Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20160430010301/@comment-29714788-20160608082601

Tortoiseshel wrote: Wait why can't they use the name Tsurumaki Maki? And why even make Akaza as a seperate character in the first place? I mean I'm glad they did because I like her design way more than Kohaku, but still Apparently Tsurumaki Maki was a preexisting character before the Voiceroid, and they couldn't name the Voiceroid itself after her for that reason. So it's still the same character, but the product is called Tamiyasu Tomoe which is the voice provider's name. Before Otori Kohaku became a Vocaloid she was called Unity-chan as the mascot of Unity, but now Unity-chan has two different character avatars. Akaza was made as a separate character to distinguish Unity-chan's voicebank in the Unity with Vocaloid and Vocaloid 4 engines.