Talk:MEIKA Hime & Mikoto/@comment-37432083-20190814021641/@comment-53539-20190814105036

The gender of the vocals isn't ness. the same as the mascot or character.

The 4 VY series vocals have no official mascots, including Diva and Songman and are counted as male or female vocals. But officially because they have no mascot, there is no gender for the Vocaloid.

Likewise, Len and Ryuto are voiced by females and both count as female vocals despite being listed as "male". Their voice actresses... Their female.

We could also mention Iroha here.

Ditto we could extend this beyond gender... Una is voiced by an adult and not a 12 year old.

Basically, a voice and a character aren't the same thing, their treated as like a voice acting role. So vocaloids go for realism like Sachiko, Leon or Prima, others go for acting like Una, Miku and Len.

The only difference between say a child and a female voice actress is vocal range is superior in an adult against a child, pronunciations and firmness. Boys and Girls barely have differences between their vocals pre puberty. So females can achieve a "boy-like" vocal. Because women can still achieve the child vocal range, they get used on purpose for all sorts of roles, since kids will keep their voice for just 10 years or so and an adult female keeps it for the rest of her life. So Mikoto can be used for boy roles and Hime for girl roles, their a product of vocie acting, but this time the voice hasn't been given "male and female" roles, most likely because the Kagamines have already done this and this is the only way to make them distinct from that.

BTW.... If you want to know the problem with guys... Men have it a lot rougher with voice acting... If a person goes through male puberty growing up, it completely impacts the body. Not only does your strength increase by 30% overall, but your voice breaks and deepens. So using a boy vocal for a male role is hard. What happens is that when puberty hits your voice breaks, and if you had this amazing alto vocal... You might not even be able to sing afterwards at all due to how your new voice is. You may be stuck with a tiny tenor, baritone or bass vocal range and a tone that barely suits singing.... Whereas as an alto you had this incredible one. On the other hand... You may end up lucky and are able to do all 3, to which you've been fortunate and have this incredible timbre to suit all 3. But you can't go back to the vocal you've lost not even with Falsetto. The male voice box has ended a number of careers over the years and to a degree just as their starting.