Talk:66 (Roro)/@comment-24.247.62.218-20130410033130/@comment-53539-20130412180126

The contest wasn't to pick out the mascot for VY1 and VY2. True lazy fans will reuse designs that get popular (See Lola and Leon, especially Leon). But at no point has the pair became "official".

Also, looking over the details this week it actually doesn't seem to mention that concept designs for the pair would be picked. Ditto, the same was for the Vocafes own chosen 4 or so characters. I doubt the illurstator of Roro even based on what I've read so far that the design was going to be picked. As far everyone entering was concerned, they were entering a contest to be picked out for designs of original vocaloid characters. Yes there was a contest going to happen, but it doesn't seem that VocaFes advertised this. Even if I've missed this and I'm wrong, the VY contest wasn't to reuse the characters as official mascots and was never intended to be a full fledged serious "from now on fandom use only this fan made design" move.

Of which is also the source of part of the reason people even in Japan moaned about Lui and Ring was out of all the designs in the contest, a Miku and Len look alike ended up being the final product. Despite the original designs for the pair weren't giving everyone that impression which is why their often preferred over the redesigns I guess...

I could be wrong on this, if so draw my intention to the official details. But it certainly seems either way, Roro has been miss used by the fandom for a while. :-/

Either way, despite being planned to be used to represent VY2 and VY1, the pair has since been forgotten it seems. Vocafes has fallen apart and taken with them all the things related to the contest it seems and the Vocaloid cafe stuff with them and VocaNext (the successor of that group) gone silent...