Board Thread:Poll Archive/@comment-30602727-20150315184131/@comment-25577599-20150319015819

Dizzyzebra wrote: For me, I like her English because it has better power capabilities, her pronunciation is clearer than Crypton's previous JPN-ENG voicebanks and her tone has been improved. She contains fewer 'artifacts', and her breathiness is less apparent than her original voicebank. Her English pronunciation has always been worse, and as a non-native, an accent is mostly to be a expected. It's not my favourite English voicebank, but I feel like this aspect of Luka was more successful than her Japanese update, because it saw real progression. o(⌒v⌒o)

The reason I see Western producers as getting a better deal is because I feel Luka's ENG voicebank has seen significant improvement since her V2, whereas her JPN voicebank has failed to meet expectations. orz The first time I heard Rip=Release, I agreed with every single one of your statements. And to an extent, I still do. I guess what just really bums me out is that her Japanese bank is supposed to be her biggest selling point; She's Japan based, so one would hope that her Japanese in an improvement, and not choppy or lower quality, and that her appends or whatever they're called now, would be varying in tones and be more dramatic and better. I would like her English more if it wasn't as choppy and it flowed. And I can say the same for her Japanese.

I LOVE Luka. But hearing about how she's just not that great, and she's difficult to work with, just really brings me down. I was super pumped for her release, but with minimal marketing, and not too optimistic/positive reviews, I'm just...disappointed. She's my favorite Cryptonloid, for sure, so this is really disheartening.