User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/Defending Miku English/@comment-35301431-20141014171931/@comment-53539-20141014183137

"We can't hear English Vocaloids" yet they will listen to Japanese Vocaloids they don't necessary understand, even when their incomprehensible (their non the wiser).

The oddity as well is that aside from Sonika, most of the time it just requires you listening and getting used to the vocal. I don't tend to struggle with any of the English Vocaloids anymore and Sonika remains the only one I personally struggle with.

Japanese Vocaloids are in the same boat, and sometimes require some getting used to, so I always wonder why the Japanes fans will sit there and get used to something when English speakers seem reluctant to do so.

I tend to think that English Vocaloids just get too much negativity towards them and being that it is Miku, who everyone seems to love and adore or hate and despise, she was bound to be caught up in this. Even among the growing number of Engloid fans, Miku is met with hard love since there is this tendency to put the voice down in comparison with other English vocals. I don't tend to feel the need to defend Miku at all, but I do think that the fandom has grasped hold of Miku's flawed vocal and made it loo even worst then it is by giving a bad rep. Its bad, yes, but just as with any other English Vocaloid there is a explanation behind every issue fans have with the vocal. Most of which just lays with the accent, which is a plague with every Vocaloid.

Another issue with the problems with Miku English is there are fans who feel Japanese Vocaloids should stay Japanese Vocaloids and this runs into "racism" territory when Vocalod has always been a international thing. This risks making Vocaloid out to be something its not, in this case "Jap crap", as I've seen one person put it (Jap being racist without even needing to comment on it).

At the same time, there are also Engloid fans who want American English vocaloids and will not buy into "British" accented Vocaloids or whatever else Vocaloid throws at them. Both are which pretty sad reasons not to like the English Vocaloids.

Either way, English Vocaloid is a mess that is only just starting to be cleaned up. But it seems with every new solution comes new sets of problems. The reaction to Miku English has me deeply concerned as some of the things I've seen spoken about it head towards 2009 anti-Engloid propaganda - and its being spoken by fans who I have come to expect to be better then this.

There is no doubt its not the best V3 English vocal out there, its one of the worst this generation even in my opinion for results alone. But with Sonika I felt there was some justification, but also with Sonika she had some merits. Miku isn't as bad as Sonika and she has more merits then Sonika. Therefore, while she is not on par with the likes of Avanna, there is no reason anyone should treat the vocal worst then Sonika turned out to be. Because its not the worst vocal we've had...

And even... Consider V2's overall engine was better then V1, the 5 V1 vocals together represent the overall worst results Vocaloid has ever produced. Even Wat ranked it as a sort of "proto-typish" version for the later V2 engine. So Leon, Lola, Miriam are worst overall then Sonika... Just as Kaito and Meiko are overall worst then any other Japanese vocaloid then came after them. So Miku english may not be a successful vocal THIS time around, but I'm sure if they do a V4 or whatever it will leap in terms of quality. :-/