The bulk update request #4189 is pending approval.

create implication gakupo_kamui (4) -> vocaloid (931)
create implication ia_(vocaloid) (4) -> vocaloid (931)
create implication kagamine_len (54) -> vocaloid (931)
create implication kagamine_rin (47) -> vocaloid (931)
create implication kaito_(vocaloid) (39) -> vocaloid (931)
create implication meiko_(vocaloid) (29) -> vocaloid (931)
create implication megpoid_gumi (17) -> vocaloid (931)
create implication megurine_luka (40) -> vocaloid (931)
create implication yuzuki_yukari (36) -> vocaloid (931)

Reason: All of these characters are Vocaloids

Same as with UTAU, Vocaloid is a singing voice synthesizer software product, it's not a group or some company. It's simply a program used to synthesize a voice for singing, which those characters happen to use in their official performances. But images of them won't have their voice, or necessarily have anything to do with the software. It would be better for them to implicate the company that owns them (if any), rather than a voice synth program that's not even used in the majority of posts with them.

The bulk update request #4226 is pending approval.

create implication ia_(vocaloid) (4) -> 1st_place_co. (1)
create implication kizuna_akari (8) -> ah-software (1)
create implication yuzuki_yukari (36) -> ah-software (1)
create implication hatsune_miku (666) -> crypton_future_media (1)
create implication kaito_(vocaloid) (39) -> crypton_future_media (1)
create implication megurine_luka (40) -> crypton_future_media (1)
create implication meiko_(vocaloid) (29) -> crypton_future_media (1)
create implication kagamine_len (54) -> crypton_future_media (1)
create implication kagamine_rin (47) -> crypton_future_media (1)
create implication gakupo_kamui (4) -> internet_co. (1)
create implication megpoid_gumi (17) -> internet_co. (1)
create implication otomachi_una (3) -> internet_co. (1)
create implication oliver_(vocaloid) (2) -> powerfx_systems (1)
create implication seeu (3) -> sbs_a&t (1)
create implication fukase_(vocaloid) (1) -> yamaha (26)

Reason: I personally think the VOCALOIDs should imply both VOCALOID and the parent company, so here's a BUR for the latter.

Curious, you should add kizuna_akari, otomachi_una, oliver_(vocaloid), seeu and fukase_(vocaloid) to your BUR.

bumping this because both are good ways to categorize these characters

curiousoxide said:
bumping this because both are good ways to categorize these characters

I had a better updated BUR for this in another thread. No, the original BUR isn't a good way to categorize the characters because many of these characters aren't exclusively VOCALOID.

nimphia said:
I had a better updated BUR for this in another thread. No, the original BUR isn't a good way to categorize the characters because many of these characters aren't exclusively VOCALOID.

The characters are still vocaloid, so the tag would be accurate, would it not?

curiousoxide said:
The characters are still vocaloid, so the tag would be accurate, would it not?

No, Vocaloid was the software the creators used to use for their vocal performances, but they've since switched to various other options and largely don't use Vocaloid anymore. It'd be like having a character imply Blender because that's what their creator originally made their official renders with, even if the creator had later switched to a different modeling/render software for the character.

Maybe if the characters were a kind of official mascot for the product, but it doesn't seem they were.

curiousoxide said:
The characters are still vocaloid, so the tag would be accurate, would it not?

No, they're not. Hatsune Miku and friends in particular haven't been on the VOCALOID software in 5 years.