Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6986530-20170327230407/@comment-25926003-20170420014559

Again, is it in a design sense of like "This character is this vocaloid, but their design is pretty distinct from the base vocaloid itself", kinda like how Ene and Kano from Kagerou Project are Miku derivatives (and their earliest designs WERE Miku), minus the extreme redesigning to the point where almost all the Mikuness is gone? Or is it in a sense of Maria LITERALLY not being a Miku and being some other random vocaloid instead? Because the former I can understand, but anon's wording makes it sound like the latter, and it's seriously confusing me.

If it's the former, then it's still super weird to cite L&B and Elluka as examples since the three are still very easily recognizable as deriving from the Vocaloids playing them regardless of age-ups or palette swapping (and DEFINITELY don't go to the filing-off-of-serial-numbers extent Kagepro went to). I don't even know. Like, I THINK I get it, but I also don't get it at all.