- 60 Comments
-
Haku Yowane
| Haku Yowane | ||
|---|---|---|
| ||
| Creator | CAFFEIN (カフェイン) | |
| Release date | November 21, 2007 | |
| Gender | Female | |
| Age | Undisclosed (widely believed to be 25+) | |
| Height | 5'3" ft (163cm) | |
| Weight | 99 lbs (45 kg) | |
| Optimum genre | Undefined | |
| Optimum tempo | Undefined | |
| Optimum range | Undefined | |
| Character Item | Sake bottle | |
Haku Yowane (弱音ハク Yowane Haku) is an officially recognized derivative. Her name is taken from Yowane meaning negative sayings/thoughts and Haku roughly translated as utter. Her first name and last name make a play on words "yowane-(wo)-haku" (弱音(を)吐く), meaning to say negative thoughts or to show white feather. Her white hair is from ハク, which has the same pronunciation with 白 (white).
Contents |
History
Edit
Haku was originally made as a representation of songs that use Hatsune Miku but ended up sounding awful. In such cases, the makers of that music would then proceed to whine about how their work never received attention and later moved on to whine when criticism stated their work as dull and boring, or was posted quite late when few people were on Nico Nico Douga. She became popular and her creator Caffein later established other characters following the same procedures, each representing a slightly different aspect of failure within the Vocaloids.
It has been pointed out by some fans when speaking about songs and PVs that feature Haku singing, that if one succeeds at producing a "bad" song, then no failure was met in the process. There are a small number of fans who disapprove of such songs, this is because it can be considered a contradiction to the point of Haku's existence being based on failure. This in particular is also aimed at the Haku songs that end up sounding "good" as Haku was meant to be far from this ideal. However, whatever songs that come out in her name are subject to the interpretation of the producer, whether they follow Haku's depiction of failure or not.
Acceptance into VocaloidEdit
Haku is one of the Vocaloid derivatives that became officially recognized by Crypton Future Media, the publisher of the Character Vocal Series for Vocaloid 2. The other derivatives bearing this distinction is Miku Hachune, Neru Akita, Meiko Sakine, and Tako Luka.
AppearancesEdit
- MikuMikuDance (MMD), 3D software
- An MMD model of Haku was created in August 2008 by modeler Animasa. See the Haku Yowane (Animasa) page for details, and also see other Haku models.
- Maker Hikōshiki Hatsune Mix, manga
- Haku makes a cameo appearance as a student of Neru (ch6) and is also in chapter 7 and chapter 14, then she later appears drinking sake with Meiko (ch16).
- Chibi Miku-san, 4-koma manga
- A popular 4-koma that portrays Haku in adult form, she is introduced (#50) as an owner of a local candy shop in Vocalotown, she is a friend to both of the Hatsune sisters and is allergic to almost anything fun. Aside from that, her personality is very identical to her original character (done by Caffein), except for her alcohol abuse.
- Project Diva (PD), game
- Haku is an available character in the PSP game, Hatsune Miku ~Project Diva~ and again as a playable character in its sequel. Her appearance in the first Project Diva game did not carry her "official" personality, and was as cheerful as Miku. This was corrected in Project Diva 2nd, complete with moody mannerisms if the player has not chosen her for a long time.
- Fanmade Promotional Videos (PV)
- Haku is commonly seen in fanmade videos, portrayed in various ways or simply dancing.
- Merchandise
- Official licensed Haku figurines have been produced, such as Nendoroid Puchi and a scale model.
- Artwork
- Search Yowane Haku on deviantArt Pixiv Piapro
Voice ConfigurationEdit
Configuration: Hatsune MikuEdit
| EXPLAINED: Haku is previously marked as badly-done Miku Hatsune songs, and in earlier times, are downpitched Miku songs. However some have tried to give her an actual voice. The following is one example of an actual configuration that produces an approximate voice for Haku, as a mature-sounding Miku. | |||||
| TECHNICAL INFORMATION | |||||
| BREATHINESS (BRE) | 0 | BRIGHTNESS (BRI) | 20 | CLEARNESS (CLE) | 15 |
| GENDER FACTOR (GEN) | 30 | OPENING (OPE) | 10 | × | × |
| SPECIAL NOTES: Other than the configuration, Haku's voice sounds better in lower octaves. No other adjustments are needed unless necessary. This configuration could be used with the Miku Dark or CV_Dark_Early database to give "Haku" a more depressed sound, though theoretically, the config can work with any Miku Append voicebanks. This configuration, using Miku's voicebank, is written and commonly used by Orochi Herman. Crediting for this configuration, while preferred, is not mandatory. Another configuration suggests a manipulation of MEIKO's voicebank to produce Haku's voice, but such configuration is not yet publicly available. Should the configuration be adopted for Miku Hatsune's English voicebank, Haku will retroactively gain the ability to sing in English. | |||||
Notable WorksEdit
While Haku is regarded to sing any song that is a "failure" song of Miku, since she can have a voice config, it is possible for her to have an individual song dedicated to her.
Anata no VOYAKILOIDEdit
♫  あなたのVOYAKILOID (Your VOYAKILOID)
| |
| Date January 15, 2008 | Source (from) Nico Nico Douga |
| Author Bonjin-P | Source (author) Azuma (Boku-P) |
| Other Cover song, parody | Source (info) Originally sung by Hatsune Miku |
| Description "Your VOYAKILOID" is a parody of Miku's original song "Your Diva." Basically, it's Haku telling whoever bought her that she from now on is their VOYAKILOID. She talks about being considered horrible, and she constantly brings sake and drinking into the song. In all honesty, she wants to tell everyone her feelings through songs, but she chooses to be worthless because she will forever only be a singing robot and have the voice of a singing robot. She then explains though that she's fine the way she is. After all, the one who installed her is her "drinking buddy." She finally states that she will keep drinking because she is (your) VOYAKILOID. | |
Tsumanne?Edit
♫  ツマンネ? (Boring?)
| |
| Date May 26, 2008 | Source (from) Nico Nico Douga |
| Author Owata-P | Source (author) Owata-P |
| Other Original song | Source (info) Sung by Yowane Haku |
| Description Haku reflects on the Nico users' view of her as boring/useless (tsumanne) and drinks to soothe her sorrows. In a similar vein to "Turkish March Owata" Haku finds herself late to a meeting with Neru, who yells at her over the phone for oversleeping. As the two finally meet up after a series of mishaps, they remember they were supposed to meet the next week. | |
Shiro no MusumeEdit
♫  白ノ娘 (The Daughter of White)
| |
| Date January 6, 2010 | Source (from) Nico Nico Douga |
| Author Akuno-P (mothy) | Source (author) Akuno-P (mothy) |
| Other Original song | Source (info) Illustrations by Ichika, Yuurin, Suzunosuke, Satsu (Painter Brioche) |
| Description Released in the Story of Evil and Haku's big hit song that made #1 in the Weekly Vocaloid Ranking, 119. In this song Haku takes the role of Clarith, a girl living in the Elphegort country, characterized that all its habitants are green-haired . There she is ridiculed and discriminated by everybody due her white hair. Despondent and alone, Clarith makes a trip to the an Eldoh's Tree where she prays for a friend. She later finds near the three an unconscious green-haired girl and nurses her back to healt. The girl's name is Michaela (Miku) and both became good friends. Michaela is beautiful and sweet girl, and loved by everyone; this doesn't hinders its friendship with Clarith. Together, the girls run off to the city to live there, and while they have hardships working as maids for a wealthy merchant women, they live happily together. However one day, Kyle Marlon, King of the Marlon country, sees Michaela and falls in love with her - so much in love that he denies the marriage offer from the Riliane Lucifen d'Autriche aka the "Daughter of Evil". Angry, Riliane makes an order purge all the the green-haired women of Elphegort. Clarith survives due her different hair color, and looking all of the green-haired women dead by the massacre, she cries and wishes have died in Michaela's stead.
| |
TriviaEdit
- Haku is referred to as a "VOYAKILOID" (in Japanese, ぼやく) - 'Boyaku' means grouchy or to grumble and complain, the pronunciation in Japanese is Boyakiroido.
- Going by Caffein's character sheet commentary, Haku's early design had a tinge of grey skin, but it was not well received. Her red eyes were not an attempt to reflect albinism, but merely inspired while watching a Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. music video on Nico Nico Douga, the character named Major has red eyes.
- While she was conceptualized to originally be a Miku user, Caffein states it is not a problem to think of her as a failing Vocaloid, or a co-worker, or the lady at the small candy shop et cetera.
GalleryEdit
 |
 |
 |
External linksEdit
| The content of this page has been duplicated to the Fanloid Wiki. It has been sourced, credited, and adjust accordingly to fit Fanloid Wiki 'Manual of Style'. The duplicates history is located (here). Note, any recent updates to the Fanloid copy may not reflect the original as presented here and vice versa.
|
Edit
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anonymous User
