Talk:MEIKO/@comment-186.54.148.242-20120812184349/@comment-5051846-20120820084942

'Because a generic singer is WAY more original than a dark/light fairy, a girl from the future, a girl from space, or a yandere girl with an axe.'

I am actually not quite sure about that, haha. XD However, if you mean counting only Vocaloids, lets count the stats. :D

Generic singers (I'll coun't any with relatively normal designs, no background and no specific singing type - of course Angel was talking about her voice being common, but since we are only speaking Vocaloid here, her voice may not be as common just for this software):

Meiko, Kaito, Miriam, Gumi, Sonika, VY1, VY2, Mew, Bruno, Clara, IA. 

I won't count those just about to be released. Some of them are subjective, I wasn't sure if I should add Lily as a generic rock singer.

Fancy traits: 

Sweet Ann (Frankenstein's wife), Miku (android singer from the future where all music is lost), Rin & Len (both marketed as androids), Gakupo (futuristic samurai) Luka (android), Miki (doll or android, space atributes), Kaai Yuki (school student - not wierd but still a trait), Hiyama (maths teacher and rockstar), Big Al (Frankenstein's monster), Iroha (premium kittyler), Piko (very electronic, usb for a tail), SeeU (cat girl), Oliver (mummy), Lapis (fairy), Lou (angel)

The final scores are: 11 for generic, 15 for special traits. I didn't count Mayu as she wasn't released yet. The scores still stand.

Special traits wins on the unoriginality scale. However, it seems a bit rediculous because each trait is different, therefore fact of having a trait alone does not automatically make it unoriginal. So it could be said that being 'generic' is at its heart the more unoriginal thing to be, since it is like a shared trait between all of them.

You see being an futuristic angel is not like being a fairy, so they could be counted as seperate things. If Vocaloid had lots of fairy singers, then it would be unoriginal within Vocaloid.

Of course the special traits you see are common in different medias, like anime or film. Cat girls are everywhere, making SeeU probably the one who could be said as most 'unoriginal'. Then again Yuki is a school student, of which there are tons, so she may win! Yes, in fact the Vocaloids with the two most cliched traits are SeeU and Yuki Kaai.

However, you will have to decide how much this matters for yourself. Vocaloid is a different medium, so you could count it as starting anew. If we have no fairies, why not add a few? But if you see a lot of fairies in other media, it could be boring for you.

How annoying Vocaloid traits are will only be felt by you, depending on how many space androids you walk into going down the street.