Talk:MAYU/@comment-24.16.50.207-20120512142410/@comment-71.102.209.173-20120514062429

I personally like the personalities. All of the Character Vocal Series had minor backstories and canon, which is what made Vocaloid so popular in the first place. Miku was the first Vocaloid to actually give the software a character. She was supposed to be a android from the future, where songs were lost. That's what the ribbons floating around her hair is. It's anti-gravity material that is only in the future. And no, this is not headcanon. This was stated by Crypton.

The canon for the Kagamines were originally that there were mirror images. Hence, Kagami-ne. Mirror-Sound. However, some of the fandom wanted them to be twins. The company flip-flopped and then said they were twins. Then they gave up altogether and left it to the fans. With Luka, they gave her a personality: Cool, somewhat mysterious. With ALL of them, they gave them bios like age, weight, gender, looks, etc.

If the no-backstory/avatar/whatever thing worked marketing-wise, than the VYs would actually be popular. They have no backtory, no avatars, can be portrayed in any way you want them. It seems that people actually like to have a direction to go in with the character, at least sometimes. Some people disregard the personalities and canon completely, some people stick to it. Either way, people will ultimately do what they want with the Vocaloid, whether of not he/she has a personality.