Tokoyami Towa -'Error' Studio/3D Live/Niki's Vocaloid Version Study

Lily is my favorite vocaloid, the mature voice is so underrated. And Niki of course doing her amazing justice

Towa samaaaa :cry

I found Towa's -ERROR cover before I even knew who she was (it came up in my YT algorithm), and I genuinely thought it was a male singer originally because she has such a rich low register. I absolutely LOVE Towa's voice!

I needed this one this month 🙏

oh. oh no. whelp time to cry again. Towa is my favourite holomem. She is such a genuine softie and wears her heart on her sleeve

If you want another fantastic rendition of -ERROR, definitely check out Minase Rio's version! He actually sang it in the original key, Towa had to lower hers because her voice is too low for it. If you wanna hear her go really low, definitely check out her covers of W.X.Y and Bunny Girl!

So thing with 3D lives is that they are almost all pre-recorded. We do not see what the talent doesn't want us to see. Towa, most likely only doing one take for this, approved it to be shown. It truly was the best message to her fanbase that got her through the worst of her career. She could never sing this song without getting emotional until 3 years later.

Towa really wears her heart on her sleeves. That 3D live was sort of her validation of her struggles and it came right at the end of a really rough period in her career. It was the middle of COVID restrictions, her other genmates were overtaking her on subscriptions, she was enduring hate from a vocal minority of the JP fanbase. But she made it. She was finally on stage. Even if it was virtual and the closest she could get to her audience were the purple hearts scrolling by in the chat, she made it. In fact, the frame of her smiling at the end of the Palette MV comes from a frame in her 3D live, where she's bouncing around showing off her 3D model with this huge smile on her face. If you scrub through the video of her 3D showcase one thing you'll notice is a disproportionate amount of English chat messages compared to most of her peers. One of the side stories to her fan backlash was that it was mostly Japanese fans that reacted to the male voice thing. By and large, her overseas fans didn't care and sort of took up the mantle to supporting her. To this day she took that support to heart and is probably the most prolific JP talent when it comes to cross-branch appearances, especially in 3D lives. The EN girls in particular adore her and she tends to try and reach out and play games with them often, including a hilarious time a few years ago where she learned through the grapevine that a bunch of EN girls were playing Overwatch together and basically just jumped onto their Discord call live on stream much to the other girls surprise. It's almost a tradition at this point having Towa break down crying during big moments in her career. In 2023 she had her first live IRL concert she choked up singing Sanvitalia, an emotional love letter to her fans. While she struggled to get the words out live in front of a packed house, the whole 6000-strong crowd sang for her in a beautiful moment that will live with me forever.

she broke out in tears while singing the phrase "my tears, they hurt" Towa put absolutely everything into that live performance and its so good

Thank you for doing this 3-parter Tim!! Towa in my opinion is one of the strongest singers in Hololive. Not just because she has a beautiful alto tone but because she is willing to be vulnerable like this. I get shivers listening to her break down during that performance, it's just so courageous to sing through the emotion like that. What can I say, without a doubt Error is an iconic moment in Hololive history and Towa is absolutely an artist at heart, just like you said. Hearing her Error cover back in 2020 was one of the things that pulled me in to the vtuber world and it still gives me goosebumps to this day.

Still hard to keep a dry eye when watching her live. She earned it. You're right that it's crazy that some fans can turn like that. But sometimes it's a good thing as it can remove some of a less healthy fanbase while more supportive ones step up like what happened here.

I absolutely loved this method of deep diving on the song, comparing all the different versions and highlighting how each has it's own differences. I love Towa and her voice so much. She's such a sweet soul that's been through so much and her voice is genuinely one of a kind. <3

0_0 whoa! This is a really neat way to react to the same song. Each version of this song has a different feel/vibe. The studio version feels the most polished out of the three, the live version is powerful with how not perfect but genuine it feels. Towa herself has been through a lot over the years. Thank you for taking time reacting to Towa!

Big love! Towa is something special man. Her naturally lower tone just amplifies her emotions in her singing. It will always be crazy to me they tried to cancel her for staff being heard on stream man.

No idea how much I was looking forward to this reaction. She was understandably very emotional that whole 3D live.

Absolutely loved this reaction. I hope for any vocaloid covers going forward you do the same