KAITO Bio

Name: KAITO ( Kaito Shion )

Character Item: Ice Cream / Häagen Dazs Brand

Sample Voice: Fūga Naoto (風雅 なおと)

Released: Febuary, 17, 2006 by Crypton Future Media

Age: 20 years old

Height: 178 cm

Weight: (Unknown)

Favorite Gendre: R & B, Rock, Folk, and Pop/Ballads

Favorite Tempo Range: 90 ~ 200BPM

Best Vocal Range: B1 ~ C3

KAITO is a Japanese male Vocaloid created by Crypton Future Media. He utilizes the older Vocaloid engine developed by YAMAHA. He claims the spot of the last vocal to be released for the Vocaloid engine and is the first Japanese male Vocaloid to have appeared from Crypton Future Media. The voice was supplied by a Japanese male singer Fūga Naoto (風雅 なおと). The illustration was done by Takashi Kawasaki. two years after Meiko. He's not actually a living person, but he's a voice synthesizer program robot, which used for communications and entertainments. After his voice recording, the company decided to create full appearance for Kaito, which is as he looks in the package. When he was published, the sale wasn't going too well, and the company considered that was failure.

At the time of his original sale, Vocaloid was not yet a well known product, and synthesizing software was only considered successful if it sold more than 1,000 units. However, Kaito managed to sell only 500 units—deeming him "a commercial failure."In contrast, his counterpart, Meiko, had sold 3,000 units in her first year.

Kaito's initial failure was one of the main reasons why other male vocaloids have not been developed for a long time after his release. The male voicebanks had so little demand at that time. However, later interest in Kaito arose and Kaito sold well enough to later claim the second best seller of the year in Nico Nico Market in 2008. From 2009 up until late 2011, he was in the top 10 best selling software of Crypton Future Media often competing not only with Vocaloid 2 era voicebanks, but on occasion outselling them.
In 2012, Zero-G confirmed that all Vocaloid vocals were unsupported due for retirement "in the near future"