Kurane Zanda - The Last Living USloid - Recovered!

Who is Kurane Zanda? Where is his voicebank? How can I download 暗音ザンダ?

Kurane Zanda - The Goth USLoid - Recovered!

In writing my Forgotten Friday series, I have realized that almost every USloid died when MegaUpload was seized by the government. If you're too young to remember that, boy howdy, was it a trip. MegaUpload was extremely popular to upload to. It actually paid people to pirate stuff. However, no UTAU users were getting paid. It was just the easiest place to store things with the most storage. My internet was garbage, so I loved their upload manager program. If my internet cut out, it was no big deal. The uploader resumed it like it was nothing. Then the government seized it and everything on it was lost.

I don't think I ever had Kori, Hina, or anyone after that. The only USloid I personally kept on my computer that I could upload is Tomero Chii's beta triphones and original CV bank. (yep, that's how long ago it was. They were triphones.) Zanda was the first overseas UTAU I remember using. He came after Chii but people treated Zanda more favorably as if he was the first.

Who is Zanda?

Kurane Zanda was created by a guy named Zander. His design was extremely cool, even if the art didn't do it justice all of the time. To see how cool his design could be, a simple Pixiv search will yield some pretty awesome results.

Official Artwork Packaged with Bank

It feels insane that both Zander and I are in our twenties, but Zanda's official age is still 15 years old. Granted, Zanda "died" when MegaUpload was seized and was never updated again. So maybe there is some validity to that official age.

Zanda's voice is a bit unique.

He seemingly suffered the same issues with recording as Kenta Chikune, only to a smaller degree. However, new breakthroughs in UTAU technology help smooth over some of those issues.


While he has all required files, he doesn't have the newer additions to UTAU banks like ヴぃ and すぃ.

How can I download Zanda?!

Zanda was 100% dead with all download links removed. He was never reuploaded to a modern sharing site until I asked him for it. He searched his old hard drives and found the bank! You can download it here.

200824 update - I actually never explicitly asked if I could share the link itself. The bank was taken down, but I still had it. I asked permission to reupload it and share, and I got permission! Here's the link to download him!

Hopefully, someone sees Zanda and falls in love. For the first time in nearly a decade, everyone can play with this bank!