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Anime is still sadly an obscure thing in the UK, even though it's just as much of a mainstay in British nerd and convention culture as it is in the US. People don't pay attention to any anime more intelligent than Pokemon. So if you were like me growing up in the 2000s, good luck finding any...

I forgot to mention this in my original post, but I also have a Miku keychain hanging on my bedroom corkboard. It used to hang off my actual house key, then I moved it to a zip handle on my backpack, and now it lives on my board. My office's dress code is pretty much "use your common sense"...

I own figures, two Vocaloid manga (Hatsune Mix and Mikubon), a Miku art book, one Hachune Miku plushie, one poster and some Project DIVA/Mirai games, as well as Megpoid: The Music (does anyone remember that game?). Years ago, I would have been into clothes and accessories too, but since I'm...

The lack of news for V5 is a huge part of the problem. When there's no big news in general about Vocaloid, the forum goes dead. The Stage subforum is fairly active every day, however. I'm also currently juggling university and work, so I'm never on here for too long once a day. Add in the...

I'd like to counter that many cutesy/generic VBs released nowadays don't tend to make a lasting impression among both the Japanese and Western fandoms. Otomachi Una leaned cutesy but after some brief hype she was forgotten about. (Yes, I know she has diehards fans. Don't throttle me!) Mirai...

I'd say Miku achieved popularity because she had a full body avatar that utilised trypical moe traits and had some kind of backstory (even though neither the fandom nor Crypton follows it anymore). Both these and her VB endeared her to NicoNico's otaku community. The previous Vocaloids released...

I don't go on FanFiction.Net anymore, but back when I used to be really active on there (pre-2013/14; basically any time before I started college), I was always disappointed/annoyed with the types of Vocaloid stories being posted on FFN (mainly just shipping stuff and boring high school...

I can't recall which studies I spotted these from, but I've heard people who are more intelligent and/or creative on average have a higher risk of developing mental illnesses. Sadly, this is also true for the Vocaloid fandom - it's no surprise that the songs dealing with mental health are the...

That mentality drove me nuts in the older days of the fandom before there were more English Vocaloids to choose from - it was especially painful in regards to Luka, who had an English VB but it wasn't the best at the time compared to the native English VBs. (Then Miku's English VB dropped for V3...

That quote is triggering me so much. :LOL: Seriously, how can people still not realise or research that English Vocaloids have existed since V1, and have seen some famous usages? (Avanna in 'Sad Machine', Oliver in Bee and Puppycat, etc.)

I don't think Flower's Engrish is that good, despite some people in the fandom praising it. It sounds really muffled to my ears and I need to look at the lyrics to understand what she's singing. Though this is a problem I have with many English Vocaloids too, including native English ones. orz

I wish Vocaloid had a function to simply make the VB talk, not sing too. It would make recording a ton of talk samples for certain VBs redundant (let's face it, not all producers use all the separate talk samples, especially if they number in the hundreds. Some producers just don't even bother...

Dunno if this qualifies as an unpopular opinion, but regarding the song 'Senbonzakura', I'm not sure which two groups are more annoying - the Japanese right who interpret the song as a patriotic/nationalist/fascist anthem, or the social justice warriors who complain about said Japanese far-right...

I was listening to Wowaka's discography the other day and then I hear this... The cause of death has been listed as acute heart failure. Heart problems are awful for anyone of any age, but as a young adult, dying from a health issue like that is terrifying. Rollin' Girl in particular helped me...

Not gonna lie, this looks really fun to use. I hope an English voice turns up at some point (considering the program is available in English), because I think producers and fans would also have fun trying to make the voices sing.

The English side seems to have gone really dead apart from whatever Yamaha (suddenly) releases. :(

I wish there were Sakura Miku design contests like they do with Snow Miku. It's boring seeing the same Miku recolour every year in both official and fan art, especially when Snow Miku isn't always represented by a blue and white Miku recolour anymore.

I've waited until some demos dropped before posting in this thread, since the voice type always makes or breaks a VB for me. I think I like Mikoto more right now - she sounds similar to Flower, but why on earth are producers already trying to give her a cursed moe voice? ;_; It's prominent in...

YouTube comments are usually a dumpster fire as it is, and the YT Vocaloid fandom is no exception. The "Vocaloid is dead!" myth has been debunked mutiple times on this board and VO back when it was alive. Yamaha did fuck up V5's release, but it's not the end of the program just because one...

Considering how stressed out Gynoid seems to be on Twitter recently, I'll be surprised and disappointed if the website update is just for a new album. It sounds like they're dropping a big update.