Talk:VOCALOID/@comment-35502347-20190306022809/@comment-53539-20190308094546

With Gumi, thats impossible as the Vocaloid was created to imitate Megumi's vocal traits, these are unique only to her. She was one of the earliest examples of this. No vocalist is going to be able to replace her for that reason. Plus, she is licensed for Megumi's vocalist and was part of a project to bring professional singers to Vocaloid. This is why I say its a dead end. Once Megumi is dead, so is updates to Gumi. Thats it for that vocal, along with other such vocaloids.

The whole point of the "Poid" series was to be a voice of a specific Vocaloid, and aside from the fact Internet is behind them they are only 1 step above Yamaha group Vocaloids. For those who don't know, while Yamaha Vocaloids are classified as one group, they are technically a misc. group who have no relationship to each other. Each one has its own marketing as a result. The Internet Vocaloids are very similar to this, except they belong all to Internet who often handles a lot of things to do with the Vocaloid... But thats it. Lily for example had a number of merchandise, yes, but only certain things were tied to the Vocaloid and existed because of Internet, there is a whole lot of stuff that was linked to the M.o.v.e/anim.o.v.e promotion that has nothing to do with the Vocaloid. The reason is Lily was a promotion of her provider herself. So no provider can be a replacement for Lily for this reason alone... Internet made the vocaloid, but isn't fully controlling her licensing of merchandise.

This is different to CFM where, aside from Kaito and Meiko, CFM controls a lot more things and therefore replacing any of their CV series is possible.

In fact, Ryuto and one or two others are the only Vocaloids that can continue after their provider is dead among the Internet group. Ryuto, because he is "the voice of Gachapin", which basically is whomever is currently voicing Gachapin himself.

There are a number of Vocaloids like Sachiko, Piko (if he isn't dead already) and so fourth whose existence is tied to a specific Vocaloid.