User blog comment:Rilena/I am tired of all the anime/cartoon designs for mascots/@comment-34106721-20190129175641/@comment-53539-20190221214939

As I said in my response, the biggest issue I find is that people are more drawn to a Vocaloid if they like the boxart.

Len being the classic example. Even back in V2 before the Appends came out, there were people saying how great he was, when other Vocaloids that were better were already entering the market. They purely based everything on how good he looked to them. As I also said though... In the case of Sweet Ann they were calling a woman who wasn't ugly, "ugly" because they thought the boxart was, it isn't the best Lena picture... But... When you see the original and the woman herself... You can get tempted to view Sweet Ann as "ugly voice" just because you want her to be based on the reaction of the boxart. SeeU is the same, a bunch of people often will choose her because her boxart is cute.

The boxart gives the impression of how good the voice is, even when its crap. I hate to say it, people will always judge a book by its cover.