Talk:ZOLA PROJECT/@comment-58.167.98.14-20170818101229/@comment-53539-20180622085951

There is also the issue of them being male (not very popular in Japan), released in the V3 era when there was a vocal overload (new vocaloids out almost every few months) and are part of the 3rd party group "Yamaha".

Yamaha vocals don't always do so well versus the main dev vocals CFM, Ah software, Internet co, etc, because their a misc group of random vocals that can end up not being supportive of each other.

Personally I think if I had to pin anything on them, it would be the fact their male vocaloids as this alone is one of the soul reasons a lot of such vocals fail. 80% of all producers in Japan are male themselves and their more likely to buy a female vocaloid for this reason. This is why Internet, despite claiming they want to release another male besides Gackpo, can't. A lot of the time producers also rely on Kaito, Len or Gackpo. Kaito because his vocal works with most other vocaloids, Gackpo because he was the 2nd male vocal and is also professional, or Len because he comes with Rin and they were after Rin (she has up to 50% more songs then Len). So males outside this trio are competing with these 3.

There is almost always a gimmick with the males because of this, like Zola's 3 mini voicebanks.