Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-153.107.97.167-20150304014155/@comment-53539-20150322014512

CFM are so caught up with Miku's popularity and promotion that it can clause them to be really busy. They also tend to have multiple projects ongoing at once, like Luka and the Kagamines V4X products both were originally worked at the same time with Luka becoming the focus due to the project getting priority and thus the main focus. CFM literally can have 6 projects at once. Also this is why Project If... never got anywhere. :-/

In addition Japanese males traditionally sell quite poorly. A lot of this amounts to the fact most producers are male (DTM magazine has a subscription that was 80% male when Kaito was released) and are more likely to work with cute females. Also due to how many vocaloids there are now in Japanese, launching a new Japanese vocal is now much harder then it used to be back in V2.

In some respects, Spanish, Korean and Chinese have a eaiser time because their Vocaloids have yet to reach double digits. It means their new vocaloids are not competing with a dozen other vocals for interest. With English vocals its somewhere between this and the situation with Japanese vocaloids, except people are just getting interested in it and this is why the English vocals are only just taking off. Despite there being a dozen vocals, English producers tend to buy newer vocals then old V2 or prior for various reasons due4 to the improvements between engines.

Still I remember Wat saying he felt female vocals would do better then male when the approach to America was brought up.... So there is a presumption females will do slightly better then males even outside of Japan. This despite male vocalist tending to be more successful overall then their female counterparts because the more likely to go mad and buy music songs are rabid teenage girls.... You figure this out... Honestly, 2 of the 3 Engloids released for V3 and if not for Sad Machine Avanna wasn't getting mentioned a lot compared to Oliver and Yohioloid. :-/