Forgotten Friday #128 - キュアシェの / Cure She's RUKATA
The story of this family, I don't know it. I just know that there are four UTAUs, but only one is still updated and cared for. Huya is the big dog on campus, and her sisters just have to stay home.
Who is RUKATA?
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RUKATA is fourteen years old. She loves bean sprouts and traditional Japanese playing cards.
Competitive Karuta the game (hah, I get the UTAU's name) sounds so intensely boring. Like, eye twitch level I'm imagining I'm there and I don't want to be there level boring.
The game takes ninety minutes, and someone winning a tournament might have to play seven times in one day. Over ten hours of the game. But, plenty of games take a really long time to play!
Well, there will be plenty of people who will think competitive Karuta is a perfect game and will wish they could find two people to play with them. But as someone with just a slew of cognitive disabilities…
There's three people playing each game. There one reader and two grabbers. The deck of cards has two different sets. One has the first half of a poem, and the other set has the end of the poem. The reader reads a card that has the first half of the poem, and there grabber who grabs the matching second card wins that point. That's okay, right? There's one hundred poems in total. To make it fair, the grabbers have fifteen minutes to study the layout of the cards on the table to find them more easily later on in the game.
Now, not all Karuta (which comes from Portuguese playing cards) are used for competitive Karuta. The cards directly inspired by Portuguese cards are vaguely similar enough to the Bicycle decks that Americans are used to that they could be used for games like poker with a few modifications.
Of the Karuta that don't even resemble Western decks of cards, the most useful is the Iroha Karuta. They are used as a matching game to help kids learn kanji. I believe that half of the cards have a kanji, and the other half have a hiragana. The kids have to match up the card! There's only like forty-eight pairs, so that doesn't sound too bad.
In school, we were allowed to play cards during our down time for a while, but I think the school system may have banned that since one year we played spoons during downtime, and the next we just kind of stared at the wall. (Okay, we talked with idle hands, but the poetic implication that the removal of cards robbed us of any agency was pretty cool.)
RUKATA hates vinegar. Her ponytail ends in a fish tail. I… don't know why or how her ponytail ends in a fish tail.
RUKATA is an Android, but she has a brain. No one knows who made her, and she's just a little dense.
As an Android that is meant to look and act like a fourteen year old, RUKATA wears a variation of a school uniform. Her hair, eyes, stockings, and shoes are all shades of blue. The rest of her outfit is red, white, and gold. She wears gold bracelets that match the color of her shirt. She wears a white collared shirt. There is a reddish bow around her collar and holding her ponytail.
She doesn't look like her given age, except for in the face.
Sometimes when I just have to vamp for a hundred or so words, I worry that I'm just not describing the UTAU hard enough. But then I think like, what could I really say?
How is RUKATA's bank?
She has a one pitch, CV bank. The OTOs aren't great, and the samples are extremely short. She has an average pitch of B3.
She has a nice voice, and I do like it.
Where can I download RUKATA?
You can download her from her distribution page. She does have a nostalgic feel to her bank.
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