Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-76.20.152.224-20130826231849/@comment-3076833-20140416001824

76.92.67.202 wrote: but everyone is just bound to designs. I think that's the point Yamaha was trying to make with VY1 and VY2, to be honest "Trying to" would be the best way to put it because unfortunetely people are lazy and when they see a design they like (See 66_(Roro)) they will not make their own and hence simply re-use popular designs.

Let's talk a bit more about Roro here though since it's the best way I can describe this point i'm about to make. If you look up "VY2" on youtube you're bound to come across him in the vast majority of VY2 covers (sadly enough, although that's a completely seperate discussion from this). This is mainly due to the fact that most fans seem to associate the Roro character with VY2 and hence people are more likely to click on that video since they see a face they're familiar with.

Needless to say that this is why Vocaloids with "characters" work better than those who don't; because if fans can see a singer singing the song other than a simple piece of software they have this fake sense of beleif that they are hearing an actual singer.