User blog comment:OtterJiang/Zhanyin Lorra and Yuezheng Ling Voice Opinions/@comment-3076833-20141025020651/@comment-53539-20141025174334

In the case of Iroha, the worst thing about the situation with her voice was that providers often use her outside of her vocal range recommendation. Reason; simply because it makes her voice sound "cuter". When they end up sacrificing quality in the process, this becomes a question of "why did you buy her in the first place over a voice that does the job better for what you want to use her for?".

Piko often has the reverse, people actually prefer to lower his voice even though he is a higher ranged male, sacrificing quality once again to make him so much more mature. For some producers, this is not an issue as their good at manipulating vocals, in most cases, the sacrifice of quality is notable... The most obvious character to have this happen to is Big Al, once you hit a certain range he goes from "Manly McManly" to "kermit the frog with a sore throat".

Otherwise, I can think of much worst scenarios then the voice matching issue at play here. I'm just glad that the "we want a male" crowd has gone and moved onto the next female so the development can continue without all the face palming.