Talk:Hatsune Miku/@comment-75.100.86.163-20180613235658/@comment-53539-20180614153143

Her popularity makes her special... But no... Miku's not been the best vocaloid for a long time. In the early days, yeah perhaps... But early V2 was a generally bad era for vocaloid vocals and many were LQ compared to later V2.

I think there was a forum topic where I basically explained why Miku was popular, but the wiki greater staff forced a change to discussions. I believe there are the members of this wiki on the case to find out whats going on.

Its not just the high-pitched cute girl design, Miku was popular due to the surge of internet memes and she dominated early Nico Nico Douga. She had a reputation as being the easiest Vocaloid to use and held onto this title until 2009 even with HQ vocals coming out. A lot of it was despite her LQ, she could easily be manipulated to how you wanted her and her vocal was robotic enough to get away with a bunch of cheap shortcuts. Vocaloid always has favoured highpitched vocals anyway since it has issues with lower ranges even now.

I have to agree otherwise with anon ip 113 about the state of current Vocaloid... But not all vocaloids are instantly seeing the success Vocaloid2 era vocals had. The producers are spread thinly across 50 Japanese vocaloids or something like that out of about 8 altogether. To date though, Miku ends up being the overall best CFM vocal simply because when you weigh in her V3 and V4 being able to XSY both in Japanese and English cases... You end up with basically a lot more "go" then most of the other cast of CFM. Her XSY in English for example beats Luka's only because Luka's was a Copy+ Paste cheat vocal in the case of her "soft", which CFM will do at times. :-?

Miku did set off the Vocaloid trend, so she is the face of Vocaloid... And frankly, I see her as no different to Pikachu pokemon, because... Well... Pikachu had the advantages of being one of the best early on Pokémon purely because of his typing and the other early electric types being bad in the early games. Sounds familiar to something I just said about Miku doesn't it?

I will say after seeing her face for nearly every day for 8 years... The Vocaloid Miku herself is about as dull as they come since anything that made it sound out is long a blur.