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Musa666 wrote:

Glitchloid wrote: @Misteryeevee

A lot of people have assumed Mo Qingxian's name is Mo, Zhiyu Moke's name is Zhiyu, etc.

Oh, and people who think IA's name is Aria or Lia. I even saw someone who thought IA ROCKS was her first/last name combined. 1.What Japanese anime character (I know it isn't a anime I'm talking about the character.) would be named IA ROCKS 2. Why would her second package have her full name. 3. It is just sad that someone thought that just... SAD. Uh, just saying, Vocaloid mascots don't exactly all follow anime character naming conventions. Many names resembling normal ones are still chosing with specific (often musical) meanings (which might happen in anime but most that I know go for realistic) and then we have ones like MAYU, GUMI, MEIKO (though admittedly it was only the software's name originally) in all caps and of course some like Flower, Akikoloid(-chan), CUL, Mew or galaco. And that's taking aside VY1 and VY2 because they don't have human avatars.

It bothers me with Lapis a lot. I've once had an argument with someone about it who tried justifying it as them not getting it wrong but trying to be polite by using her surname. Because that's why everyone calls that Crypton one with the pigtails Hatsune, am I right? (Then again, I did see that). A lot of people also complained how weird it sounded to use her first name.

I encountered quite a few people calling Tone Rion "Tone" while I was researching comments for eevee's Anti-Hate series. It surprises me how many people make those mistakes, considering they all know it's "Miku", "Luka", "Rin", "Len" (usually) without making that mistake. If that project were continued, I bet we'd find some people also calling Ring Suzune "Suzune". Because people can't get their stuff straight and unfortunately do not all flood this wiki. :P

And that with the Chinese Vocaloids also surprises me a little. I guess because it's shorter it somehow seems like it would be the first name but still. Any if they can guess how it is for Longya and Ling because of the shared surname, why can't they go from there and be all like "Mmh, their surname was BEFORE their first name. Perhaps it's the same way for the other ones?" I thought it was kinda common knowledge that the name order was the same in Japan and China. And I'd still understand calling YANHE "He" (though it's confusing as hell, I saw someone correcting someone else that YANHE was female when that was used, rather than correcting the name) because I think it wasn't stylized that way at first and especially for people who don't know Chinese it wouldn't be very obvious that was one name.

But IA ROCKS, really. Didn't Anzurea predict that in the IA ROCKS comments?