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vocaloidfactoftheday · 8 months

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Have You Seen This Lost GUMI Anime Pilot?

This is a bit of an unusual post for this blog, but I think I may have come across a case of lost media involving an anime pilot starring GUMI. It's possible that it exists on the Internet, and I hesitate to declare this as "lost media," but I cannot find it anywhere, and I figured that a post on this blog was the best way to see if anyone has any leads or extra info.

The anime is titled "Koisuru Dessan Ningyo," with an English title of "Do Drawing Dolls Dream of Love?" I don't know the runtime of the pilot, but I think it was most likely around 5-7 minutes. I believe this could have been the first instance of a Vocaloid being cast in a main voice acting role (perhaps, the first one cast in any voice acting role). I'm not completely sure if they actually used the Megpoid voicebank, or had Megumi Nakajima voice act as GUMI, but the way AnimeAnime (Japanese anime news site) describes it, it seems like it may have been the former. In either case, the character that GUMI portrays in the anime is a character that is clearly made to resemble her.

(These are the only screenshots I could find that come from the pilot, but more may exist.)

The main character is a doll (who I'm not sure is named), who models for a girl's drawings before eventually falling in love with her. I don't believe GUMI's character has a name, but she plays a main role as the girl the doll falls in love with.

Where It Was Seen

The pilot aired on NHK TV on January 9, 2014, during late night (possibly just after midnight?). It aired alongside another pilot as part of the program Aoyama 1seg Kaihatsu. This was a sort of tournament, where two pilots were broadcast once a month for three months, and viewers would vote for which pilot they liked best. Then, the three winners would go against each other in a final round, where the pilot with the most votes would get picked up to become a series. (I think they held this tournament once a year from 2010 to 2014 or 2015, though I don't know if it was the exact same every time.) The broadcast was 25 minutes long for each of the first three rounds, with the first half dedicated to showing both pilots and the second half dedicated to presentations about each pilot. (This is why I think this pilot was around 5-7 minutes, though I'm not sure exactly how much time commercial breaks would take up.) For a few years, including 2014, the program was hosted by the now-disbanded Japanese girl group E-girls (no relation to what you and I know as "e-girls." in their case the E stands for "exile.")

According to the official Tumblr account, karappo-heart, this pilot won the first round of the competition! It probably didn't make it out of the finals, though, since it didn't get picked up for a series. It's also possible that it did win, but some other issues prevented its production. In any case, the Tumblr account hasn't been updated since the first round ended. While this contest was going on, three shorts were apparently available to watch on NHK's website, but they have since been removed. I think at least one of the shorts was web-exclusive. I haven't been able to find info on who actually won the finals, or even what GUMI's short won against.

People Involved

The doll is portrayed by a masked dancer refererred to as Hitori de Dekiru Mon. I can't find much info about him online, but I think his real name is Takemura Ryohei. (I'm not sure because that part on his Japanese Wikipedia article has a "citation needed" label.) AnimeAnime specifically refers to his role as being the doll's "human form," though it's possible he provided voice acting too. AnimeAnime points out the unusual nature of having a human portray a doll, and having a Vocaloid portray a human.

Masanori Okamoto (who also wrote the screenplay and produced the pilot) animated the pilot with the pixilation technique, using time-lapse pictures to show movement of objects and people (this may have included live-action photos of the doll's actor portraying a "human form" of the doll). It seems like it may have blended stop motion/puppetry and live action stills with traditional animation? This is an example of Okamoto's work from around the same time, which seems like it might have been made in a similar style:

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The third known person to have worked on this is none other than Vocaloid producer sasakure.UK. He composed the theme song, which of course features GUMI, and a few other songs to be used in potential future episodes. If you're a big fan of his, the anime title may sound familiar to you, as he released 3 of these songs (though both news sites I looked at, AnimeAnime and Anime News Network, say he made 4 total) plus their instrumentals as an EP under the same title. You can listen to the whole thing on YouTube!

I think this EP uses GUMI's VOCALOID3 voicebanks (the first sounds like either Native or Sweet, the second one sounds like Adult or Power (if it even is GUMI--it sounds more like IA to me, but sasakure.UK labeled it as a GUMI song so I kinda have to take his word for it) and the third sounds like Sweet). If that's the case, her V3 voicebanks would have probably been used for the voice acting, too.

Places I've Looked

After some Internet searches only garnered me a few screenshots, I decided to see if there was a way I could ask sasakure.UK himself about the short. I believe he has a contact form on his website, which I used to send a message in both Japanese and English (in case Google Translate was more helpful to him than my incoherent Japanese). This was back in May of this year and I never received a response. (Since I used a website contact form and not a direct email, I don't have the message I sent him anymore. I guess that's lost media now too.)

It occured to me while writing this post that I never contacted the animator himself, Masanori Okamoto. While his Vimeo and YouTube pages don't have the pilot, and his Twitter and Tumblr links haven't been updated in several years, he does have an email address listed. I sent him a message (in English because I was too sick and tired to try to write a coherent email in Japanese and I don't like waiting to do these things). I'm not sure he still checks his email since his social media that I've found has all been inactive for years, but I will post an update if he responds.

I know that this pilot is not on the NHK website, or, again, on the animator's YouTube or Vimeo pages. I also could not find it on the Internet Archive.

Now, I don't expect anyone reading this to have saved this on their computer and kept it there since 2014. But with this post, my goal is simply to make more people aware that this exists at all, and I'd also like to learn more about it myself (such as whether or not the pilot won in the finals after all, how much animation actually exists for it, if any more screenshots are out there, etc.)

Thank you for reading such a long post! Please feel free to correct any info I got wrong, or add on to this post with any knowledge you might have about this lost pilot!

(also sorry for any typos :()

#vocaloid #lost media #sasakure.uk #gumi #japanese vocaloid #vocaloid2 #vocaloid3 #internet co #lost content

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hauntmetosleep · 1 year

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Lost Short Poems Vol. I

Good news today, I managed to find and "remaster" some of my older work that had become lost media. Unfortunately, some is, as far as I can tell, permanently lost or incomplete. These were archived online briefly, but I did not keep a personal back-up, as most were just written for fun, but it's nice to see them again. More will be up soon.

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Anxious, Anxious

I tried to entrance myself into believing That it was never an ordeal at all, That there were no needle teeth lurking beneath Everything I held in deep reverence, But all of that I feared was true - Peel back the skin of anything you choose And you will see not veins, but vipers

Anxious, anxious The lie inseparable from the truth But I know that both mean me harm Anxious, anxious, what it seems to be Is never what it is underneath the surface - All things are a pit of snakes in waiting

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In My Wake

Why do you wither in my wake, Rooting for drops of silver at my feet When I turn my back to you, Knowing you will find naught but dust?

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Lavendula

She is a mask floating on waves of grass, The rain, the dew, the lightning and the rainbow, A storm on the horizon that brings enlightenment Her fragrance is that of the newborn ocean Before man's greed turned it to festering slush

#stand alone writing #dark poetry #poetry #lost content #original poem #poets on tumblr #horror poetry

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truly-hopeless · 4 months

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#fuck capitalism #capitalism hurts art #hbo max #our flag means death #cancelled shows #lost content #tiktok #not mine

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linkeduniverse · 9 months

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July art

#linkeduniverse #creator content #artworks #Comic update soon #Wild hums #Or he could borrow one of the many ocarinas legend owns #Legend has so many instruments but I picked a small one that wasn’t an ocarina #spent all of July very very sick #I'm finally starting to feel like myself again #Being sick sucks!#So much precious time lost #And I missed a whole month of beautiful warm sunshine!#Sunshine is so rare here

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pnfoutofcontext · 1 year

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Based on this Tumblr post about a (fake) lost episode

#transxfiles #Lost Endangered Species Act Episode #(not a real lost episode)#season ∅#Phineas and Ferb #Candace Flynn #Ferb Fletcher #fan works #original content #lies are the glue that hold society together

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mjulmjul · 1 year

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Katya / Goncharov

#yeah ik ive posted them before sorry but i REALLY like how these look together #martin scorsese #goncharov #artists on tumblr #illustration #unreality #<— posters for a ‘movie’ that doesn’t actually exist but is a tumblr meme in which everyone pretends it does&makes content for it #fascinating how we’re immediately personable w katya by knowing her first name while only knowing goncharov’s surname keeps us at a distanc #combined with him being the only major character to go by a moniker it emphasizes just how much he's been consumed by the role he plays #who is goncharov? does he know and keep it secret? or has he too lost his sense of identity?#it's reflected in these posters as we SEE katya but goncharov remains elusive - yet clearly time is running out for them both #lakjdklf ok im done now i never post meta on here so im having fun with the fictional movie #btw I updated both of the illustrations compared to the original posts but will leave those as they were #woudl be cool if my post showed up. u can do it tumblr

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quess-art · 17 days

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I need D'Urge to be a companion 😭 Especially since he's canonical even when you create a custom Tav

(Some headcanons, some based on little snippets of dialogue from the game)

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #the dark urge #durge #orin the red #the feel when you were promised to be father's fav but this old lizard comes in and takes your grandpa's place as head of the murder house😔#i love entitled murder baby orin vs what is with this sassy lost child durge #bhaalists gave durge that porcupine drip #when i showed this to my friend they called me a scaly...#girl i just drew a dragonborn wdym sexy??#spoiler #spoilers #for durge content

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chesboard · 1 month

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drawing some bad kids as a warmup 🤕 i’m surprised i don’t post about dimension20 considering the parasitic hold it has on my brain

#fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #kristen applebees #gorgug thistlespring #fantasy high fanart #dimension 20 #art #character art #character design #digital art #media #digital sketch #clip studio paint #(also srry i don’t post much anymore on qsmp i feel so lost from the lore and content at this point but maybe ill get back into soon 😅)

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silveme · 8 months

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Mathematics surround me

#sorry I haven’t made any Sigma content since *checks notes* May 😬….my b #I was lost in the mines #sigma #overwatch #original art #digital art #fanart #artists on tumblr #ow #ow2 #meme #sigma overwatch #siebren de kuiper #overwatch fanart

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temeyes · 5 months

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i'm a bit pissed rn, and i'm pretty sure it's HIS fault gRRRR

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vocaloidfactoftheday · 8 months

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While Ring Suzune's now-abandoned voicebank was being developed, a rhythm game starring her was being developed simultaneously. The game was known as VFS #01RING.

Only an early build containing 3 demo songs exists. It was announced in September 2011 at VOCALOID FESTA03, and demos were distributed to attendees. While formerly completely lost, the files were recovered in late 2022 and are in the process of being repaired, though the game is currently not available in a playable state.

(warning: video contains constant flickering lights)

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(source: AV Watch, koushirou on Nico Nico Douga)

#ring suzune #japanese vocaloid #vocaloid3 #lost content #this game is considered to be found media at this point though because the files are all there.#if the game IS playable please correct me but i could not find any recent news.

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assiraphales · 6 months

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when i hear “tumblr is shutting down” I’m suddenly living in a hillside village with a little boy yelling through the streets about a wolf every other week. like sorry unless the wolf bites me in the ass it’s not worth worrying about

#tho if it really did shut down I would cry #like yes curse lifted. funny ha ha. but also so sad #bc so much content and community would be lost #there’s no other social media platform like it #and I’d never be able to recreate my experience anywhere else #let’s not think of this

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suiheisen · 1 year

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is he why they call football the beautiful game??

update: we stan

#niche content for me and beau ;___; but he’s so!!!!!#i get it now #i get it…#they lost but did they really lose??#(they did… but…)#soccer #cho gue sung #south korea nt #world cup #football

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casteru-lostcc · 4 months

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Archive of Casteru/Woosteru cc

I have permission to host an archive for @casteru / @woosteru's custom content since they are retired from creation and do not wish to be responsible for it anymore. NOTE:

all support is secondhand as I did not create the meshes

all cc is batchfixed to patch 09/25/2023 Aliens Tag Fix

any issues I can resolve I will attempt to do so

any missing cc can be donated to my main blog @fiftymilehighclub

TOU:

YOU MAY:

direct link to this archive

include meshes in recolors (but not behind paywalls)

include cc in sim downloads (but not behind paywalls)

YOU MAY NOT put anything behind a paywall. i didn't create this cc and neither did you. you don't get to be paid for somebody else's work. i'm not doing this for personal gain i'm only doing it to save cas headaches when people inevitably bug them about their meshes.

#ts4 cc #ts4cc #losts4cc #lost sims 4 custom content #casteru #woosteru

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adiposesaleswoman · 8 months

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