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Is Vocaloid Cyberpunk?
| Vocaloid could fit in cyberpunk, but the sheer positivity and brightness they typically represent is a bit contrasting to the usual dark, rugged, grunge of dystopian cyberpunk settings. I don't think Vocaloid would be out of place in a cyberpunk piece, but they don't seem very cyberpunk themselves.
| Gibson literally wrote about vocaloid years before the earliest vocaloid project was stated.
| Well, they would fit with the fake happiness that megacorps sell to the wealthy in a cyberpunk world.
| >>256741
Exactly! And if you are rich enough you can buy your own vocaloid robot-maid to clean appartments and other stuff.
| >>257544 Idoru and to some extent All Tomorrow's Parties. Though those are arguably post cyberpunk.
| Bruh the whole concept of Vocaloids are cyberpunk as fuck. Crowdsourced "idols" for the enjoyment of all.
| aren't most Hatsune Miku songs super depressing? it fits perfectly
| >>259119 a lot of recent ones deal with exceptionally dark shit, kikuo or maretu for example. but their happier songs would fit the whole fake-happiness thing
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| Does the genre fit with not only style of cyberpunk but culture?
Do you envision only Vocaloid/Animatronic prancing around as musicians of the future?
We all love 3D projected anime girls at concerts though.