Forgotten Friday #34 - 蘭歌ロサ / Ranka Rosa

Still not functioning 100%, but this isn't too painful and will let me spend more time not being afraid of time catching up to me.

Forgotten Friday #34 - 蘭歌ロサ / Ranka Rosa

Ranka Rosa looks like a legit name, not going to lie. Of course, Rosa probably was a tell it was an overseas name, but I didn't expect what I got.

So, little backstory. Legendmaker was like obsessed with getting girls to make UTAUs for him and then just kind of... letting them die. That sounds awful, but, I don't know. Maybe kind of? I don't know if the girls were expecting their UTAUs to get used more than once and then have their videos deleted. Maybe they didn't even care about UTAU and recorded the recording list in Audacity to shut the guy up? Meh. That's all I'll say on that.

Who is Rosa Ranka?

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Wiki Wednesday #23 - 菖蒲・ヴィルジニー / Ayame Virginie

Okay, making good headway. I'm feeling better. Maybe the sun went behind the clouds and it stopped being as stupid hot.

Wiki Wednesday #23 - 菖蒲・ヴィルジニー / Ayame Virginie

I won't lie. Seeing the name Ayame Virginie made me think this UTAU was from a former Soviet Bloc country. But, the character file and the readme file make it obvious that her voice provider, Peka_Chi, is in fact Japanese. 

Now, Ayame (as the word I won't even try to spell is her last name) has really big banks for a one pitch CV. Her second bank is over eighty megabytes because her samples are five seconds long. Ouch.

Who is Ayame Virginie?

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Forgotten Friday #33 - ユウイト / Yuuito

Hi there. My brain is broken. There is no telling when it will get fixed. This article will be lacking, and I apologize.

Forgotten Friday #33 - ユウイト / Yuuito

This is a doozy, and could result in me spending quite some time tracking down leads to figure out why the only time this UTAU was ever used or mentioned was on Nico, but it's romaji encoded with an English character file. Why is "oto.txt" a character file?

Now, the answer to all of this may surprise you.

Yuuito was uploaded to NicoVideo by someone going by Fuku, who used manly pronouns. (Not male - MANLY. ORE.) So, okay, Yuuito is an UTAU by some dude.

Not so fast! There's a reason that there was no trace of Yuuito on YouTube. He had been on YouTube! How did I learn this? Well, Yuuito's bank is packaged with the most dA box art possible. That isn't an insult to dA or the box art - it's just like how you know a Sonic OC is a Sonic OC by taking one look at them. So, I looked it up and found his voice provider. Do you want proof? Check the description of some of his art. Another nail in the proof coffin? Remember Fuku from before? Now her name is Fyukue on her new dA account. (Her art is really good.)

It all became a circle.

Fyukue has obviously distanced herself from Yuuito. That asks the question - should we write about him? Yes. It's not hard to delete files from Mediafire, guys. If you don't want me sneaking into nursing homes and dragging out your geriatric UTAUs... This metaphor is ending badly.

Who is Yuuito?

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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?

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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