Talk:Luo Tianyi/@comment-70.69.107.198-20180423014933/@comment-53539-20180501104759

Given the history of Japanese voicebanks from non-Japanese origins, there is an issue that because the Japanese have better they will not use the Japanese voicebanks. Both SeeU and Yohioloid didn't do expectionly well just because of having a Japanese voicebank, when SeeU still failing to make a sales impact in Japan despite the sales being supposedly higher in Japan then in Korea. Likewise, from what I gather despite the clumsy presumption both fans and Yamaha are making on Maika, Maika hasn't "saved" the state of Spanish Vocaloids and still did only a bit more better then expected for the Spanish vocaloids given their failures.

There was a time in Vocaloid2 people presumed a Japanese voicebank would make any Vocaloid sell well. The issue is Vocaloid3 spammed the Japanese industry with lots of voicebanks, many of which struggled to stand out. Japanese producers were spoilt for choice, but most still stuck because of consumer loyalty to studios such as Crypton or Internet. This is why a lot of the newer vocaloids couldn't get anywhere. To top it off, producers were started to note how voicebanks were ending up too similar, an issue which has been addressed in Vocaloid4. There are very few voicebanks that didn't fall into common voicebank types or sound similar at points to other Vocaloids, the best example of this being Anon & Kanon. Bare in mind, the issue has existed since Meiko, as one of the reasons because Meiko struggling against popular V2's was not only her V1 status but her lack of stand out qualities compared to many new vocals in V2.

ITs going to take an exceptional voicebank that be successful enough to take on the Japanese voicebanks at this stage and honestly... I don't think Tianyi really is that exceptional enough. Bare in mind, Miku herself is not an exceptional voicebank in the modern scene and the few exceptional ones are once like Sachiko, Ia and Yukari, Kaai Yuki, Ryuto, who have traits no other Vocaloid have and can cover genres in a way few or no other vocaloids can. But even then... Bare in mind not all of those I mentioned are all that successful, as I said, most producers stick to a few studios.

In short...I'll be surprised if Tianyi does much better in the Japan scene then SeeU did. All I know of Yohioloid is he did about as well as any other Vocaloid from PowerFX and only got a few extra sales due to his Japanese voicebank... Oliver from what I gather is PowerFX's most successful Vocaloid. Its something people don't understand about Ruby... It was never Ruby that caused PowerFX to leave. The ones who likely are to care more for Tianyi's Japanese voicebank are the Chinese fans then the Japanese fans and most sales likely will be from their own fans and not Japan.