and I loved it so much I immediately started working on a talkloid for it because I Actually Make A Great Deal of Talkloids I Just Never Show Them™ and I really wanted to get a rough concept going for what Journalist KYO's voice would sound like (and here was the perfect opportunity ! ! ! ) w
and well i got to the mixing stage and then uni proceeded to eat up every single moment of free time i had so i had to put the project on hold (along with that one i teased back in december—which i'm finally back to making progress on, by the way!!)
But now it's here ! ! ! Frantically put together in the single week of time I had between finishing the ZOLA Pride Knight stickers (which you can find here by the way whoops: redbubble.com/people/miodiodavinci/shop?asc=u ), working on the aforementioned teaser project, and deep cleaning our house for five consecutive 8 hour days.
Does this count as a proper ZOLA anniversary milestone? It does in my book! It may not be music, but I've got something to show for my effort and that's really what matters to me w. Besides—if I manage to play my cards right and my next year of uni isn't total hell, I should have something a bit bigger in store next year (which—incidentally—will probably be the last time I'll do an anniversary).
Either way—enjoy! Stick around to the end for a bit of bonus art, why don't you? w
Inspired by the original "Wouldn't you like to know, Weather Boy?" clip w









![【KYO English】MONSTER (by KIRA)【VOCALOIDカバー】
Itll be a quick cover, I thought, just a simple English tuning test. Itll be fun... And then I was promptly smited by God over and over for the next 12 months without respite.
Is this an actual new VB called KYO English? No. Is the title misleading? Yes. Am I keeping it because it sounds snappy and this was eventually intended to be an April Fools upload to begin with?? You bet. Do I feel any regret? Maybe a little bwease dont be mad skdjfhlgkjdf
FJKLHSFKJSFH That aside this cover is!! Now officially one year in the making!! I started this whole mess on July 24, 2018, and now here we are―one year later, and good god was it a disaster the entire way w
While the main vocal track went through several passes, eventually honing in that English pronunciation as best I could through the help of low OPE notes, plenty of [ - ] connectors, and lots and lots of consonant fudging, managing all four sets of harmonies quickly got out of control ; ; ;
One of the biggest problems I ran into was just that at some point during the initial beta mix stage, I had a ton of renders Id made on the fly and a million tracks with minute adjustments, and before I knew it dealing with the GB file was near impossible without having to re-render and re-mix near every track every time I wanted to make a change, so it ended up being that while the main vocals got more and more polished over time, the harmonies basically stayed the same as when I first tuned them w
As a result theres still a ton of muddy sections where the pronunciation isnt great (most notably there I originally used [ sh ] in place of [ th ] and later replaced it with [ f ] but only on the main vocals sdfjkghl) but honestly ! ! ! Its good enough to get the job done, so its time to get this monster out of my hair ! ! ! !
To be honest, even //beginning// to approach KIRAs tuning was a challenge in and of itself, and dealing with the mixing on top of it changed this cover from a struggle to a nightmare, but all in all Im glad its finally done. Its hard to try to match up to a dark magic user like KIRA, but hopefully this cover at least has a little charm of its own!!
I had a lot of fun working on the module design for this PV!! It was a challenge to figure out how to make an outfit that fit the overall look I wanted KYO to have while still paying homage to GUMIs simple yet striking design. Does he look like a punk clown?? Absolutely. But whos going to be the one to say it to his face? w
PV blatantly modeled after the original―forgive me KIRA―but when the originals as iconic and kick ass as it is, its hard not to tbh sdfkjhglskdfjglsdf
So thats about it ! ! ! Looks like I actually managed to sneak in something else before I disappeared for the winter!! Hope yall enjoy and Ill probably see you again sometime next year unless I get another personal deadline to kick myself into gear!!
MP3: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wlqf5ayoxvw9zg5/%E3%80%90KYO%20English%E3%80%91MONSTER%20%28by%20KIRA%29%E3%80%90VOCALOID%E3%82%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%80%91.mp3?dl=0
AIFF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f0wovuy7iybln04/%E3%80%90KYO%20English%E3%80%91MONSTER%20%28by%20KIRA%29%E3%80%90VOCALOID%E3%82%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%80%91.aiff?dl=0
WAV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vqgon2zmwng42ao/%E3%80%90KYO%20English%E3%80%91MONSTER%20%28by%20KIRA%29%E3%80%90VOCALOID%E3%82%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%80%91.wav?dl=0
also guess who forgot to put the credits in the PV but a special thanks to まきがね for their buckingham club chair models that i ended up heavily using as a ref for the chair in the PV a a a a a a a
(also also as always please dont reuse/reupload my PVs especially not for other covers i put a lot of work into these and theyre real personal to me so sdfjkgldfgh) 【KYO English】MONSTER (by KIRA)【VOCALOIDカバー】](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/F6mIP8kW1qM/mqdefault.jpg)
