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Those designs give me strong late 2000s/early 2010s merch vibes, and I actually like it because of nostalgia. ^^; I used to see Vocaloid merch like that all the time when I first started going to cons around nine years ago.

I really don't understand how they're promoting Kafu right now. So far, they're still trying to gun for Kaf's established fandom, but aside from the wilfully blind, the fact that it doesn't really sound like the real Kaf at all is probably putting off some people. Meanwhile, non-fans and/or...

I agree that Kafu sounds a bit better in some sections of the latest demo, but on the whole, it still sounds like the real Kaf putting on a cutesy voice with a cotton ball in her mouth. :/ Or maybe this genre is really unsuited for Kafu's voice. If a cutesy demo was released, it might sound...

Definitely Hello Planet by Sasakure.UK for me, especially the bittersweet ending (though in this case, it's more like happy tears). I'm not sure if Last Night Good Night by kz counts because the lyrics are sad, but it still hits me right in my heart whenever I hear it.

To be fair, I did notice Miku NT's choppiness had been fixed up when Crypton rereleased her old demos with her latest voice.

I liked Ausgris's concept, and I'm still sad that he never became anything more than that. :(

I doubt another synth developed in Japan will overthrow Vocaloid (not even Piapro despite Miku being the new flagship for it), unless a company made an effort to directly appeal to English-speaking producers. The biggest stumbling block for all current synths right now is that they're mostly...

I agree that Yamaha might keep V5 going for a while longer compared to previous versions of Vocaloid. I can't see how V6 would push the program further, aside from additional language support, and even then, that's something that could be done within a V5 update. I think Yamaha has been moving...

I didn't know IA Talk was voiced by a different VP! No wonder I hated it automatically when I first heard it - it didn't sound like Vocaloid IA at all. (The more I hear about what 1st Place have been doing to IA over the years, the more sad I become, because she's one of my favourite Vocaloids.)

I'm still mad about IA English not being a Vocaloid, because I knew her voice wouldn't be as high quality in CeVIO compared to Vocaloid. (Plus, from a producer perspective, you can't really do bilingual Japanese and English IA songs because you can hear the differences between the two engines...

I think it depends on the song - some tracks call for less realistic vocals than others. Probably not that unpopular, but I'll still say it anyway: Every time I hear IA English, even with the best tuning, I still think about how much better the voice would have sounded in Vocaloid or even...

In the early days of the fandom, character items (anyone else remember them?) tended to be based on food and drinks. So Miku had a leek/spring onion, Kaito had ice cream, Meiko had alcohol, etc. Depending on the fan, sometimes they would address the idea of how androids would function in human...

I've honestly forgot MMD was even still a thing because I dropped out of that side of the fandom years ago... I used to play around with it as a teen, but I could never get the hang of actually animating stuff in it because the learning curve was extremely steep (and a massive pain in the ass if...

To be honest, I think Rin got lucky because during the fandom explosion of the early V2 period, Western fans in particular weren't aware that Rin Act 1 had serious quality issues compared to Miku due to a lack of access to Japanese V2s, and Crypton fixed her later in Act 2. Nowadays, Western...

This is what's winding me up the most now about Kafu - Kaf's established fans are acting willfully blind about her quality issues. When Crypton dropped the beta version of Miku NT, we know a lot of Miku fans kicked a stink about the then-current quality of NT, which Crypton are still trying to...

I still can't get used to Type B... All I kept thinking while Iistening to the new demo was how much nicer the voice would have sounded if it was Type A.

I can hear improvements as well. Hopefully, Crypton will be able to iron out any current issues with Miku NT after she's released, especially since they're not under Yamaha's rules regarding updates anymore.

I think I need to hear more demos before I make a firm judgement. Right now, I think Yukari at least still sounds like her Vocaloid self, just with CeVIO's infamous engine noise. She's a massive step up from Kafu at least. Her silhouette looks interesting though. It's making me wonder if...

I honestly don't think Jay sounds that bad, but his demos in that video don't do the VB justice.

If Yuzuru gets a song VB, I will freak the hell out because I loved his voice type as a talk bank, and I was really sad he wasn't a Vocaloid or anything.