User blog comment:Pihou/Theory to the Community's Problem!/@comment-53539-20140609075215

I don't see people asking for females as often as elsewhere in the fandom. Usually if someone does say it, someone puts in a note about it being not as bad as the OP makes out to be.

Also, Luka is not the least popular of the CV. She is more popular then Len.

I also saw that GT video. I know sometimes his claims and theories are outragoues, but there are times when he hits the nail on the head. As I've been in the Sonic the Hedgehog and Mortal Kombat fandoms, this video proves to the point what this video said. GT's theory video came many months after Yahtzee expressed similair concerns over the nostalgia issue.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/extra-punctuation/10990-The-Nostalgia-Factor

However... This doesn't always work. In the DC and Marvel fanbase, the lack of change to the status quo annoys fans, as just as their getting into their favorite heroes storylines the company resets the franchise. Suddenly, years of storyline and plot point building are removed and nobody knows what is going to happen. Often the storylines replacing the originals end up boring and lackluster, as in the case of Teen Titans "Raven" character who is now a shadow of her former self and Beast Boy is now red and has a big temper problem... This is a characters thats been around for decades and had always been the goofy green-skinned clown.

In the case of video games, its not just the fans who can be the series own worst nightmare, but the game critics. IGN, for example, put popular characters of the Sonic franchise on their list of characters "that need to die" and cited characters like "Tails" for being the time Sonic when "iffy"... But... This is like the fans of Batman who don't like "Robin"... When you look at the history of Batman, yeah he didn't have Robin originally. Tails was introduced a short time after the Sonic franchise started, he is only absent or not mentioned in one or two games, meaning he is quite deep in the Sonic franchise mythos and is even counted as the main 4 characters along with Knuckles, Amy and Sonic himself.

Ironically we see people complaining about the number of new Vocaloids, which goes back to the Sonic and Tails issue. But when you look at the Vocaloid page, you can see we have 3 boxarts that were once on Yamaha's own Vocaloid page. The current situation we have with Vocaloid, is still much tamer then what Yamaha originally planned for the series.

All in all, I get what your trying to say but I'm not 100% convinced you've got this. pinned.