Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-92.3.202.241-20150420160231/@comment-53539-20150813190953

148.0.73.77 wrote: Maika... i do not like her english, her spanish and portuguese have this accent that i don't like and she can't really sing in any other language. But, other factor is that her fanbase praise her as the ultimate vocaloid and all that.

By going only because of the voice i would say i like every Vocaloid in that aspect. Since i tend to like nasal voices and high pitched voices i guess there isn't a vocaloid with characteristics that i completely dislike xD. Maika is built for Spanish and while she has extras, it makes the points you make about it moot. Also I can remember someone going on about how good she is based on the 6 layers she had... Dex, Daina and Ruby beat or are equal to her. So this argument is moot.

I have issues with people making out Maika to be better then she is also. I remember everyone's reactions to Sonika's "sing any language" (with EDITING ppl, with EDITING it says!), yet Maika has a few extras and suddenly Sonika is forgotten... Along with all the points made back in her day about what is needed to make a true multi-lingual Vocaloid. Maika is just a Spanish Vocaloid, with extras... Thats -it-. When it comes to that, this is what Ruby amounts to.

Bias in favor of a vocaloid is as bad as bias against one. ITs the sort of thing we struggle with in regards also to the Kagamines, Luka and SeeU... Or generally the vast Japanese Vocaloid praising as a whole when its made on baseless remarks and presumptions of them. :-/

I cite the example I've used before of back in V2 with miki, how a fan praised her for being "easy to use" when we had a link saying she wasn't. Of all the arguments put forward of how Miki is so good, the 1 thing missing was that in V2, she was more realistic then Gumi... It never came up ONCE. People praise the Vocaloids but don't always know whats so good about them, they just jump to conclusions. On the other hand, there is a issue displayed also by VY1 and VY2, as well as Cyber Diva, in that people hold onto their HQ status... Thats fine but it doesn't mean their the best vocaloids, hell Ruby is essentially at the moment looking to top Diva as a much better HQ product.

And quality is one of those factors almost impossible to define 100%... Since so many factors are in play. And every Vocaloid is a HQ product to begin with... So itr all amounts to nit-picks on a small % of factors.

It bites because Bruno and Clara are good products but are essentially the most unpopular Vocaloids right now (or was last year). Both are good vocals and in my opinion better singers. :-/