Voca Synth Fan Merch Stores

[cafenurse]

Idk if this warranted a whole thread I usually make everything a profile post but I figured maybe other people have been looking too...

I'm currently making a whole bookshelf devoted to my voca collection, it used to be scattered around the house but I quite like having it all together like one big happy family. I'd like to display a large variety of synths, but obviously most synths are not fortunate enough to get official merch.
I spend a lot of time perusing through etsy and and going to cons to buy fan merch, but of course you usually only see the same handful of synths there all the time. No fault to the artist- you are far more likely to sell Teto keychains than Mew keychains. But of course, this has made it quite a quest for me to diversify my merch collection!

I thought we could make a thread sharing places we know of that sell a wide variety of voice synth fan merch! <3 Of course I just went on this whole speech about how I'm looking for lesser known synths but if you have a store you love that sells basically all Miku share it anyway! I'm happy to peruse artists stores nonetheless. I just LOVE shopping.

No AI or stolen art in this thread please <3

My finds so far:

UntramenTaro - Has a keychain for every single Vocaloid and a variety of voice synths! Keychains are all in the same headshot style but their store is absolutely amazing if you're looking for a vocaloid that no one makes merch for

Wheatloaves - I got a ton of their stickers at AX last year and they have charms available too! A decent selection of Vocas and also some Sekai stuff if you're interested. They let me know a Tone Rion sticker is coming to her shop in May...I'm on the edge of my seat...

SHG - Huge variety of Vocaloid merch with an emphasis on Yohioloid and Maika stuff!

Chorva - I've been a fan of Chorva's art for so long, they have a ton of stickers/keychains up on their shop with a nice variety of vocas!

Marshmallow Manju - Lots of different vocas in her shop, with an emphasis on Galaco! Her bio also says she'll consider requests if there's someone you want to see represented. I have a poster of her internet co family drawing in my room and I love it sm

VOCABIT - A project by an artist named Remu to make more merch of loids! I got their Rana enamel pin and their tote bag at AX last year and adore them.

Also Hikusa's store is currently under maintenance but I'll put it here for now because I have bought so many stickers and bookmarks and pencil pouches and such from her- she has such a lovely art style and she features so many voca friends!

I will probs be back to add more as my shopping continues

 

[AoiMikuHaul]

Late to the thread, but there is a whole side of the "lesser-known synths get no merch" problem that Etsy and artist alley don't cover: the Japanese indie shops on BOOTH (pixiv's marketplace). Two things make it look far emptier than it actually is.

1. Search the Japanese name, not the romanised one. Japanese sellers don't tag in English. Same site, same day (I ran every one of these today), goods category only:

Otomachi Una — "Otomachi Una" returns 1 item, 音街ウナ returns 138
Yuzuki Yukari — "Yuzuki Yukari" returns 2, 結月ゆかり returns 364
Kasane Teto — "Kasane Teto" returns 22, 重音テト returns 621
galaco — "galaco" returns 12, ギャラ子 returns 24
Tone Rion — "Tone Rion" returns 0, 兎眠りおん returns 5
Hatsune Miku, for contrast — 2,013 vs 2,311, basically no gap

That last line is the whole point. For Miku it hardly matters, because everyone tags her both ways. The gap only opens up on exactly the synths you are trying to find.

2. Filter to goods. A plain search throws doujin albums and download-only releases into the same list. 兎眠りおん returns 50 results overall but only 5 of those are physical goods — the rest is music. The goods category has its own URL and takes the query directly, so you can swap the name in and out: booth.pm/ja/browse/グッズ?q=音街ウナ

Two things that will waste your time if nobody warns you: short Latin names are useless as queries (IA pulls 41,000+ items in the goods category alone, obviously not all hers), and "Tone Rion" actually returns more than 兎眠りおん in an unfiltered search purely because "tone" is an ordinary English word.

The catch is shipping. Whether a BOOTH shop sends overseas is set shop by shop, and a lot of the one-person shops are domestic-only, which is where a forwarding address or proxy inside Japan comes in. Worth knowing too that the official goods for the VOCALOID3-era voices — galaco, Tone Rion and Mew all landed in 2011–2012, and that is where most of their merch came from in the first place — are long out of print, so those turn up on the Japanese secondhand sites rather than on BOOTH at all. Rundown of which Japanese sites carry what, and how ordering from them works from outside Japan: guide to the Japanese doujin, manga and goods sites — that one is my own writeup, so weigh it accordingly. If you just want to eyeball what is listed secondhand right now, searching ボーカロイド rather than "vocaloid" pulls the domestic listings.

Adding UntramenTaro to my own list from your post — a keychain for every synth is exactly the thing I have been failing to find.