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7. "RE: GA: The Vocaloid Variations"
In response to message #6
 
   >>Megpoid, and its mascot character GUMI (written in all caps in
>>the official bumf, much like KAITO and MEIKO, come to that), are so
>>called because the source of the original voice samples is Japanese
>>actress Megumi Nakajima; the name literally breaks down to something
>>like "a Megumi-like Vocaloid". (Amusingly, the "poi" in
>>Megpoid is the same as the "poi" in Yuudachi.)
>
>I only just realized that this means Megapoid is Ranka Lee...
>go figure.

Yep! That's why Gumi has that color scheme (green hair, yellows/greens on outfit) - Ranka predominantly had that arrangement in Macross Frontier.

--- Philip
(Of course this means in UF, Ranka probably got her start covering Gumi's songs before branching off to her own repertoire...)





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   RE: GA: The Vocaloid Variations Peter Eng Feb-19-17 1
   RE: GA: The Vocaloid Variations Proginoskes Feb-20-17 2
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   RE: GA: The Vocaloid Variations Wiregeek Feb-20-17 3
   RE: GA: The Vocaloid Variations Peter Eng Mar-12-17 5
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