Forgotten Friday #151 - Ｄｒ．シダマ / Doctor Shidama

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Forgotten Friday #151 - Ｄｒ．シダマ / Doctor Shidama

Just two articles after this one, and I will be done with this spreadsheet as far as the “on my bed” portions go! 

I have another spreadsheet with about twenty UTAUs who actually came from the original spreadsheet. I verified the banks were up, made sure the biographical data was easily available online… I have to get through that list before I can download more. So, bittersweet that I’m almost done with this spreadsheet, but that doesn’t mean I get to download anything new afterwards. 

I really, really like downloading things.

Who is Dr. Shidama?

Official Art from Bank

His voice provider is C-Dama, and Dr. Shidama is… Well, “C” is pronounced as “Shi” in Japanese. 

He is a doctor, but he’s only fourteen years old. He loves making things. He can compound medications and also make weapons somehow. He doesn’t like that he’s not growing any faster. He wants to be taller sooner!

He is entirely engulfed by a lab coat. His color scheme is black and purple. His eyes are brown, and he does have an olive collar around his neck. There are blue tips on his hair and his white lab coat is shaded with blue. He has a flask with a really pretty aquamarine liquid inside of it. 

Beneath his lab coat, he wears a collared lavender shirt and black shorts. He wears knee high white socks and black boots.

Now, let me tell you, Dr. Shidama has the worst lab safety possible. First, the coat is too big. It will get in the way and possibly cause spills. Next, he has exposed skin on his legs. Nothing is stopping spills from getting on his legs! He’s holding a flask, and we don’t know what’s in the flask, but he isn’t wearing goggles! You gotta wear goggles!

I love the show Nova on PBS. They had a really good episode on CRISPR that was shot like it was meant to be in theaters. It was jam packed with information and it didn’t drag, despite being twice as long as usual. But then the next episode was about slime molds. And I haven’t even finished it because they’ll make one point, and then repeat it like five times. Everyone is shocked pikachu face consonantly in this episode. Like, did you know that the root tips of plants have something like a brain that allows them to detect stimuli and figure out the best way to avoid obstructions. Okay, cool. Plants are smart. And, scientists tortured a poor plant so that it would stop reacting to being dropped six inches. And it learned to just accept that it would be randomly dropped six inches. And that’s learning! And I’m like, cool, yeah. That’s kind of the point of nature.

But everyone is so shocked and upset that things without brains can learn things. Like? Octopodes have brains in their tentacles. The tentacles can think on their own when separated from the octopus themselves… right? 

I guess it’s just weird to me to see people freaking out about single celled organisms being able to react to their environment. I’m pretty sure that half of the world thought that babies didn’t feel pain when I was born. 

An honest scientific debate was if dogs could feel pain. The argument was that they were just reacting to a stimulus - that didn’t mean they felt pain, because pain is human. What is even wrong with people? You can obviously tell when a dog is in literal pain. 

So yeah. I just don’t get this world sometimes.

How is Doctor Shidama's bank?

Dr. Shidama just has a single one pitch CV bank. He sounds nothing like SRS's Psycho and I want a refund.

Kidding! He has a soft and sweet voice, but the fact that the samples were extremely breathy to have that calming effect. In some places, that does interfere with synthesis. If you want a perfect bank, this isn't it. If you're okay with imperfections, this is a really nice  young male voice with a calm and soft tone!

Where can I download Dr. Shidama?

You can download him from his distribution page. There's a link near the top of the page that says Download in English. That will take you to a page with all of the UTAUs the site offers. Look for his picture near the bottom, and bam! Download link! He's a sweet UTAU, even if there are some difficulties using him.