>>3971670Serves me right for trusting English wikipedia. They mixed up the original VA going by two different names as her being two different people. I've seen them do stuff like that before but I never learn. And they missed the third VA entirely.
The only video I could find of the original VA signing by herself was from 1975 and it didn't sound like she had the voice down yet. But videos with her talking do sound closer to Gachapoid. Mukku's VA sounds basically identical to Matsupoid sans the UTAU robotyness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LyH9MrURdg
>A lower voice also sounds good with himHe's surprisingly versatile. I get why voicebanks like Len and Miku are a lot more popular since they almost always sound at least decent even with wildly different tunings. But I've heard Gachapoid sound good more often than Kaito and yet he's still almost universally seen as a joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Q_im5VFTg