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?
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| Official Art from UTAU Wikia it was 2010, okay? |
So, let me make a challenge to myself. I will make it to six hundred words without interjections of my life. I mean, I'll try. There's two sentences of biography.
Yutaka is thirteen years of age, with the day of her birth being February 13th, 1996. This age is likely the same age as the voice provider at the time. Due to how time works, either one of those is incorrect. She is not dressed well for her stated age. Yutaka wears arm warmers and thigh high boots, just like Hatsune Miku. However, her arm warmers and boots seem to go up higher than Miku's currently do. This is likely because this was made using a Kei style Miku base. Bases were all the rage on deviantArt in those days, and people genuinely didn't know how to blend their style with the base. Has that changed? Leave your opinion in the comments!
Her hair is black and parted to the side. The colors intended for her clothes are not written out. I want to call her scarf and skirt periwinkle. Her tube top shirt, arm bands, and the waistband of her skirt are all a deeper blue. Again, I'm at a loss for the correct term. I believe that in a programming sense, it is simply blue. The soles of her shoes, however, are Kei style Miku blue. That may have been an oversight on the part of the artist using the base, which would explain why the boots are so well drawn compared to the other clothes.
Mermaidmelodic, the assumed artist, was like thirteen when she did this. I think, given that, she made nice art using a base. Since bases were meant to be used, and would not have been uploaded if they were not meant to be used, that's not a point against her favor.
Yutaka has a biography that reflects many UTAUs made by a younger person. She is hyper, but shy around strangers. Because she is a "tsundere", she goes into hiding and doesn't sing. There's a cute aside which, by sentence count, is 50% of her biography. It sure stinks for people to use her when she runs away!
Oh, and her eyes are purple and her nationality is Japanese.
How is Kashikoine Yutaka's voicebank?
I didn't go on a wild goose chase. I just looked at her Wikia page, downloaded the bank, and said that was that. If that wasn't meant to be all that, she would have even one single video on YouTube. There isn't a single video that comes up when you type in her romaji name.
As I said earlier, no OTOs. Thankfully, my Hakobako tester UST has long notes, meaning less OTOs for me to do from scratch. If her voice provider was still around, I'd probably make a full OTO and give it to her. But, she isn't.
Oh yeah, and no hiragana aliases. great.
Do not download this UTAU unless you are ready to basically pull a Rev on it. This is the kind of stuff you'll find:
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| maybe someone blew on the microphone while she was recording? |
You need to make the OTO from scratch, edit samples to replace ones that literally won't work no matter what you do to them...
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| it looks like art |
I had to make an insane amount of substitutions, and replace the "o" all together. It was a mess. This is a bank you only want to use if you want to impress someone with how good you are at restoring banks. It doesn't matter how cute the voice is if half the samples are just unusable. Yeah, if you spend a bit of time in REAPER crossfading the working consonants and vowels, this would be a perfectly adorable bank. But the fandom has made it clear that they will burn anyone redistributing fixed banks at the stake.
Where can I download Kashikoine Yutaka?
Do you want to download her? I mean, it's on her fandom page. If anyone wants to remaster her and rerelease her, there's literally nothing in her information prohibiting you to do it. And if Mermaidmelodic comes back and is mad, just tell her that I said it was okay. She can kick my butt and y'all can have fun because I'm pretty sure she's never coming back, and even if she did, she wouldn't care. If you're Melody and you tell me I'm wrong, then okay. I'll tell people not to do it.
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