Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-2121396-20140911142659/@comment-53539-20140914231024

Bare in mind as well the issue with professional singers is that many of them sound alike because the music industry favors a few vocal types over others, as I said earlier. This is why people at first felt Lily and Meiko sounded similar because they are of similar vocal directions.

But regardless, I do not disagree with any concerns about her sounding too close to Gumi, because even I feel this one is too close. This is closer to Gumi then what Kokone was, in my opinion, too close. But with the issue of professionals ultimately always being within those few vocal types, Internet co may come across this same problem time and time again. It may not have even been intentional, but regardless it happened and for all we know, Internet co had to beef out Chika to make her more unique from Gumi because they saw the issue with her.

I don't 100% see the issue with her sounding like Gumi as Internet has noted there is a bump in quality in Chika over Gumi. I think the issue is unlike most of the "near sounding" vocals we've had for Vocaloid already, its a case of we've had too much from the same company. Whereas the others have not had two vocals from the same company sound too alike (unless they were a package together like Anon/Kanon by the same vocalist like Rin/Len or additional vocals like languages/appends).

Otherwise I've said when V3 first came out and people began to compare vocals and others started complaining about it, we're running out of voice types that haven't been covered in general. Especially the females as I think most types and ranges are locked. Bare in mind as well, we're getting more and more female vocals tossed at the franchise, so we're not picking up the uniqueness of each vocal anymore, we're basically seeing things like "Gumi mark 2" for this reason.

Basically... There is a combination of things at play here to consider beside the idea that only a Gumi-like vocal would sell. Regardless, I don't blame internet co to sticking to their guns like CFM is stuck in re-release, but at least the new vocalist means different future potential. Also, bare in mind Internet's only non-professional singer Gachapoid is being released for V3 in a few days, and is not expected to go anywhere.. I would understand them playing safe since Gachapoid hasn't done well overall at all. I almost feel like Chika had been released as part of some plan to either get Gachapoid a lot of attention since everyone is staring at Internet, or to draw attention from him for some marketing tackle reason.