Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33060919-20180228003730/@comment-53539-20180306200935

A couple of things debunk your reply;


 * 1) Meiko and Kaito having anime characters
 * 2) Miku was aimed at profession producers and not anime fandom as they didn't cause the Otaku culture until later 2008.
 * 3) Miku's original vocal was never a great vocal since it was in the LQ tier of V2 (compared to her Appends which where HQ but didn't sell as well as not everyone liked it)
 * 4) Her recordings were not great in V2 and VY1/VY2 were much better
 * 5) Miku was the first one released in V2 for Japanese and had no other vocal to compare with at first and then the only ones were the LQ Kagamines who were worst then her... A great vocal or quality were not the reasons for her selling as nobody knew how good or bad she was due to the lack of comparison.

Her V3 and V4 vocals are MQ, V3 and V4,and lets not get started on her foreign language voicebanks English and Chinese. But the current and last engine have quite a wide berth when it comes to vocals and honestly its not as easy to rank vocaloids as the V2 and V1 eras.

The best thing about Miku was just she was easy to use because it didn't take much to manipulate her voicebank and she was able to sound cute and decently clear. Other then her, the only other Voicebank to have like her was shockingly Big Al and if we're talking about capabilities then miki could do far more then Miku in V2. Even down to realism, VY1 beats her. :-?

Miku was not ever popular because she was the best... This is why fans of some other vocaloids get peeved and many believe she is overrated. Which is true, as her vocal doesn't live up to the hype and expectations despite its popularity and honestly... Never has. Bare this in mind that its concern not a reason for her being so popular alone.