Talk:Utatane Piko/@comment-28055079-20170107211549/@comment-53539-20170108090604

At this point we have a couple of males who can easily replace him, so his voice isn't so unique. Every role he fills is covered by another male vocaloid at this point. Even then, bare in mind in V2 he was at best a MQ vocal. In contrast, while he did have the highest male vocal range, the better young masculine vocal was VY2 in V2. Other factors include his late release and misfortune of being released next to the Kagamine Append, with 6 vocals who can do everything he did between them and were HQ.

After Vy2, btw, the next rated Vocaloid2 is Gackpoid for males. :-/

But vocal crits aside, Sony is the issue here. Sony isn't such a good company to deal with at times, as they've been known more then anything to make things hard for the little guy to get what he wants. Sony messed up the trial handling and kinda peeved off one or two producers I feel as they actively removed demos from Nico Video. There was only 5 days to work with him, which is not enough time for a HQ production nor a real grasp of working with the vocal. If he gets one, he gets one, if not Sony will not show much interest since he wasn't too successful. :-/

The other issue is, males still in Japan struggle to do well against their female counterparts. This makes things awkward for any male release. And a lot of producers STILL turn to Kaito, Gackpoid or Len for male roles (though Gakpoid is loosing ground it seems). This all makes for a hell of a bad position for Piko to be in.

Also... Piko was 1 Japanese vocal... Big wow! I mean yet another fan ignores that 8 English vocals were lost between V1 and V2 and 5 of them have yet to have another Engloid replace them. If I had a choice to save Piko or one of the 8 missing Engloids... Lola, Leon, Big Al, Prima and Tonio are on my top list. Piko... Is at the bottom, with Sonika, as both have vocals that can replace them (Sonika's roles are jointly replaced by Avanna and Oliver, ad more recently Daina). ¬_¬