Wiki Wednesday #76 - 想音リイ / Lee Omoine

5/5! Day one of my silly experiment, and I reached the goal! I think originally, making a tie wasn't winning... But, ya know, I think doing a tie is the proper intention as opposed to always winning. Balance... or... something. No telling when I wake up tonight, so maybe I will change my tune and do more tonight. Maybe not! Who even knows.

Wiki Wednesday #76 - 想音リイ / Lee Omoine

So, this entire character can be summed up from one line in the readme:

名前の由来：想→そう→うそ→嘘/緑（ミク）→りゅいそぉ（中国語）→リイ

The heading is "origin of name". And the wordplay does not translate to English in the slightest. Okay, so.. Actually, I have no idea if it even holds up in Japanese. So, her surname is "Concept Sound". The kanji is read as "sou". What is "sou" backwards when accounting for the mora structure of Japanese? "Uso". What is Uso? A lie. What is a green lie? Miku. (No, neither uso nor midori have a reading that smushes together to become Miku.) Uso-Midori has on'yomi of... no, they don't. The reading of "lie" in Chinese is "xu". The reading of "green" is "lu". But anyway, the green lie Miku somehow has something to do with the phrase "ryuisou", which is where her given name comes from.

I... Don't... know? I sent a Tweet to the manager about it.

Who is Lee Omoine?

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Forgotten Friday #86 - 汀メジロ / Migiwa Mejiro

Gosh dang it. I checked my phone right quick and was scrolling through reddit. There was a heartbreaking comic on "make me cry". I said "I'm a big girl! I can handle it!" Nope. My eyes hurt from doing that Hollywood cry where you're just making a normal face and the tears showed up anyway. It moves around the oils just enough to make your eyes sting like heck for a few minutes. Same thing with the short movie "Hair Love". I said, "This doesn't apply to me! I won't cry!" I did. I cried a lot. I ugly cried for that one.

Forgotten Friday #86 - 汀メジロ / Migiwa Mejiro

So, I tend to not listen to samples before doing this. I like being surprised. Mejiro's art is really androgynous in the way that a lot of art from specific styles is. When you learn how to place features, but don't really learn how to differentiate between male and female features, you end up with everyone looking androgynous unless you lean hard into one gender more than the other, and then everyone looks that one gender instead of the other and it's a whole thing.

Mejiro is a dude! I'm sure Mejiro is a very masculine name in Japan, but I don't know Japan, man. I know very little about Japan.

Who is Mejiro Migiwa?

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Wiki Wednesday #75 - 三ヶ猫の空♂ / mikeneko_tom's Kuu

4/5. The icon for this bank is named Kuu. But, to confirm it was Kuu, I had to track down the UTAU Visual Archive page... It was amazing it even existed. Please don't name your UTAUs like this. This UTAU might secretly have ten videos with a hundred thousand views or some nonsense because there's no actual way to... you know... search this name and get results. Also, what are ya trying to do to the poor Westerners who see Sora and think Sora! I have no idea how I found this UTAU, to be honest. The link just kind of... was in my spreadsheet with no reference to the UTAU Wiki. 

Wiki Wednesday #75 - 三ヶ猫の空♂ / mikeneko_tom's Kuu

In the words of Avril Lavigne, "Why you gotta go make things so complicated?" This UTAU's name uses the on'yomi of the kanji for sky. Which all the weeaboos know is read as sora. Sky = sora is the kind of thing you pick up just from watching subbed anime intros! Besides that, kanji hanging out all by themselves tend to have the kun'yomi reading. 車輪, or vehicle wheel, uses the on'yomis of "sha" and "rin". Separately, as "car" and "ring", they used the kun'yomi of "kuruma" and "wa". (Fun note. Body parts tend to just make things kun'yomi for no... real reason? Finger-ring, 指輪, is "yubiwa".)

So, this fella done did a variety of things. They named their UTAU something that can't be Googled and is shared with a Chinese UTAU. Then, they gave the UTAU a reading that you wouldn't expect. It's completely valid, but you wouldn't expect it. And then! The only way to find out the reading is to just assume that the icon name is the UTAU name! If it weren't for Visual Archive, the only way to find the reading would be to download the bank and find the icon image. That's... a lot! 

Why? 

Who is Kuu?

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Forgotten Friday #85 - 唄美キョコ / Kyoko Utami

Every time I mildly touch drama in the fandom, I just shut down and ask myself, "Why am I here if people don't seem to like me being here?" But then I sit down and I convert a VCV bank to CVVC and a CV bank to pseudo-CVVC and I'm like.. oh. that's why. I legitimately enjoy the technical aspects of the software. I look at the numbers for the blog, and I can see that people are reading it. I think I should be more of a "grey wall" to keep drama from affecting the blog beyond my own self-doubt. I'll think harder about writing anything remotely controversial from now.

Forgotten Friday #85 - 唄美キョコ / Kyoko Utami

It's not really a big deal what I did... But I am proud of myself! The UTAU Fandom page for Kyoko only had her Act 1, so I just looked on YouTube and found her Act 2 almost immediately. I added the link for the distribution video as opposed to the direct Mediafire link due to my experience with the MMD sphere. (Direct linking has turned passwords into scavenger hunts.)

Completely regardless of how good or bad Kyoko is (I haven't checked), her voice provider, Mikau was serious business. (Note, the readme says Mikau is the voice provider, but the UTAU Fandom page says it is Immy. The kanji is different also, so... Who knows!) Mikau literally bought a URL for her UTAU blog. Even if it's not expensive, money changed hands for an online presence! Only one page of it was archived, and there's a review of wig stores. That's cool!

So, I'm pumped to see how it turned out. One of the videos for Kyoko mentioned that she was recorded in a studio settings. The intros for the songs were so long on the videos checked, I clicked off before the voice started singing. Don't want to ruin the surprise!

Who is Utami Kyoko?

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Wiki Wednesday #74 - 三音二 / Ni Sanne

3/5. I promised myself I wouldn't download any more UTAUs until I had seriously take a dent out of the ones I had... But I contacted the voice provider of this UTAU over Twitter about the downloads. The CVVC link was replaced with the CV link. They fixed it up right quick! So I thought, I gotta be respectful and use that knowledge now that I got it! I'm bad at stopping myself from downloading things.

Wiki Wednesday #74 - 三音二 / Ni Sanne

So, I don't very much have much to say. This UTAU has a pretty complete biography, so I won't just have to go on a tangent on the meaning of the lack of shoes.

So! Article!

Who is Sanne Ni?

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Forgotten Friday #84 - 和奏悠 / Yuu Wakana

I know for a fact that this UTAU isn't illegal! Yay! I mean, that should hold true for every UTAU I cover, but you know... Who even knows in this mixed up world where you can't just trust people. Reminds me of a time when someone figured out how to manipulate me so well, that I defended them blindly, just do find that they had done to me what others had accused them of. And I was like "but like... do... I even?" And I done did and it was awful and was just bad decisions until I gave up... a decade later. And the best part? Ain't no one going to read this thinking it's them, because ain't no one going to read this who done did anything like this. 

Forgotten Friday #84 - 和奏悠 / Yuu Wakana

So, I had no memory of this UTAU, but then I saw the blog of the person who made this UTAU, the piano-chan, and I was like... I know them! I really think I know them! And then I rolled through my mental Rolodex and was like... Did I know them? Because I remember them being one specific person. I think I used one of their UTAUs. But I went through my videos and saw... I used a lot less UTAUs than I thought I did apparently? I mean, I had hundreds or something, and I did make a 100 UTAU Chorus at one point.

So yeah, I'm pretty sure I don't know this person at all. Unless... no. That makes no sense either. Because, I like, The UTAU's name feels so insanely familiar also, but like... Anyway, picture section.

Who is Wakana Yuu?

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Wiki Wednesday #73 - 寿吹ふく/ Fuku Kotobuki

2/5. I really want to be tuning USTs now, but I can't. My allergies are being a jerk. I'll wake up and feel pretty normal... then I run into my parents and they ask how I'm doing. I just open my mouth and go "crroaaak". (Okay, not really that severe. I just don't sound normal at all with my voice being really deep.) So, no singing, no USTs. Besides, I'm playing this really silly game to keep my spirits up while writing articles.

Wiki Wednesday #73 - 寿吹ふく/ Fuku Kotobuki

So, this is one of those UTAUs where there's not really much to say. It has its own website all to itself. But, only one bank... An extremely sparse bio... Well, I feel like I should bail and go with a bank that has ten different appends to be more interesting... But I have to write about less interesting UTAUs sometimes, and putting it off just means coming back to it later. And I'm playing that silly game, so I need to knock stuff out pretty fast. I just... I'm not in as much of a ranting mood. 

Anyway, here's Conway Twitty. (hehe... Family Guy.)

Who is Kotobuki Fuku?

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