User blog comment:Dizzyzebra/2014 Vocaloid Popularity Charts/@comment-100.1.253.64-20150218225959/@comment-53539-20150219083619

@Queen, the term "Engloid" was coined by the western fandom, but it existed pre-Luka and was never applied to her.

The term "Engloid" actually originates from the Japanese Vocaloid fandom (believe it or not) and was used to make English Vocaloids stand out and easier to find from Miku, the Kagamines, Gakupo, Kaito and Meiko.

Don't forget, the western fandom is a "copy-cat" fandom and only started getting its own culture from 2010 onwards, and only then its because of anime fans and weaboos that it even occured. Its no surprise then that "Engloid" came from Japan, because the majority of early Engloid influence tended to come directly from Japanese producers attempting to use English Vocaloid. The western fandom more or less was originally introduced to English vocaloid because it was already following Japanese producers and got introduced to them when the Japanese producers experimented with English.

Luka never needed to stand out and was count as a "J-loid"(why is there no common term for Japanese vocaloids?!?!) because she was primary a Japanese vocaloid.

Be it Luka was responsible for introducing westerners to English Vocaloid more then any English capable Vocaloid before her. Bare in mind though, CFM was the source of something like 90% of the Japanese fandom by the time of Luka's release, so Luka got a lot of attention early on and responsible for most of the fandoms knowledge on the existence of English Vocaloid to begin with.

Unfortantely it had the downside of overshadowing the Engloids and people often thought Luka was the only one capable of doing English... Hence why Oliver got mistaken as "the first English vocaloid". ¬_¬

Regardless... Yeah... Luka is only a "Engloid" if you count the modern fandoms "Engloid" meaning "English capable Vocaloid" referring to their capabilities, instead of the traditional meaning of "English Vocaloid" meaning they were "Vocaloids made for the English market only".