Board Thread:Japanese VOCALOID discussion/@comment-27435761-20160604211934/@comment-29714788-20160605171055

@90.203.245.57 Well Gumi V3 and V4 can sound very realistic with her several voicebanks being used in various parts of a song. However her core Native vocal is voice acted (though not too extremely like Ryuto, the Kagamines, or Miku are) and will not be able to sound as realistic as Kokone or Chika can just with one voicebank. But what you say about Rana and Unity-chan is true, even though their tone is pretty much identical, Rana is a rock oriented vocal while Unity-chan is more pop and EDM so their vocals were created with different directions in mind. I also noticed after listening to many instances of their vocals, Rana has a thicker low range while Unity-chan has a sharp high register so they're not completely identical I suppose.

@NeevaDash Actually Rana has power in her voice, she is a rock genre vocal after all, but she is not a powerscale/kire type of vocal like Unity-chan. The reason that Merli wasn't as popular is because in Japan they favour the hero type characters so they like Lapis better than her sister Merli who is a villain type of character. In the west it's the opposite, people here like the outcast/scapegoat type of characters (and mature voices, over cute voices) so they like Merli better.