Hey! c: Welcome to the Vocaloid fandom.
Yeah, your friend's right! Vocaloid is not an Anime in any way, shape o form, but a software used to create songs.
Many people think it is an Anime because of the Anime characters on the boxes and in the videos. This is a pretty logical thing to think; I first thought it was some sort of anime, too. In fact, the characters te see are all mascots for the voices in the software, so te have a representation of the character when te listen to the music.
The voices in Vocaloid are not computer generated; they hire people with good Canto abilities to record all of the syllables in the Japanese language to create a voicebank. Once the voicebank is ready, a Vocaloid Avatar is created to represent the voice. In this way, a Vocaloid is a virtual singer! :)
With Vocaloid, te can create your own Musica and songs with a personal singer in a box. It's a pretty neat concept, right? Some vocaloid sound almost just like people.
te can watch Vocaloid PV's (Which are like Musica videos) on many video-hosting websites like Youtube. Also, if te have a Nico Nico Douga account (A Japanese equivalent to Youtube), te can watch many video there as well. c:
It's a bit of a confusing fandom for people just learning about Vocaloid, but it's a super cool one!! Virtual singers with Anime personas means te can connect and meet so many people that like the same songs and singers te do.
Here are a few of my preferito Vocaloid Musica videos- yes, the singers are all from the software! I hope this helps clear things up for you.
link (Sung da Hatsune Miku and Kagamine Rin)
link (Sung da Hatsune Miku)
link (Sung da Megurine Luka)
link (Sung da Kagamine Rin)
link (Sung da Hatsune Miku)
link (Sung da GUMI and Len Kagamine)
There are thousands più songs than these, and many, many più vocaloid to discover! :D
