Forgotten Friday #214 - 紅水りぜ / Guresu Rize

 This article was guest authored by Franz Feldman.

Forgotten Friday #214 - 紅水りぜ / Guresu Rize 

Rize is a mischievous thirteen year old girl who is always very sleepy in the morning. She loves sweets, but hates eggplant. She refers to herself in the first person by using her given name. She apparently ends every sentence with desu. I don't understand why that made Mae smile.

Who is Rize Guresu?

Art from Bank

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Wiki Wednesday #203 - Pastelli-kiwi's ALEXANDER

 Mae here - I'm going to hand this over to Franz, but I felt like I should explain the title. Pastelli-Kiwi is the old alias for a relatively popular Finnish UTAU user who is still active to this day. However, I found no mention of ALEXANDER on their current social media. Likely because they are not his voice provider. I had to include who owned him, however, because there is another Alexander. The URLs of the Fandom are case sensitive, so there really is an ALEXANDER and an Alexander on there.

Wiki Wednesday #203 - Pastelli-kiwi's ALEXANDER

ALEXANDER is a young man of age thirteen who loves the sea and wants to appear older than he is. To clarify, while I am still Franz, I'm being instructed to write like that. I am more tempted to list out everything, but Mae is pretty apathetic at this point and just wants to move on to the next section.

Understanding his backstory is dependent on knowing who the other character referenced is to some degree as it covers their sibling relationship. ALEXANDER wants to be old and cool, even though he is slightly younger than his sister.

Who is ALEXANDER?

art from UTAU fandom

Forgotten Friday #213 - 結唄ユア / Yuuta Yua

 This article was guest authored by Franz Feldman.

Forgotten Friday #213 - 結唄ユア / Yuuta Yua

Now, I'll tell you - in the time where I lived, Japanese was a dead language. I was nervous to help with Japanese banks like this, because I can't understand anything, and the characters just look strange. However, at least I do have Mae's help... and the help of automatic translation. So, I figured, when something has got to be done, you help out as much as you can!

The website is hard to navigate, so if you want to find Yua, you need to know that she is UI 4. Yua is sixteen, and nothing about her character is set in stone, so her personality can be whatever you want. 

Who is Yua Yuta?

art from bank

Wiki Wednesday #202 - Alev Katil

 This one will actually be guest authored by Franz Feldman.

Wiki Wednesday #202 - Alev Katil

After the last article, Mae made sure that overlookedcosplayer was no longer active in the fandom. Their blog was abandoned, and their videos were privated. So, I can happily press a few buttons without any understanding of what is happening!

Alev means flame and Katil means killer. I don't know what language that is in. Alev is a tall nineteen year old woman who loves having fun and standing out. The art used for her is pretty darn cool!

Who is Alev Katil?

art from UTAU fandom page

Forgotten Friday #212 - Proto-S / プロトス

 I should be wearing my wrist brace, but I wanna go fast!

Forgotten Friday #212 - Proto-S / プロトス

Alright! I'm decently far enough pushed out to not feel panicked for this feature, and I just gave up my very unreceived prank of using Praat to realistically tune even CV vocals. That means, it's the perfect time to look at an UTAU with twelve banks. You heard me! Twelve different banks to listen to! I did something like this previously, just way more. I had to stop doing the prank because oh my goodness. So. Much. Time.

This is an UTAU that doesn't like singing. They don't like talking, and they just sleep all the time. They lie about their age by doing hex conversions as they are just an artificial intellegence that floats around.

Their personality is one of my favorite words in existence. Fuwafuwa.

They are not a corporal being, so they have different designs for each bank. I choose the one from their subtitle free CVVC bank as the icon for this article, as it is the main art used on both the distribhution page and the archive.

Who is Proto=S?

official art from bank

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Wiki Wednesday #201 - Alawaiha's ALA

 This article was guest authored by Franz Feldman.

Wiki Wednesday #201 - Alawaiha's ALA

Well, I'm glad to still be helping! I'm proud of Mae for seeing a problem and fixing it so that I could more easily help her out! She was sick of all the computer sheet music she had for these voices that I'd be able to use without her help, so she made more! It took less time than she thought, so I had to beg her to take a break and let me get to writing!

ALA seems to be a Polish character. Mae couldn't find any information on the person who made her, but I had the bright idea to see if she was on YouTube still! She very much is still active, which is very cool! 

Mae is a bit beside herself at that revelation, though. The art felt extremely nostalgic to her, but ALA was created in 2017. All that we know is that she is a teenager who likes dark and creepy things.  Mae is mumbling about how that is just like 2010.

Who is ALA?

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Forgotten Friday #211 - 透葉 / Touha

 I'm a little bothered I don't have as many UTAU only tester USTs as I'd like. I have so few because they take ages to tune! The future may hold switching to a new synth to process samples, which would be very cool for the quality of the demos!

Forgotten Friday #211 - 透葉 / Touha

Touha is meant to be a boy with a girl's voice who likes sushi. There's nothing else really on the Visual Archive page, and his site has been taken down. Though, he has really cool art on his release video. I wonder why it wasn't packaged with the bank...

Who is Touha?

official art from bank

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Wiki Wednesday #200 - AL-173-Alatiel

 This article was guest authored by Franz Feldman.

Wiki Wednesday #200 - AL-173-Alatiel

It sure is a fun coincidence that I get to write this article! Alatiel was made by SoraFan810 and is from an alien planet named Opliea. If you've been reading this blog long enough, you know where I am from! (note from Mae: Franz is a fictional character born around the year 3000 who lived on Mars.)

Even though she is sweet and kind, she has been ordered to stay on her home world to fight even as her people are fleeing. And, she's being forced to fight by her father at age fifteen!  I could never imagine doing that to Belinda. 

Who is AL-173-Alatiel?

Official art from Bank