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The updated designs remind me a bit of Magic Knight Rayearth!

The 90s style in the Amnibus art reminds me of Mr. Driller!

I agree! Miku English V3 and V4's phonemes can sound strange sometimes when certain combos are used, which massively lets down both the quality and the clarity of the banks. (It's hard to explain, but I've noticed Miku English has a bad tendency to either over- or underenunciate words if you...

I'm surprised at how good Rin and Len sound in NT! I'm starting to wonder if NT is a synth that processes sharper, more powerful voices the best compared to softer tones (think of how UTAU works), so the Kagamines came out good while Miku is still struggling a bit, even in NT2.

Even back in the golden era of V2, there were a lot of people who were really only Miku fans who liked super-popular songs like World Is Mine and didn't know anything else about Vocaloid as a software, a fandom and a budding music culture. If you were lucky, they probably also knew of a token...

Don't forget about the Wayback Machine! Admittedly, the Internet Archive in general is now under threat from copyright holders, but the WM is still a godsend for archiving old pages (so long as a robots.txt script isn't on a site). I've tried my best to save songs and post them to YouTube in...

Admittedly, Miku V2 had choppy transitions as well, but people forgave it in hindsight because she was the second V2 ever released after Sweet Ann, and the very first Japanese V2. Nowadays, some people find V2's choppiness charming, but obviously that's nostalgia over older software. I agree...

These comments have just made me think if Crypton had just kept reissuing V2 Miku in some way (and even V1 Meiko and Kaito and V2 Rin, Len and Luka), a lot of fans would have been less upset over the years. With every engine upgrade and attempt to keep their V1 and V2 tones, ironically the...

This also really puts the nail in the coffin for Eleanor Forte's reputation - I can still remember when she was pretty much promoted as SynthV's (most likely) mascot bank and Miku equivalent, but that honour later went to Solaria and now Teto.

I think what's also helped VVN survive the current social media-dominated landscape is that we can post tutorials and troubleshooting advice for vocal synths, which isn't easy to do on other platforms (except Reddit and maybe YouTube if a video is necessary to demonstrate or fix an issue). If...

I'd say super-active discussions started dropping after 2013 or so. I do recall 2014 being the point I noticed activity on VocaloidOtaku started to decrease, away from shitposts towards more thoughtful conversations - not necessarily a bad thing, but it did reflect the trends I've already...

VV always goes a bit dead when no big news is announced for a while. Also, forums are nowhere near as popular as they used to be, at least compared to 20 years ago. Even 15 years ago, VocaloidOtaku used to be really active; then social media platforms like Tumblr, Reddit and Instagram started...

AHS have posted some vocal mode demos of Miki and Kiyoteru:

Yet another Jun demo!

I don't own V6 myself (or any vocal synth for that matter lol), but I do know it has similar problems with V5 - mainly, it's too expensive for hobbyists and the Vocaloid engine still doesn't sound realistic enough for professionals, so it's caught in this awkward double bind where it alienates...

I know I'm gonna get keelhauled as a judgemental ass for saying this buuuuut... Kikuo is one of those artists who belong in a personal tier of mine which I can only designate as 'Sus'. I don't have any solid reasons as to why, but there's just something about him I don't like. It's really hard...

Ooof, even if I happened to stan the CUL family, I definitely wouldn't support any future Zan-Shin projects in the future after reading this. What a dumpster fire.

Aww man, that's so shitty to hear. Even if fans are understanding, I wouldn't be surprised if people didn't pay up again for a WhiteCUL VB (because what if history repeats itself?). I'm just gonna dismiss WhiteCUL V6 as vaporware for the time being, unless they get some kind of proper backer to...