Forgotten Friday #104 - 維音アオ / Yuine Ao

 So! I will be processing these really out of order, but for a good reason. I wrote them all in order of the visual archive, barring ones that I was having computer issues to download. I can't spam families, so I'll be breaking up all of the families, but there are a lot.

Forgotten Friday #103 - 維音アオ / Yuine Ao

So, there's always been a desync issue between Wiki Wednesday and Forgotten Friday. I just enjoy Wiki Wednesday more, so I write more for it.

Well, uh, it got rediculous and it was about to get worse if it weren't for the rubber part of my right earbud just flying into the nether.

I was doing poorly and I set a goal. I was going to finish all the Wiki Wednesday articles I had the banks for. I started writing the bulk of the articles on my phone. I wrote fifty-thousand words on my phone and pushed the articles out to August 2021. While it was August 2020. I was faltering processing the samples, but pushing forward. I had a goal!

Well, uh… a small problem causing a small meltdown (mania problems) led me to redirect and find out… there were about one hundred and fifty Wiki Wednesday articles I would need to do to reach my goal. If you round fifty-two weeks in a year down to fifty, I would have Wiki Wednesday hanging out in 2024 while I'm still living in 2020. 

So, my brain quieted by playing plenty of modded Stardew Valley, I figured out the best plan of action. 

Forgotten Friday using my original method is tedious. There's one link on Ruto.yu, and there's no telling if it's even the correct one. The project was abandoned in 2013, and is completely controlled by…. I call the person Ruto.yu in my head. I should know who ran it by now. 

I originally wanted to switch to the Visual Archive for Wiki Wednesday just because it felt more polished than the Wiki, but I found out that out of three-thousand entries, two-thousand chronologically belonged in the Forgotten Friday category. I didn't want to "double dip", so I pulled all of Ruto.yu into a text file along with all of the titles of articles on my blog. I put the kanji names of all the Wiki Wednesday UTAUs left in that text file, and started searching through the Visual Archive.

This means two main things. 

The first is that we're taking a break from nostalgic UTAUs from 2010. Everything from this batch of articles is from 2013 at the earliest. We'll jump back to 2010 eventually, so don't worry!

The second is that these articles are going to be insanely Japanese centric for a while. Ironically, though, that was kind of the plan. I didn't realize how many overseas UTAUs were created prior to 2013. I thought it would mostly be Japanese UTAUs in Forgotten Friday somehow. And, it it weren't for cool chaps like The Elemental Griffin porting Visual Archive articles to the Wiki, Wiki Wednesday would have been mostly overseas. 

So yeah, just a heads up on why Forgotten Friday is suddenly different!

Who is Ao Yuine?

Official Art from Bank

I literally can't find any English language results about black McKie markers. They're called "Makki", with the McKie just being decoration (I was confused until I remember "Mc" is short for "Mac". I pronounce "Mc" with a schwa, and my schwas tend to be the "ih" in "pit" instead of the "uh" in "but".) Those markers are one of his character items. The other is a toolbox.

I don't know if he's magical, but he is able to fix almost anything that has a set, consistent shape. However, he cannot repair living things as they are not one shape. Also, he can't physically fix data. 

He is self loathing, and only fixing things makes him forget that for a moment. He hates people to the point that he wanders around nearly blind so that doesn't have to see people. He keeps glasses in his pocket, but he doesn't want to see human faces.

It took way to long to realize that "あがり症" means stage fright. It means more or less "rise up illness" literally and Google translate kept calling it "Agarosis". Which, as we all know, is when your agar agar goes bad.

He looks to be eighteen, and his color scheme unsettles me in that way that only someone with autism will get. His pants are pea soup, but his hair is lime. There are red and orange accents that are not harmonious at all, and the teal and the blue on his jacket clash. That is three different greens!! That is too many greens!!!

How is Ao Yuine's bank?

He only has one bank, which is a single pitch CV bank. The OTOs aren't the best, but I'm not taking the time to fix them. 

It's a really nice soft and sweet voice, but the voice doesn't match the design very much at all.

Where can I download Yuine Ao?

You can download him from his distribution page. It's a nice UTAU, but the voice and design don't match a lot, so people might have a problem with that.