Character

IA

イア

IA is a Japanese VOCALOID developed and distributed by 1st PLACE Co., Ltd., and was released in January 2012 for the VOCALOID3 engine. Her voice is provided by the Japanese female singer-songwriter, Lia, known for "Tori no Uta". She received an additional VOCALOID3 voicebank known as IA ROCKS in June 2014. In March 2017, she received a CeVIO talk voicebank. In July 2016, an English voicebank was confirmed to be in the works, and was later released for CeVIO in June 2018. In July 2020, another voicebank was confirmed to be in the works for CeVIO's new engine. Her design was illustrated by Aka Akasaka (D. Z.), while the design direction was by Maxilla Inc. It was decided that they would go for soft colours instead of vivid ones. At the time, there was skepticism towards avoiding vivid colours as there was a fear of her not selling because of the softer tones. Lia herself wanted her to be cute and pretty and was satisfied the first time she was shown the artwork. Despite the myth of IA's age being 15, she has had no official age. This myth seems to originate from a section underneath the paragraph on IA about her provider Lia, wherein one of the first things mentioned was that Lia debuted in America at 15 years old. In IA's 6th and ONE's 3rd anniversary special talk live, it was revealed that IA is 155 cm tall.