User blog comment:Bunai82/0January-12-13 - Either I'm losing interest or feeling overwhelmed Japanese Vocaloids/@comment-1523675-20130228061209/@comment-53539-20130228110352

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 * 1) Yamaha left the west in the dark on vocaloid during Vocaloid2's developement, between Sweet Ann and Oliver there is practically no information for us to go by that is in our own languages, Despite there being English vocaloids being released all the time. Because of this, we had little to go by until Zero-G and PowerFX started attempting to talk to fans directly on VO forums.  Yamaha did not update their English website at all after Sweet Ann and it was a shock when we saw it get updated in Vocaloid 3.
 * 2) Fans get familair with Japanese vocaloids first mostly down to the fact the western anime culture found them appealing. Against our own vocaloids, which had our boxarts aimed at western shores they felt there was no comparison.
 * 3) English is hard to synthesis and fans seem to cling to the idea English vocaloid development is sub-par to Japanese vocaloids or english vocaloids will never be as good as them. This may indeed be a little true, but its because Japanese vocaloids are doing well therefore it would be more natural for yamaha to invest more time in them. This sadly leads to things like denying there are also triphones in English vocaloids like Japanese ones and other development myths.  Trying to get fans to understand that English vocaloids can only get improved if people are willing to use them... Thats another thing.
 * 4) Due to the sheer number of songs, Japanese vocaloids are also in people's faces and unable to find the same number of songs for English vocaloids. Its the same for vocal types.
 * 5) Between the lies, trolls, anti-non-Japanese vocaloids, myths, bias, ignorance, negativity, naivety and general stupidity expressed by some its hard to convince people there is value in English vocaloid at all. Most of what I've seen brought up on English vocaloid alone was incorrect on places like youtube.  And don't get me started on a few of the comments towards Spanish vocaloids. :-/
 * 6) There is also this "Why would I use Avanna when I can use Miku" opinion. Basically, devoted loyalty towards things people barely understand and the belief that Miku or any other vocaloid for the matter of fact is better or worst then any other vocaloid around.
 * 7) You try and tell someone that they cannot tell when a Japanese vocaloid slips up and they seem more fine with this idea... But they can't seem to bare something in a language they understand slipping up. Or on the other hand, they might even believe the Japanese vocaloids are less or flawless compare to the "super-flawed" vocaloids for languages such as English.

Having spent 3 years in this fandom now... I will say that a lot of the root of the problem just boils down to that lack of information Yamaha didn't provide in Vocaloid 2, or whomever was running the Vocaloid website. There is also a general lack of promotion of English vocaloids, Spanish vocaloids too for that matter, and people have pointed out the first English vocal to hit the Yamaha shop isn't even one built by a English studio. I understand licensing and distributors are at play here and know the reasons behind some of them... But thats not what western fans see, they don't bother researching into Vocaloid which makes it harder.

Between all the vocaloid sites from wikipedia to Vocaloid Otaku... We can only reach less then 1/5 of the fandom and the 4/5's we can't reach are often the root of half the reasons why the vocaloids are struggling more outside of Japan.