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Also, the reason for the lack of other characters is simple; they never got around to them.

The company only planned for V2 to make CV1, CV2 and CV3, with their plans quickly expanding due to Miku's popularity. This caused problems for the company because they had to focus on Miku, hence the later Miku Append update.

There was Cv04, but you must understand, CV-4 was never a planned vocal, after these 3 Vocaloids they would have waited for V3 and Rin and Luka also likely wouldn't have come out as soon as they did, especially the Kagamines.

Then as they started to add Append, V2 became V3 before V2 Meiko and Kaito came out. The result was CFM was late to the V3 party as they had to re-do everything, and its why also Luka Append never came out. fast forward to V3... They start re-doing voicebanks and again Yamaha releases V4.

Twice Yamaha released a newer Vocaloid engine and caused CFM to have to re-do everything.

We can't blame Yamaha here as their stuck competing with newer tech and they must release their stuff every so often or fall behind. Yamaha updates come every 4 years or so. For CFM, maintaining Miku's popularity is important and she must have releases or she would loose her position against other Vocaloid. They have avoided their restrictions now by switching over to their own engine, so some of this will fade as issues now and most likely they'll release new characters.

Megpoid was more or less in the same boat. She is the 2nd or 3rd most popular Vocaloid and Internet was likely releasing updates to her just to compete with Miku.