User blog comment:Piano-notes/A Petition. It's Worth a shot!/@comment-3076833-20141027215035/@comment-3076833-20141028194735

Let us not forget the outrage that Rana can only be obtained fully in Japan and that overseas buyers of the mag can't get it.

Although in this particular case I blame the attachment to "characters" as to why people are so upset upon their cancellation/very much dead state. This could then derive from people thinking of VOCALOID as an anime, or heck even just a general series over a line of voice synth products. More to the point these sort of fans see the character instead of the product at hand and take "they're not being made" as "we're killing off this character you like". It is, as implied, speculation on my part but i've yet to see anything that could suggest that it may not be the case.