/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>16008965
You typed a lot of words there but somehow ended up missing the most important parts of my post.
>People expressing themselves artistically.
>To a lot of people and artists Vocaloid are instruments rather than characters.
And that's it.
To give you an idea, myself I have projects I'm working on and the idea of using Vocaloid for the music/OST went through my mind. It's in no way to follow some sort of "trend" or anything like that, it's simply because for so many years now I've exclusively listened to Vocaloid music/artists, it's a really important part of my life so it wouldn't be odd to use Vocaloid (as instruments) to help building what I'm trying to achieve. I assume the more or less the same happens for other people. Does it help?

It's your right to not like it, but to literally say they should be using means other than Vocaloid to build their own little world is just silly, people are free to use Vocaloid if they like them as instruments.
>Woah
Like I said I'm not bothered in the slightest, I was just saying things as they are, although it might have sounded accusing. I love everything about Vocaloid.

>I noticed tons of them the last years and I feels more like a "trend" that many new artists follow because everyone does it now
Could you explicitly tell us who? It'd have helped getting your message across better. You're telling me I'm missing your point but while I understand why you think I do, I'm not exactly missing it actually. A lot of artists have OCs and stories as well, they're just less obvious because either the musical style isn't something that'd get super popular as opposed to something like Last Note's stuff, or because they didn't promote themselves with good artists/PVs. There's also the fact that 99% of non-Japanese Vocaloid fans can't speak the language and thus can't really tell whether an album has a story, etc or not. Now if you mean promoting manga/LNs/etc, alright, it's already more niche.

I started listening to Vocaloid thanks to Double Lariat; I don't remember what year it was.