Talk:Vsinger/@comment-119.30.45.43-20190515152310/@comment-53539-20190515163816

Similar ideas were taken into account and borrowed from the CFM Vocaloids, however, the characters were chosen via competitions themselves.

The winners are fine, you should see the competition entries especially for the first one. A big complaint was how many "Miku look alikes" there were. Fans aren't that creative and often will get a little lazy and just base their ideas on existing ones. Luo Tianyi for example originally had a CFM style name and it was altered to get rid of that clear link. This isn't the only example of this as the Ring and Lui competition met with similar problems and even Lui and Ring themselves were similar too much to Miku and Len.

A lot of fans try and deny there is similarities but over time we've learnt more and more there are. The best comparison is SeeU and Miku, its obivous Miku was used as the original design ideas as a lot of her design concept is similar but different to Miku's and at least 1 thrown away SeeU design stole the pose for Miku's V2 art. When you put SeeU and Miku together, however, you can tel them apart and thats all that matters. Yes, Miku was used as a base design, but she did not finish up looking exactly the same as Miku.

Either way, I wouldn't hold being similar to other Vocaloids too much to heart even when thereis a confirmed link. It gets petty at times and can often used as an excuse not to like a Vocaloid or to put it down.