Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-53539-20130413201158/@comment-2041593-20140126122025

173.58.213.98 wrote: Angel Emfrbl wrote: Has art been mentioned?

So heres the thing with the art;


 * 1) Vocalids are not allowed to borrow things from Miku or vaguely LOOK like Vocaloids.
 * 2) They cannot be kawaii Desu, they are hated if they are.
 * 3) If they are not kawaiii desu their hated.
 * 4) People complain when a manga style is not used for overseas vocaloids.
 * 5) People complain when they are.

Then we get to the situation with the genders.
 * 1) What another female vocaloid, thats not allowed!
 * 2) We have less "shota" vocaloids then adults, yet somehow we have too many?
 * 3) People whine when there are not enough males produced, yet are relieved when a cute female is introduced after a wave of males. >_<
 * 4) Can't understand why there are so many females and stubbornly refuse to admit that males don't necessary sell well hence why their not made on the same scale as females and only a few of them are getting anywhere... More females are getting somewhere.

About the art for overseas Vocaloids, remember the HUGE backlash to the original boxart style for Bruno and Clara? Yes, I do. That was some ridiculous stuff. Okay, y'all, honestly, did we REALLY think that over the course of 10 YEARS that VOCALOID wouldn't be as controversial as it is? I mean, I'm not justifying the ignorance of some fans, but VOCALOID ITSELF as a WHOLE was controversial from the start.

"''Virtual Singer?" ''

"Voice Synthesizer?"

At the end of the day, some way or another, we knew what we were walking into. Only thing we can do now is "defrag, delete, run the anti-virus, and repeat".

And as for the whole Japanese oligarchy, well... we only have Crypton to blame. They found the ideal target points, and they hit them. Nothing special in particular, but together, they dominated the VOCALOID market, and the other Japanese VOCALOID manufacturers followed suit. Plus the fact that English is a more complex language phonetically than Japanese (NOTE: I'm not talking about other languages because I haven't grasped them as well). I'd have to start a whole new page in order to truly clarify what I mean, but I'm hoping you can understand what I'm talking about.

And @Angel's comment. From what I've gathered, those complaints sound like what a LOT of people on here (the wiki) say.