Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-216.186.132.194-20150928173920/@comment-11582536-20150929040300

@Misos13

I actually don't know why I dislike Piko/Miki and Kaito/Kiyoteru so much, but the way you put it makes sense and is probably better than I could explain. I never really put much thought to it; I just see it and I just immediately think "nope". It's weird and irrational, but... I guess when it comes to shipping things (especially in Vocaloid), there's no need to be rational. There are definitely pairings that I like more than others, though (example: I like Gackpo/Kiyoteru more than just about any other Kiyoteru ship, though there are more than a few Kiyoteru ships I don't mind either). If faced with an option to choose between two ships, I'd probably choose Gackpo/Kiyoteru over the other almost every time.

(I made a joke on Twitter the other day about supporting shipping Kiyoteru with a banjo more than Kaito. I was only half serious. Maybe.)

I see what you mean about the English banks. I think if the VP can speak English semi-fluently or completely fluently, then the company behind that Vocaloid (in this case, AHS with Hiyama Kiyoshi) should go ahead and have said VP record for an English bank. I guess I don't think about it much because I probably wouldn't be able to tell the differences in the timbre and accents as long as they sounded mostly the same, but I can see how it'd be really irritating for people who could. My ears were never really good, so I'm probably one of the few people who wouldn't be bothered so much by something like this :X (I've seen others express concern over it too a while back... I'm not sure what the general opinion of it is like now, though.)