Talk:MAYU/@comment-1050617-20121216190000/@comment-1050617-20121218131210

@Kim

Comparing Vocaloids to Touhou is kinda far-fetched. Tohou might have many characters but they all belong from the same circle plus the fact that they aren't liked because of their voices but their personality. Vocaloid is totally the opposite of that but I get your point. Fandom tend to diverse between companies, be Cryptonloid fanbase, Internet fanbase or whaterver fanbase there is. Also, the fact that well, hard to say but the majority of V3 vocaloids are aiming for the "Cute" or let's put it the "Moe" category is kind of bland for me. With Mew getting out of the scene, you get the idea.

As for me, I believe people tend to like the MORE VISIBLE vocaloid because of the songs made for them (catchy or whatever). Let's say, some newcomers to Vocaloid saw Miku, and all they see on well, YouTube for example is Miku if they search Vocaloid. Then they tend to like her more since she's the most visible, they tend to ignore the others since they are already used to Miku's voice and liked her. And so, the more popular vocaloid receive more of the attention and becomes more popular than how popular their popularity is popular than ever. Sometimes people just tend to be closed-minded on these things if they're new to the genre.

@Angel

It's easy to say that "time will tell" remember Kaito's accidental boom because of that certain ice-cream song? Sure it was a "time will tell" phenomenon but that was waaaaaay back before Vocaloid was even so pop-culturized. Sure Kaito was the only male vocaloid back then but if something like that were to happen, it would require utmost attention-harboring effort (such as Mayu's which I think is somewhat succesful).