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Bess' VOCALOID: A Personal Retrospective [38:16]

VOCALOID: A Personal Retrospective

https://youtu.be/yrYMljB9vgQ

If you’ve even remotely dipped your toe into the world of Japanese pop culture, you’ll already be familiar with Hatsune Miku. But who is she, really? Moreove...

Bess combines hypnotic delivery and deft editing in thoughtful, reflective essays on, if we're being honest, mostly Higurashi. She approaches her work with a keen emotional intelligence though, drawing her listeners along the placid waters of her ... ah right, I just watched the Bess vid... Anyways, you get the point.

She's pretty good. And the Vocaloid story is interesting if you, also, had no clue who Hatsune Miku actually was.

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