Gekiyaku

Gekiyaku (ゲキヤク) is a Japanese VOCALOID developed by the Yamaha Corporation in collaboration with KUZUTOKAZE. She was initially released in prototype form via a limited lottery application in August 2023 for the VOCALOID β-STUDIO VX-β engine, before being released for the VOCALOID6 engine in July 2024. She was originally released in August 2016 as an UTAU voicebank.
Her voice is provided by the Japanese UTAU cover artist, illustrator and creator Kurukuru Suuzi (くるくる数字; Kurukuru Suuzi).
==Concept==
Gekiyaku is a 16-year-old girl who is noted to be good at giving medicine and reading stories. Since the death of her beloved brother, she talks to his corpse every day. She is mentally unstable and very energetic. She can hardly remember what her brother looked like, so she talks to things and people that look like him. She has a family album, but there is not a single beautiful picture in it. She has a cheerful personality and likes medicine. She dislikes God.https://kurukuru2suuzi.wixsite.com/kuzutokaze/%E3%82%B2%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A4%E3%82%AF?lang=en
According to Gekiyaku's creator Kurukuru Suuzi's KUZUTOKAZE Q&A page, the biblical references were removed from the official VOCALOID6 profile deliberately, despite the initial plan for the UTAU voicebanks having a religious theme, due to the thought that the concept might be difficult for some people to use. As Gekiyaku was created when Kurukuru Suuzi was still a child, looking back at it from their current perspective, they felt that a consideration was needed. It was noted that both profiles, with and without these themes, are correct and may be used according to the user's preferences.https://kurukuru2suuzi.wixsite.com/kuzutokaze/qajp?lang=en They also reiterated on Twitter that everything on the VOCALOID's product pages should be used for the VOCALOID editions of Gekiyaku due to the UTAU version having a rigid setting and worldview, though was fine with users treating the UTAU characters and VOCALOID characters as the same. Kurukuru Suuzi, however, considers this to be more of a derivative work in regards to the VOCALOID.https://x.com/kuru2suuziman/status/1814464157053530236https://x.com/kuru2suuziman/status/1814464856764174394
Kurukuru Suuzi has also requested for users to use only the VX-β and VOCALOID6 illustrations when using those respective voicebanks and prohibits the use of any of the previous UTAU illustrations for content using these voicebanks as a way of avoiding any type of confusion or complication and vice versa, using the VOCALOID illustrations for the UTAU editions is also prohibited.https://x.com/kuru2suuziman/status/1813934905119961574https://x.com/kuru2suuziman/status/1813935416309072013
===Etymology===
WIP
===Appearance===
WIP
===Relations===
* Kazehiki - Fellow KUZUTOKAZE vocal.
===Voicebanks===
;Gekiyakuβ
:Gekiyakuβ, a prototype AI singing vocal described as having a strong and simple girl's voice.https://vocaloid.beta.yamaha.com/voicebank/
* Gekiyakuβ (VOCALOID β-STUDIO), August 23, 2023 (Limited release)
;GekiyakuV
:GekiyakuV, an AI singing vocal for VOCALOID6 described as having a strong and artless girl's voice.
* GekiyakuV (VOCALOID6), July 18, 2024
==Music featuring Gekiyaku==
==Reputation==
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==Navigation==
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Category:Feminine vocals
Category:Japanese vocals