Vocaloid Descriptions: Fukase

Fukase's official boxart
(he has a skirt, a scarf, high heels, leggings, and a dress, but still looks like a boy somehow XD)
     Fukase
Voice donor: Satoshi Fukase
Engine: V4
 Company: Made and sold by Yamaha
Release date: January 2016
Updates and/or additional voicebanks: Fukase comes with three voicebanks: Normal, Soft, and English. The Japanese ones, Normal and Soft, can be cross-synthesized.
Language: Japanese, English
Voice type: Middle-ranged, clear young male voice.
 Weaknesses: He has a slight Japanese accent...
Strengths: ...but it’s certainly much less pronounced than some of the other Vocaloids (Rin+Len, Luka, Miku, Kaito, Meiko, Gumi). You can tell that his voice donor worked really hard on his English. I’ve also heard that he’s relatively easy to use.
Reception: Umm… Fukase has become the Vocaloid Memelord, and knowing the Internet, it’s probably because of his name. Oh well, at least it’s kept him from being forgotten. He’s also respected as high quality- I mean, he was made by Yamaha, after all. Interesting story about that. His voice donor, Satoshi Fukase from the band SEKAI NO OWARI (you may have heard of them- they collaborated with Owl City on the song Tokyo), sent a request for making a Vocaloid to Yamaha in 2014… by snail-mail. Eventually Yamaha accepted.

My opinion: He’s one of my favorites, and I’m happy that he’s popular. He also sounds a bit like Adam Young (Owl City), which is another plus.

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