Forgotten Friday #127 - 薪宮蒔人 / Makimiya Makito

 It is now Halloween as I write this little introduction. The last time I worked on my blog as far as processing was September 23. I've written a bit since then, but no big push like before. That lead to me having way less Forgotten Friday articles than I had thought I had. I'll try and do all the Forgotten Friday I have, and then try to do all the Wiki Wednesday. I'm a mess at the moment, haha.

Forgotten Friday #127 - 薪宮蒔人 / Makimiya Makito

Well, I just wrote an article where I was deeply offended by an UTAU's biography. It may have been posted last week, or it may have been posted the week before. I have to put the split up members of families somewhere, of course.

This UTAU has basically no biography. Nothing to get annoyed by, but you know, also nothing to write about.

I would know if I had long term memory that functioned, but I have no idea why out of the four UTAUs on that download page, Makito was by himself in the spreadsheet. The obvious answer is that the others were pre-2013 or were created after his page was created. Or, one of them was popular. Maybe I'll learn some day.

Who is Makito Makimiya?

Official Art from Bank

Makito is a fifteen year old boy. He has KAITO blue hair and eyes, and is dressed like a train conductor. While he wears blue jeans, his outfit otherwise has a grey and orange color scheme. He wears work boots and gloves, both mostly grey with orange details. He has an orange scarf and an orange sweatshirt tied around his waist. His vest has orange buttons and he has protective ear-ware. And glasses. He has those too.

The only biographical detail he has beyond physical details is that he likes Shows Era ballads. When was the Showa Era? It started in 1926 and ended in 1989. Huh. I understand why the era was that long - it's literally how long Hirohito was in charge. But that means that "Take On Me" was technically a Showa era song.

When you Google the text in his biography, you are directed to Kayōkyoku, which begat J-Pop. Sakamoto Kyuu and the duo Pink Lady are both that genre, because it's a really broad genre that can be summed up with "not enka and not J-Pop".

I did look up "Kiss in the Dark" by Pink Lady, and it sounded really American. Or, at least as American as "Take On Me", which is actually from a Norwegian group. Sakamoto Kyuu also had songs that I actually had to double take when I heard them. His song "Good Timing" is a cover of "Good Timin'" by Jimmy Jones. The cover is almost identical to the original outside of one being in Japanese. That actually shocked me, because the cover fit in perfectly with the rest of the album and didn't feel out of place at all.

Now, all that said, I think that was just Google being overzealous. When I plugged 昭和歌謡 into YouTube, it pulled up a compilation of songs that were decidedly extremely Japanese and could not be confused for American music in the slightest. 

Man, I was going to keep on being informative about old Japanese music, but I just realized my phone case broke. It's clear rubbery plastic, and I got it in March of 2019. It's already yellowed to heck and back, but the thing cost like fifty dollars or something. My mom's phone case was a cheap thing that was probably under twenty dollars, and it has lasted twice as long. That's not dope at all!

I don't think I need to replace it any time soon. My screen already has burnt in parts and there was a ton of dust the case let in before it was broken. I don't want to switch phones because I just got Smapi for Stardew Valley installed and configured, but the point of getting a $200 phone was to replace it after a year or two.

Oh well. Y'all know how it is with life in general. I'm just happy I figured it out after I had sat outside photosynthesizing good feelings and not sitting in the dark, stuck on the inequities of capitalism.

editor's note: the case was broken, but the reason it was broken was because the back of the case was basically separating from the back of the phone. I got a new phone, as I might have said in other articles.

How is Makimiya Makito's bank?

Makito has a one pitch VCV bank. It's a nice bank, but the voice doesn't match the design very well. 

You... have... got to be kidding me, though. I was hitting my head against the wall trying to figure out why wave file completion wasn't finished, and nothing I did worked... until I gave up and switched resamplers.

Where can I download Makito Makimiya?

You can download him from his official website. It's bad to say, but I really hope his bank just glitches out UTAU to the extreme, and that was why I was struggling so much... Because I can't remember this happening within the last decade, the wav files REFUSING to EXIST.