There are just days left to get Xia Yu Yao for SynthV (ending 7/15/22) and the Avannaversary fan album (ending 7/20/22) fully funded!

Quick summary of both (+ alternate drawing) under the cut.

That post I made about Xia Yu Yao a few days ago turned out to age extremely quickly! A crowdfund for her AI bank is already up on the crowdfund site Flyingv. It is aiming to raise $143,105 USD and ends on July 15th. Overseas contributors can donate (the site also accepts debit cards)!

3300 New Taiwan Dollar (114 USD) gets you an eventual boxed copy of her AI bank, while the cheapest tier is 200 NTD (7 USD). The boxed copies do ship internationally, so don’t worry about needing a proxy. There are various other tiers available, with different combinations of merchandise as well as CDs and lyric books with Yao songs. 

She also has a new design drawn by izumi! The design is reminiscent of idol singers and has a noticeable butterfly theme.

One strange detail some have pointed out is how the engine for the AI bank is not specified. According to the coded message, it will be for Synthesizer V (Voicemith has also mentioned crosslingual input for Chinese, English, and Japanese will be available for Yao) but the crowdfund page scrubs any mention of a specific platform/engine. If I had the money I would buy her, but alas I already have a huge collection of vocal synthesizers!

Below are some pictures of the merchandise available from the crowdfund.