Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26213067-20150704223025/@comment-25521131-20150705133158

Angel Emfrbl wrote:

EmbraceEvil wrote:

92.0.136.234 wrote: I'm not 100% a fan of the design either, I'm just not going to drama over it and will accept it despite my feelings.

As for Syo, well he said already he is going to be less involved with Vocaloid ages ago. It took up too much of his time and hasn't really paid off for him.

On the other hand, her being a white female instead of black, well there is perhaps more logic to this. *sigh*, there is no "race" as per such in Vocaloid. As disappointed as I am, do note White Leon i we're going to discuss race. Even with knowledge of his provider being Black, people are still using White leon, even though its annoying.

But sadly, remember also that there is inequality in the world and its easier to accept a pale skin tone then a darker one. *le sigh*, the world is cruel. I feel the artist of his particular art for Ruby didn't even know that Ruby's provider was black. See how difficult it is to portray any form of Race in vocals? Unless the artist is up to date with Ruby herself, she won't even know more then the design specs that PFX sent them.

Also I've e-mailed PFX in the past saying they were sticking with characters since Big Al, this was a few years ago, yeah. Maybe PFX has changed their mind? Who knows, lets play the waiting game and calm down. -/

-Angel Emfrbl she's not black. she's latino. I just forgot the nationality, all I could remember is the comment that the provider wasn't white. ^_^'

Even still that won't change 100% of what I said.

@Myth, I don't think its as bad as people make it out to be and I certainty thought of Sonika myself. I think Sonika's vers.2 artwork was prettier.

I just hate all the drama that follows events like this. With Syo on board we have personnel involvement and its tempting for fans to back Syo for this reason. So they are being harsh on the design because they feel its cheated Syo.

If this really is 100% the final design, then so be it, PowerFX will loose faith. But it doesn't change much to the status quo, Syo was already opting out of Vocaloid, maybe because he has known about the change for a while? Who knows. As I said elsewhere I'm concerned there is something not quite right here as Syo has threatened to take Ruby to Zero-G or another company. Why hasn't he? What is missing in this story? We need to know why Syo is not putting his foot down on this before we react, otherwise we won't know if our judgements are correct. It may turn out Syo was the one at fault and not PowerFX or something. You cannot react.

Despite what Evil said elsewhere, there are questions unanswered and until they are answered, we don't have the full story. I can't be the only one who is looking over this story and feeling like we're missing something. Well, I think it's a bit much to go as far as to say we "can't" react period. At the moment the best thing to do is to gather as much info as possible - we've only heard from Syo, but PowerFX still hasn't given their side of the story, assuming they ever will. I will agree though, the whole thing about Syo wanting to approach another company about Ruby, but never actually doing it is a little weird. It becomes even more odd since on his twitter he was complaining about not being payed in royalties - it makes me wonder if he's maybe stuck in a contract or something, and this whole thing with Ruby's design is his way of retaliating to that.

Of course, this is just speculation, I can't think of many other possibilities though.