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Poorly-Received Vocaloid Designs?

Bookworm2

Your friendly neighborhood Vocaloid nerd
Hey! I'm writing a Vocaloid fic, and for a scene I need examples of Vocaloid designs that people didn't really like. Sadly, I'm not nearly an expert in this topic, so I'm reaching out here! What are some really poorly-received Vocaloid designs? And I don't mean things like Miku V3 English's different art style, I mean like just genuinely-disliked designs for some reason other than art style. Thanks!
 

Heruru Meruru

THE v@SHFUCKER Dearly Stars
I feel like Sweet Ann's original boxart is the closest thing to a Vocaloid design that was universally reviled, being used as a punchline in the early days of the fandom.

Everything else I can think of was more divisive or just a vocal minority complaining. I recall complaints about the "Miku Formula" for SeeU, for instance, but she ended up being popular anyway.

For other vocal synths outside of Vocaloid Jasper and Topaz get a lot of flak for looking like some kid's edgy OCs with poorly done art.
 
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Beananium

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Oct 22, 2025
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like heruru meruru said, most vocal synth designs and re-designs don't get wide-spread hate.

Most of the hate for character's designs are personal prefrences among people who actually vocalise them or vocal minorities. I know a lot of Kaito fans used to not like his V3 design, or just prefer his V1 design. I saw reasons as silly as "I can't make public nudity jokes with him wearing only a scarf with this design anymore" from 2013, to "It looks like that jacket has no room for him to breathe in and the materials look uncomfortable to have on your body" a friend of mine expressed. And Synth V Teto's outfit has a military motif that some people find uncomfortable, but some find cool or don't let that stop them from making their own teto designs.

And most of the one's people do nearly unanomously dislike often don't really get popular enough to cause a big stink. I had another friend recently show me +s ome other friends the Genbu + VirVox rebrand designs after some internal conflict with the company and the artist I didn't really look into, and they're... pretty rough... most of the chat agreed as well. Though that friend was the only person I knew that even knew about it and showed to the rest of us.

Finally, most of the universal dislike for certain characters designs i can recall have the artstyle play a huge factor as well. Sonika's inital V2 design used a 3d model that made her look like a character from a xbox game with no real art direction other then "WE HAVE TO HAVE REALISIM". and the v5 included vocals have the same jank 3d model problem.
 

wrong_thyme

gakupo glazer
Jan 12, 2022
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for hated redesigns, tone rion v4 was disliked (even though it's a rather cute design imo) bc it has literally nothing in common with her v3 other than being a cute anime girl with pigtails (not even the colour palette!!)

ci flower was also SUPER hated for being different, giving her blue eyes and a pink gradient in her hair and replacing her alt style with a more minimalist inspired aesthetic (cue jokes of "when you're alt but have to visit your judgemental relatives")

i also saw some people being confused why iroha v4 soft suddenly gained slapped on spherical titties (or maybe it was just me. but seriously, why?)
 

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