QUROE's UTAUs - An Investigation

Who is Tsukimori Sasuke? How can I download Lamia Serpent? Who made 月森左佐?

QUROE's UTAUs - An Investigation

Let me start by saying that there was an UTAU library on my desktop that I didn't recognize. His name was 月森左佐. I had to look him up on the Japanese wikis to figure out the romanization, Tsukimori Sasuke. I remembered downloading it from a OneDrive, but I had no idea where it came from. The author was credited as "???". (Note, usually linking directly to a OneDrive is bad form, but this is the link that the author gives. There is no website.)

So it was up to me to just try and figure out what the heck was going on. Sasuke isn't a bad voicebank overall, but was a bit baffling for a bank from 2014. One pitch CV with vocal fry that fries most resamplers.

But where did he come from? The OneDrive was empty apart from that bank and two USTs. Well, I used the Imperial Parade UST's readme to track down the release video. And that's when my eyes got wide. 

Kurou . . . QUROE?! For those not up to date on my crazy UTAU adventures, QUROE was someone who I made a deal with. You record, I OTO your bank. For me, it was one of the best deals I ever made.
QUROE has taken down Lamia's VCV, but I still have a copy on my 4shared.

How I Found Sasuke

In researching for my Forgotten Friday articles, I go through a list of every UTAU released by release order and see if 1) the links work and 2) if the bank is forgotten by Westerners. I came across 瞬音フウ and saw the bank was no longer distributed. For a lark, I went to the NicoNicoPedia page anyway. To my surprise, a OneDrive was linked. And that's where I found Sasuke.

If I had studied my kanji harder, I would have recognized 神榊憑神. That was QUROE's old username for everything, including her YouTube. In addition to that, it's also what she set her name to on her old blog. I navigated to the blog by Googling Matatane Fuu. There wasn't much useful stuff there as QUROE's main push of UTAU content happened after 2010, when her blog became defunct. 

How many UTAUs are there?

According to the main page I use, 神榊憑神 released four UTAUs in 2009. Those UTAUs are not linked to her current UTAUs in any way except for Heta. 嘘歌ヘタ has both his Act 3 and Act 4 up for download.

Someone has taken down most of Heta's videos. When sorting by oldest, this video is the first.

 However, that video lists Heta's voice provider as someone other than QUROE. The next video with Heta at top billing is from 2011, when Heta's Act 3 was released.


The author of Heta's Act 3 is listed as QUROE. Especially in the omake (extra) files, Heta sounds a lot like Lamia. So I believe it's the same person for the later acts. I just don't know if Heta was transferred or if Mr. Loop got his wires crossed.

Heta was the first. According to the UTAU visual archive there are 12 more.

Released in November of 2010, 戦場軍人（Senba Gunji） has more CV banks than I think anyone really knows what to do with until Ameya releases his update that makes using multiple folders easier. Scroll down to "音源配布所" to pick out the banks you want to try. He sounds pretty good!



Released in May of 2011, 戦場軍師 (Senba Gunshi)'s release video has been removed. However, the description of the video stayed up along with the link to download him.

Official art from the UTAU Visual Archive

Released in July of 2011,  戦場チェーンソー is weird, ok.

Official Art from UTAU Visual Archive 

Why does a saw need two acts?? Download them here if you want to.

Also released in July of 2011 was the first female UTAU of Quroe's that is still online as far as I know. 戦場軍歌 or Senba Gunka was released with a VCV, but the link is dead. Only her CV banks remain. They can be downloaded on her NicoNicoPedia page. I absolutely love her design, and there's an MMD model for it.

Released in October of 2011, 也音トモ or Narine Tomo is another case of the video being pulled but the download link remaining up. Apparently, the voice provider for this bank was not QUROE and instead T也. I don't know who that is, but the readme gave QUROE's Twitter ID as QUROX. You can search it if you want to be really confused for a second before realizing changing your Twitter ID is pretty easy.

The voicebank itself is pretty good. It's a nice voice, but it's one pitch CV.

The main draw is definitely the design.

Official art packaged with bank
By QUROE

Also released in October of 2011 is 赤穂 or Akou. It was an instrument UTAU (accordion) and the link is dead.

Released in November of 2011 is Mikami. All of his download links are on his UTAU Visual Archive page. This was the last bank QUROE posted on her original YouTube channel.

His voice is very, very deep.

In May of 2012 there was a creepy headless UTAU and it creeped me out so I'm not writing about it. Here's the link. There's no gore or anything, it just creeps me out.

Released in August of 2012, 比良歌雅近 (Hiraga Masachika) is a grandpa.

Literally, his voice provider is QUROE's grandfather. It's a really nice bank for a "My family member doesn't really know what's going on but HERE WE GO!" bank. The download link is in the nicovideo I just plopped up there.

Downloading this bank brought to light a username that QUROE used at the time this bank was uploaded. "QUROWD L". Googling it pulled up this blog. However, luckily for me QUROE only configured those banks.

Another strange quirk is that she keeps making new email addresses and just adding a number to the end. She's up to three at this point.

oh and by the way, the voice provider has passed away. If that creeps you out, avoid this bank.

Released in November of 2013, there's a bank with a hate symbol in their name. The video is down, but the download link is still up. The bank I'm not talking about had a counterpart named 日ノ本譲  (Hinomoto Yuzuru). In the ReadMe, the author is listed as "黒野エージ" despite the video being uploaded by QUROE. Due to the upload site being a jerk, I can't download the one with a safe for work name. Moving on!

Released in September of 2015 is 穿刃グンジ or Senba Gunji . . . which is the same romanization as an earlier bank. He has a different voice provider and QUROE links to a bit of backstory on the video he was released on.

Official art from UTAU Visual Archive

As of this point, the site he was uploaded to is giving me trouble and I cannot download him to test him out or poke his readme file. However, he is over 60MB thanks to strong and soft versions of his samples. No samples of him singing exist at the time of writing as far as I know.

I wouldn't be shocked if there were more.

These UTAUs weren't all made by QUROE, but they were uploaded and distributed by her. When I approached her to make her VCV bank, I had no idea how much UTAU content she had made, nor how much she would go on to make. I honestly thought she left the fandom after making Mikami. I was wrong. I would love to find her and catch up with her, but I have no idea how to track her down. With the bulk of male UTAUs she has created, I'm not sure if she's the right word to use. Maybe he transitioned?

Either way, I was shocked at how many UTAUs there were connected to QUROE when I only thought there was one.

I usually try to think of a nice and hopeful way to sign off, but I'm just shocked.

- Mae