Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20160430010301/@comment-24.214.82.9-20160501173256

Gaijin Goombah recently announced that he's in the early stages of creating a new show called Gaijin Reviews. This new show will consist of Gaijin doing cultural analyses on several anime shows and vocaloid. Gaijin was apparently inspired to create this new show after he made a collab video with akidearest. Here's the link to his announcement video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ArWEKe0aG0 For those of you who want to see his akidearest collab, here's the link to that: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gzzG79FsVPQ

I'm assuming most of you are familiar with Gaijin Goombah, but if you aren't, he's an edutainment youtuber who uploads videos which analyze the cultural elements in video games. Japanese culture in particular is Gaijin's specialty, he's studied it for a while and he's lived in Japan for a few years. He also has a show on the Game Theorists channel called Culture Shock. Gaijin has actually talked about vocaloid (Miku) on a Culture Shock episode that was made nearly two years ago, here's the link if you haven't watched that: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLOl4b517qn8iAw9-5Lpqee3UfMe077bKa&v=LnWbv00SO1M

Imo, that episode was purposefully dramatized, and unfortunately it seems like Gaijin has managed to spread a bit of misinformation about the vocaloid phenomenon in that video. Speaking of misinformation, Gaijin stated in a vlog that was uploaded in 2012 on his channel that he respected the concept of Miku, but he thought that she was creepy because she was "completely computer-synthesized." Miku may not sound like a normal human, but as we probably all know, there was a human behind her voice, Saki Fujita. It's absolutely fine if you don't like Miku's voice, but she was not completely computer-synthesized. Please correct me if I'm wrong about that, though.

I hope Gaijin won't spread more misinformation about vocaloid in his upcoming videos, but time can only tell. I'm expecting to see him do cultural analyses on popular songs that deal with Japanese history and/or folklore, such as Senbonzakura, Tokio Funka, and Feathers across the Seasons.

Personally, I'm skeptical about Gaijin's knowledge of vocaloid, as I'm assuming he probably only knows about the Big 8 and maybe a couple more-I doubt he knows anything about the non-Japanese vocaloids. However, his upcoming videos may possibly bring some positive publicity to vocaloid, but I sort of doubt that will happen. It's a possibility that akidearest may be involved with Gaijin Reviews. After all, she already partially inspired him to start making this new show. I'm not going to discuss may opinion on akidearest though, it would probably echo a lot of what others have said about her on the wikia.

Sorry for making an incredibly lengthy post, I just wanted to get all my thoughts on here. I hope this post isn't too much of a hassle to read!