Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25386934-20150528230847/@comment-30602727-20150529002133

Exactly what Novi said

Lorra's character rights are NetEase's and Stardust is Quadimension's. Shanghai He Nian was approached to create the voicebanks for these characters and have no control of the concepts, designs and parts of marketing.

"I'm not the best at reading producers of them, but I wonder if it's because Chinese Vocaloid is decently new.  "

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this at all.

"I still pray for a guy, though, whether it be in high demand or not. I guess you could call me ignorant though. :/"

The patience levels between the Western and Eastern fandoms are vastly different. In the East, they didn't care who was out after Tianyi as long as it was a VOCANESE character. And when YANHE came out, the fans were pissed because they thought she was replacing Ling, Longya, Qingxian and Moke.

It's likely this reaction lead to Ling being created, but it's also possible that SHN didn't have the power to do as they pleased with the VOCALOIDs. During that time, SHN was partnered with Bplats and didn't get full custody of Tianyi, YANHE and the others until January 2014. Basically, Ling was in high demand, so SHN decided to make her.

NetEase approached them and convinced them to make Lorra a voicebank (and since NetEase is a game company, it's stupid to not accept and gain money from this.).

gynoid is a separate thing and commissioned YAMAHA to make Xin Hua a voicebank.... so this was just whatever and it wasn't a problem. 3 Chinese girls (or 5) can't kill you.

And then this one shows up. There's just way too much on the plates now. Sure, SHN had the right idea to make the first V4, but.... this is just plain risky. The market is oversaturated with 6 females now... and there's no guy.... At this point, East fandom finally loses their patience and badly wants a male.