Forgotten Friday #33 - ユウイト / Yuuito

Hi there. My brain is broken. There is no telling when it will get fixed. This article will be lacking, and I apologize.

Forgotten Friday #33 - ユウイト / Yuuito

This is a doozy, and could result in me spending quite some time tracking down leads to figure out why the only time this UTAU was ever used or mentioned was on Nico, but it's romaji encoded with an English character file. Why is "oto.txt" a character file?

Now, the answer to all of this may surprise you.

Yuuito was uploaded to NicoVideo by someone going by Fuku, who used manly pronouns. (Not male - MANLY. ORE.) So, okay, Yuuito is an UTAU by some dude.

Not so fast! There's a reason that there was no trace of Yuuito on YouTube. He had been on YouTube! How did I learn this? Well, Yuuito's bank is packaged with the most dA box art possible. That isn't an insult to dA or the box art - it's just like how you know a Sonic OC is a Sonic OC by taking one look at them. So, I looked it up and found his voice provider. Do you want proof? Check the description of some of his art. Another nail in the proof coffin? Remember Fuku from before? Now her name is Fyukue on her new dA account. (Her art is really good.)

It all became a circle.

Fyukue has obviously distanced herself from Yuuito. That asks the question - should we write about him? Yes. It's not hard to delete files from Mediafire, guys. If you don't want me sneaking into nursing homes and dragging out your geriatric UTAUs... This metaphor is ending badly.

Who is Yuuito?

Official Icon Packaged with Bank

Yuuito is problematic. Just, straight up. But, if my math is correct, Sophie, his voice provider, was thirteen at the time... in 2009. What thirteen year old girl wasn't obsessed with yaoi in 2009? I mean, the ones who society deems as normal, probably, but all my friends were into yaoi cartoons. (That is bad and problematic, guys. I'll save you the lecture, but like, I hope middle schoolers know that now.)

So, Yuuito is either seventeen or a mystery age. There's no nationality listed, but Sophie is German. And the rest is problematic.

How is the bank?

Let me start by saying the first thing I noticed while auto-generating the OTO in SetParam. Some of the consonants be eaten. Just, not here. Eaten.

I lowered the vocals an octave as I assumed Sophie would have wanted.

My opinion? It's a problematic yaoi voicebank with some eaten consonants. I do not like those things. However, if you like yaoi then... Maybe use this for thematic reasons? I don't know.

Where can I download the bank?

The only "official" download link I know of is on the UTAU's release video. Should you download this after the UTAU is considered deceased by most counts?

If you want to. So, if you want to, give Yuuito a second life.