Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20150620015912/@comment-26847905-20150620052629

EmbraceEvil wrote: Jane894 wrote: Wasn't Iroha a (decidedly female) Sanrio character before she was a Vocaloid? This isn't a situation like Gackpo, Piko, or YOHIOloid, where the character is based on the voice provider and can be thought of as sort of a fictionalized version of them. There's no reason to believe Iroha and her voice provider share anything but a voice, and a voice in isolation does not necessarily carry any implications of gender. (I hope that made sense. I am attempting to provide additional rationale for Iroha being considered a feminine Vocaloid.) part, if not the whole issue, is character vs actual voice/voiceprovider. Also, thank you for using gackpo and not gakupo. The idea that her character might not be relevant did occur to me while I was typing that. The way I see it, though, is that Iroha, her voice provider, and the voice they share are three seperate entities. Iroha is female, the voice provider is male, and the voice's gender depends entirely on which one of them it belongs to. I don't know. This is all starting to sound ridiculously abstract. Perhaps I'm overthinking this. (I'm actually kind of a purist about "Gackpo". I find the inconsistancy of Gackt/Gakupo highly irritating. Either call them Gakuto and Gakupo, which nobody does, or call them Gackt and Gackpo. Mixing these options together makes no sense. Plus, calling him "Gakupo" breeds mispronunciation, since I'm pretty sure the "u" is supposed to be unvoiced. But I suppose that's a rant for another time, and it seems you already agree with me about that anyway.)