Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-72.45.40.162-20151127010250/@comment-53539-20170829212731

There isn't many males and we tend to fix on the "HQ" part of the vocal more. Plus may liked Roro even though it wasn't his official avatar. Even then, as I said before Japanese vocaloids aren't aimed at us, so we have practically no influence. Even in terms of English versions of Miku and co... They were made for Japanese producers more then us. Its kinda sad, but it was admitted early on by Wat we weren't the target audience and the English vocals are for Japanese producers to break into the west. ITs also why I'm not particularly thrilled at CFM vocaloids as they tend to produce the bare minimum requirements for a solid vocal.

Either way... You can see the problems here. ITs something western fans don't always get, that Japanese vocaloids are made for the Japanese market and overseas sales tend to be pocket change. Its the same though in reverse... Our native English vocals usually are produced for the English market and not anything else.

So far Gumi and Nana are the only ones confirmed that are coming out of Japan with the intention of trying to convince westerners to buy the software. Which is why I don't ness. like it when people put Nana down... Give the girl a break, its a Japanese English vocal actually being aimed at America with the intent to attract English fans. Ditto Gumi English was an experiment to see how the markets would react.

I don't know about epic. Usually the new versions just improve on the old and the trouble with a male vocal is that you can get some very different tones. This means the vocal is unbalanced a lot of the time and it can be harder to balance them. I think the only thing to really note is VY2 has XSY, so they may feel no rush to update him. :-/