Talk:Kokone/@comment-28951715-20171101152320/@comment-53539-20171102071041

Actually, she had a bit more marketing then Chika did. Her vocal was a stand out in V3, an era plagued with too many like-vocal releases for the Japanese. As it stands, due to the increase of XSY, Kokone is one of the most useful vocals for XSY after Gumi and Una as it allows fro a falsetto-like vocal result. Plus due to its wide vocal range, essentially covers many vocaloids sound by Internet within it, so she and Una produce some of the HQ results, though due to the extreme result of Falsetto-ing, she can be a Ryuto... In other words, the impact on other vocals in XSY is very strange at times.

A lot of her problems were just related to being a late-V3 release. That last year of vocal releases is always a pain for every studio. This is why you see an ease of releases around this time. Pretty much every Vocaloid in a late engine struggles to get anywhere since everyone has bought the vocals they want, its especially true for new vocals. Plus the newer vocals released once the new engine is out are generally regarded as better. Luckily the V3s weren't hit so bad as the V2s were since the overall capability of vocals consists of just GWL being the most major addition.

I think Una's taken her place as you can do more with her voicebanks then Kokone's. Kokone's vocal has a habit of, from what has been said, "not sound quite right" at times depending where and how you use her. Makes the vocal hard to control. From our POV, we don't know any better, but to the serious Japanese producer she is an oddball.

From what I gather though, she did pretty well despite all things in terms of sales. I have a funny feeling she is part of what led to the process of making unique trait vocals in V4... Chika seems to have faired a lot less then Kokone. :-?