User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/How my top/least 10 Vocaloids stand/@comment-5165836-20140121015511

Wheeee bandwagon jumping-

Favorites, guaranteed in order from 1 to 5, but maybe scrambled after that:


 * 1 Sonika- Yes. I love her voice, to me, its really like a Character Vocal series voice. Also, bias because she was the first Vocaloid program I owned.


 * 2 Miku- She's everywhere, it's hard for me not to get attached to her hearing and seeing her so often.


 * 3 GUMI- Her initial appeal to me was her V3 Adult edition, I found it very unique and interesting that they would create a version of a Vocaloid with the specific purpose of sounding like an Adult version. Similarly to Miku, GUMI is practically everywhere, in her case when it comes to new popular songs.


 * 4 YOHIOloid- I really like his voice tone, it's soft and i like the way he pronounces things.


 * 5 Yukari- She periodically shoots up and down my list, sometimes she is my absolute favorite but most of the time she is just on the list. What I like about her voice is hard to describe, but the sound she makes is cool. I think it might be like a breathy kind of sound?


 * 6 Lily- Mostly because I picked up a plush of her at an anime convention that I otherwise had a pretty bad time at [SOOOOOO CLOSE TO MEETING MS.ASAKAWA. But my friend's mom dragged us around everywhere and I didn't get to see her or anything else I wanted to do TT__TT]. So Lily was kind of like my one good thing. I do also like her voice quite a lot, but I can't put my finger on what.


 * 7 MAIKA- Dem phonemes. Having worked with Sonika and some of her sounds not coming out right, her extra phonemes are very appealing, especially when matched with the voice MAIKA has. I want to compare it to water... like its flowy and clear. Or something.


 * 8 LOLA- First Engloid I heard, I listened to her because I liked her name. She has a very cool, distinct voice, it is deep yet can sound womanly.


 * 9 Sweet Ann- Should probably actually be higher, but I think I like her design more than her voice, her voice is nice, but to me [in the words of Angel] "it's just a tortoise".


 * 10 Lapis- Cutesy voice, matched with an equally adorable design, but tortures me by being a voice I'd love to use in a language I can't write for.

Least favorites? No order, numbered only to track how many I've named, I don't think I really hate any of them though:


 * 1 Big Al- I find his voice of good quality, but I just don't like the sound. *shrugs* Maybe I should give him another try.


 * 2 Rin- Because sometimes, I wonder, why could her voicebank get popular with Sonika-like bugs but Sonika couldn't? [Japanese capabilities, not doubt. Still gets to me sometimes though.]


 * 3 Piko- Sony's death grip on usage rights. WHY >.<


 * 4 Yanhe- Pretty much just a minor grudge design-wise with trying to come to terms with why Xing Ge didn't win.


 * 5 Gackpo- Sometimes I just don't like his voice. I'm typically neutral about it though, but other times I'm just not in the mood.


 * 6 SeeU- when she Konglishes in the hands of unexperienced [and sometimes even experienced] users, she just doesn't sound right. Some sounds don't have good approximants, I guess.


 * 7, 8; Tonio, Bruno- just not into adult guy voices. *shrugs again* more neutral than dislike.


 * 9, 10; Ring, Lui- like Piko, company handling, though more pity/disappointment than frustration.