Akikoloid-chan 1 of 2 Biographical information Gender Female Age Height 5'2" / 158 cm Weight 95 lbs / 43 kg Product information Company Lawson Distributor Voice provider Arimoto Illustrator Hidari (Original/2011) Reduced no. Affiliation YAMAHA Lawson, Inc. Nico Nico Douga

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Akikoloid-chan (あきこロイドちゃん / Akikoroido-chan) is the Vocaloid of "Akiko-chan", the mascot of Lawson, Inc. and acts as the navigator for LAWSON's Nico Nico Douga channel. She is a unreleased "private" Vocaloid for commerical use by Lawson, Inc only.

HistoryEdit

In 2011, the LAWSON convenience store chain's new mascot, "Akiko-chan" will receive a synthesized Vocaloid voice makeover to become "Akikoloid-chan," who will act as a navigator for LAWSON's new Nico Nico Douga channel. On September 6 of 2011, Akikoloid-chan movies were uploaded on Nicovideo. The vocal was from Vocaloid3 engine and the voice provider was Arimoto (有本) from Koe-bu (こえ部), a voice sharing site for amateur voice actors. A video showing her "production" was made and she was revealed in a interview about Vocaloid with a Yamaha rep as well as songs using her vocals.^[1]

Demo songs

Currently, she is owned only as a private-license that Lawson acquired from Yamaha and it is unknown if she will be released for commercial use. A boxart for her has also since appeared. However, it is confirmed she is not for sale and the box was for display purposes only.^[2]

ConceptEdit

She is based on Akiko-chan's character, much how Ryuto (Gachapoid) is based on Gachapin, she is not Akiko-chan herself. To further clarify this, her background story was that she was made by Akiko's brother in a lab and she was modelled after Akiko herself.

EtymologyEdit

Her name is a combintion of Akiko's name and "loid" from "android" (R and L overlap in the Japanese language, see Japanese Phonetics). "Chan" is a Japanese honorfic given normally given for young females. Her name therefore literally implies she is a android based on Akiko.

MarketingEdit

Akiko-chan was originally introduced as a campaign character for Lawson under the profile "a university sophomore student and a part-time worker for Lawson." This Vocaloid character is "an Akiko-chan like android which Akiko's elder brother developed with confining himself to university laboratory for a week."

CampaignEdit

A new campaign related to the character has begun "LAWSON x Vocaloid" titled "Vocalawson campaign".^[3] During the period of the campaign, customers at Lawson stores will be able to obtain an ID application upon purchase of the ten goods in the promotion, which will allow entry into a lottery. Applicants enter via mobile phone or the LAWSON website. This is the first campaign where original Yamaha VOCALOID goods can be won.^[4]

This ran from 13/09/2011 to 26/09/2011.

A campaign is being run to introduce Akikoloid in Indonesia and other asian countries.^[5]

Guest AppearancesEdit

The outfit design for Akikoloid-chan is being used as a collaboration outfit for the character Wang Yuanji in Koeis latest installment in the long running hack and slash adventure series Dynasty Warriors 8 (Shin Sangoku Musou 7 in Japan). Perched on her shoulder is the Lawson Chicken Nugget Mascot, Karaage-kun. She will also be receiving a unique skin for her throwing knives, which makes them look like musical notes.

This is the third Lawson collaboration outfit this character has been given in the Dynasty Warriors series. The first being the uniform of Akiko-chan, the second being a Lawson themed summer kimono.

Wang Yuanji dressed as Akikoloid-chan in Dynasty Warriors 8

Unique Note themed Throwing Knives

Lawson Costume Preview video

3D ConcertEdit

Gumi and Akikoloid-chan appeared in a concert together in Japan dancing on stage. Though other concerts have been done for Vocaloid, this is the first official "3D" concert, previously all concerts had been done with 2D technology.^[6] Merchandise related to the concert was later produced such asa CD and DVD.^[7]On the 2nd of November a video clip about the 3D Concert "VOCALOID3 x LiveAR" was released.

• "VOCALOID x LiveAr" at DIGITAL CONTENT EXPO 2011 Youtube Broadcast

On the 26th of November Gumi , VY1V3 , Akikoloid-chan and Aoki Lapis appeared in a 3D concert at VOCAFARRE 2011

Main article: Vocafarre 2011

Live JamEdit

Akikoloid appeared in a Live Jam Event in 2012.^[8]

FigurineEdit

Akikoloid is going to have a figurine. Not much is known.

MikuMikuDanceEdit

Lawson's Akikoloid-chan model can be downloaded from the company's site. This model was used in various promotional videos displayed in the Lawson channel on NicoDouga. It has been converted for use in MikuMikuDance with the help of Piron. It's first appearance was September 27, 2011, with a public download on December 18, 2012.^[9]

Figurine

Official MMD model

Voicebank LibraryEdit

The following information is based on known details of a unreleased voicebank. Please note the details of this voicebank are subject to change without notice.

Her licensing is restricted to use only for Lawson's purposes only and can only be used by Producers with permission from Lawson., Ltd themselves. Therefore information on her vocals is limited.

Her vocals have been used for both music and talking. Little is known on her except that she is using the Vocaloid 3 engine. She is capable of speech on a more delicate level then most Vocaloid voicebanks, although appears to not be using Voiceroid and may be using a version of the Vocaloid-flex engine, although this cannot be confirmed. She was confirmed a Vocaloid 3 at time of introduction.

General information		Voicebank information
Company	Unknown	Type	Vocaloid3, 3DCG mascot
Initial release	None; first appearance September 6th, 2011	Language	Japanese
Stable release	Vocaloid3	License	Private
Status	Unreleased	Website	homepage
Operating system	Windows 7	Voicebanks available	Unreleased
Optimum settings
Tempo Unknown   Range Unknown   Genre Unknown

Additional informationEdit

PopularityEdit

Since her announcement Akikoloid-chan seemed to be well received by the Japanese fandom though this may be due to the fact that popular producers were the only ones who were allowed to use her for LAWSON's promotions. In the Western fandom she was well received as well with most fans. Nothing is clear wether she would be popular if she was released as a public VOCALOID though.

GalleryEdit

Basic logo

Akikoloid-chan

Akiko-chan, the mascot of LAWSON

Akikoloid-chan in one of the channels videos

Akikoloid-chan in early VOCALOID3 merchandise

Akikoloid-chan on the VOCALOID shop merchandise

Akikoloid-chan featured with GUMI when LAWSON had a promotion with GUMI

ReferencesEdit

External linksEdit

Official :

• Lawson Inc.
• Lawson Inc. Akikoloid
• Twitter: Akiko-chan
• Nicovideo Lawson channel
• Koe-bu: Arimoto

Other :

• Nicopedia Akikoloid-chan
• Nicopedia Akiko-chan

Fandom :

• Akikoloid-chan fanart DeviantArt DeviantArt2 / Pixiv / Piapro
• Akikoloid-chan models on MikuMikuDance wiki
• Akikoloid-chan derivatives on Fanloid wiki

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