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Tortoiseshel wrote: The "throwing on a wig and calling it cosplay" is a mix of I think two things: laziness on the part of the "cosplayer", and a side effect of many anime-esque characters' only defining features being their hair and clothes. And when you take away the clothes, obviously the only thing left is the hair. I still wish they wouldn't. Their not showing enough respect for themselves, let alone the character they are "cosplaying" as. Even then, by adoring the wig and calling them that calling they are selling a fantasy. :-/

@CursedMyth, there is *some* restraint in what you can do. Its part of the agreement. However... As even Miriam Stockley, Wat and others have noted, once the software is in the hands of someone there is no control. People see the Vocaloids as "dolls" and make them do whatever they want them to do. As morally as wrong as it is, you have not much more control over what a person does in Vocaloid as you do with stopping a person buying it. And if they never publish their fantasies... How one can know what a producer is up to?

I think everyone knows this is a problem somewhere along the lines... Even Yuki has had issues and she is 9 years old, Oliver gets it too from time to time and he is 12 years old. I'd rather they live their fantasys on Luka and not Yuki or Oliver. At least she is a "mature" designed vocaloid and isn't inappropriate.

The Kagamines are grey areas, because the age of consent for Japan is 14 and 16 in the west. So there is conflict of interest between east and west there. I just avoid Kagamineland anyway myself so I never encounter them, though I do find myself from time to time having to explain the age thing to western fans in passing conversations.