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Kagamine Rin ( (かがみ) () リン?) is a character in the Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA series.

Appearance[]

Kagamine Rin has blue eyes, short blonde hair, with hairclips on her bangs, and white headphones with a bow on the handle, yellow half-circle and two small light blue squares on each earpad with an attached mic on the right earpad with two small yellow rectangles on the left, and a tattoo on her left arm that says "02 Kagamine Rin/Len". Her fingernails are painted yellow.

Like Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin's default attire resembles a school uniform where she wears a white sleeveless top with a black and yellow rectangle and VOCALOID logo on the left side, and a black collar with a yellow stripe, a yellow bow, and short black shorts with a yellow and orange triangle patterned belt. Her top also displays a small yellow treble-clef (G-clef). She also wears black detachable sleeves and legwarmers with yellow edges and designed to mimic speakers, white boots with yellow soles, and the YAMAHA EOS as a design base.

Her attire is based on her box art appearance on the Kagamine Rin & Len Vocaloid 2 software packaging. Beginning with Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA 2nd, Rin's attire is updated to appear more like her box art on the Kagamine Rin & Len Act 2 software.

While in Project DIVA Arcade Future Tone, its PlayStation 4 port, and MegaMix, her bow has a slightly different design.

Background[]

Kagamine Rin and Kagamine Len are Japanese humanoid personas of a pair of individual singing synthesizer software developed and distributed by Crypton Future Media and use the VOCALOID2 vocal technologies codenamed CV02 were initially released in December 2007 for the VOCALOID2 engine. They are part of the Character Vocal Series and are both Character Voice VOCALOIDs, both codenamed CV02. There has since been numerous installments such as additional voice banks dubbed "Append" as well an update to the VOCALOID4 engine and an English vocal. They are the second set of vocals for Crypton's VOCALOID Character Vocal Series following Hatsune Miku.

Their voices are provided by the Japanese female voice actress, stage actress and singer, Asami Shimoda (下田麻美?).

The development of the Kagamines began when Crypton formulated the concept of making a pair of female and male voicebanks. The first idea was for two voices of a girl and her mirror image of the opposite gender, just like twins.

Crypton had the intention to distribute them as twins, but this was not adopted. After seeing many works that depict their relationships differently, Crypton announced in a magazine interview that those would meet their ideal. However, Crypton's final announcement was that they were neither siblings nor lovers. During Append production, Wataru Sasaki (aka. Wat) described them as having one soul between the two of them. Wat also described that the Append boxart makes the pair seem like twins, due to the fetal position they were in.

When the Kagamines were being recorded in 2007, their names had not yet been decided. Their given names of Rin and Len were said to be based on "right" and "left" according to Asami Shimoda. She later confirmed in an interview after the Append release that the names were based on Ken and Rin from Hokuto no Ken, derived from a discussion about names that were familiar from her childhood.

Their surname was derived from the combining "Kagami" (? lit. mirror) and "Ne" (? lit. sound).

As of 31 August 2019, Crypton Future Media moved Rin and their other piapro characters over to their own synthesizer program, Piapro Studio. On 1 August 2024, it was announced that Rin would be receiving an improved version of her V4X Power voicebank bundled in a Piapro Characters Super Pack.[1]

Rank Quotes[]

Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA 2nd[]

Rank Quote
Translation
Voiceclip
Perfect "やるじゃん、パーフェクトだよ"
"Great job, that was perfect."
Excellent "ワウ、エクセレント!"
"Wow, excellent!"
Great "なかなかやるわね"
"Not bad at all."
Standard "まあ、ポンなのでしょう"
"Well, that sure popped, right?"
So Close "ちょっと、やるぎなる"
"Got a bit carried away there."
DropXOut "コラー! "
"COME ON!"

Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Extend[]

Rank Quote
Translation
Voiceclip
Perfect "やればできるじゃん!"
"You CAN do it!"
Excellent "さすが"
"Amazing!"
Great "いい感じだね "
"Looking good."
Standard "よしよし、頑張ったね。 "
"Good job, you gave it your all."
So Close "やだやだ! "
"Oh, no, no, no!"
DropXOut "えぇーぇ! "
"Huuuhh!"

Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F[]

Rank Quote
Translation
Voiceclip
Perfect "すごい!パーフェクト!"
"Awesome! Perfect!"
Excellent "やった!エクセレント!"
"Hooray! Excellent!"
Great "グレイト、いい感じ!"
Great, I'm feeling great!"
Standard "まぁまぁかな"
"Not too bad."
So Close "次は頑張ろう"
"Let's do better next time."
DropXOut "しっかり"

Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F 2nd[]

Rank Quote
Translation
Voiceclip
Perfect (1) "完璧だね!"
"That was perfect!"
Perfect (2) "わー、ずっと過ぎ!"
"Wow, this is too much!"
Excellent (1) "うんうん、はなまれ!"
Excellent (2) "そんけしちゃうよ!"
Great (1) "わい!グレイトだよ!"
"Wow! That was great!"
Great (2) "ナイスだよ"
"That was nice!"
Standard (1) "クリアできたね!"
"We cleared it!"
Standard (2) "うまいうまい!"
"Very, very good!"
So Close (1) "どうしちゃったの?"
"What happended?"
So Close (2) "しょんぼり"
"Disappointing."
DropXOut (1) "もう、ダメダメだよ!"
"Uh-uh, no way!"
DropXOut (2) "ガッカリ、はぁ…"
"What a let down... *sigh*"

Gallery[]

Gallery

References[]

  1. @vocaloid_yamaha (1 August 2024). Hatsune Miku V6 AI Announcement Tweet. Retrieved on 1 August 2024.

External Links[]

Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA characters
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