User blog comment:Serza5/English Vocaloids - Their Boom?/@comment-53539-20140716180346

The influence of producers has potential to influence buyers. Which in turn become producers, who in turn influence buyers.

I think the issue falls not into the complexity of the software, because even Japanese vocaloids are a little difficult to play with, but the difficulty to get the cycle started.

The big issue with English is that its not Japanese, many are introduced to the Japanese voclaoids. They presume the Japanese Vocalodis are "better" because they "sound good", which in reality is "the producer in this song made the Voclaoid sound good" but due to nativity this isn't always something that clicks with the listener.

Due to the number of weaboos in the fandom, and the reputation of Japanese -> English translations/dubs, etc, the major "weaboo" part of the fandom has a strange hyperactive view of anything Japanese. This effects things when it goes into English translations, being a One Piece fan who saw the crappy 4Kids One Piece dub, I pretty much can say, yeah, I've seen the mentality. Even when it was taken over, there was this idea that no matter WHO took over, compared to what the fandom was given it was going to be "awesome". So Funimation got praised in a glorious hero-esque manner... Just because everyone hated the way 4Kids' dubbed the show.

Regardless, Voclaoid is viewed as a "Japanese thing", thus... Well... This is something that will impact it. I don't think a cute girl vocal or anything like that will make a difference.

This is why I said one of the biggest issues preventing English vocaloid taking off like its Japanese counterparts is just bias. Their not Japanese, therefore, their not "special" or "exciting". Avanna's a Elf... "big deal"... "Thats stupid"... But hang on... Lapis is a fairy... "Thats awesome!". Big Al's a monster? Boring! But wait... miki's a robot? "Thats amazing".

Unfortantely, bias isn't just holding back english vocaloid, but also impacts Japanese vocaloids at the moment as well. Producers are constantly falling back onto the "Big 8" vocals and one or two others like IA. Their not opening embracing every vocaloid as they were more accepting to do in V2. :-/

Basically, at this stage what I'm saying is, yes, there is a problem with bias. But the bias is not just holding back English vocals, its effecting every other Voclaoid except the same handful of vocals. While the scale is bigger on the Japanese vocaloid side, with even the least popular getting somewhere, their still not nearly as popular as Vocaloids were able to get in the past.

Even still, things ARE getting better. Over time, people are starting to acc3ept there are other Vocaloids besides the Big 8, and even the popular V3's like IA get noticed more. But the general idea of "Vocaloid" is still being held back by problems that stem from the mental state of the overall Vocaloid fans. Their ego is the blame of a lot of the trouble of accepting Vocaloids, its the route of their bias and the root of their nativity.

Basically, to fix the issues with the fandom, you've just got to focus on pulling down that pride it has, making it accept that its being blinded by its own nearsightedness.

I mean, this is what we're suppose to be doing here - promoting the vocaloids, all of them. Its one of our core foundations.