Talk:Mirai Komachi/@comment-203.82.110.85-20180718024834/@comment-53539-20180718093732

Mirai, while part of the "Yamaha group" is a 3rd party vocal by Bandai.

While Yamaha sells 3rd party voicebanks, they don't make them. This is the same situation Kaito and Meiko had in V1, Yamaha made those vocals but CFM sold them. While a lot has changed now and Yamaha no longer is relying on others to sell their vocals for them and are instead selling the vocals of others, bare in mind that its up to Bandai to advertise her, not Yamaha.

From what we gather, this vocal wasn't going to be released at all originally. She was produced as a tech demo and for some reason then sold. We don't know the full story behind her, but sh is a private vocal thats then been sold commercially. Either way, while certain things could be pinned on Yamaha, Bandai are mostly the ones you should criticise here. Lots of 3rd party vocaloids have been advertised in the past since as Anon & Kanon independently by their companies.

In fact...

The biggest impact on her likely won't be the fact she was released without warning, but rather she was released and then over a month and half roughly V5 was released...

And that the vocal turned out to be not much of a stand out vocal. She is the best of her voice type, or one of the best, but she still is among a common voice type to the point almost everyone working with her has noted how much she sounds like past Vocaloids. Essentially if you buy Mirai, you don't need Meiko V3 as she is superior to Meiko's "straight" vocal, but there are so many vocals already that Mirai is competing with them all. Remember that as of V4, the "voice sounds alike" issue is now considered a legit thing, especially among the Japanese vocaloids because of how many females there are and how limited room for variation there is compared to some of the other languages. Japanese voicebanks are at the point where there just is too many females.