Why is Big Al so popular in the Japanese Vocaloid fandom?

[betelsnus]

Big Al is one of my favorite voice synthesisers, so it makes me really happy to see how well he's doing in Japan, despite not being a good match against Japanese Vocaloids. Based on tags and sources, he seems to be the most popular English Vocaloid with Sweet Ann being the second, and he's used in songs written by Japanese producers more than other English Vocaloids (eg. Assassin Babycat, Dancing Samurai Cover, Tiny Toy Robot). He even has more fanart of him compared to the other English Vocaloids.

 

[Heruru Meruru]

It might just be because he fills a very specific niche that very few vocal synths fill to this very day due to his low range. Asterian and maaaaaaybe Gakupo are the only ones that can go as low as he can.

 

[junky]

Possibly.. memes of all things lol. His official artist admitted his boxart was a Yaranaika reference (and JP fandom picked up on it quick, lol) along with some believing his breaths sound a bit like gay pornography
He's a great niche voicebank too though!

 

[AddictiveCUL (Add)]

I agree with what the fellas above said, if you want to hear Big Al's breathing at it's best here it is:


Big Al is in my opinion a genuinely very good vb. He maybe hard to use (Idk, I don't own him), but he has genuinely a beautiful vocal tone since he manages to balance both a low tone and a higher tone what is pretty rare within the fandom since everything usually goes either to the twink or shota side of the thing. I dunno nothing about the japanese side of the fandom, but ohh boy! SirVillager's All is all we needed ngl!