Wiki Wednesday #22 - Rumi Osone / 遅音ルミ

Two one pitch, romaji encoded CV banks in a row?! In. Heaven.

Wiki Wednesday #22 - Rumi Osone / 遅音ルミ

I've been getting a little personal in my introductions lately. But sometimes, it's a little hard to avoid. You morally have to hit a certain word count, and there's not really a deep story behind most one pitch, (seemingly) one-and-done UTAUs.

Osone Rumi's voice provider, MURI, had posted three videos within the span of a month and vanished. Her dA is equally as sparse. But, at least I have learned that both MURI and Ru... MU-RI, RU-MI... huh! Neat! Both Muri and Rumi are women from Switzerland. I left a comment on Rumi's info sheet because I just really like this UTAU. 

Who is Osone Rumi?

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Forgotten Friday #32 - 溶懸想ガロ / Tokesou Garo

Oh my goodness, this design is out for my heart! Will the rest of the UTAU also be after my heart?

Forgotten Friday #32 - 溶懸想ガロ / Tokesou Garo

So, this is a random UTAU from 2009 with a voice provider that, on first glance, is the same kind of tier as the Level Up family, with their blog being mostly Pokemon. It is bad to Nancy Drew people's genders, but a case like this makes it really hard not to really wonder. The divide between male and female is a lot more pronounced in Japan than it is in America, so seeing a blog and persona that feels exclusively male contrasts with the fact that Garo is, in fact, a fourteen year old girl. I mean, the name Garo's voice provider gives on their blog is "ＧＲＯＷＬＩＴＨＥ". Now, they go by "Snow-viewing Radish", whereas they were previously "G-Dog". Yukimi Daikon sounds super feminine to an American.

Anyway, G-Dog was an Utaite. The main thing that would make me Nancy Drew Radish's gender as female is that their voice has basically remained the same between 2009 and 2012. That's not a long time, but it's enough time for a young boy's voice to crack noticeably. But do you know why that doesn't matter? G-Inu could identify as male! However, Japanese women who sound like "tom-boys" tend to sound the specific way that Yukimi does. It sounds boyish to untrained American ears, but feminine to someone who eats up Japanese content.

Sometimes, I just want to click buttons and learn, not study or do work. This was all pointless because I just won't bring up the voice provider again, meaning I didn't even have a reason to fret over pronouns.

Who is Garo Tokesou?

From Nicopedia Page

Wiki Wednesday #21 - Daigiri Roko / ダギリロコ

Woah, this name looks really Japanese but there's no Kanji version! 大喜利  (switching o to dai to fit) would mean something like great love, and ロ子 could be almost anything!

Wiki Wednesday #21 - Daigiri Roko / ダギリロコ

Finally! A simple, one pitch, romaji encoded CV bank... And it's the user's first UTAU! This is what this blog is for. I get hurried in my "research" and let things that shouldn't slip through slip through, but this. This is why I'm still here. There's even no OTO file! Wait... Whoops. I really got what I was asking for.

All I know about Roko's voice provider is that Toastling is a young person who identifies as female. That's literally all I can figure out.

Who is Roko Daigiri?

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Forgotten Friday #31 - Toyo Aya

Yeah, I realized I'll never get anywhere with SEO. So, I'll write fun things here. Nothing fun right now, though. Can't think of anything!

Forgotten Friday #31 - Toyo Aya

Give it up for 2011! This bank has samples dating from December of 2009 to August of 2011. This UTAU has three acts, but I only downloaded one bank. That bank was the combination VCV-CV bank. It's insane, though. The ZIP file is 160MB, but the Wikia warns that it is very large in size. 160MB! I remember back when that was giant for an UTAU. Part of me misses that time.

I have no memory of this UTAU. I feel like I should, but I don't.

Anyway, on to the article.

Who is Aya Toyo?

Thumbnail by QuietButHappy, Aya's voice provider

Wiki Wednesday #20 - Ryuko Blair / 流行ブレア

NYOOOOOOM!

Wiki Wednesday #20 - Ryuko Blair / 流行ブレア

For comedic effect, I include a bit where I'm 'spiraling' trying to figure out how all of the pieces fit together. I hope I made it clear in the article, and in this section itself, that I do not suspect Ashuri Reddo / Mougeki Mero of any foul play. Please do not Nancy Drew Ashuri Reddo, because the only conclusion you can come to is that Ryuko Blair is exactly what she is described as.

Alright, I think I thinned my readership with plugging my Patreon so much. But, as I said, I'm not holding these two series hostage.

You can't really tell unless you look at the timestamps on the audio I upload, but I had been taking a bit of a break. I should note that I literally have another month from the writing of this article before I run out of content. But, you know something? My anxiety plays hardball. If I didn't get this sorted for at least another half month, I'd be going crazy while trying to study.

So, nyoom.

Who is Ryuko Blair?

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Forgotten Friday #30 - 鈴木リコ / Suzuki Riko

This one was really forgotten. I won't really touch on it in the body, but this UTAU shares a name with someone so controversial, they got banned off of YouTube.... I think. Not entirely sure how it all works out.

Forgotten Friday #30 - 鈴木リコ / Suzuki Riko

So, I won't lie. I am trying to avoid writing about banks with multiple appends and multi-pitch VCV. Life is picking up, and I'm just squeezing in these articles after getting burnt out from studying. I'm trying to shove as much writing into as little time as possible, and one CV bank to poke at is a lot easier than several VCV appends that you know I gotta fix the OTOs on, because I legitimately have problems. (Unrelated to UTAU, but still problems.)

But, this has left me in a weird spot for this UTAU. It is really, really weird.

Suzuki Riko only exists within the Japanese fandom, but her ZIP archive name is in romaji. She has pseudo-VCV which is the typical romaji-hiragana combo, but the rest of her bank is CV encoded in romaji.

Or at least, it was extremely confusing until I found the ReadMe file, which is in awkward English. The voice provider is listed as "Choi Seo Yeon", which is a Korean name. I'm sure I could find her in the Korean fandom somewhere, if only I knew one lick of Korean. Regardless, let's get to it.

Who is Riko Suzuki?

The only art I could find online, from a てってってー cover

Wiki Wednesday #19 - Kimi Yamamoto / 山本君

Guys, please ZIP banks that are already inside of folders please. My folder just got flooded with samples, and I'm like "oh dang, the heck."

Wiki Wednesday #19 - Kimi Yamamoto / 山本君

This is actually a really interesting case! According to her voice provider's deviantArt page, Kimi had existed for six years before she was publicly released. I was really confused at how an UTAU that felt 2010 ended up in my Wiki Wednesday spreadsheet, but now I know why. Though I assume the samples were rerecorded or remastered at some point, as the date modified says 2016 on the samples.

I'll get into why this bank is a delightful find for an UTAU nostalgia enthusiast in the "How is this bank?" section. However, let's start by talking about Yamamoto Kimi.

Who is Yamamoto Kimi?

Official Artwork Packaged with Bank