Board Thread:Spanish VOCALOID discussion/@comment-136.32.130.88-20161231170615/@comment-53539-20170101124348

I admit I have knowledge gaps in Korean, Chinese and Spanish vocals...For a vocaloid fact nut like me, this is pure frustration.

I find the lack of more vocals from the company also annoying. But understandable... Bruno and Clara are among the least popular vocaloids - this is saying something considered the original V1 trio had over time muh more success.

I feel a bit of the issue is caused by Giuseppe basically teaching the Spanish Vocaloid fans how to use Japanese vocaloids for the language as this was even thrown back at him in Luan and Lucia. In contrast to English vocaloids where even the best English attempts are knocked out of the park by a pure English voicebank.

The other thing is, we also had English vocals. Over time they've slowly gained popularity due to the fact over time, their niche fans and groups have warmed up. In short, the Spanish fandom was 10 years behind the English one. To ask them to buy into something so soon wasn't going to get anywhere. Even when you look at Maika herself, her popularity wasn't ground breaking and was a standard release hype as a English vocal... in V2... :-/

There were always going to be winners and losers in V3 due to how many vocals were released. I feel a lot of the trouble was, the Spanish Vocaloid fandom is in pre-2009 English fandom mode. Similar, for the Korean vocaloids its getting Koreans to accept a Japanese product. Least the chinese ones had more luck...

Overall, the whole situation is very ugly and Maika's release is spoilt by things such as the time she was released, the stupidity related to her information... The fandom. Its not SeeU level "spoilt" tho, but there is no other vocaloids right now as bad as SeeU. :-?