Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26426525-20150524214902/@comment-29714788-20160508101222

Still, most of the female vocals weren't that successful, because producers stick to popular ones like Miku, IA, and Rin. Around the V3 era, we got a lot of mid-range Japanese female vocals and while some like Yukari, Flower, and Rana got fairly popular, vocals like Mew, Merli, Kokone, AnoKano, and Chika were pretty much ignored. The moe vocals like Rion, Lapis, and Mayu didn't fare too well either because when producers want a moe vocal they just use Miku or Rin's appends or set IA or Luka's GEN extremely low. Also I'm not sure why but Fukase is getting like, really popular for some reason, it might be because of his voice provider but Idk. I think him having an English voicebank offers more flexibility to western producers and a lot of the western fandom has been begging for male vocals but since we're talking about Japan here I'm kind of scratching my head. Anyway, I think male producers are their own vocalists, like Hachi for example, which is why they don't need male Vocaloids. However male vocals that are popular, for example Len and Gackpo, are for in respective order, being the only male character vocal that's voice acted and being voiced by a famous singer. VY2, Kiyoteru, and ZOLA Project are just standard male vocals, so they don't have any special traits or anything (this statement does not reflect my own opinion, but of the producers) I presume Fukase might be getting so popular because of his combination of "unique voice" (Idk, he's androgynous sounding but different from Len or Piko) and "famous singer voice provider" (though nowhere as popular as Gackt, the band is popular right now in Japan) But another thing to consider is that female producers like kaoling, Tiara, OSTER Project, and HitoshizukuP don't have preferences for male Vocaloids over female (well I know OSTER Project is a lesbian but I'm talking about female producers in general and that's kind of irrelevant) Although NatsuP is one female producer who does seem to prefer male vocals. So maybe it could be that 1) everyone hates male vocals or 2) the same issue as "Big 8 plus IA" being popular