Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-53539-20130413201158/@comment-53539-20150504093655

Musa666 wrote: Friend: I started to like VOCALOID!

Me: How many do you know of?

Friend: Miku, Rin.

Me: There is like 70, you know that right?

Friend: REALLY!!!??? (°_°)

This is how my conversations about VOCALOID with people usually go. THIS specific conversation didn't go on, it's just a generalization. Also, sometimes they know Gumi and/or Luka, few know of Len and/or Gakupo, hardly any know of Meiko, BARELY any know about Kaito. I remember when I did my Pttls course (Pathway into the Life long learning sector, aka teaching, long story short... It lead me nowhere) I was sat in the college computer rooms writing. So guys pulled up a thing on "hologram" Miku and I had to explain "that wasn't a hologram, the media misused to term to explain it". I then had to explain the greater concept of Vocaloid to them. They were like "oh right...". the next thing they mentioned half an hour later was One Piece... At this point I said "just look up a wikia guys, its going to be easier then me explaining this one to you." That was 2 and a half years ago... I think...

I blame most of this on the fact Miku is mostly the only known Vocaloid due to her mass marketing. Isaid it in the past, 95% of things vocaloid related are Miku centred... In fact some days I click on the Japanese vocaloid sites haunts I visit and every article has Miku as the focus... ^_^'