Initially, the duo considered approaching the track like a theme song.

Ayase says that of all their songs, this one took the longest to complete. “It was just amazing, and I began to feel that we could put together something great.”Īnd so the duo began working on “Into the Night,” an adaptation of Maya Hoshino’s “Tanatosu no Yuwaku” (A temptation from Thanatos). “But I became more confident after listening to Ayase’s past Vocaloid work,” she says. Ikura also said she initially had no idea how the project’s concept would work. It belonged to a singer-songwriter who performed under the name Rira Ikuta-who is now the duo’s other member and goes by the name Ikura (stylized as “ikura”). While searching social media, Ayase came across a voice he liked. So I said yes.”Īyase and his staff first set out to look for a vocalist. I never get around to reading books, and I thought my music could provide people like myself with a casual gateway to books. “I couldn’t quite picture what they had in mind,” says Ayase, “but it sounded fun. They wanted him to write songs based on the stories submitted to their online publishing platform,. YOASOBI-the name is derived from the Japanese word for going out at night and having a good time-began when Ayase, a musician who produces songs using the Vocaloid voice synthesizer software, received a pitch from Sony Music Entertainment. The duo’s uniqueness lies in their concept: they adapt songs from newly published short stories. The name of this duo is YOASOBI, and they have collaborated with UT on a new collection. The song continued to gain momentum, and by the end of 2020, Billboard Japan had ranked it as the top song of the year. It became an immediate sensation, racking up 50 million views in just six months. That all changed the following month when they released the music video for their debut song, “Racing into the Night,” on YouTube. In October 2019, two musicians formed a duo without much fanfare.

A girl listening to music on her digital device hunches up with a serious expression on her face in front of a neon sign spelling out the duo’s name-the image hints at something exciting about to happen.

But because she was the start of the Vocaloid revolution, Miku's creators decided that she deserved the number '01'.This is YOASOBI’s visual identity. As for Vocaloid, Mizki and Yuma were actually created long before Miku was, and so her number '01' is actually quite innacurate.

As for Megpoids and Gackpoids, Gumi and Gakupo are the first of their kinds. Utauloids, Megpoids, and Gackpoids are all different forms of the Vocaloid software. Utauloids: Teto, Ritsu, Ruko, Tei, Haku, Momo Vocaloids: Miku, Rin, Len, Piko, Luka, Lily, Miki, Yuki, Aoki, SeeU, Meiko, Kaito, Rion, Akiko, IA, CUL, Mizki, Yuma A list of the important Vocaloids, Utauloids, ect.:

List of important vocaloids