Yowane Haku Biographical information Initial release November 21, 2007 Gender Female Age Undisclosed Height 5'3" ft (163cm) Weight 99 lbs (45 kg) Additional information Series type Derivative Ownership CAFFEIN (カフェイン) Illustrator CAFFEIN Affiliation Crypton Future Media, Inc. SEGA Website http://caffein89.blogspot.com/

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Yowane Haku (弱音ハク; Haku Yowane) 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).

The term "Derivative" is used here to describe a fanmade Vocaloid character that is based on an already existing character.

HistoryEdit

Haku was originally made as a representation of songs that use Hatsune Miku but ended up sounding awful.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.

MarketingEdit

Haku is one of the derivatives of Vocaloids 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.

Because of her popularity, merchandise of Haku appear alongside offical Vocaloids.

FigurinesEdit

Official licensed Haku figurines have been produced: a Nendoroid Puchi and a scale model.

MangaEdit

In Maker Hikōshiki Hatsune Mix, 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).

Video GamesEdit

In Project Diva(PD), Haku is an available character in the PSP game, Hatsune Miku ~Project Diva~ and again as a playable character in its sequels. If the player has not chosen her for a long time, she is complete with moody mannerisms.

Voice PortrayalsEdit

• Examples of Configurations at the Fanloid wikia

Haku was originally marked as badly-done Miku Hatsune songs which were uploaded onto NND. However some have tried to give her an actual voice using Miku's voice and manipulating it to sound depressed, through methods like down pitching her. These were later also switched to the Miku Appends as some such as Miku Append Dark produced the desired results much easier.

Another suggests a manipulation of MEIKO's voicebank to produce Haku's voice.

It has been pointed out by some fans, when speaking about songs and PVs that feature Haku singing, say 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.

Famous songsEdit

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あなたのVOYAKILOID (Your VOYAKILOID)
	Author(s):	Bonjin-P
	Category:	Parody
	Featuring:	Yowane Haku
	Nicovideo Broadcast  Youtube Broadcast
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.

白ノ娘 (The Daughter of White)
	Author(s):	Akuno-P (mothy)
	Category:	Original song
	Featuring:	Yowane Haku, Hatsune Miku (back-up)
	Nicovideo Broadcast  Youtube Broadcast
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 inhabitants are green-haired . Ridiculed and discriminated by everybody due her white hair, Clarith makes a trip to the an Eldoh's Tree where she prays for a friend. She later finds near the tree an unconscious green-haired girl and nurses her back to heal. The girl's name is Michaela (Miku) and both became good friends. Eventually both girls run off to the city to live there, living happily together while they work for a wealthy merchant woman. That until the events of Daughter of Evil happens.

ツマンネ？ (Boring?)
	Author(s):	Owata-P
	Category:	Original song
	Featuring:	Yowane Haku, Akita Neru
	Nicovideo Broadcast  Youtube Broadcast
Description Neru complains about the official Vocaloids (and Haku when she appears) and why she hates them, later revealing how she actually likes them, and that she wants to be loved by everyone as well. Later Haku appears and calls her tsundere.

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 Motoko, or "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

Popularized concept

Haku (Left) and Neru (right) as seen in Project Diva

Haku portrayed in TinierMe

Haku's Project DIVA f module

External linksEdit

The content of this page has been duplicated to the Fanloid Wiki (link). Any recent updates may not reflect the content presented here and vice versa.

• CAFE-LOG: Caffein
• NicoPedia: 弱音ハクとは (ヨワネハクとは) [単語記事] - ニコニコ大百科

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