Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-73.47.41.114-20150301205829/@comment-25386934-20151204212656

World is Mine. But I didn't actually get into VOCALOID that way.

Odd story. (Please excuse how juvienile I was, I joined the community seven and a half years ago so I was 12 or so) So I watched an MMD dance of Bad Apple (not a VOCALOID cover, either) and it had two VOCALOID dancing in it. I recognized Miku from previously seeing World is Mine but there was another VOCALOID (I don't remember who it was,  but I think it was Luka or GUMI) that I thought was prettier than Miku so I went and looked up where there were from. I found an acient version of this wiki (or some other wiki, but if this was active in '08 then it was this one) and saw that it was for a software, and I was like "SOFTWARE!? Lame! What a waste of a cute character!" and lost interest but kept looking up Bad Apple MMDs. I eventually found a VOCALOID cover, thought it was cool, and looked for more.

I feel like I should note also that at the time I thought how Miku worked was that a real person sang Miku's songs for her and they just animated Miku, and was the real singer's persona. When concerts came about I just thought she stood behind the stage while Miku was on the stage. This was another intial turn-off for me because I thought it was "unfair" to the REAL singer because she was forced to pretend to be a character.