Talk:GUMI/@comment-77.138.141.3-20190202221632/@comment-53539-20190203101239

She is pretty much the most successful Internet Vocaloid, hence why she has had more releases and updates. Not everything they've tried has worked out, for example the Falsetto vocal became Kokone.

Considering that V3 is the era "sound alike" vocals became a issue that needed to be addressed, and both Kokone and Chika were vocals "Gumi-like", producers began to not just buy every Vocaloid. Kokone was fortunate as due to the Falsetto she doesn't sound like Gumi at all, but Chika just got labelled "Gumi 2.0" and in that era it was a bad thing. The trouble is that when vocals like Chika come along, you get comparisons and even though the Chika vocal is better then the Megpoid native vocal is... The producers will choose Gumi every time. This isn't the only case and it has been a issue even when it was addressed in V4, you still had producers not buying Mirai because she was in Meiko's voice type group and people felt that they had Meiko so they didn't need Mirai. Despite Mirai being better then Meiko Straight.

So the popularity of Gumi can be other Vocaloids undoing.