Forgotten Friday #97 - 菊龍 / Kiku Ryu

The name is supposedly meant to be Kiku N. Ryu, but that only shows up on the Wikia page and the voicebank. The most recent covers with her by her voice provider excluded the "N". The "N" is absent in the Kanji rendering, so I do believe it's safe to remove it from the title.

Forgotten Friday #97 - 菊龍 / Kiku Ryu

Kiku's voice provider is still active outside of the vocal synth scene! Her art is really nice!

Who is Kiku Ryu?

Official Art from Bank

Wiki Wednesday #86 - 怠惰音プチン / Taidane Puchin

4/2. Does this UTAU technically exist? I actually have no idea. There is no visual archive entry. There is no website that I can find. Other than the archive itself on bowlroll... Nothing. Of course, you might be wondering how I found it. By snooping in someone's bowlroll, of course. If you don't want random Americans snooping in your BowlRoll and downloading your UTAU's, put a password on them!

Wiki Wednesday #86 - 怠惰音プチン / Taidane Puchin

I have no idea if the last name is right. I have no idea how the name is meant to be romanized. It could be Putin, for all I know. But, ya know, that would be weird to talk about a girl named Putin.

Anyway, this whole bank is a really weird trip that makes no sense. So, the bank is romaji encoded. This does rarely pop up in Japanese banks, but usually for a reason like a Japanese user recruiting an overseas user to record for them. The voice provider, Yukarin, does say she is bilingual... but the only language she speaks on Twitter is Japanese. The accent is oddly hit or miss with sounding Japanese vs American, which is really weird. This is all really weird.

Who is Puchin Taidane?

Official Art from Bowlroll

Forgotten Friday #96 - ブルタ・ヴラム / Bruta Vlam

I was curious about some stats. Forgotten Friday officially started on December 28th, 2018. This article is getting posted in October of 2020. I have downloaded around 300 banks for Forgotten Friday and around 300 for Wiki Wednesday. At the time of writing, including those scheduled out already but not published, I have written approximately one hundred articles for each. I was legitimately worried that I would run out of UTAUs to cover, especially for Forgotten Friday, but naw. Getting to one hundred articles, with how there are 52 weeks in a year, rather fittingly, took about two years. Two years more of Forgotten Friday and two more years of Wiki Wednesday... Just with what is already on my computer.

Forgotten Friday #96 - ブルタ・ヴラム / Bruta Vlam

Bruta Vlam is discontinued in the way that only old UTAUs can be. Every single account the voice provider had related to that name has been torched. There are no surviving YouTube videos. There is no full body image of her. She simply does not exist outside of the one link on her Wikia page. I am glad that link exists, and has not been removed due to inactivity.

I do support people asking admins to delete their pages when the hearts of the voice providers are ripped in twain by the fandom's evil nature. However, old banks are part of the history of UTAU, and deleting their existence just for the sake of bookkeeping feels icky, especially when the links to the banks still work.

Who is Bruta Vlam?

Official Icon Packaged with bank

Wiki Wednesday #85 - 吸血霊 / Kyuuketsu Rei

3/2. I do not like uars. They're fancy ZIP files that will instantly install into UTAU. I don't believe in keeping voicebanks in program files because it will eat the OTO files. On top of that, I have to whip out 7zip. I know most people prefer 7zip to WinRar, but I really, really don't. It may just be my own biases, but I feel like the bank would have unpacked faster with WinRar.

Wiki Wednesday #85 - 吸血霊 / Kyuuketsu Rei

I have no idea why, but today the headers are wonky. I'll set something to be a header, and then when I set the next paragraph to be normal, the words are large as if they were part of the header. But... They aren't. It's strange. 

For the first time in a bit, I'm actually covering an overseas UTAU! The whole home page situation was strange, so I actually wasn't fully sure of what was what until I found the contact page, which led to the voice provider's Twitter. They're not American, I don't think. But, it's not a Japanese UTAU made by someone who will never, ever see this. If you just tuned in, get ready for tonal whip lash. If you've ignored the last few articles where I'm focusing on Japanese UTAUs, then you'll never notice any difference.

Who is Rei Kyuuketsu?

Official Art Packaged with Bank

Forgotten Friday #95 - 紫マイ / Mai Murasaki

So, as everyone has probably heard a thousand times by now... I have a mental illness. The current manifestation is that my brain is porridge. My energy levels would concern a sloth, and my words don't come out right. I'm a little buzzed from being up for twelve whole hours (which is an accomplishment), so I think I can get through one or two articles before becoming Adam Frankenstein.

Forgotten Friday #95 - 紫マイ /  Mai Murasaki

So, the name as written almost everywhere is Mai. I changed it to Mai in the heading because that is what the banks are named. However, Mai was intended to be May by the creator of the bank at one point. May in Bulgarian is "Май" which is romanized as "mai" (with diacritics, of course).

So, while my name is めい because in America, that is how May is pronounced, Mai is まい because that is how May is pronounced in Bulgaria, which is where VampireNekoSan is from. (Apparently Mai's actual name is Maria Georgieva.)

Who is Murasaki Mai?

still from video by the voice provider

Wiki Wednesday #84 - 冬野さい / Fuyuya Sai

2/2! Whoo! I thought this was the second to last Vegedol that qualified, but when I last checked, Kako didn't have a bank uploaded... And I found out that her bank was a 404. I sent a message to the contact form saying that much, but I was too lazy to write it properly, so I just said "Kako's bank is 404" in Japanese. Will they know what that means? Will they even read the message? Who even knows!

Wiki Wednesday #84 - 冬野さい / Fuyuya Sai

I had to look up what hakusai is. It's napa cabbage! So, this UTAU's personality is cabbage. I am literally going to make everything up, because like... The personality is cabbage. What personality does cabbage have? None.

Who is Sai Fuyuya?

Official Art from Website

Forgotten Friday #94 - 賢い音ユタカ / Yutaka Kashikoine

This bank has one of the most interesting mistakes I've seen in a while. A zip archive of the bank itself, is inside the bank itself. I believe there's absolutely no difference between what's outside the zip and inside the zip... But imagine a modern bank doing that! "Oh, my UTAU is one gigabyte! Oh... Why? I put the zip file of the entire ten pitch VCV inside the folders with the ten pitch VCV!"

Forgotten Friday #93 - 賢い音ユタカ /  Yutaka Kashikoine

So, there is no readme file. No character file, and yep! No OTO file. I can't get the search feature of deviantArt to work anymore (thanks Eclipse!), so the only art I have is from the Wikia. There is a really nice pixel art icon for her... but guess what! I have no idea how to save the icons easily! I can take a screenshot, but I just had to open the original file of the character art and drag it into my folder. That's all I had to do, and it's the official character art, so! I'm just like, okay.

Who is Kashikoine Yutaka?

Official Art from UTAU Wikia
it was 2010, okay?

Wiki Wednesday #83 - 印音ヒルダ / Shirushine Hilda

1/2. Okay, Kenan Thompson has basically perfect comedic timing, but you never see it because the audience at SNL laughs at everything for longer than they need to, which messes up the timing. I never liked "What's Up with That" or his David Ortiz Weekend Update things. But, when they were done for the At Home edition, they were both so hilarious. Watching him on the show where he just has to sit around and wait to get to the next line, it drags and gets boring. But oh goodness... When he dictates the timing, he is so hilarious. 

Wiki Wednesday #83 - 印音ヒルダ / Shirushine Hilda

Okay so, I was in contact with Hilda's voice provider, because I called her a sweetie when I wrote an original song for her other UTAU. I have no idea how much contact I had, though. It was a long way back, and I can't even remember... Well, I can't even remember a lot of stuff. Stuff sticks out, but mostly stuff I regret. I guess that's good that I don't remember regretting my actions during interactions with Hinano? But, that being said, I did have contact with her at one point, and I didn't completely fabricate a possible friendship.

Who is Hilda Shirushine?

Official Icon Packaged with Bank

Forgotten Friday #93 - MonochromeSong's Eli

I just had to take some allergy medicine because I started feeling sneeze-y. I don't like feeling that way at all! But as awake as I had gotten, I may get really tired because of the medication. I was going straight up the list for Forgotten Friday downloaded banks, but sadly since this UTAU and the other UTAU from this voice provider were like, released at the same time, I will need to skip the next one in the list and come back to it in a bit. There's almost no information on this UTAU, so this article will have padding, of course.

Forgotten Friday #93 - MonochromeSong's Eli

The UTAU comes with very little supplemental information, and I had to poke around the Wikia to find the image. I would have sworn it was an incorrect image, because the filename had no reference to Eli if my vision is not too horrible. But, well, it was found eventually. And I apologize if my writing voice sounds very disjointed and not very me, but I really feel as though I need to do this, even if my state of mind is not the best.

Who is MonochromeSong's Eli?

Official Art from UTAU Wikia