Forgotten Friday #40 - 和歌ザト / Waka Zato

So, you shouldn't really reprimand children who do stuff like this. It's better to be catfishing with UTAUs than getting into trouble and throwing cherry bombs down toilets. I mean, is it ideal? No. But is it better than some of the alternatives? Yes.

Forgotten Friday #40 - 和歌ザト / Waka Zato

LegendMaker was at it again. I was in such a rush to download everything back when I was first making my spreadsheet that I didn't notice the design. But while I was pulling up the Nicopedia article to get started on this article, I saw the design. And I knew, dang it. Another LegendMaker UTAU. I'm am so confused until I remember that this bank was recorded in March of 2009. The OTO was literally stolen from another bank. (Note: that doesn't work for CV banks, and that's why we don't do that anymore.)

Basically, I won't get into why this entire bank is just kind of screwy from a whole backstory angle. That gets too personal, so let's just move on. 

Who is Waka Zato? 

Official Art Packaged with Bank

Wiki Wednesday #29 - Mal-Cat's Mirage Seeley

This week is the beginning of trying something new. I'm not getting paid for the investigations, and I don't expect anyone to offer to pay me for them. For that reason, it's probably a good idea to just give up that idea entirely and fold the UTAUs that qualified for investigations into Forgotten Friday and Wiki Wednesday, as I am doing here.

Wiki Wednesday #29 - Mal-Cat's Mirage Seeley

For those who hate hearing addiction used in a context other than clinical addiction, I have a compulsion to download UTAUs. I only have 138 GB of space left on my hard drive, and the majority of the things taking up space are actually UTAUs. Over the course of two days, I literally downloaded ten gigabytes of UTAUs. This is a problem.

So, I'm going to be cranking these articles out at a fast pace to clean up my hard drive.

Another thing I'm going to do is fold in everything I was holding onto for Investigations into my regular articles. However, I totally see how it would be extremely annoying for someone who doesn't care about a series to be stuck reading about it for an entire month. I thought of that and thought of a solution - scheduling. I won't just do an entire series for two months straight - that would be boring. Instead, I'll schedule them out with other UTAUs between them.

I hope that is a likable compromise to everyone.

Now, I will start this by saying I have no relation to Mal-Cat. I haven't even listened to their UTAUs yet. Why would I choose their UTAUs as my first series since axing Investigations? Well, because seeing Cream Soda and all their other UTAUs, I just broke and said, "I have no reason to save things for money that will never come in." And I downloaded them all! It really helps, though, that all of the links are nice and tidy with only one bank per UTAU for the most part. Mal-cat made this easy on me without ever knowing I existed. So, thanks Mal-cat!

Who is Mirage Seeley?

Official art by Mal-cat taken from Soundcloud release track

Forgotten Friday #39 - 湾音ゐちこ / Wawon Wichiko

So, 湾 means "gulf" or "bay". That's cool and all, but why did her creator spring for adding a "w" to the official pronunciation to turn Waon into Wawon? I'm getting this directly from the Nico Nico Pedia. Anyway, who knows. 

Forgotten Friday #39 - 湾音ゐちこ / Wawon Wichiko

Good news and bad news. Bad news? Only one of Wichiko's banks is available for download. Her creator, who I can only find identified as 湾/WAN, has posted three of them to the "stickied" post on their blog. (They set the date to 2019 so that it would always be the first post. That messes with my head - 2019 being the distant future, after which you will never post on your blog again.) Two of them are 404'd.

The good news only applies to me. I only have to test one bank!

Regardless of that, I feel like I stanned Wichiko at some point, but part of me isn't sure if that was a different UTAU entirely. I never used her on my YouTube channel, but I have a feeling I didn't use a lot of the UTAUs I stanned on my YouTube channel. The only video I have that shows up when I search "Momo" (as in Momone Momo) is this. (Warning, it's not worth watching.) The name feels familiar, but the design throws me off a bit. Regardless, let's go.

Who is Wichiko Wawon?

Official Art Packaged with Bank

Wiki Wednesday #28 - 闇海風憂灯のリュウガ / Ryuuga

I took a while to decide what the voice provider's name should be in the title. I can't just use the name Ryuuga, though, because there probably several UTAUs with a similar name. I think I did okay.

Wiki Wednesday #28 - 闇海風憂灯のリュウガ / Ryuuga

After breaking my own rules last week, I figured I'd just break the spirit of them this week. While Ryuuga meets all of my criteria, she's still a Japanese bank. I'm not repping the overseas fandom that well, but this design spoke to me. I'll call her voice provider Itsuhoshi_P, as they are named on the UTAU Wiki. But, you know, I wanted the title to look all fancy pants.

Anyway, on to the article!

Who is Ryuuga?

Official Art Packaged with Bank

Forgotten Friday #38 - Bekkie Faito

While "faito" is used in Japanese to mean "fight!" or even "fighting spirit", as her voice provider intended, it makes it impossible to give Bekkie a Japanese family name with kanji. However, you can have a field day if you change it to "Haito" or "Haitou". 輩登 could possibly mean "Climb, comrades!" It's completely normal to just have the given name in katakana, but there actually is a word pronounced as "bekki." "別記". It means postscript. "冪", which is just Beki (the little tsu is removed) means exponent. None of this matters.

Forgotten Friday #38 - Bekkie Faito

As of February of 2015, Rebecca "Chiby" quit UTAU officially. She left all of the songs up and left up Bekkie's Act 2 bank. She obviously wanted to allow people to continue using Bekkie, even if she herself quit. 

If you're interested in seeing the works Chiby posted of Bekkie, check out her UTAU YouTube channel. 

Who is Bekkie Faito?

Official Box Art from UTAU Wikia

Wiki Wednesday #27 - 叶千麟 / Ye Qianlin

This is random, because I kind of set out not to do this. This UTAU is Chinese and her entire website is Chinese. This feature was meant to show off the English speaking fandom primarily, but sometimes you just feel "lol so random penguin!!"

Wiki Wednesday #27 - 叶千麟 / Ye Qianlin

In researching for a future article (風南メル, if you're wondering), I sauntered over to the "links" section of his site. In what kind of world do I not click random buttons? Basically, I just felt like doing something, so I did!

Ye Qianlin was created by Jellymog. Jellymog is an amazing artist and can communicate in Chinese and Japanese. Anyway, on to the article!

Who is Ye Qianlin?

Official Art Packaged With Bank

Forgotten Friday #37 - Hairaku Ihiku / 敗楽イヒク

Regardless of how I feel about Legendmaker in the current era, Legendmaker was a literal child in 2009 and 2010. A child displaying these behaviors is normal and can be encouraged as it is a very positive hobby to draw and play with technology. I may be snarky about it, but I don't view it as some crime for a kid to be a kid.

Forgotten Friday #37 - Hairaku Ihiku / 敗楽イヒク

So, I've mentioned how Legendmaker's UTAUs represent a certain era and are a part of UTAU's history. Nothing shows that better than the fact that this UTAU was the first UTAU of 2010 (as according to Ruto).

This UTAU is a bit of a trip, though. No NicoVideo release, no YouTube video, and a ReadMe that is in one hundred percent English. He's saying he wants to quit because no one uses his UTAUs. Which, to be fair, like... You know... He was a kid, so even a decade later I want to be tactful. If there was another kid in this scenario, I would tell them to focus on one UTAU and to commission a design and some great art for that one UTAU. Because, like, well... 

Who is Ihiku Hairaku?

Official Art Packaged with Bank

Wiki Wednesday #26 - softly deerla

Being an adult means that everyone under seventeen is a tiny little baby. According to some basic math, Deerla's voice provider was only eleven when she made Deerla. That just warms my heart.

Wiki Wednesday #26 - softly deerla

I will not say a single mean thing about this UTAU. Though her voice provider is now sixteen years old (according to her profile on the utaforum), Khristian W. was too young to even be allowed on the internet when she made Deerla! When you make an UTAU, that little piece of you is frozen in time. So, I don't see these banks as something a sixteen year old made years ago - I see them frozen in time as tiny little babies.

Who is softly deerla?

Official Art Packaged with Bank