Talk:Kagamine Rin \ Len/@comment-74.179.220.36-20120906211445/@comment-53539-20120912071537

Actually no, Len is not shota; its the fans who make him that.

Its the same with anything though, fans "make" images and fanart, warping a otherwise innocent thing into something its not. But for every fanart like it there is also one that is not, so this image isn't a constant one and thoughts of one fan differ to another. When you boil down to it, the closet we get to anything offical is what KEI produced in the unoffical manga. And that was done for the laughs, because the manga was a random adventure and took a lot of references from popular Voclaoid culture. :-/

Oliver isn't Shota too, but I've seen the PIXIV art where they made him shota also.

Though shota is not the soul reason why Len is more popular. Len is popular because he is a CFM vocaloid and in the original time of release, he and Rin where only the 2nd release V2 product. There the choice was Miku or the Kagamine's. The Kagamine's never hit off like Miku, but their still tagged in with the popular 9 Voclaoids just the same as any other.

VY2, on the other hand, was made to be a souly professional voice, relesed at a time when there was dozens of voicebanks out and even older English vocals were now known by this point. ITs been hard for most of the post Gumi releases to meet the same success as the post Gumi era. Thats why its always been "ppular 8" for a while, and its only IA who has broke the mouid on being popular enough to be included in that. And even lthough she is popular she is still establishing herself and it will be a few years before we start seeing her alongside other popular 8 in cameros.

Even if company or status was not the reason, most of the popular producers use CFM or early Internet co., Ltd vocals, they focus on whats worked for them and don't venture out too far. They may produce the one-off with a less popular vocaloid, but they often revert back to their big hitters afterwords since they do better overall.

Shotacon only makes a character popular with the anime "weaboo" crowd here in the west, but in Japan theres other factors and trends to weigh in. :-/