is a Japanese speaking

Vocaloid is a singing voice synthesizer software product. Its signal processing part was developed through a joint research project led by Kenmochi Hideki at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, in 2000 and was not originally intended to b ...

by Sony Entertainment for

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. His voice is taken from the Japanese singer

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. He was used in Samfree's "Night Series", singing the song "Piko Piko Legend of the Night." Later, Utatane Piko would be illustrated in two posters promoting an ending song to the anime

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, in which

sung.

Development

His design incorporates aspects of YAMAHA's RGX A2 guitar, along with a vague resemblance to his voice provider. A free trial version was released on December 1. The same day his trial was released, Sony demanded that all content made with it be taken down. He was released on December 8, 2010 in download form. He was later used as reference along with other masculine vocals during the development of

VY2 VY2 is a Japanese masculine vocal developed by Yamaha Corporation and distributed by Bplats, Inc. to act as a "standard" vocal for Vocaloid. It has the codename of "Yūma". It was originally released for the Vocaloid 2 engine. The fan design "Ror ...

. On August 16, 2020, it was discovered that Piko's voicebank had sold out on the Sony Music website. With no plans for an update, this officially rendered Utatane Piko as a discontinued product.

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Development

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