Talk:Hatsune Miku/@comment-5413617-20130307024729/@comment-5532114-20130307185915

It's not that it's just commonly said, it IS true. It's not software only with a mascot. The "mascot" and the "software" both make a character and are both crucial for what makes the Vocaloid.

Hatsune Miku is Hatsune Miku. She is a teal haired girl in sailor uniform who speaks with a voice sampled from Saki Fujita. She is a virtual idol. Neither the voicebank nor her design are more important here because she is both. Labeling her and the other Vocaloids images as "mascots" makes it seem like it's a silly additional thing when the fact it that those silly things are what made Vocaloid big and are what brings the whole community together.

There shouldn't be any label in the first place since it's not necessary, Vocaloids are Vocaloids, they are characters, they are sold with a certain image and the voice, and it's not supposed to be seperated.

Plus, if I understand this correctly, Vocaloids from the software point of view, aren't programs theirselves. They are just this, voices. You can plug the voice into a program called Vocaloid, but the actual singers, aren't programs and without the editor you can't do anything with them.

So I would rather these pages stayed as simply "Hatsune Miku", "Kaito", "Gumi" etc or at the very least replace the "mascot" with "character" or something truer to the actual state of things...