

Particularly what makes Vocaloid difficult to sell as a product is the notion that the human ear can pick up faults in vocal speech. In his review of Vocaloid 2, he referred to the original software engine in a passing comment stating, 'Undoubtedly a remarkable and innovative product and, with experience and patience, was capable of producing results that could be frighteningly realistic.' While he congratulated the improvements made in Vocaloid 2, he noted the software was still far from being regarded as a top rate singer.

John Walden of Sound on Sound had reviewed Leon, Lola and Miriam and noted that Vocaloid itself had no previous rival technology to contend with, and praised Yamaha for their efforts as Vocaloid was an ambitious project to undertake, considering that the human voice was more complex to synthesize than instruments such as the violin. Vocaloid 2 was generally better received than its predecessor. When producing this vocal, the developers had compare it also with other masculine vocals within the series (excluding Ryuto and Kagamine Len, both of which are voiced by female vocalists), with only the Gackpoid software coming close to VY2. A producer working with the VY2 found when he wrote a song that VY2 was the only male Japanese vocal that could produce a quality of vocal good enough for the song and he labelled the vocal as the best Japanese male.

Effort was made to disassociate VY2 with anything personal, bares a sword on the boxart because they felt items such as clothing would be too personal but chose its codename to help direct producers to the direction the voice was heading for of a handsome young male. VY1 it also was designed to be unbound by having no set avatar allowing it to take any appearance, sex or age. The voice of VY2 is masculine and sings in Japanese. Hatsune Miku, Megurine Luka and ãƒãƒ£ã‚¤ãƒ© Hatsune Miku to get their votes for both games.VY2 was the second addition to the 'VY' series, after VY1 and was designed to compliment the VY1 voice, its codename is 'Yūma'. The pirates claimed to have hacked VOCALOID and VOCALOID2 as a “call” to.
