Board Thread:Poll Archive/@comment-35301431-20130720165941/@comment-53539-20150424211511

NickTheWoodenToaster wrote: I didn't know so much people disliked Luka qq I can think of reasons; The appearance has not always appealed to sum
 * Not everyone likes her voice because though its the voice of a adult female, she doesn't have any maturity in the tone like Meiko has.
 * This softness is not as per standard sweet enough for a "Fluttershy" soft, and lacks the power to do anything else.
 * The english V2 put a lot of people off of English Vocaloid
 * Her design makes some feel she is anorexic, her breasts make others feel like se is a stick with boobs.
 * I could go on, there is a lot of petty nit-picks.

Its perfectly fine not to like Luka. She was the best of the non-append CV vocals, least her Japanese voice was. For me the issue the voice being not powerful enough for the genres I'd like her to sing in, but not sweet enough for the other genres...

Other then that... Luka was actually adveterised in a way that made people think Luka was the first English vocaloid, Miku was also done in a similar manner leading some to think she was the first V2. CFM choices words to describe their vocaloids that makes you presume their saying something their not... Its clever use of words, effective, but the result is heavily annoying when ignorance of less informed fans is combined with it. Its not lying because their not saying "Luka is the first English capable Vocaloid" their just saying "English has been difficult to produce until now!". That would be false advertisment, for Miku "the first vocal made for Vocaloid2", because it turns out Sweet Ann was a V1 adaptred voice for V2.

So for me, this is kinda leaning towards the same level of reaction that I gave SBS artech for "SeeU can do English!" and "SeeU = trilingual!". But al of this isn't really a big impact on my opinions of Luka, its just an annoyance towards CFM... And 1 of 2 things I don't like about the company, the other being the boring "update old voices" routine. >_<