Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-77.104.247.254-20141101133815/@comment-70.50.61.95-20141110063055

Meiko certainly is an acquired taste when it comes to what vocals a person likes. Not to mention that working with Meiko alone was always hard and if you did a good job at editing her voice it meant you had some serious skill since you had to deal with the unforgiving V1 software. And well just comparing her V1 with how all the other Vocaloids as a whole can sound was a bit harsh since all of them had updates including Kaito that Meiko never received until her V3. But generally Meiko's voice has a strong tone that doesn't waver much which I enjoy.

Personally Meiko is tied with Megurine Luka and IA for me being my favorites and I just wish she did get a bit more attention based on songs sung in the concerts and songs added in Project Diva but you know...they're going to sell their main hits just like Nintendo with Mario everywhere. I just respect her for being the first Japanese Vocaloid in existence and just celebrated her 10th anniversary this month.

On that note naturally we have the unfortunate extreme ignorance of fans and the spreading of false information of personalities, ages, and of course the never ending shipping wars. In relation to just people who think she is suggested towards a more sexual theme...it doesn't help with some of the designs in Project Diva alone at times (like Nostalogic...having a mere belt covering her chest) but people need to realize that other Vocaloids are just as bad at times. If anything Miku and Rin both don't wear that much more than what Meiko is now perceived in design.

One thing that does bother me though is when people put "sakine" with the original Meiko and well "shion" with Kaito as well but there isn't much to be done there. But just the automatic assumption of if Meiko sings in a higher pitch its automatically Sakine. But hey people like what they like.