So when I first saw Miku I had NO IDEA that she was a Vocaloid and would not have guessed what she was at all. Now, Vocaloid was an expensive software even then, and there wasn’t yet a Vocaloid fandom. When I first picked up Lola back in 2004 I found her in a stall at a con amongst some music based software. I also will define at this point “Vocaloid Fan” as a general person who like Vocaloid, there is quite a vast difference with a lot of fans being just general anime fans which I will cover later on.

When I posted on Vocaloidism’s forums for the first time I was very shocked because on Vocaloid Otaku forums “Engloid” is used so openly. This is possibly going to end up as one of the longest article Vocaloidism will face… I’m not a regular here I lurk.įor the sake of clarity, I’m going to avoid “Engloid” and refer to everyone capable of singing in English as “English capable” like I do generally at the Wikia. I also apologise, I can’t really sum up a lot of this too much. If it were that easy to define, I wouldn’t have faced that many problems editing Wikipedia and the Wikia. The reality is, this is a complex situation with a ton of things that have gone on for a while. I’d like to think this was a single thing that could be singled out on one item, that everything is JUST linked to one problem. In comparison, Japanese Vocaloids are very popular. It’s not gone unnoticed for some time now that we do not see the same reflections in the Vocaloids from Zero-G and PowerFX in terms of success. (The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Vocaloidism.) Somebodyrandom, a regular over at Vocaloid Otaku and one of the main editors on the Vocaloid Wikia, wrote an article for Vocaloidism on the subject of the Vocaloids produced outside Japan: how can the popularity gap between them and the Japanese Vocaloids be explained? Is it a problem of language, synthesis quality, or maybe fandom? Read on for some of her thoughts on these questions.

Ia is the worst vocaloid