User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/So... VO update.../@comment-5057772-20121208221940/@comment-53539-20121209100736

I'm in the third group myself of what Bunai wrote. Look, when they last had the Turner Prize Award in London, they said the words that spring to mind right now on the Miku formula subject. these days, its hard to find something original that does not resemble something else and therefore likely to cause a copyright violation. Companies are usually, therefore chilled on the idea something will look like their stuff, unless it really is a direct copy (see the chinese Disneyland, which has hello kitty mascot, disney characters like Sleeping beauty, etc, etc, basically its a themepark full of huge copyright problems). The same is said for any character design, Miku is neither unique herself nor is it therefore a suprise when other characters look unitentionally or intentionally like her. A few guys at VO got defensive over this and it took me a while to figure out "how should this be written exactly" the stress made it harder and slowed me down, took a while to work out how to write that stuff. I'm only human, I have my limits and wikia editing generally involved "Make idea, check its write, if not satisfied; reread it". I spent ages gathering lots of sources just to point out the Miku acusations and comparisons were pretty uch a wasted effect.

Did I ever say "This vocaloid looks exactly like Miku". No, that was not the point of the page, to point fingers at other vocaloids as clones, it was to note that this is going to happen and is getting slowly harder to ignore as time goes by. Real singers copy each others styles, Vocaloids are singers in a box, so a little bit of the same things crop up for them as even real singers. Someone at VO said my thoughts at the time, that something popular generally influences others to try and mimick them. Well thats the long story short version anyway.

It was a difficult subject to adress, and prob. not my best idea. I was getting fed up with the "Miku x Ring" comparisons, explaining why some are seeing a comparison, an generally saying "erm... Is this really important anyway?". Ring's nice, I want to see her released, sadly the voice isn't in my interest and Ring's vague resemblance to Miku reminds me a little bit of why I find Miku's appearance boring. By now, its a little "generic" in terms of Vocaloid. I found ToneRion similair t this in design except it was just that whole "so... is this a character or a metaphor for moe?" thing kinda put me off. Otherwise, honestly, aside fro the fact I had tio adress this problem, designs pretty much are a thing I normally pay two seconds off and toss aside while I wait to get an idea on the voice.

The trouble is, as Bunai stats, there are 3 groups of fans and not everyone has that third group opinion. We mingle together, and when it comes up someone doen't share the opinion, we eitehr say "okay" and move on or these is conflict of opinions. "we" being the entire Vocaloid fandom.

@Bunai, more of those "CFM clones" cropped on DA recently. Honestly? Whats wrong with the other 38 Vocaloids? Their good too!