User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/End of Year Vocaloid most/least favs/@comment-27278302-20151226101312/@comment-27278302-20151227101031

Judging vocaloids on realism is something I never really did lol. The voice is pleasing to the ears? Boom, I'll listen to him/her.

And about the english japanese thing, it's because of the accent I tell you! Cyber diva was the closest to that accent everyone listens to now but most people judged her based on appearance. Vocaloids like Oliver are critisi..criti...you know what I mean... Based on that british accent. Plus western fans (And almost everyone who isn't japanese for that matter) can't recogonize pronounciation or any other problem because they're not native or fluent in japanese, thus japanese vocals get less hate.

Or that's what I believe anyway.

On a side note I've never really judged based on engine, and most others don't do as well (Miku was a LQ, the kagamines were LQ yet they're pretty well known. Ofcs the updates made them HQ like all vocaloids deserve  to be. The Kagamine Act 1 and 2 had a lot of faults (Yay for append that corrected a lot of them!) but the good tuners with good songs drown out the flaws.

And as for the v1 and v4 thing, vocaloids are evolving so much XD It sucks tho, that Zero-G's vocalists like Prima doesn't get updates (Sadly, their vocals aren't popuar despite having really good engloids. Luckily AVANNA made it to the noticable vocaloid list)

And I can understand what you mean about Meiko. There's a quality to her voice but then again, she just doesn't stand out much. (Though seriously, her unravel cover has the best use of cross synthesis so far and the best use of Meiko I've ever heard. )