Talk:GUMI/@comment-112.204.48.41-20120803142718/@comment-53539-20120803174418

Gumi was pretty realistic when released in 2009, mostly because the only J-loid before her that focused on realism in the V2 generation was Gakupo. All the Crypton ones go for "sound" not "realism".

Tonio and Prima have been known to also trick long term opera fans, they were also focused on realism. Basically, all the ones put out as professional singers are usually the most realistic of the Vocaloids. Ia is the first I've seen in the Japanese lot get complaints for sounding too realistic in comparison to other Vocaloids, thus, I pretty much say Ia is about as realistic at times you get in theirs, if that complaint has any reality to it.

Japanese producers and fans don't nessecary like Vocaloid for its realistic sound though, since they liked Miku despite the fact she was dated by the en of the V2 era still quite a bit more then other Vocaloids. Even some of higher quality then her. :-/