Talk:Kagamine Rin \ Len/@comment-12772048-20130801034502/@comment-201.140.82.204-20131016164301

^ Agree with Momoiru comment ^

Most "common Vocaloid fans" can't differenciate between mascot and software.

VOCALOID, VOCALOID2 and VOCALOID3 are software, and the owner is YAMAHA.

Hatsune Miku, Rin & Len, Luka... are voicebanks or vocal libraries, and they're, in this case, owned and distributed by CFM. But you can call them vocaloids because is the common term around the fandom. They're just a synthetized voice; no face, preference or relationships.

The illustration in the box or in the product cover is the mascot, just a "character" to help users (producers and musicians) to define the kind of music style around the voicebank (for example, let's suppose I'm a musician and VOCALOID user, and, in my opinion, Sonika's mascot "looks" like a pop/techno/DJ artist so, I'll use her voicebank for pop/techno/dance music). The mix of the mascot/voicebank is what most fanboys/girls love.

SEGA owned the mascots/characters for the game AND ONLY for the game, and use the music made by other producers/VOCALOID users for the videogame. That doesn't means they own CFM voicebanks, nor even Yamaha's VOCALOID software!

It's a common mistake, and yes, we all thought that at the beggining. Fortunately, this wikia tries to guide as better as possible to understand the whole inmense VOCALOID world I resumed in my upper paragrahps.