User blog comment:Serza5/Vocaloid - Not enough experimental Vocals?/@comment-53539-20140805145345

While Internet co have 2 male vocals, technically, they have merely just 1 as Gachapoid counts as female, ditto its the same for Len. So this brings it down basically 1 male each for those companies.

But lets get this established... Kaito outdoes Meiko, even at this point Kaito ios currently ranked 3rd and Meiko is 6th... The Kagamines are suddenly back on the page and ranked 4th. Thats above Meiko and she is a better package. Kaito was the voice everyone wanted and needed, and every vocal since hasn't competed because the Japanese producers already had everything in Kaito. His voice was so easy to use for multple roles, despite the crappy V1 engine and its poor results, the producers didn't seem to go mad to buy another male after him and Gackpo. :-/

Oliver got lucky. Before Bee and Puppycat, he grabbed attention since anime sites, who normally only report on Miku and Co, were at the time reporting on V3's early pre-release stuff. They continued up with the first 6 months. Oliver was lucky enough, he was reported alongside all the Japanese ones, which is why many thought he was the first English vocal and they were introduced to something they didn't know existed. The Bee and Puppycat happened... This combination lead Oliver to break out of the norm for English Vocaloids and he grabbed a lot of attention, breaking a few rules that held back other English vocals before him.

Gackt is a bigger name then Megumi, but Gumi is doing well. Miki was worst the Kiyoteru, yet her and Yuki sold better. VY2 is less used then VY1, who seems to be doing better overall. Rin is used and preferred over Len. Ryuto was dropped (though I'd argue this is based on other factors). Piko... Sold at the wrong point (next to the Kagamines), faired better then Ryuto, still hasn't established a big fanbase with several other vocaloids from his time doing better. Zola had 3 vocals in the package and did fairly well, I think, because of this. :-/

Basically... The trouble is, when a company does make a male vocal, its still fairing worst. The issue remains, they are in it to make money, to do that they will stick to what works and is certain to bring in the money.

I hear what is being said, that unless they make more males this trend won't change. The trouble is, while the trend remains, they won't make males. So basically... Kaito and Oliver are the only two males that break the "males sell worst then females" rule and unless this changes, the new entries for every studio will likely continue to be male. Vocaloid is caught in this nasty cycle because of it.

At the same time... we have only 2 child vocals, Oliver and Yuki, I think for pretty much the same reason. And in terms of overall age, we have a constant focus on young girls in the 20-30 age group giving their voices to characters mostly younger then 21 (sometimes at least 10 years younger then themselves). So we lack veteran females, with vocals that are powerful and experienced. The focus has been mostly on the young idol, so we're constantly getting the same vocal types, even if the vocals have unique qualities.

But... As I said twice recently already... The ones complaining aren't the producers, they are the target audience either. There is little influence overseas have on Vocaloids made in Japan. :-/