Gumi is usually associated with carrots, due to the orange color scheme of her boxart outfit. As individuals, Kagamine Rin's item is the orange, since her hair bow resembles orange leaves and Len's item is a banana, since his hair looks like a bunch of bananas. Both Vocaloids are commonly seen driving and crushing people with a roadroller. The Kagamine twins are an unusual bunch in that they have multiple items.

He is sometimes shown riding eggplants with toothpick legs. Kamui Gakupo is associated with eggplants, mostly due to his purple hair. Unlike most other Vocaloids, his adoration for his item is often depicted as being obsessive or unhealthy. Many satirical versions of popular Vocaloid songs, such as Melt and Spice. KAITO is known as a huge ice cream lover. Her item assignment marked the end of the Item Wars. Megurine Luka is commonly associated with tuna, or fish in general. To this day it is still the most popular and well-known character item. Hatsune Miku is most commonly associated with a spring onion, popularized after the Leekspin video went viral. For certain fanmades, such as Kasane Teto and Akita Neru, the item is confirmed right away by the creator. They generally occur shortly after a new Vocaloid is released, however with more recent releases the trend has died down a bit, partially due to the lack of fame these new singers have. The Item Wars were, and still are, the discussions and debates undertaken by fans to determine a Vocaloid's fan item. Despite much debate, the only item that has really endured is the penguin, for Big Al. A good example would be the English Vocaloids Big Al and Sweet Ann. Character items could be considered one of the fandom's 'in jokes'.Ī notable fact is that UTAUs and less-popular Vocaloids are more likely to have multiple character items or no item at all, mostly due to a smaller fanbase with multiple headcanons, and simply fewer fans. After they died down, Vocaloid fans, artists, songmakers and PV artists kept using these items in their works. The idea of associating Vocaloids with items caught people's interest very quickly after the Leekspin video went viral. UTAUs such as Kasane Teto and Fanloids are also given character items despite the fact that most traditions of the Vocaloid fandom have been abandoned by UTAUs.įanart depicting the Vocaloids with their respective items can be found sites such as deviantART and Pixiv. This resulted in attempts to give other Vocaloids character items, resulting in the Item Wars.

The tradition was set in stone once the male Vocaloid KAITO was rediscovered and associated with ice cream. In the video, a chibi version of Hatsune Miku, 'Hachune Miku', was depicted waving a spring onion.

The tradition of assigning Vocaloids items began with the song 'levan Polkka', AKA Leekspin.

List of vocaloid mascots