Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24059881-20150814042045/@comment-53539-20150814101616

VY2 has no design and is a masculine voice, in Japan VY1 took a while to hit on because of her lack of a design. But being female, she was more likely to sell so eventually has cotton on. As a consequences, VY1 opens every new version of the software (which is why you can buy her in so many forms).

the roro design was never official and was just used by a group working with Bplats to promote VY2. VY1 had a similar design (she has had a lot of promotional designs actually). So when things ended, roro was not in used. Bplats promotion contract seems to have ended as most of what they handled seems to have changed hands, especially with Vocaloid Net services now covering most of their stuff). You can use ANY design for VY2, its no more official then Roro was.

Its likely VY2 will be a V4, but he takes some time to produce. Vocaloid doesn't handle the lower vocals so well and many male vocals suffer because of it (Big Al, being the first time it came up as a topic of discussion). With most vocals being high pitched females, there is less demand for lower ranges and less focus I guess on perfecting them? Who knows.

I would forgot Roro either way, the artist of the contest did not know they were going to have their design featured for VY2, it was not stated this was the intended. They entered a contest to have their design made into a Vocaloid like Ring Suzune and Hibiki Lui, both of which were part of this same group also. the artist asked fans not to use Roro for VY2.

VY1, VY2 and even Cyber Diva, are facelss Vocaloids (be it, Diva has a face on her box, its not her avatar) one can warp to one's use. A lot of fans and producers don't awlays "get" the deal with the series. Their not alone; Leon, Lola and Miriam are the same, while Meiko and Kaito started out with the "the character on the box is not the avatar" approach also. Character Voice have avatars and their boxart is concept art representing the ideals of an avatar. :-/

Not every Vocaloid is intended to follow the same as Character Vocal Series.