Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-216.186.132.194-20150928173920/@comment-65.129.69.184-20150929063244

Where has this thread been all my life??



- Speaking of the "'weird and irrational about shipping' phenomenon" time for me to list my ships: Piko/Miku, Gumi/Rion, Kiyoteru/VY2, Kaito/Avanna, Lily/Luka, flower/SeeU, and Gackpo/Yohio. Most of these result from the fanon personalities I've developed for the characters. The first three are probably the ones I focus on more, but they're mostly just even since I don't exactly have a VOCALOID OTP (until you get major fanon territory and start talking about ICE MOUNTAIN).



- To continue with the sentence above, I love the information released about Kiyoteru's band, ICE MOUNTAIN, and I adore playing with it and relationship dynamics and everything. I heard somewhere that AHS has come out and said this is no longer canon? Even though it's pretty cool because part of VOCALOID's enjoyability is the ability we have to do whatever we want, I liked the information released so it makes ma bit sad.



- Getting deeper into fanon, I headcanon Rin as slightly psychopathic and Len having confidence issues. Len is also trans in my fanon, but won't reveal it because she loves her job as a singer too much to have to give it up due to controversy/scandal. Also, she's a shy adorable baby. Oh! And Miku just generally being a grumpy tsundere asshole and not really giving a crap about anyone around her gives me life.



- I don't know if it's just me, but I feel like we don't get a ton of diversity in the fandom in terms of personality, headcanons, etc and it makes me sad.



- Even though I love that everyone's like "flower can wear boy clothes and still be a girl!" I really like to entertain the idea that they may be trans, genderfluid, or some variation thereof just for diversities sake.



- Continuing with flower, I don't love her voice because it's so androgynous, I love it because it has so much power behind it. It actually makes me grumpy when she's used for very sweet and quiet songs. She has all that power! Let her use it!



- I absolutely adore Dex's, Daina's, and Fuakase's designs but don't have much of a particular feeling towards Ruby (which stirred up so much controversy). I don't hate or even really dislike any designs in particular.



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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(58,58,58);-webkit-text-stroke-width:initial;">- My favorite vocals are: Hiyama Kiyoteru, Utatane Piko, GUMI, VY1, Hatsune Miku, and flower (when tuned and used correctly). My least favorites are: the Kagamine twins (but the amazingness of plenty of their songs often exempt them from my hate), Lily, and Sachiko. The rest of the VOCALOIDs I'm pretty indifferent about and have no strong feelings towards one way or another.

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(58,58,58);-webkit-text-stroke-width:initial;">- Even though Piko's voice isn't the greatest in a lot of ways, I feel like he deserves a V4 update much more than many others for a lot of reasons. For one,technology has improved and I feel like his voice can be better represented at this point. For another, it's a unique vocal, especially among males since there are so few. There are other reasons, but I'm lazy.

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(58,58,58);-webkit-text-stroke-width:initial;">- I think GUMI sounds better the less realistic she sounds.

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(58,58,58);-webkit-text-stroke-width:initial;">- The ZOLA Project original designs are great. Shut up.

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(58,58,58);-webkit-text-stroke-width:initial;"> - I think it's stupid when people hate on designs, especially when their chosen by a contest and especially when they're chosen by the voice provider. Sorry that the designer's/decider's tastes didn't match up exactly with yours? Maybe you should just get over it? Or make your own fan design! Even with VOCALOIDs that have set in stone designs, you are perfectly able to do whatever you want. And I love to see different fan designs of VOCALOIDs (is that a bonus unpopular opinion?)

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(58,58,58);-webkit-text-stroke-width:initial;">- I don't really enjoy seeing High School/Band/Entertainment AU's of VOCALOID. Please give me all the sitcom dynamics/business AU's that you have, please and thank you.

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(58,58,58);-webkit-text-stroke-width:initial;">- The fact that the Ring and Lui projects have been abandoned make them infinitely more interesting and fun to play with in an already amazingly open fandom and I really wish we saw more of them and other abandoned projects (like ICE MOUNTAIN!).

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(58,58,58);-webkit-text-stroke-width:initial;">- I love that VY1 & VY2 have no set genders or designs (design bit also applies to LEON, LOLA, and MIRIAM). It's the best.

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(58,58,58);-webkit-text-stroke-width:initial;">- I really like Miku's voice. *shrugs* While it's not necessarily an unpopular opinion, it seems to be in more tight-knit and *cough* well educated VOCALOID communities where she's either straight  up hated or just generally ignored because of her popularity. I think it's less of a problem with people not liking the voice and more of a problem with the overuse of it.

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(58,58,58);-webkit-text-stroke-width:initial;">- I don't really care about UTAU, derivatives, fan-mades, etc at all. If anything, I find them insanely annoying.

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(58,58,58);-webkit-text-stroke-width:initial;">- I love listening to VOCALOID music and talking about their voices and being impressed by their improvement in technology and stuff, one of the biggest reasons I'm in the fandom is just simply because of the characters (whether that means their designs, their limited backstories, or their names is up to how you see it). This by no way means I'm uneducated about it or anything, it's just that they're such blank slates that it's easy to bounce off the ideas already given and make wild theories and assumptions that just can't be done with other media/fandoms/etc.

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;-webkit-text-stroke-color:rgb(58,58,58);-webkit-text-stroke-width:initial;">- I want One Direction-loids. Just so we can bring VOCALOID into the mainstream and have them be more accepted in the west. *dives under rocks and takes cover*

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