Talk:Hiyama Kiyoteru/@comment-11445037-20130701074509/@comment-53539-20130701185922

Please read English - Japanese; you merely think he has good english, he is not set up for HQ english and only produces something that could be english, sounds like english, but definitely isn't.

To clear things up, all Ah software vocaloids did not have permission for listing on CFM's Karen-T website (and in turn, Piapro). Its just they did not have permission for using them. There was no overall ban, its just this one place, the result was merely that producers had difficulty selling these vocaloids at events since they could not easily get them made official.

The art itself wasn't bad, a lot of this was that Ah software came into the vocaloid scene with 3 vocals all at once and some very mixed feelings were met with it. Being a male vocaloid, he was harder to "sell" to the fans, as males don't always have great luck selling compared to females. He wasn't considered particularly easy for fans to use, mostly down to the fact most of them weren't used to how his voice reacted I guess... The worst you could say about the art was that maybe it was too "normal" compared to past vocaloids. :-/

As for your notes on his background, look at the "concept" section on this page, your answers lie there. He even has a book on his band. This isn't what you believe, he has some facts routed, except he still does the band thing as far as his background stuff is as far as I know.

Can't say this guy is in my top 10 vocaloids, but this is just my personnel preferences.