Board Thread:Poll Archive/@comment-35301431-20130720165941/@comment-53539-20150424180213

Arcadelily wrote: My favourite is honestly between Meiko and Luka (V2). They have such unique voices, and then you have the generic "kawaii" voices... Despite people saying their designs are "slutty," I really like them. Meiko's designs were just very attractive to me, but of course people have to have their kawaii diabetes overdose. :/ I'd have to say I absolutely hate Len. Not for his design, which lackluster as it is, it's his voice and quality I have the biggest problem with. His voicebank quality is absolute garbage and his voice just isn't good, as it doesn't bring anything special to the table and people really can't tune him, regardless of the song. =,= Most Japanese producers bought the Kagamine's for Rin, Len was included in the package and was a bonus. Naturally sooner or later producers used him, but the attraction was Rin. there was only 1 commonly known Vocaloid back in the day, Miku so Producers went for the Easier to use "Miku" package who was ultra popular, or the expert level Kagamine package.

Kaito and Meiko were barely a thought and some didn't even know they existed until 2008 when Kaito was rediscovered. Some even debated on if they were legit for a brief while. And then there was the issue of rediscovering the Engloids... :-/

I find Meiko's designs problem is that she is pretty much designed to be "any" vocalist. Ditto so is Kaito. Except Kaito had more leeway as by fluke. The issue is, Meiko is perhaps too common... The other vocaloids have types with more character, while Meiko and Kaito being professionals lack in character. Its the whole "actor versus professional" issue that vocaloids can have. But the pair didn't really get made to stand out... They were the original VY's.

Meiko is more popular now then she has been in the past, thats about it. Least she gets in the top 10 products... :-/