Talk:Tone Rion/@comment-5057772-20121001224810/@comment-35301431-20121001235218

Western influence on Japanese Vocaloids is small to barely a dent.

Tone Rion's lack of popularity is Japanese based; along with her release timing and likely design. While I personally love Watanabe's work, I believe the otaku crowd took Rion as an insult. She has the air of "Trying too hard".

And if not many Japanese producers find her appealing to use, then she will not gain much attention. The VB is quite good, not whiny or low quality. Though this depends on the tuning.