Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20160713122023/@comment-53539-20160722104108

Its culturally an issue thats still going on... This is why you have token tropes in TV and film such as the "token black person" or "token foreigner" or "token Asian"... These days its sadly leaking over to sexual-preference so now we have the "token gay" trope kicking in.

Its like this, look at a cartoon called "The Boom Crew", most of the kids are black - except the 1 nerd girl. She is that shows "token nerd" which is why she is white, because you "don't have black nerds". OMG token characters are annoying as hell, why can't we have diversity without token tropes.=_=

Yeah I have an issue with token characters, least when their inserted into the script to appear diverse... However, you tend to notice pretty fast that the big issue is the characters within their world aren't as diverse, which is why the token character is oddball. I've seen too many shows where they've tried to appear diverse and then everyone and their mom in either the support cast or background is white. It defeats the point of having the main cast being diverse and makes it all so much clearer who is token and there for the sake of it.

Anyway... I found myself taking about variety in Engloids at VO yesturday with someone. honestly... At 15 vocals, not including the bilinigual Japanese-> English ones, I fail to see how there is a lack of diversity. Okay I get there are more Japanese, but the opposite of diversity is the same... And we're getting a lot of the same vocals in Japanese vocaloids right now (doesn't help when you get constant updates and things like 10 Gumi voicebanks and two Gumi based vocals in V3, one of which could be a vocal clone). I get that we lost about 8 of them to the V1 and V2 retirement too, but being the second largest area of Vocaloid, I fail to see how there is a lack of variety of vocals.

And why does it matter there is not a opera vocal in every language and why is that a sign of lack of variety. Japnese opera isn't the same as Eurpeon style... In fact the opera niche in Japan is pretty much filled by Enka. Gosh that was a pain. =_=