Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5665682-20131022150447/@comment-53539-20131028082611

@Eevee, Only partly true, since the Japanese and English versions were worked on at the same time, they didn't impact each others developments. Also don't forget we had no fandom prior to Miku so that in turn had no effect on the current vocaloids.

However, I distress how one fan could utterly dismiss a chunk of their "fan interest" just because its not 'kawaii desu' enough. Its like being a One Piece fan and only knowing the Straw Hat characters, maybe knowing important characters like Red-Haired Shanks, but the story is beyond their knowledge... Can you really call yourself a Vocaloid fan, if you are blind to the full extent of your interests? You create a illusion on what Vocaloid is about and miss the point of what Vocaloid is itself.

Regardless of the question on which language is better human speech is difficult to master and Vocaloid is a difficult product to produce. I don't like the language arguments because I think there is a lot of missed points about how difficult it is to produce this software in the first place. And Vocaloids aim is to replace the need entirely for a human being, a "singer in the box". This makes it harder for Vocaloid compared to some of the other syns out there because their not trying to sound 'realistic'. This is the whole point of Vocaloid, its a technology trying to recreate something really hard. It makes it impressive and interesting software to follow because you can "hear" its progress and read about it.

My memory skills suck due to dyslexia... I can remember 20-30 vocaloids off the top of my head and it takes me months to learn how to spell names like "Megurine"... A better person is you if you can recall them all. At one stage I stopped trying and vowed to just pick them all up as I go along rather then forcing the names into my head.

@Fingers; hence why some clump Vocaloid fans as "weaboos", because non-Vocaloid fans also only get to know these characters and not the other 48 Vocaloids. :-(