Who Is Gumi?

Megpoid (メグッポイド, Meguppoido) is a Vocaloid by Internet Co., Ltd. Her voice is sampled by Megumi Nakajima. The mascot of the software is called Gumi (Japanese: グミ) (stylized as GUMI). She is also sometimes called Megpoid GUMI, or GUMI Megpoid. The name "Gumi" is the voice provider Megumi Nakajima's nickname from her childhood. The software name, "Megpoid", was taken from the provider's name, "Megumi." The second half, the "poid", is short for "like Vocaloid," the full implied name of this product is "Megumi-like Vocaloid." Gumi was developed by Internet Co., Ltd. using Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2 synthesizer software. Her voice was created by taking vocal samples from singer Megumi Nakajima at a controlled pitch and tone. In mid November 2023, it was announced that GUMI would be receiving a software release for Synthesizer V, also called AI Megpoid. It is slated to release mid December 2023. (which has relised wikipedia is just out of date its really good though), Gumi initially struggled to build popularity against the Crypton Future Media's Character Vocal series and was considered to be "nothing special" when first released. She was, however, quicker to gain popularity in comparison to Camui Gackpo. By 2010, Gumi's popularity was on par with Crypton Future Media's Vocaloids and had out sold her predecessor Camui Gackpo, becoming the most popular and well known non-Crypton Vocaloid. In 2011, her usage grew and in a number of weeks she would have even more songs in the top 100 rankings than some of the Crypton Future Media vocalists. In January 2015, a popularity poll was released, confirming Gumi was the second most popular Vocaloid of 2015 on Niconico. Gumi has so far over 300 known songs and one of her songs titled "モザイクロール (Mozaik Role)", by DECO*27, is considered one of her most popular songs with over 10,000,000 views on Nico Nico - still stolen from wikipedia.