Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-77.104.247.254-20141101133815/@comment-173.81.58.58-20160103193442

Misteryeevee wrote: 173.81.58.58 wrote: Ummm... don't you think it's a little stereotypical to say ALL KaitoxMiku shippers hate Meiko? Because I ship KaitoxMiku (that's actually the only Vocaloid couple I ship to be honest) and Meiko is my second favorite Vocaloid. Unsure if this was targeted at me, but replying to anyways.

I'm a KaiMei fan and I personally dislike KaiMiku a lot. But that doesn't mean I hate Miku because she's paired with Kaito... it's actually really, for lack of better words, stupid to do that. VOCALOID is NOT about shipping. It is about music and creativity. And I am personally neutral with Miku: I don't hate her but I don't love her, she is in the in between. There are very few VOCALOIDs I dislike and they're never disliked for "pairing" reasons. I don't dislike Ruby because I hate Dex x Ruby and I solely think Dex should be with Daina or something. I dislike her for her voice and at times, I don't like her design. On the subject of KaiMiku, I don't like the visual of the pairing, but that doesn't mean I can't like their duets either because some of them sound really good. And the reason why I mention this is because people really do hate the pairing so much that they blatantly ignore every song featuring said pairing and not giving any of them a chance. :/

I always have this issue with people disliking characters solely because of a pairing, especially if said pairing was not canon in the first place. It bothers me even more when people dislike the character if they're female in a series where most characters are male (like Hetalia for instance) and then they throw "cockblock" reasons everywhere (And vice versa if there's few males in a mostly female series). It's kind of just unfair to do that when there are other more legitimate reasons to dislike a character...

I also wasn't generalizing all KaiMiku fans to be hateful towards Meiko, but there is a very loud crowd that do give bad impressions to the fans of the pair. :/ While I don't ship Kaito and Meiko together (I see them as best friends rather than a couple), I don't really hate that pairing at all. And I definitely agree that Vocaloid isn't all about shipping, it's about music. I've never been big on the whole shipping thing anyway, which is probably the main reason I only ship ONE vocaloid couple together. And yeah, I agree, two Vocaloids being paired together is a very dumb reason to hate another Vocaloid.