Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3076833-20141017184700/@comment-53539-20171028232954

Kiroma337 wrote: The reasons I don't like Miku are as follows:

1: Her voice is generic and unappealing. It sounds like any Japanese anime girl to me. It's also too high pitched for me, as I prefer deeper vocals.

2: Her design looks dull to me. I don't know why, but she doesn't look very interesting.

3: She sings way too many songs in my opinion, especially when the song would fit another VOCALOID better.

4: Crypton puts nearly all their time and attention onto her, leaving some of their other VOCALOIDs such as MEIKO and KAITO over-looked. This could lead to them becoming unusable.

I know most of these points were already stated, but I just wanted to put my opinion out there.

Don't sue As it stands, Miku pretty much stands out in her original voicebank even against other higher pitched vocals. This was on purpose as she was voice acted. To put it bluntly, you picked the wrong Vocaloid to call "generic". 2:I've noticed over time they've lighted her design, but for me a lot of it was that she has a lot of tropes like "schoolgirl" and "pigtails" that are popular in anime and manga. BAre in mind, she wasn't intended to be a instant seller so the fault isn't hers with the design. The main issue is that her original design had a lot of grey. In colour theory, black is a killer, it kills colours faster and harder then white does and is frather flat. Black is better used for making other colours stand out. Dark greys risk doing the same, which is why I believe they've lightened both her design and the Kagamines, as well as Luka's. To me, the appeal of the design has lost a lot because its always in our face. I have not gone a day of being a Vocaloid fan without seeing Miku *somewhere*. In short, I've seen her everyday since later 2009... That's nearly 8 years of seeing the same design.
 * 1) Actually, it stood out for some time and honestly... If you want "generic" your looking at Vocaloids like Meiko, Anon & Kanon and Gumi, as these vocals have the most vocals that either match or fall within their ranges and are considered "everyday vocals" or too many Vocaloids/voicebanks were produced near to their ranges or tones.
 * 1) Can't fault popularity or producer's for overusing her. Popularity breeds popularity, so we all have to just give up here on her overuse.  Supporting the use of alternative Vocaloids is better then cribbing on her being used too much.
 * 2) Meiko and Kaito aren't their Vocaloids, you should read their history. Their Vocaloids are Miku, Luka and the Kagamines. But yes, it is notable that after Luka V4x they worked on the Kagamines - and Miku too.  So Miku had much longer development then the Kagamines and ended up being the best V4x for this reason.  People wanna treat Meiko and Kaito the same as members of the CV series, but their not... Even to the point, the CV were originally voice acted and Meiko/Kaito were the professional vocals, so they aren't the same and even CFM does not treat them the same.  If you read on their V3 versions, they did not process their samples like they did with the CV series and aside matching their tones to their V1 counterparts, they did nothing to dampen them.  The V3 version was basically because V1 was being retired and this put them on priority to be updated. O.O