User blog comment:OtterJiang/Spanish VOCALOID/@comment-53539-20150110094247/@comment-53539-20150110221204

Correct me if I'm wrong, but at the time Sonika was released not only english vocaloids got down with the "low quality" stamp just because they were english, but she also had to be accompanied with the CGI boxart, which (no offence) looked very lazily made and amateur compared to the others. No matter what way Zero-G would try to promote her, she wouldn't get any spectacular attention.

By the time they changed sonika's boxart, the vocal was out and new problems were coming in with the voice. They changed the boxart - there was still hate. Less hate. But still enough hate to notice. But even then, this doesn't fully explain the reaction to all English vocaloids. Basically at one stage, Sonika became the cheapest shot someone who was anti-English vocaloid. Which is why talking about her doesn't settle well with me at times.

SeeU's English capabilities are rarely spoken now, I think the English vocal has quelled a lot of problems. It was pretty much SBS having to admit some stuff they had said at the V3 promos wasn't necessary true like their "trilingual" claim. I definitely would agree with the cutesy anime design being an issue. There was a lot of fans who did honestly like her for the design. But we've discussed to death recently a lot of issues with SeeU overall and I think this is a moot point to discuss her too deeply as it almost always end negatively. *sigh* :-/

With Maika, I'm seeing a few fans hyping her language capabilities up, this is a good and bad point. Its not just English, but langauges Japanese and other languages I've seen them say she can do as good as, if not better. This is why I'm so concerned about it. A few extra phonetics doesn't mean you can't replace a language entirely. This has potential to spread to other fans and lead them to believing this is the case though.

Honestly, just want something in Vocaloid not to have this stuff thrown onto it,... Certain members of the English speaking fans seem to want to twist things into things their not though. It spoils a good thing.

I can explain some of what goes on within the fandom. When you "believe" something is good, then other things will be judged by this. This "Belief" is normally based on if a person likes or dislikes a result. This may be a harsh thing to say about others within the fandom, but its often the case. This is because the majority of things are spoken within the fandom without backing up evidence to the statement. This unfortunately is the word "bias" at play, which I often use to describe the situation with favoritism within the vocaloid fandom, but its something that extends beyond vocaloid... I like Heavy Metal music, for example,so I'm more likely to listen to that kinda of music then most others, making me bias in favour of Heavy Music. Someone else might like Country, ergo they may be bias in favour of that genre.

Then there is the root of half the bias being ignorance. Some of the bias won't accept the truth when given to them.... Others just don't know any better.

This is why the boxart thing becomes a automatic "love" or "hate". Even the Spanish vocaloids know about this... Poor original Clara/Bruno art... Like Ann, original Al art, VY1/2, Leon, Lola, Zola, Mew (at times), and a heap of others, they are victims... I doubt this issue will go away but it is slowly improving, its also a shame for some as they are HQ vocals. :-/