My thoughts on the male to female ratio

More or spurred on by Bunai's recent blog. Heres my thoughts on the matter.

Firstly... I know there is more then double the amount of females then there are male Vocaloids. This is no surprise. But the issue isn't so much of a problem of there just being toomany females; but only that one type of female vocals have over crowded the market. You'll see at the end.

Stage 1 - Lets list the Vocaloids

We have a long list of female and male Vocaloids;

Lucky the wikia has this template.

Stage 2 - removing the non-problematic vocals

Believe it or not, the ratio, being as bad as it is, is not all black and white.  :-/

despite ther ebeing many females, not all of them are as bad or adding to the total problem.

New langaugese

Firstly, Spanish, French, Chinese and Korean Vocaloids have more females, but they have only 2 or 3 vocals in total. These guys do not matter due to the lack of vocals to begin with. Every vocal matters to that language, until there is more, what that vocal is is not important. Why complain about there being more female Chinese Vocaloids when there is only two to begin with?

I'll leave the Engloid in this time around because they are at this point more then well established despite being behind the Japanese ones.

So the list of Vocaloids without them is;

Female;

1. Akikoloid-chan
2. anon
3. Anri Rune
4. Aoki Lapis
5. AVANNA
6. CUL
7. flower
8. galaco
9. GUMI
10. Hatsune Miku
11. IA
12. Kaai Yuki
13. Kagamine Rin
14. kanon
15. kokone
16. Lily
17. LOLA
18. Macne Nana
19. MAYU
20. Megurine Luka
21. MEIKO
22. Merli
23. Mew
24. MIRIAM
25. Nekomura Iroha
26. Prima
27. Ring Suzune
28. SF-A2 miki
29. SONiKA
30. Sweet ANN
31. Tohoku Zunko
32. Tone Rion
33. VY1
34. Yuzuki Yukari
35. Kobayashi Matcha
36. Masaoka Azuki

Male;

1. BIG AL
2. Camui Gackpo
3. Hibiki Lui
4. Hiyama Kiyoteru
5. Kagamine Len
6. KAITO
7. LEON
8. OLIVER
9. Ryuto
10. Tonio
11. Ueki-loid
12. Utatane Piko
13. VY2
14. YOHIOloid
15. YUU
16. KYO
17. WIL

Bilinguals

The next Vocaloids I don't consider a problem are the bilinguals... It takes money to make them, result in less profit and are meant to be something special, able to transend into two markets.

Female;

1. Akikoloid-chan
2. anon
3. Anri Rune
4. Aoki Lapis
5. AVANNA
6. CUL
7. flower
8. galaco
9. IA
10. Kaai Yuki
11. Kagamine Rin
12. kanon
13. kokone
14. Lily
15. LOLA
16. MAYU
17. Merli
18. Mew
19. MIRIAM
20. Nekomura Iroha
21. Prima
22. Ring Suzune
23. SF-A2 miki
24. SONiKA
25. Sweet ANN
26. Tohoku Zunko
27. Tone Rion
28. VY1
29. Yuzuki Yukari
30. Kobayashi Matcha
31. Masaoka Azuki

Male;

1. BIG AL
2. Camui Gackpo
3. Hibiki Lui
4. Hiyama Kiyoteru
5. Kagamine Len
6. LEON
7. OLIVER
8. Ryuto
9. Tonio
10. Ueki-loid
11. Utatane Piko
12. VY2
13. YUU
14. KYO
15. WIL

Retired/private Vocaloids

Private Vocaloids don't contribute hardly anything and retired vocaloids can't be bought anymore, so are not offered in the current selection;

Female;

1. anon
2. Aoki Lapis
3. AVANNA
4. CUL
5. flower
6. galaco
7. IA
8. Kaai Yuki
9. Kagamine Rin
10. kanon
11. kokone
12. Lily
13. MAYU
14. Merli
15. Mew
16. Nekomura Iroha
17. Prima
18. SF-A2 miki
19. SONiKA
20. Sweet ANN
21. Tohoku Zunko
22. Tone Rion
23. VY1
24. Yuzuki Yukari

Male;

1. BIG AL
2. Camui Gackpo
3. Hiyama Kiyoteru
4. Kagamine Len
5. OLIVER
6. Ryuto
7. Tonio
8. Ueki-loid
9. Utatane Piko
10. VY2
11. YUU
12. KYO
13. WIL

We're now at 24 females, 13 males.

Engloids

I'm going to now remove the Engloids, because though there are more females, there isn't that many more females then males and their more balanced. once you remove the V1's there is 4 females (Avanna, Prima, Sweet Ann and Sonika) and 2 males (Big Al, Oliver) left. Though there are many English vocals, the reality is thre aren't that many built as native english vocals, which makes there less then 10 vocaloids built only for english we can currently buy. Now the Engloids become more on par with the Spanish, Korean, Chinese and french Vocaloids, being not enough of them exist to really complain that they are a problem. :-/

female

1. anon
2. Aoki Lapis
3. CUL
4. flower
5. galaco
6. IA
7. Kaai Yuki
8. Kagamine Rin
9. kanon
10. kokone
11. Lily
12. MAYU
13. Merli
14. Mew
15. Nekomura Iroha
16. SF-A2 miki
17. Tohoku Zunko
18. Tone Rion
19. VY1
20. Yuzuki Yukari

Male;

1. Camui Gackpo
2. Hiyama Kiyoteru
3. Kagamine Len
4. Ryuto
5. Ueki-loid
6. Utatane Piko
7. VY2
8. YUU
9. KYO
10. WIL

Multiple bank packs

The next thing is, like Biliniguals are something special as the makers are sacrificing profit for bonus things.

female

1. Aoki Lapis
2. CUL
3. flower
4. IA
5. Kaai Yuki
6. kokone
7. MAYU
8. Merli
9. Mew
10. Nekomura Iroha
11. SF-A2 miki
12. Tohoku Zunko
13. Tone Rion
14. VY1
15. Yuzuki Yukari

Male;

1. Hiyama Kiyoteru
2. Ryuto
3. Utatane Piko

3 males, 15 females.

Extra releases

Finally, the extras that exist outside of Vocaloid, that give Vocaloids interesting twists... Be it speach or apps where they sing or speak (I will not include Lapis as there is no public release of her 'talkloid' version)

female

1. CUL
2. flower
3. IA
4. Kaai Yuki
5. kokone
6. MAYU
7. Mew
8. Nekomura Iroha
9. SF-A2 miki
10. Tone Rion

Male;

1. Hiyama Kiyoteru
2. Utatane Piko

So in total, we have 2 male vocaloids, 10 females.

Conclusion

The problem is not how many females there are, but how many vanilla Japanese vocals we have that are female compares to vanilla males, which is 8 more, you are x5 more likely to have a vanilla Japanese female then male in other words. In short, the thing we have a short supply of isn't males at all, but more specifically the vanilla male packages. But these are the packages that are risky to invest in, make and release so studios are not doing them.  :-

I could go on about this more, but this is for me the root of the problem. Back in the V2 era, vanilla vocals were the standard, this actually made every Vocaloid more equal in value. Aside from a few notable vocals, even some of the lesser popular vocaloids stood out more because there wasn't much of a different between each of them.

If I was to include all Japanese vocaloids in the list, this makes the group still be left in a bad situation because aside from Ia, none of these have really hit the mark... All of them have "fair" amount of popularity at the most.

Even if one wants to argue about all the non-vanilla Vocaloid packages, still, most of them have been fairly more popular then the vanilla groups, with only a few exceptions once again making them a minor example of their group.

If I was to include the Vanilla vocals of other languages, this would still give the impression of the reluctance of investing in Vanilla males. But for some like English vocaloids, this isn't so bad.