Board Thread:Poll Archive/@comment-35301431-20130720165941/@comment-53539-20141025083055

Squidgopolis wrote: what im trying to say is every vocaloid is an orinignal, right? i mean sure they weren't the first but that doesn't mean they aren't original. If you say "neru akita" is an original... then yea of course she isn't. But every character has an original thought... We know what you're saying. This isn't the first time we've covered the issue of "original Vocaloids". Its come up before in regards to Project Diva (because everyone knows Project Diva is the only source of "original Vocaloids!"). When people refuse to accept Vocaloids, whether or not its a question of every character being an "original character", it makes all of us sad for one reason or another. It tends to give away from the start that the fan is either ignorant or bias, the two most major problems within this fandom.

On the opposite end, bare in mind as well we're also used to dealing with people with the OPPOSITE view, that every Vocaloid is so unique that they have nothing in common with each other.... Vocal wise, design wise, etc. We get this every time someone says "Chika sounds like Gumi" or "Ring looks like Miku". Because every Vocaloid is such a special snowflake that the bare thought that they can have anything any common with any other Vocaloid is absurd. This is taking the whole issue to the most extreme.

Bare in mind about "original" as a concept, that Vocaloid wasn't the first to do its ideas. This is like saying "Pokemon is original", bare in mind that elements of Pokemon were already around at the time Pokemon was created in the GB days. Even within Vocaloid itself, there are Vocaloids borrowing ideas and elements from each other all the time. :-/