User blog comment:Dizzyzebra/V3 - Signing out/@comment-25508361-20141223005436/@comment-53539-20141223102926

Kokone I can see a point to because she serves a purpose that Gumi couldn't do. Chika is the one everyone is having a hard time with. Despite the leap in quality, even fans who had taken the "they don't sound anything alike!" stance on all other vocaloids before her, struggle to find the "unqiue" traits about her.

Their THERE but if you told a lot of the fans of vocaloid that she was another Gumi vocal... I think most would believe you. This REALLY makes Chika hard to define, especially as currently we're waiting for songs that stand out.

I think Chika proves the points I've been saying for several years about vocals. The whole "sounds like..." issue isn't a crime to say, because people can sound alike in real life, ergo Vocaloids can sound alike. The human voice has a limited range and set of tones. Sooner or later your going to cover everything there is... With professional vocals, this is going to be a more notable issue due the way the music industry pushes certain types of vocals and trains out flaws to make things "perfect". This produces less variety between singers overall.

In short... Look out for chika-level of problems in the future folks. Its not an issue unless it holds a vocal back, but this is not going to go away. Even back in theV2 era, I'm one of those that felt VY1 was a Miku-esque voice to the core traits of the vocal at certain points. If you'd told me she was a Miku append, I'd bought into it. I'd figured out in 2010, this was actually intentional though. :-/