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Its worth noting that SeeU had problems when she had Japanese, as in the Japanese didn't like it. She still apparently sold better in Japan then Korea... But she didn't sell well in Japan. Yohioloid faced a similar problem.

There is a lot of politics at foot in Asia at times so we don't know how it will go. Miku likely will do a lot better in Chinese then Tianyi will fair "well" in comparison.

A lot of the issue with Japanese voicebanks is that there are so many an the non-natives don't so far seem to do well as the native Japanese voicebanks. With a market so littered with voicebanks, anything can make a vocaloid stand out or flop. There are some Chinese producers on Nico Video who don't reveal their nationality also for reason.

Its not Xenophobia, its just Japan is kinda proud of what it does and loyal to its consumer base. It generally can make things hard for anything made outside of Japan to do well, though definately not impossible. I know Thomas the Tank Engine has a fair following in Japan... No idea why though. And Sanrio these days owns the Mr Men and Little Miss franchise... So thats slowly making its way into Japan.

Korea gets it worst then China... Its owed to the events of WW2 and their surrender leading to Korea being taken from them by France and USA.