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My personal opinion is that Japanese ones are more popular with the Vocaloid fanbase not because of quality but because of versitility and genre. The main Vocaloid fandom is rather young, as far as I know. The fact that Japanese Vocaloids are made to be as versitile as possible seem to add to their popularity. English Vocaloids are of good quality, but not many younger people are as willing to listen to Soul music or Opera. Or Country for that matter. I mean, I listen to Meiko and Kaito and then I listen to Leon and Lola. I like both.

But I do wonder about the time put into the original English Vocaloids. Yamaha had originally gone to CFM as the original company, hence Meiko and Kaito being in the oldest Vocaloid song known. CFM suggested Zero-G and later, PowerFX. Zero-G started their harder-to-record English Vocaloids, and ended up releasing before the original company. English has 2500 samples per pitch while Japanese has only 500. It makes me feel as if they rushed it a bit. But otherwise, they sound about the same quality to me. Except Meiko and Kaito are a little more understandable.

PowerFX, I feel might be a little short on funding. Zero-G and CFM were both large music companies with lots of money to put into their Vocaloids, while PowerFX was a smaller company that did audio loops. I personally feel Zero-G has higher quality Vocaloids than Power-FX, but restricts themselves to a single genre.

Well that's my two cents. I say I "personally" feel, because this is just what I think, and not trying to force anyone into the same opinion.