Talk:Tone Rion V4/@comment-71.212.89.248-20170907032633/@comment-53539-20181126123345

I'm not going to defend the new Rion design but the way I see it its to give clear distinction between the two girls. Notice how Nemu has now taken over the main promotion and is now the one with black hair.

I have noted in the past the one thing that has changed is Rion V4 still has a similar hairstyle, however, the artstyle changed and even that now looks different.

Regardless, Rion represents the old style and ideas while Nemu represents the new style going forward. She is realistic while Rion is voice acted, is recorded with the new recording style while Rion is the old. Etc, etc.

Rion wasn't that popular overall and a lot of it is often figured to be because she was marketed at Otaku producers, and has to date been the only one like that. All other Japanese Vocaloids were either marketed before her at professionals are just allowed to find their niche.

Saying that bare in mind this isn't the only example... Digimon did the same to one of the female characters between season 1 and season 2. Regardless, we have to accept that this is the new Tone Rion going forward. She is not the only one with problems as Flower now has caused fans to be unable to view her as anything but a transgender, despite her gender not changing. The one thing I have learnt over time is fans hate most of all change unless they do think its for the better. This has happened many times in comic books and even TV. For example, changing the Doctor to a female in Dr Who, even though it was established long ago the Doc's race can change between transformations, still has people knee jerk reacting to it. The Ghostbusters was the same even though my brother who was a big GB fan as a kid said if you ignored the gender the movie was good. Not every comic book hero could accept Dove changing from male to female and it was even referenced with Hawk reaction to the new female counterpart of himself being female. Even though the creators explain as the two were opposites it made more logic to have Dove be female and they thought she should have been female to begin with. And thats simple gender changing reactions. All in all, you just have to note that at her core the voice is identical to the V3 version except that in V4 she has XSY with Nemu and has going forward GWL. They are not different characters just as Flower is not, or Miku Append was not, or Gumi, etc.