Talk:AVANNA/@comment-53539-20121109102958

Judging by the reaction in the Japanese fandom, their quite suprised at Yamaha's decision to reject a non-anime-esque design too and that Yamaha would go so far as to give a yes or no on character design. Seems to be comments on how character and voice don't match, or that her design is more like one of those personelity-less RPG/MMRPG character too. I must admit, I like the design myself, but I'll agree with the fact Yamaha is taking Vocaloid in this direction is a bit of a suprise. I mean, it was a nice surprise with Big-Al's swapping out, a travesty when the Spanish Vocaloid stuff went down, but this time it seems a little uncalled for...

Yamaha... I hope you know what your doing with Vocaloid. :-/

Mostly because some of us were following Engloids because the design was like that, but now those of us who did have to adjust ourselves and get used to this reaction from Yamaha. I'm not saying, embracing a more anime-style is nessecary a bad thing, but we've only just got to the point where vocaloid fans could stand up to trolls or haters and say "not all vocaloids are anime-desu". Regardless, I'll leave mythoughts on this train of comment rather then speaking out about this alot in the comment section. I think fear might be driving things forward the way they are, fear of failure.

Think about it, CFM isn't joining in the upcoming America-move next year, their running their own campaigne instead and CFM's vocaloids are particularly popular enough to make things harder for Yamaha's Vocaloid efforts. :-/