Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26426525-20150524214902/@comment-11582536-20150531141506

Miki and Yuki's popularities both have gone down in the past few years, while Kiyoteru's has gone up, if that says anything. He ranked higher than them in popularity last year overall, too.

It's still not anything spectacular, but he's not nearly the least popular Japanese Vocaloid anymore lol.

I'm still holding up the notion that the only reason KAITO is as popular as he is is because he was the only deep Japanese male VOCALOID for a long time. He had two years over Gakupo and three over Kiyoteru, so no one really had a choice if they wanted a masculine vocal. Before they were released, the only adult vocal anyone would even be able to use or recognize was KAITO, so he already had his popularity by then.

Though it's fair to say that even if popular producers (PeperonP, Re:nG, MikitoP, KagomeP, etc) have used him, it doesn't mean his songs will be a hit (though Peperon's and Re:nG's usages of him tend to get more attention than others). It's mostly just who people are familiar with. Because let's face it, a lot of this fandom doesn't care about branching out to new things. :U