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Dizzyzebra wrote: ^I think that was also due to poor handling on Sony's part. The utaite's voice had a wide appeal, but Piko's voice was vastly changed from the original, turning it into a much more niche voicebank. Sony also made some poor marketing decisions. ( ´ д｀)

Being voiced by a popular utaite could definitely be an asset to a Vocaloid, but it can be scuppered by the company. Utaite could likely create some very unique vocals considering a lot of them, such as 96neko and viptenchou, are loved because of the uniqueness of their voices