Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-110.54.175.58-20180201092819/@comment-53539-20180218220019

For Japanese, this was true up until SF-A2 miki was released. Bigger range, more flexible vocal, sounded more like the provider. Its arguable that Yuki was even more realistic too.

Gumi's biggest issue is her vocal has always been highly resistant to change, especially back in V2. You had to really force the vocal to have some extreme changes before she began to show it and this came at the cost of quality. Saying that the stability of the vocal prob. made it good. Gumi also had a number of issues which they've cleaned up since then.

All vocaloids have strengths and weaknesses, if you want to love a vocaloid for its strengths, you should also love is despite its weaknesses too though.

@86.97.221.106 - actually its semi-true, the other truth is the people who didn't like her also saw a anime girl. The haters tend to be the ones who actually paint more of a picture of something then anyone else, so they associated it with weaboos, whom they like to mock. The typical hater does little or no research while the weaboo may do some, so in the eyes of the hater labels anyone who likes Vocaloid as a weaboo... Even though I originally came into this fandom liking Tonio, Prima, etc.

Vocaloid isn't anime, despite the art style, so its important to remember this as it means a person isn't ness. a weaboo. Besides, most labelling themselves "weaboo" aren't. True obsessives don't even know their crazy, those who do are just using it as an excuse to act a certain way. Ergo, weaboo believe their Japanese, watch only Japanese animation because they believe Japanese people do, read manga for the same reason and "try" to only speak Japanese (often butchering it). Basically they don't believe their not Japanese at all and stick by their claims even when you call them out... If not, their working towards being Japanese and do things like look at how to squint their eyes to look more Asian and want to abandon who they are. I did come one or two of these in my anime fan days... Their... actually.... quite creepy. Its sort of like someone under going gender change I suppose except its not the gender but the ethnicity.

No most are just a geek or a nerd who watches anime and are using the term to give them a sense of identity, like the "Bronies" (My Little Pony) or "Trekkies" (Star Trek). Its like they also use the term "Otaku" as interchangeable with the same words in English... Reality is their still nerds and geeks and most aren't actually Otaku. Nothing wrong with calling yourself geek or nerd, it maybe mundane but its a lot closer to the truth.