Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-53539-20160707115408/@comment-46.176.36.127-20160707140452

I agree with most of your points. But I wouldn't consider MEIKO to be a "generic Vocaloid". Sure, her *voice-type and tone* aren't really unique when it comes to voice-types in general. But considering we haven't had any Vocaloid that actually really sounded like her in so many years, I'd say she's unique enough. I mean, to be entirely honest, if you exclude some small similarities between IA and Yukari, none of the "mature female voice banks" have sounded similar to each other. If I had to choose a VB to represent the "generic mature female voice" type, I'd go with Lily, Luka, Merli or maybe Yukari. Nothing against them, it's just that if you're any mezzo woman you can probably sound like them. (I know yukari is tecnically underage, but her low/middle range is more often used so... I don't think we should look at designs and bios to judge how mature a VB is, I mean, freaking Iroha looks like a loli half the time.)