Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-69.81.77.2-20160726233053/@comment-53539-20160728122729

Note; you need a forwarding services and DL might only be Japan, so this is kinda difficult and at one stage he was among the most difficult to get hold of.

Ah, a word of warning; Piko is a MQ vocal at best... And not one of the bet of V2. I know people tend to go for their favourites, but the only vocal to really win HQ for Japanese was VY2.... And to be honest, the V3 and V4 vocals are better then V2. V2 is also unsupported, and its difficult to legally get him on V4 at this point.... In fact only a few studios dish out V4 import codes now for V2 vocals - Piko as far as I know isn't among the ones that can be accessed.

Yohioloid and Fukase pretty much replace him between them Yuu at a pinch, but the ZOLA PROJECT boys have shallow vocal ranges so YUU isn't so good.:-/

Len counts as a "female" vocal so the Kagamine Appends are out for male vocals.

This link is on the front page also, the guys at VO know more about getting hold of Japanese and other vocals;

http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/index.php?/topic/19636-where-to-buy-vocaloids-thread/

Regardless, even if your studying Japanese, read our Japanese Phonetics page. Also be aware another thing about V3 vocals is that the V2s didn't have triphonetic data, and the V3 engine is better at handling vocal in general. So the "Japanese" is better in V3s and V4s then V1s (especially) and V2s.

Lets put it this way, out of the entire cat of V2 vocals... I'd skip Piko myself even if I was a fan at this stage. It a case of "sorry your a bit late". And I was after Sweet Ann too, I wouldn't rush to get her now for similar reasons. :-/