Forgotten Friday #101 - 怪奇音リヴィ / Livy Kaikine

Happy 100th Forgotten Friday article, everyone! (oops, I messed up the numbering) I wish I could say this is a special article about a super special UTAU, but naw. Just a normal article like any other one. Not too interesting or anything.

Forgotten Friday #101 - 怪奇音リヴィ / Livy Kaikine

Just a little public service announcement from some stuff that has been happening. At any time, you are fully allowed to just ditch your username, retire your UTAU, and just make a new one with your new name. I was in middle school when I made my UTAU, and like... It was a lot of bad choices. Her outfit was literally a bad version of Miku's outfit. No one is going to ding you for just making a new UTAU, especially as plenty of users make more than one UTAU. 

But, don't try and start up with a new name to avoid getting harassed. When they find out it's you, they will come at you twice as hard because they know that hurting you... actually hurts you. If you can't come back with your old name and fit in, then you would need to put a lot of effort into being someone else. If you're like me and have a distinctive voice, you'll never be able to have an UTAU again. People in this fandom are really good at figuring out who recorded what, and even if they aren't correct, they're not afraid to just decide you're someone you're not. 

You'll need to change your art style, change your style of music, change your tuning style, and change anything that would vaguely link back to you. If you think I'm a Nancy Drew, you'll be surprised how far people are willing to go to hurt people. 

The best option if you want to be in the fandom is to just try to stay under your original name and just hang back for a bit while they forget you. You'll never be able to go to the forums again, and you'll never be able to go into the chat rooms with the bad people (which is basically every chat room) but you will get to a point where you can enjoy the software and do this to everyone who hurt you. If you stick to places where you can block people who hurt you and never see their names (like Twitter), you can weather it out and report people for harassment. 

But the forums and chat rooms? Yeah, getting transplanted into a body of a completely diametrically opposite person wouldn't stop them from mistreating you in those places. So, best to just forget those exist. 

Who is Kaikine Livy?

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Wiki Wednesday #90 - 迷子再生 / Saisei Maigo

2/2. Whoo. I have a hard time saying good enough is good enough until I get really sick of it, and then I can't be done soon enough. But then I see a little glimmer of glimmering and really jump into it again. I thought, after this article, getting my two required and letting myself lose to the dice, I'll take a break. But then, I realized I'd need another to tie the dice, then another to beat the dice... And then, you know, I should at least push these out until 2021! I'm so close, right?!

Wiki Wednesday #90 - 迷子再生 / Saisei Maigo

So, one of the nice things about the old UTAU Wikia was the sections that were almost always off. Like, the name meaning. Often, there were just errors in assumptions when it came to kanji. The UTAU Wiki gets rid of that and doesn't make people explain themselves. Luckily, the voice provider still pulls through here.

Give me a second where I try to remember Japanese naming conventions. I'm a wreck right now. All I wanted to do was sing, but I could barely do it, and it hurt my throat something awful. If this blog was a car, I would have a bumper sticker that would say "My Other Car is Tuning USTs". Okay so, Hatsune Miku is Miku Hatsune if she immigrated to America and had to write her name on a test in an American classroom. So, Maigo is "Lost Child" which is her family name, and Saisei is her given name, which means rebirth. Got it!

Saisei wasn't her original name. It was Sais. I get why it was changed. It was supposed to be a reference to "seis", for six in Spanish. It was always meant to also be a reference to Saisei, so it made logical sense to change it.

Who is Maigo Saisei?

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Forgotten Friday #100 - 岩座サクラ / Iwakura Sakura

I dare you to watch this. It has been stuck in my head for a decade straight. It is catchier than "Tight Pants" and "Baby Shark" put together.

Forgotten Friday #100 - 岩座サクラ / Iwakura Sakura

So, to be completely honest, I really want to be working on USTs at this moment! The issue is just that my YouTube channel is pushed out to 2021 already, and there's a limit to how far you can push out scheduled videos on YouTube. The blog hasn't made it out to 2021, so I know where my focus needs to be. 

But, I was working on YouTube and not my blog because my wrist injury popped up again and I had to wear a brace for a bit. I didn't want to stress it out by typing, but it's mostly better now!

Anyway, this UTAU was I believe... Meant to be an OC in a digital animated series? Or something of that nature? But UTAUs like Softly Deerla (aaa I can't get over the depth and nuance of a story a little tiny baby made up) have legit full backgrounds and worlds they inhabit. Maybe there was supplemental information that was deleted, but I have no idea who Sakura and what world she inhabits from her character file, readme file, and Wikia page. This isn't a ding on Sakura, it's just an excuse to bring up Softly Deerla. 

Anyway!

Who is Sakura Iwakura?

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Wiki Wednesday #89 - 水音アクア / Mizune Aqua

1/2. So, yesterday... Yesterday was just an hour ago and I've already forgotten it. I couldn't even hop on my PC for some reason, so I told the dice, "Hey dice. I'm taking a day off. Is that cool?" And the dice did not speak because it wasn't even a physical object. I was really lucky to roll a 2 on my final day so I can catch up. If I do catch up, then I will win if you believe the dice gave me permission to skip a day. But, I think I deserve it because like, to beat the dice, I will have written like twenty articles. That is many articles.

Wiki Wednesday #89 - 水音アクア / Mizune Aqua

Y'all, y'all won't believe this. The Kun'yomi of water is sui. The Kun'yomi of sound is ne. It's a two kun'yomi package! There ain't no dang on'yomi hanging around. All Kun'yomi.

So, I have covered another UTAU that came from this bowlroll. I have no idea how I found these UTAUs, by the way. This one has been downloaded over two hundred times, but I haven't seen her like... acknowledged? There's a major break in the case. This UTAU is romaji encoded and a tester UST is included. The UST was made using an UTAU named "Angel OTO" and belongs to someone named "Vinicius Ohkawa". "Oh" can be a stylized way of saying "Oo" as in "Ookawa". But the given name is... Not... exactly pronounceable in Japanese. And... Was Aqua's original name Angel Oto? Or was this just something made to help make the OTO for a bank named Angel?

Here's my head canon, because I doubt anyone will challenge it. Vinny is half Japanese and uses the name Hideki in most formal situations. (The kanji name they give on the bowlroll is usually read as Hideki, but for some reason the author is listed as Kiseki. Not sure about that.) He prefers English to Japanese at any chance he gets, which is why the bank is encoded in romaji. He has a little sister who has lived in Japan longer than she has lived anywhere else, and that's how the pronunciation is really spot on.

Or, due to the "u"s being slightly rounded and some "r"s rolled, they are just Latinos living in Latin America.

Now, this usually belongs in the how is the bank section, but people are coughing and talking while the kid is recording.

How did I find this.

Who is Aqua Mizune?

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Forgotten Friday #99 - 日暮れキキ / Higure Kiki

1. If I do five articles every day for ten days, that is fifty articles. If I extend that to twenty days, that is one hundred. If I went all out and attempted for forty days, I would be allowed to download more UTAUs. I love downloading UTAUs, so I'm going to work very hard to get that achievement. The numbers serve the same purpose as the numbers on the Wiki Wednesday articles that should be coming out soon, but it is not a competition against dice this time. Just a number and little more.

Forgotten Friday #99 - 日暮れキキ  / Higure Kiki

Everyone loved Yoyopines! I don't know of a single person who didn't. He was a little reclusive and had to quit UTAU for years while he was enlisted in the military, but all of his work was stellar for the respective era, and he never made anyone feel bad. He was always ahead of the curve; his 2014 work was above average in 2014. He never fell off quality-wise. (Note on the military: both Israel and South Korea have compulsory enlistment unless there is a valid religious or medical issue. Him doing his time in the military isn't a reflection on who he is the way that being in the military could tell you who an American is.)

Higure Kiki is one of his banks, though the voice provider was Kawaiikikio. I actually have no memory of Kiki, so this will be fun!

Who is Kiki Higure?

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Wiki Wednesday #88 - Peskaroo's October

2/4. Without just rushing through and skimping on the word count to just give you "picture and sample", I can't do more today. The reason is dumb, though. Hemorrhoids. I had to take a break from sitting at my computer, and I ended up watching a bit of TV. I've got just an hour to get this done, but I'll still count it for today if it bleeds over to tomorrow.

Wiki Wednesday #88 - Peskaroo's October

Y'all's all know how I feel about UTAUs with basically unsearchable names. It makes finding if an UTAU qualifies or not difficult. It's not really a big deal that I care about, but for like three minutes before I just give up and say it qualifies, it is annoying. 

I forgot what I was going to talk about. Oh right. Doing these articles will be a little annoying if I'm not doing them from 2 AM to 8 AM (at night). We have a fifteen gigabyte data cap. It resets on the 27th and we just ran out on the 14th. It's manageable and I can do almost everything I want, except for the fact that Google Drive will just tell me I'm offline and won't let me do anything. Everything else works, only slowly. It's just Google Drive that likes to be a diva. It works eventually most of the time... but that waiting for it to work is annoying.

Who is October?

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Forgotten Friday #98 - 転歌セカイ / Tenka Sekai

Who is excited for an article on a Japanese UTAU?! It's been a while, huh? I think I might focus more on Japanese UTAUs for a bit after I get my download folder all nice and cleaned out in... two hundred articles. I really want to get banks specifically from the Visual Archive, just because the Wiki dot is just... less easy to see where I have been.

Forgotten Friday #98 - 転歌セカイ  / Tenka Sekai

I was all "whoopah!" I am no longer depressed! (If you didn't know I had bipolar disorder, that sounds really bad and very "thanks I'm cured", but I do have that and the depression always goes away eventually to get replaced by mania.) But then the daily exhaustion hit and I'm like, am I misguided? Does reading my dreams for clues of my present state not work as well as previously believed? And then it's like oh wait, my daily exhaustion happens no matter what without fail when I'm not too depressed to be even more exhausted. 

I ate a brownie and drank a diet soda, so I hope I'll be good to write!

Who is Sekai Tenka?

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Wiki Wednesday #87 - 比音チキト / Korone Chikito

1/4. I think it's a little easy to say that this UTAU's name is not romanized as Chiquito, which is a shame. The name is basically just a gender bend of the other UTAU distributed by this distributor, which is Chiki. Chiquito is Spanish and means li'l baby boy. Chiquita is the feminine version which means li'l baby girl. 

Wiki Wednesday #87 - 比音チキト / Korone Chikito

So, this is one of those UTAUs that doesn't really have much to them. For Overseas UTAUs, the best way to learn about them is by doing sleuthing in the included text files or poking around their website. Unless they're old and their voice provider filled the UTAU fandom page with random details, it's mostly within the bank itself.

However, for Japanese UTAUs, UTAU Visual Archive is a lifesaver. Unless it's a case like the assassins uploaded into computers to take care of partially deleted insomniacs, they tend to have almost all of the available information in one place. Nicopedia is an alternative for really obscure UTAUs, of course, but that tends to be really outdated if the voice provider continued on past 2010.

So, yeah.

Who is Chikito Korone?

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