Talk:Lily/@comment-37245405-20181221164307/@comment-53539-20181222022915

It depends on Internet co, Ltd's plans for their Vocaloids going forward. We know nothing about what their up to. Last time m.o.v.e had a reason for updating Lily, due to their animation promotion thing "anim.o.v.e.".

Myself am not bothered, Lily was never a fantastically stand out-ish Vocaloid. She is in the "common vocal" group which makes things harder, she is in the same group Meiko, Mirai, etc are all in. I'd like some new vocals for V5 because the constantly repeated loop of re-releasing results in nothing new being made for Vocaloid at times. Though it is harder to sell newer Vocaloids, I still prefer this as it brings in new ideas and validates the existence of each engine. Updates only really seem to impress me if they build on a Vocaloid in a new and exciting way that makes the update warranted and impressive. If they are just re-releases of the old stuff with cleaning, even with the adjustments their still the same vocal adding nothing hugely new to the mix. It an make a Vocaloid update really boring.

VY1, Tone Rion, Flower, VY2, the two Cybers, Gackpo, Rana, etc are pretty much just examples of this. Their last updates have been just been "re-releasing the old adjusting the vocal slightly". There isn't many major differences between V3 and V4 vocals, or V4 and V5 ones. Aside from the new recording style, we're looking at slow progress compared to V1, V2 and V3. Heck bare in mind the early and later V2s had big differences alone between them. So for me, a Lily update is going have to be more then what we've had or there just is no point in even bothering to add it. Not when a fresh, brand new vocaloid adds a lot more to the table.