User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/What got me thinking..../@comment-5665682-20140106161753/@comment-5665682-20140107141859

But the main difference about MAIKA and SeeU is that MAIKA is a big improvement over SeeU (AND Sonika) about extra phonetics.

At least, MAIKA can sound more unerstandable than SeeU, Luo Tianyi or any other eastern (non-japanese) voicebank. Of course, anime style helped a lot to make the people put an eye on her. As I stated some time ago, boxarts are magic, and even if MAIKA has a slight hispanic accent, people don't complaint about it because "she's pretty".

But yes, MAIKA is still a nice improvement when we speak about language compatibilities.