User blog comment:Vanakita/What makes a good original vocaloid design?/@comment-3076833-20140909165442/@comment-53539-20140910075147

Weirdest thing is, people are SO BUSY looking for the details they miss the things that ARE like other Vocaloids.


 * "Cyber on normal clothing" - Gackpo: based on Rin\Len and Miku
 * Sonika and Big Al : took notes from Japanese Vocaloids
 * SF-A2 miki: flat chest is based on Miku and Rin
 * Macne Nana: Called "Macne Miku" in codename originally.

In my opinion, the only Vocaloid so far who is clearly copying another Vocaloid, but has not admitted to it, is Cul -> Big Al. But even then, their not literal clones of each other and this is what is most important of all. That no two Vocaloids look EXACTLY alike. So long as there is significant differences its fine. If you look at things like the "Monster Rancher" "Beyblade" animes, the main boy protagonists are based on Ash Ketchup/Red from Pokemon. Luffy and Genshi/Flint are based on Goku from Dragonball.... I could go on.

Sailor Moon -> Big influence on her genre.

Superman -> big influence on the superhero genre.

Star Trek -> Big influence on the sci-fi genre

Etc

etc

etc

You get it. Basically, culturally everything is based on something else, its a evolution of what we already have. I mean the Pong, one of the earliest video games, is based on table tennis... Basically you cannot escape it and even Miku herself is using lots of common tropes in her design. It gets annoying when people think of a vocaloid as "original" because their not. ts even more annoying that people become picky about it, we get it, it looks like a Vocaloid you know is already existed... But there are only X amount of designs before you end up copying another existing character anyway.

And the worst thing is, when driven to design their own Vocaloids, the majority of people are as unoriginal as what they claim some of the Vocaloid designs are. >_<