#kouhei matsuda

[king-magppi]

...Some Golden Kamuy.🐗🐵🐱🐻🐰🦏

[goldenkamuyhunting]

Do you happen to know the list of injuries Sugimoto’s confirmed to have gotten total?

Honestly...

I've never went through all the volumes to check them all, as Sugimoto got hurt countless times and sometimes this caused a new scar and sometimes it just healed just fine (the most notable case being when the bear scratched his face but Asirpa cured him so no visible scars remained).

There's to say Sugimoto hardly suffers of consequences for his wounds, beyond them sometimes scarring him (the effects of getting a bullet in his head are shown only once when he fight against Gansoku and it might not even be them but just that Gansoku punched him too hard) because if Sugimoto were to start to get too wounded to fight he would have to drop out of the gold hunt.

Even characters like Ogata or Nikaidou, who lost a body part, managed just fine for the sake of keeping them as active fighters in the story.

Anyway, for a list of notable times in which Sugimoto got wounded we've:

1) The time in which, during the war, a Russian soldier managed to shoot a bullet through his neck. That scar remains clearly visible when we meet Sugimoto in Hokkaido and such a bullet went very close to the jugular so it could have killed him.

2) Nikaidou stabbing his cheek and part of his ear, which also will leave a scarring.

3) Nikaidou shooting his leg, which will require Sugimoto to walk with a support for his leg (and will make him reach Wilk crawling).

4) Ogata shooting his head. Sugimoto will need surgery to survive, will have a permanent hole in his skull and, during the fight against Gansoku, it'll leak body fluids like Tsurumi's.

5) Master Heita breaking his arm, which I'm going to mention solely because, for a while, we see Sugimoto going around unable to use his arm (though the consequences for this, beyond that, are really not that relevant)

6) Nikaidou shooting Sugimoto's cheek and ear, which again will leave visible scarring.

Those are the 6 times Sugimoto got hurt which had visible consequences in term of scarring or affected the story in some way or both... at least according to my opinion (other people's opinions might differ).

I could have, of course, list plenty of other times in which he got hurt (Sugimoto is likely the character who got hurt the most often, possibly also because he's the main character and, in this way, Noda also remarked how he was immortal) but as they didn't left scars we could see (if there was scarring it was under his clothes) nor they affected the plot significantly (on the train to hell, Sugimoto was seriously hurt by Ogata (a wound in that same area killed Kiroranke) but kept on fighting just fine, and by Tsurumi but... he apparently survived without effort or possibly because Noda had no interest in showing him being hospitalized or suffering consequences), I didn't bother mentioning them.

Oh, and I didn't list the scars on his face because we never saw the scarring take place… and because, really, I think everyone knows about it, they're so 'Sugimoto' Noda felt obliged to include them when he drew a young Sugimoto dressed as Asirpa, even if we know as a young child Sugimoto didn't have them yet (according to an interview he gained them at the start of the war).

That's how far I'll get with the listing.

If you need a more comprehensive list, I can only suggest you to go through each volume and take notes.

Still, I hope my list might be of some use to you. Thank you for your ask!

[crehador]

since i can't find one and need to know who to aim for...

list of reverse: 1999 jp dub cast (updated for 1.4)

210 - hirose daisuke 37 - iguchi yuka 6 - nakamura yuuichi

a knight - hayami show alien t - fukuhara anjou an-an lee - sakura ayane apple - hirakawa daisuke arcana - koshimizu ami

baby blue - suzaki aya balloon party - minase inori bette - kanzaki maki bkornblume - ueda reina blonney - saito shuka bunny bunny - ozawa ari

charlie - matsuda satsumi centurion - ikuta teru charlton - nomiya kazunori click - uchiyama kouki constantine - tanaka atsuko cristallo - aimi

darley clatter - yada kouhei diggers - tachibana shinnosuke dikke - kawasumi ayako door - shimizu sakuma druvis iii - ishikawa yui

eagle - noguchi ruriko enigma - umehara yuuichirou erick - tanaka chiemi eternity - fairouz ai

forget me not - suwabe junichi

horropedia - okitsu kazuyuki

isabella - kino hina

jessica - waki azumi john titor - konishi mai

kaalaa baunaa - ootsubo yuka kanjira - akasaki chinatsu kumar - fujitou chika

la source - yuzuki kazuka leilani - tachibana yuki lilya - kitamura eri lucy - suwa ayaka

matilda - itou ayasa medicine pocket - hanae natsuki melania - ueda kana mesmer jr. - kudou haruka mondlicht - tsumugi risa ms. moissan - kohara riko ms. new babel - uchida maaya ms. radio - odashima kazami

necrologist - wakayama shion nick bottom - satou fumiya

oliver fog - nagatsuka takuma onion - horikawa kaede

pavia - nozu pickles - saito soma poltergeist - maekawa ryouko

rabies - takagaki katsuhisa & mugiho anna regulus - yamamoto nozomi ring - sakakihara yuki

satsuki - touyama nao schneider - yuuki aoi shamane - yasumoto hiroki sonetto - uchida shu sophia - kobayashi yuu sotheby - itou miku sputnik - toba yuuko sweetheart - tanaka rie

tennant - takahashi chiaki the fool - nitta kyousuke tooth fairy - uesaka sumire ttt - sumi tomomi jiena twins sleep (lisa & louise) - kamitaka suzuka

vertin - takamori natsumi voyager - hondo kaede

x - toki shunichi

z - liyuu зима - totto

[cupidarchived]

I Hear the Sunspot Episode 7:

Well Maya’s entrance made her look like a grade A asshole. She spent the entire episode doing the exact thing she accused of others of doing: being full of herself. Judging others and making assumptions, especially when she doesn’t know them, was odd. All because she has a crush on Kouhei? Asking Taichi what he can do for Kouhei when the real question is what can she do for him? She doesn’t know their relationship and she can’t dictate who can and cannot be in Kouhei’s life. She came off as arrogant, entitled and rude. Her concern for Kouhei is nice but it’s over-bearing and she is definitely overstepping.

In other news, Kouhei talking to Matsuda in order to keep her from talking to Taichi was funny. I really wish they would address the kiss. They both hold back from telling each other what they’re thinking and feeling unless things get really intense and escalate. Taichi should have repeated what he said about the kiss that night. Things would be different right now, if he had.

[lunar-gl1tch]

GOD IT'S SO FUNNY to see it again Knowing about kamen rider and it's like oh that's a suit actor, that's kouhei murakami, that's fucking kenji matsuda, another suit actor, it's got everybody!!!

I LOVE how takuya can't shut the fuck up, hes already always extra animated when it's about goro and they're all hooting and hollering. He was a little jealous but they were all happy goro got to do this....

also YAY HI SHINJI SPEAKING OUT FOR LOOOOOVE ily ily

I’m more than halfway through 2009’s Ganbarimasu, which means I watched Kamen Rider G

I think I’m going to enjoy Kamen Rider…it looks sick as hell, so getting hyped up for Ryuki

Here’s a compilation of Takuya’s reactions and commentary during it cuz he was v entertaining:

He was a little bitter but completely justified to be tbh…

his challenge was to run 50 hills in a day

+ a ton of footage was cut/condensed because of timing

++ insulted by his director

[harddoor]

[mastomysowner]

ティムバト風な金カムキャラ達 by 狸介2世

[leenaevilin]

[Announcement] 舞台「HELI-X II～アンモナイトシンドローム」(butai heli-x II ~ammonite syndrome~)

you will be able to watch 2 shows @ dmm

price: ￥3.600 (each) [2shows set ￥7.000] [notice: you will probably need to use a VPN to watch/get access the show^^]

◎ 前楽 (maeraku) [October 17th, 2021 ~ 12:30]

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[leenaevilin-stage-market]

[Video] 舞台「HELI-X」(butai heli-x)

the DVD will be released on May 12th, 2021☆ ☆ ☆

☆ DVD         ♪ Amazon

[joanthekid]

God, i haven't posted anything

Now, i want to share some oppa dolls of haisute actors

[rz-jocelyn]

[NEWS] Announcement for the Opening of the Gekidan Himawari OFFICIAL FANCLUB

Prior to this, fans could follow the activities of the talents of "Gekidan Himawari" and its associate companies "Blue Shuttle" and "Sunaoka Office" through the Gekidan Himawari mobile fanclub "Rei ~ZERO~".

However, Gekidan Hiwamari has just opened an official fanclub that is accessible across different platforms, which has made it accessible to international fans! And, the talents of the "Rei ~ZERO~" mobile fanclub will be moved over to the new fanclub.

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Fanclub members get to apply for tickets to performances before the ticketing is open for general sales.

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Movie

Wallpaper

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[dangerouscommiesubversive]

Hi there, I don't know if you watch BL (boys love) tv shows but there is going to be a BL show called Senpai, This Can't Be Love where the actors for Kamiyama Touma (KR Saber) Hiiro Kagami (KR Brave in Ex-Aid) are the main leads/love interests (together) and Eiji (OOO) is there too. Seriously so many Toku people in BL! Both the Cross-Z (Super Popular BL: Cherry Magic! ) and Build (A BL Parody) actors are in BL too. Dang...Happy Pride!

As an addition to the Toku people in BL shows, the one that has Saber, Brave (Ex Aid) and Eiji (OOO) also has the actor who played KR Knight from Ryuki. Once again: Daaaaaang! Hopefully the show will be good too good for them to get work. and Happy Pride!

Hi, this is really sweet of you! 💜💜💜 I do watch the occasional drama, including BL--honestly I enjoy romances in general--and I'd heard about this one! (I've also seen Zettai BL and Cherry Magic, I actually have a Cherry Magic fic up on AO3. ^_^) It looks super fun, I'm excited for it to come out, although I imagine I'm going to be so distracted by Mr. Matsuda whenever he's on screen that I may lose the thread of the plot.

Honestly, though, I'm even more excited for Old-Fashioned Cupcake, which is the next Build alumnus BL coming up--that one stars Takeda Kouhei, who was Kazumi in Build and Otoya in Kiva and to whom I am just upsettingly attracted. I've been reading the manga and it's extremely sweet, and in particular it's nice to read a story where one of the romantic leads is nearly forty and feeling weird about it.

[goldenkamuyhunting]

Replies to assorted asks regarding if the ending is rushed and how this impacted on the ending Ogata got

This is really a bad working time so yes, I’m still behind in answering to all the ask. This group of asks is tied to the pacing of the manga and to how it might have impacted with Ogata. Asks that regards different things will be in different posts.

Again, as they’re many, I also transcribed them in case the image won’t load.

Sorry again for my lateness in replying to everyone.

Anonymous said:

Greetings. I know this is a strange question, but seeing the way the last arc of this manga has developed.... Do you think the author is speeding up the ending to move on to something else? Or does he don't want the manga to end as an infinite series and is putting his foot on the accelerator, even if it means sacrificing the quality of the writing? It's not a justification, but it's something that started to haunt me after Ogata blew his head off in such a dramatic way.

I’ll start not with my opinion but with some official info.

Q1: Do you already know how you’re going to end the story?

Noda: I know how I want to end it, and there’s not that much left. I want the landing to be akin to one of a gymnastics gold medalist, but I refuse to rush through things and make it ugly just to reach the conclusion, out of both pride as a professional mangaka and responsibility towards my readers. [Q&A corner from the DVD bundle of the 15th volume of Golden Kamuy translation courtesy of @piduai​]

Of course since this is an old interview (Vol 15 came out on September 19, 2018) things might have changed so it’s not really fair to use it as proof that now that almost 4 years are gone he doesn’t want to rush things, however when he released the fanbook (November 19, 2020) he was still caring about the characters having endings that he hoped it would be satisfying for everyone.

Q: Please leave a message for the readers. Or maybe some advice for the troubled youth. Noda: I want people to say that everyone in Golden Kamuy had a satisfying ending, and I want that for everyone involved more than anything. As for advice for the troubled youth, there’s none. Life is survival of the fittest. The weak ones get eaten. [Interview with Noda Satoru from the Golden Kamuy fanbook translation courtesy of @piduai​]

Even in the recently released message about the end of the manga Noda confirmed he would add changes to the volume version and implied that he was working so that everyone would like it.

Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t get the vibe of a person who’s tired and want to rush into a conclusion because he has something else to do, but of a person who’s working hard for his work to be well received.

I might not like the past chapters but I’ve always admired Noda as a mangaka for how hard he works on his manga and I think he’s trying to work hard on it still. The result might not be of my liking but this doesn’t mean it’s because he stopped caring for this manga.

Sure, maybe I’m wrong and naïve but that’s overall how I feel.

I’ll add KamuyCentral’s observation that 314, the number of the final chapter, in Japanese might also be read as ‘Saichi’s death’ (though there’s also a more optimistic option suggested by a Japanese fan).

So what all this mean?

That Noda likely made for “Golden Kamuy” a draft, a script, a plan, something and that his plan was to follow it. This plan might have extended to picking up the final number of chapters beforehand.

So he’s not running?

It really depends on many factors.

Did he really set the story to end at 314?

Let’s assume he did.

So why people get a feeling he’s rushing?

I mean who feels the story is running can point out at the following things:

1) The convicts moved from 24 to 23, although it turned out Kadokura had a tattoo for a total of 24 tattooed beings. It’s possible this was planned beforehand for surprise value but it generates some plot holes in the early premise regarding the convicts (not that Noda cared much about that part as he mostly asked us to suspend our disbelief about it). Regardless, some perceived it as a shortening.

2) Three convicts were introduced one after the other and dealt with at a fast pace when, previously, the story would introduce one convict, deal with him, and move to the next. Again, it could have been done on purpose for a greater showdown in Sapporo (I remember that in robot series they liked to have the robot face 3 enemies at once either around the finale or in some important episode so the 3 convicts being tossed all together might be merely a Japanese trope, nothing more) but it might also have been done to shorten up things.

3) By the way, Jack the Ripper was a historical figure but the way he’s handled is a mess compared to how the manga handled historical figures.

4) Relevant retcon in the volumes clearly hinted to changes of plans in regard to the characters��� characterizations, which made people doubt if the characters’ arc were established before or if they were created as the story went.

5) The way the story was told changed. Before we had many groups which act independently, their actions crossing over and all relevant for the plot. However, although the cast was still divided in many small group, the story slowly started to prefer focusing on 2 groups overall becoming more streamlined and simple to follow, placing into the sidelines the other groups by giving them actions of little to no real relevance to the plot, until everyone converged in one group or the other. Again it can be a choice, but it’s a choice that who preferred the previous structure might not enjoy causing them to think groups are deliberately being neglected.

6) Vasily. While other characters might get neglected, Vasily doesn’t get developed at all to the point some wondered if Noda forgot to draw him here and there, he, basically, has 0 relevant impact on the plot and seems to be there to just get killed. For a mangaka who’s usually awesome at creating and developing characters this feels strange and, if it was a conscious choice, a peculiar one that a good part of the fandom doesn’t particularly appreciate.

7) Ogata. He moves from a character who actively influence the plot to one who’s just in the sideline, his motive felt unsatisfying to a good part of the fandom, a part of his actions feel all of sudden dumb, there’s plenty of things about him that remain unexplained and he took himself out of the plot while the main characters watched, again with basically little to 0 relevant impact to the plot. I’ll go back to him later so for now I’ll stop at this.

8) People had grievances for Vasily, Tanigaki, Sofia, Ushiyama and Hijikata’s deaths for different reasons, not so much because they died but how they died. Vasily died almost offscreen. Tanigaki dies in a blink (if he’s really dead). Sofia’s death was felt by many as unemotional, the reason why she hesitated and was killed by Tsurumi poorly constructed. Ushiyama died by a stroke of bad luck (if the grenade hadn’t, by accident, fallen near Asirpa he wouldn’t have sacrificed himself) and not by Tsukishima’s efforts. Hijikata’s battle is unclear but, again, his death seems to be another case of bad luck with his extremely cool getting up timed in a too convenient manner so that he wouldn’t hurt Koito. This can fall a bit in the ‘in the volume version all those scenes will be expanded but in a chapter of 18 pages it wasn’t possible to do so’ part, and a bit in the conscious effort to keep Koito and Tsukishima safe. Some still wonders if the characters with unclear deaths are actually alive and the unclear death was meant to hide it for surprise value.

9) Asirpa’s black eyes get solved easily and equally easily the characters seem to accept they’ll have to give up on the gold because Asirpa has said so. Sure, it might be this will be developed better later but… sure it’s easy.

10) As the cars are disconnected and only 3 chapters are missing people feel there will be no time to answer all the questions they had and Tsukishima and Koito’s arc will be cut abruptly… which we can’t tell yet for sure but sure the fear is around the net.

11) The story progressing in an overall ‘easy mode’ that uses luck/bad luck and deus ex machina to solve problems quickly instead than having the characters tackle and solve them.

12) Other reasons I completely forgot and for this I apologize to the people who shared them with me.

Sure is… quite a lot and I understand everyone’s concern.

Part of all this might be due to choices, choices which might not have been as appreciated by everyone as Noda hoped or by the page constraints of the magazine and will be fixed in the volumes.

Part of this can be due to miscalculating how many chapters he would need to finish it.

I mean, if you tie yourself to a certain number of chapters, you must plan them in an EXTREMELY CAREFUL manner because you might end up expanding too much a part (maybe to explain better something) and so, to remain in the scheduled number, you might be forced to cut something which Noda maybe thinks to add again in the volume version.

It’s hard to say.

Still this has going on by too long to assume something had abruptly ended and Noda decided to cut the manga short. We might say the Sapporo arc began with chap 224… which was released on December 19 2019. If we go back further to post Karafuto escape… well, we can genuinely say, for something ‘rushed’ Noda still spent years on “Golden Kamuy” instead than have Asirpa being forced to tell the code to Tsurumi in Karafuto and then escaping and meeting up with Hijikata with them realizing how to spot the fake one as well that they’ve enough skins to figure out the place is Goryokaku even if they don’t get Heita, Boutarou and Ostrog’s skins… or just claim Hijikata found and killed them off screen so as to get their skins too into the mix.

So… I don’t know.

Maybe Noda deliberately offered us a ‘summary’ version in the magazine so as to persuade us to buy the more detailed volume version. Maybe he believed a faster pace and a change in storytelling would be more liked. Maybe additions to the story forced him to also do some cuts. It’s really hard to tell.

An endgame is difficult, maybe the most difficult part of the story because readers will demand it to fulfill all the expectations the story has built in them, the longer and more complex the story the more the expectations.

It can be even Noda is aware of this and is using the magazine as a ‘test trial’. We’ll be able to fully judge his story only after the last volume release in July 19, 2022.

For now we can only postpone our judgment to that date.

@howtodestroyacharacter said:

Golden Kamuy will end with chapter 314. Could my doubt that some artistic choices were due to a hasty closure of the series be sadly true? It is possible that for such an editorial choice a story was sacrificed that was so beautiful by "killing" and eliminating some characters in a hasty way and taking them out of their character. I think I have only the fanfictions of good writers left to hope for a more "realistic" ending than what Noda is presenting to us.

Anonymous said:

Well, i actually liked those last chapters, but now with the news that we'll have only 3 chapters until the end i can oficially say that most of the questions that i still have about some characters will not be answered lol. I hope that Noda made at least 1 of those chapters a litte bit bigger than the others so it can fit more resolution for the end, but i really doubt that it will happen so... Anyway, damn, i'm really going to miss Golden Kamuy :(

Well, all that Noda has to ABSOLUTELY include is:

- how the story will deal with Tsurumi

- how the locomotive will be stopped

- what we can call a final chapter, which might tie up some loose ends by telling us which will be the fate of the surviving characters or share additional info and points to ponder or… leave the ending open because this too is a possibility.

Noda is not Toriyama or Arakawa, so the fight between Tsurumi and Sugimoto (and possibly Asirpa) is likely not going to take a lot of chapters even if Tsurumi is the final boss.

To give you a better idea, Kiroranke was killed in 2 chapters and a half, after all, Nikaidou in 1, Sofia… in few panels.

I dare to hope that the story won’t handle Tsurumi’s fate in ‘easy mode’ but that whatever fate will befall to the characters will be the result of their actions, not of good/bad luck (that is unless Kadokura shows up, as Kadokura ultimate weapon is his amazing good luck and we all know about it so, if he were to show up, is reasonable to assume Tsurumi would slip under a banana peel, fall off the train and against a pole on which he would stab himself and die while Kadokura laments his ‘misfortune’ that stopped him from taking part to the battle).

Still, it can be Noda will need only 1 more chapter to deal with Tsurumi… or that he’ll make the fight longer enough we’ll get some of it in each chapter (alongside with Asirpa’s attempts to stop the train).

Therefore yeah, for what Noda really need to do, 3 chapters are enough.

For closing up each loose thread… no, 3 chapters aren’t enough but, at this point, I don’t think he means to do so. He has told the story he wanted to say for all the rest he probably feels ‘But that is another story, to be told another time.’ (quote from “The Neverending story” which deliberately left subplots hanging very often to drive home the point that it is, as the title says, a ‘Neverending Story’).

Anonymous said:

I agree that Ogata should have died in Vol 19 instead of what happened to him in the end.  But I had a thought hit me, that it's possible that Ogata was kept alive for so long not only for plot reasons but also because he's a popular character.  Perhaps because he was so popular that Noda decided to wait to kill him off later (unfortunately in the most contrived way).  What do you think?

Again, I don’t really know if Ogata was really meant to die in Vol 19 and was kept alive till now merely due to popular demand or if the plan was ALWAYS what we saw, that he has to commit suicide in Vol 31.

While satisfy his readership is an author’s duty, it is generally not a good idea to do so blindly, keeping alive a character because readers said so without any plans for him.

Of course if the editor gets involved into said matter and impose the author certain things, the author can either comply or drop the series but… honestly, keeping Ogata alive at the time in which the chapters that will go in Vol 19 were released wasn’t such a huge deal that I think an editor would impose Noda to do so.

“Golden Kamuy” was going strong at the time, sure, part of the readership might have gotten disappointed and this might have seen a decrease in the selling… but it wouldn’t have been probably something so dramatic it would have caused the manga to be forced to end prematurely and, since they would have 12 volumes to recover, it might have even be a better way to deal with the problem (a manga that ends in a dissatisfying manner ends up not being recommended which causes sales to drop permanently as no new chapters will be released that can help readers to change their mind).

So I don’t think Noda went to his editor and said ‘hey, I think to kill Ogata in the next chapter’ and the guy answered him ‘NO WAY! DIDN’T YOU SEE HOW READERS LOVE HIM? HE’S TOO POPULAR! YOU MUST KEEP HIM ALIVE AT LEAST UNTIL THE LAST VOLUME OR ELSE!’

If Ogata was meant to be killed in Vol 19 and then he wasn’t, I want to think it’s because Noda had decided to do something different with him… and then his plan got aborted somehow and he went back on the original track.

We had seen with too many volume releases that differ from the manga version that Noda changes his plans, often for the better, so this might have been just this.

Again I might be wrong. I’m not Noda I’m not really with him as he takes his decisions.

Anyway the reason why I think it would have been better to kill Ogata in Vol 19 is the same due to which I think it would have been better not to have Vasily return. They’re kept in the story for basically doing nothing but going back to Vol 17 (Vasily) & Vol 19 (Ogata).

Vasily is shoot in Vol 17, doesn’t die, comes back in Vol 21 but none of his following actions impact the plot in a way that required Vasily to be there or we would have a drastically different story because some fundamental plot point couldn’t be reached without him.

I mean, if you remove Boutarou the gold coin can’t be recovered but if you remove Vasily you can just tweak a little with the story and it goes on the same way.

Ogata is almost the same. He only makes a really relevant contribution, which is to trigger Koito’s distrust of Tsurumi so that Koito and Tsukishima don’t follow Tsurumi and will probably survive to the train ride of hell (unless their wounds were so severe they’ll die off screen or Nagakura won’t kill them off).

Replacing him in that scene would have been a bit tricky because things in Koito’s kidnapping should have gone differently so that it would have been Tsukishima who would have to inadvertently tip him… or Usami (whom we have discovered likes to run his mouth and reveal things that aren’t probably meant to be revealed) would end up saying something to him out of his jealousy, same as he had done with Ogata.

So yeah, I guess Noda could have put Usami in the kidnapping trio instead than Ogata and Usami might have ended up telling him something… but, well with Ogata the scene worked better.

Then what of Ogata? He recover his sniping ability so he can kill Vasily off and then kills himself.

Sure, okay, he killed Usami but there was no specific need to kill Usami in such way in that precise moment. Usami’s role wasn’t that big that, if he had lived until the Goryokaku siege episode and it was Ushiyama that snapped his neck off the story would have taken a totally different course.

Ogata could just have had his epiphany and die in Vol 19 and we wouldn’t have noticed any big difference. Chap 311 showed Asirpa overcoming what had happened just fine. Actually if Ogata had died in Vol 19 his death would have served the plot better.

In chap 206 Sugimoto, in an attempt from dissuading Asirpa from killing, points out that the Ainu belief that people who kill end up in hell might refer to how the intense guilt stop them from returning to their old self. Although Asirpa knows Sugimoto has been changed from his experiences, she doesn’t know the previous Sugimoto and Sugimoto is still an overall sociable and happy guy for most of the time so Sugimoto’s words might not feel that terrible to her. If however she had seen a man kill himself in front of her out of it she would have had a better idea of what ‘who kills end in (psychological) hell’ means.

Asirpa is a bit of a peculiar character in “Golden Kamuy” as her arc is not plot driven but character driven (her arc is basically a ‘coming of age’ arc with her moving from her innocent self to someone aware of her people’s problem and willing to kill to protect what she loves) so this would have worked well.

But that’s just me. I’m not Noda, I don’t have access to his draft, I can’t see what it said and how many changes it suffered. It can even be that, although he was meant to kill him in Vol 19, Noda too loved Ogata and wanted to keep him until the end.

Not everyone is Conan Doyle and want to toss his characters off a cliff, after all.

And the fact I don’t like how Noda handled it, doesn’t mean everyone feels the same and Noda wrote that ending for him with ill intentions toward him.

I don’t really know, maybe we’ll never know why Noda chose such ending and if Ogata was meant to die in Vol 19 or not. Maybe it’ll be revealed in a Q&A or in an interview. Maybe it’ll remain a secret forever. We’ll see.

@xyamaneko said:

What do you think about the page where huci is singing the lullaby and the part with:

“I’m sure the gods are watching you so that you’ll grow up to be a fine man.”

Is shown while Ogata is sleeping? I mean it clearly meant something and I always thought this was to show that he would have some sort of redemption but in my opinion it was never shown?? Now he is dead while everybody hated him.

Any opinions on that?

The reason why Ogata is a controversial character is because his arc has conflicting points.

Some readers watch his arc, see points that are typical of the redemption arc and think ‘it has to be a redemption arc’.

Some readers watch his arc, see points that are typical of the story of the minor bad guy that get killed by the hero for his crimes and think ‘it has to be a justice arc’.

It’s not that one side is making up things, Ogata’s arc is rich of conflicting elements so that both sides, when deciding to write meta about their views, often have to work a lot to give a sense to all they see without slipping in the easy ‘let’s dismiss what doesn’t fit with my theory’.

Ultimately, what we got was neither the ‘redemption arc’ nor the ‘justice arc’ but just a ‘self destruct arc’ that, according to many, didn’t really answer fully to all the things observed about him.

The split in the fandom, with people still trying to fit this arc in their previous views, and the countless takes that are being created by fans as we speak to explain why we got to a ‘self destruction arc’ despite people thinking we would either get a redemption or a justice arc, can be a hint that something didn’t work the way it should have because the ‘solution’ we had to the mystery that Ogata was didn’t cause the fandom to come to an agreement but only split it further.

Maybe Noda originally was uncertain between the ‘redemption arc’ and the ‘justice arc’, hence elements of both were included in the story, then decided a ‘self destruct arc’ was a ‘fair’ compromise between the two sides.

Maybe things will be better cleared up in the volume version.

Or maybe we’re missing elements because we don’t belong to his target audience.

I don’t know.

The elements and tropes we, as readers, are bound to pick up are tied to our culture and our experiences. We aren’t his target audience therefore our readings can be as different as WE are different.

Surely, ultimately, the words “I’m sure the gods are watching you so that you’ll grow up to be a fine man” ended up not being foreshadowing, quite the opposite.

It can be that Noda wanted to create a conflict, to show that, differently from Sakamoto’s son, Ogata, who was a child who wasn’t born by parents who loved each other, wasn’t ‘watched by the gods and so he didn’t have the chance to grow up as a fine man’. After all the previous bit talked about how the kid’s parents were working hard to fed him, so more than a song about gods watching over you, is a song about your parents caring about you, which is something Ogata didn’t have. Ops, no, wait, chap 310 said maybe they did love each other for a short time… not that Ogata could benefit of it. But I’m digressing.

There’s probably some cultural aspect in that blessed thing and gods watching, but I’m not that knowledgeable of Japanese customs at the moment.

I could spend hours watching that double spread as it’s one of my favorite and make a deeper analysis of it but I get that’s not what you’re really asking.

I don’t really know what to say on that regard.

Although a part of the fandom loves the chapter in which Ogata dies, the other is disappointed, to put it mildly, each person for their own reasons. If it can be of some comfort, you’re not alone in being disappointed in how Ogata’s arc ended.

Sorry I can’t really help any more than this.

[amodublagemjaponesa]

BOKU NO HERO ACADEMIA SEIYUUS

[recentanimenews]

The Many Hopeful Idols of I-Chu Appear in New Anime's Latest PV

  Idol-raising mobile game I-Chu is preparing to premiere as a full-fledged anime, and a new PV is showing off its many stars!

  Adapted as I-Chu: Halfway Through the Idol, the anime will feature eight of the game's nine aspiring idol groups. Leading the charge is F∞F (pronounced "Fire Fenix"), comprised of Seiya Aido (CV KENN), Kanata Minato (CV Yūichi Iguchi), and Akira Mitsurugi (CV Toshiyuki Toyonaga). The trio appear in the anime's new key visual:

    A new PV shows the rest of the anime's enormous cast:

    And a series of character setting images reveals the units in their themed costumes. First up is F∞F themselves:

    Also appearnig, reprising their roles from the mobile game, will be:

  ArS (CV Katsufumi Yachi, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Hiroyuki Kagura, Yoji Ikuta, Atsushi Tamaru, Daisuke Hirakawa)

  I♥B (CV Yuuichirou Umehara, Toshiki Matsuda, Natsuki Hanae, Junya Enoki, Naoya Nakanishi)

  Lancelot (CV Yuma Uchida, Tomoaki Maeno, Yuusuke Shirai)

  POP'N STAR (CV Kazutomi Yamamoto, Ayumu Murase, Kouhei Amasaki)

  RE:BERSERK (CV Yoshiyuki Shimozuma, Hiro Shimono, Tetsuya Kakihara)

  Twinkle Bell (CV Showtaro Morikubo, Takashi Kondō)

  Tenjyo Tenge (CV Ryouhei Kimura, Kei Minegishi, Yuuki Ono, Soma Saito)

  The cast remains the same between the anime and the most recent iteration of the game.

  Also appearing will be Megumi Toyoguchi as the groups' producer (and former player-character) Yuzuki Asahina, and Akio Ohtsuka as the bear-suited chief Kumakocho:

    The I-Chu mobile game first launched in Japan in 2015. The game was updated to I-Chu Étoile Stage in April of this year, with the original game discontinuing service this past July. At present, there is no information concerning a global release.

  I-Chu: Halfway Through the Idol premieres in Japan in January 2021.

  Source: Anime! Anime!

    By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

[notassinteticas]

Uma revista, 25 UTAUloids

Imagem por: catticoon

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ㅤㅤO universo do UTAU ainda é meio confuso para algumas pessoas, principalmente para aqueles que acabaram de entrar nele. Neste amontoado de coisas que possui, há algumas que quase ninguém sabe o que são e que não possuem muitas informações espalhadas por aí. E este é o caso dos UTAUloids Windows100%, uma categoria de bancos de voz que poucos conhecem, e os que conhecem não falam tanto assim sobre.

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ㅤㅤOs UTAUloids Windows100% são voicebanks lançados exclusivamente na Windows100%, uma revista japonesa focada em computadores e tecnologia que era publicada mensalmente pela editora SHINYUSHA desde o final dos anos 1990 até julho de 2017. Ela vinha acompanhada de um DVD-ROM com conteúdos extras para serem instalados no computador, como modelos 3D para o MikuMikuDance, softwares e versões de demonstração de jogos, e graças à isso a distribuição dos bancos, que ocorreu entre abril de 2011 e metade de 2013, pôde ser feitas aos leitores. A editora também publicou dois mooks (revista + livro) sobre o sintetizador UTAU que, além dos tutoriais, contêm alguns desses bancos de voz, mas que, hoje em dia, são difíceis de encontrar e adquirir por haverem poucas cópias e serem caras demais; na Amazon estaduniense, por exemplo, há um exemplar não usado sendo vendido por cem dólares. Os mooks são:

  UTAU Starter Pack

UTAU Starter Pack (UTAUスタータパーック) é um mook feito para aqueles que ainda estão começando a se familiarizar com o UTAU. Lançado no dia 23 de janeiro de 2012, contém dez voicebanks exclusivos e mais 13 já lançados gratuitamente (Ex.: Kasane Teto), além do próprio sintetizador, vários tutoriais para ele e sugestões de programas de música, plugins e outras coisas. Também há o perfil de todos os UTAUs presentes nele.

UTAUloids Windows100% incluídos: Kane Tomo, Asane Sana, Mizuo, Akeko, Hagane Hey, Korone Koro, Sakurai Kaon, Amaha Sora typeLON, Ane Mone e Madone Momo. Outros UTAUloids incluídos: Kasane Teto, Momone Momo, Yokune Ruko, Namine Ritsu, Haruka Nana, Sekka Yufu, Satemaro, Pam & Pamyu, Kumono Tsuki, Shigure Nao, Soune Taya, Asane Bou e Komura Gaeri.

UTAU Perfect Master

Diferente do anterior, o UTAU Perfect Master (UTAUパーフェクトマスタ) foi feito para quem já tem experiência com o UTAU. Lançado no dia 17 de dezembro de 2012, infelizmente não há muitas informações sobre ele, apenas que contém outros dez voicebanks exclusivos e mais alguns já lançados antes. Apesar disso, pode-se concluir que possui mais tutoriais de nível mais avançado.

UTAUloids Windows100% incluídos: Hoshino Fumika, Kane Tomo (1sai), Maita, Mitsuko, KA-CHANLOID, KUJILOID, DAICHI, Harune Hana, Kazene Funa e DeoFairy NOL. Outros UTAUloids incluídos: Kasane Teto VCV, Yokune Ruko ♀/♂, Namine Ritsu Kire, Haruka Nana VCV, Sekka Yufu VCV, Keine Ron, Katapa Ruto, Pumpking the Testloid, tori, Fuuga Koto, LOKE, Yamatouchi Iori, Honoka Mei, Maega Emi,  Kemonone Rou, Giga Lacan, Matsudappoiyo, Hakuappoid, Rook, Minorine Towano, Asane Bou VCV, Shirakane Hinata, Madoromi Chika, Ooka Miko e Otodamaya Nitarou & Ichihime.

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ㅤㅤFocando mais nos UTAUloids em si, foram 25 voicebanks lançados na Windows100% no total, e não há muitas informações sobre cada um deles, com exceção de que alguns possuem mais de um tipo de banco e/ou appends inclusos. Por serem disponibilizados apenas com a compra das revistas ou mooks, são difíceis de adquirir devido ao baixo número de exemplares disponíveis desses produtos, e deve-se esclarecer que qualquer distribuição gratuita sem a permissão da SHINYUSHA é proibida. Logo abaixo, há os dados básicos e uma breve descrição de cada um dos bancos:    

Madone Momo

•  Nome: 窓音モモ (Madone Momo) •  Datas de lançamento: 12 de março de 2011 (Windows100% abril/2011) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 23 de janeiro de 2012 (UTAU Starter Pack) •  Provedor de voz: ????? •  Ilustrador: ポリポリ •  Exemplos de uso: Leia e Immoral Actress

Madone Momo (窓音モモ) foi a primeira UTAUloid lançada pela SHINYUSHA para a revista. Por ter sido gravada no formato CV e não apresentar alguns fonemas, sua voz é bastante robótica e pode ser difícil de manusear; algumas pessoas especulam que seu provedor é um funcionário da editora. Uma curiosidade sobre seu sobrenome é que “窓” (”mado”) é o kanji de “janela” e “音” (”ne”), o de “som”, e, ao juntá-los, fica “janela de som”, sendo uma referência ao fato de Momo ter surgido na Windows100%.

Ane Mone

•  Nome: 姉音モネ (Ane Mone) •  Datas de lançamento: 13 de abril de 2011 (Windows100% maio/2011) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 23 de janeiro de 2012 (UTAU Starter Pack) •  Provedor de voz: Otouto No Ane •  Ilustrador: マルイノ •  Exemplos de uso: HOPE e Joker

Em comparação à UTAUloid anterior, Ane Mone (姉音モネ) possui uma qualidade sonora bem melhor e foi gravada em dois formatos diferentes, algo que foi feito nos próximos lançamentos da editora: CV e VCV. Junto ao seu banco de voz, vem uma coleção de ilustrações em estilo chibi da personagem, que usa roupas tradicionais japonesas e diz não saber lidar muito bem com tecnologia e redes sociais, no DVD.

Amaha Sora typeLON

•  Nome: 天羽ソラ typeLON (Amaha Sora typeLON) •  Datas de lançamento: 8 de junho de 2009 (personagem e modelo) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 13 de maio de 2011 (Windows100% junho/2011) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 23 de janeiro de 2012 (UTAU Starter Pack) •  Provedor de voz: LON •  Modelador: ISAO •  Exemplos de uso: Weekender Girl e Buoyant Colors

Sendo uma personagem criada originalmente por ISAO, Amaha Sora (天羽ソラ) teve alguns de seus modelos lançados em edições anteriores da revista, mas só foi virar uma UTAUloid dois anos depois que foi criada. Junto de seu banco, vêm dois modelos 3D da personagem, Type 150 e Type LON, para o MikuMikuDance no DVD.

Sakurai Kaon

•  Nome: 櫻井歌音 (Sakurai Kaon) •  Datas de lançamento: 13 de julho de 2011 (Windows100% agosto/2011) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 23 de janeiro de 2012 (UTAU Starter Pack) •  Provedor de voz: che:Sakurai •  Ilustrador: Romilio •  Exemplos de uso: Tsuntsun Gokko e No More

Sakurai Kaon (櫻井歌音) é uma UTAUloid de voz madura e forte, graças à sua provedora. Não se tem muitas informações relevantes sobre seu banco de voz.

Korone Koro

•  Nome: 転音コロ (Korone Koro) •  Datas de lançamento: 13 de agosto de 2011 (Windows100% setembro/2011) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 23 de janeiro de 2012 (UTAU Starter Pack) •  Provedor de voz: Korosuke •  Ilustrador: rak •  Exemplos de uso: Romantic Hero e Palette

Korone Koro (転音コロ) é uma UTAUloid de voz animada e de ótima qualidade, ideal para músicas pop. Seu visual exótico foi criado por rak, uma ilustradora japonesa conhecida por fazer desenhos para utaites e producers.

Hagane Hey

•  Nome: 鋼音ヘイ (Hagane Hei) •  Datas de lançamento: 13 de setembro de 2011 (Windows100% outubro/2011) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 23 de janeiro de 2012 (UTAU Starter Pack) •  Provedor de voz: Kouhei •  Ilustrador: rak •  Exemplos de uso: WAVE e Mysterious Little Boxes

Baseado em seu provedor de voz e com um visual que remete à chamas, Hagane Hey (鋼音ヘイ) é um UTAUloid de voz potente criado com a intenção de conseguir alcançar notas altas com facilidade.

Kane Tomo

•  Nome: 奏音トモ (Kane Tomo) •  Datas de lançamento: 13 de outubro de 2011 (Windows100% novembro/2011) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 23 de janeiro de 2012 (UTAU Starter Pack) •  Provedor de voz: Tomoko Kaneda •  Ilustrador: 今泉昭彦 •  Exemplos de uso: Fukkireta e Android Girl

Kane Tomo (奏音トモ) foi a primeira UTAUloid da SHINYUSHA a apresentar um banco append, que pode ser ativado usando o SuffixBrocker do UTAU (assim como nos próximos lançamentos): o Dark. Com uma voz infantil e fofa, foi um dos bancos mais bem sucedidos da revista e o único a receber uma atualização posteriormente.

Mizuo

•  Nome: みずお (Mizuo) •  Datas de lançamento: 11 de novembro de 2011 (Windows100% dezembro/2011) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 23 de janeiro de 2012 (UTAU Starter Pack) •  Provedor de voz: Kaoru Mizuhara •  Ilustrador: Tomioka Jirou •  Exemplos de uso: Persecution Complex Cellphone Girl e Happy?

Com seu nome sendo apenas uma junção de uma parte de cada nome de sua provedora, Mizuo (みずお) é uma UTAUloid de voz natural que possui dois appends que deixam-a mais nasalada: Light e Vivid.

Akeko

•  Nome: あけこ (Akeko) •  Datas de lançamento: 13 de dezembro de 2011 (Windows100% janeiro/2012) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 23 de janeiro de 2012 (UTAU Starter Pack) •  Provedor de voz: Akesaka Satomi •  Ilustrador: pun2 •  Exemplos de uso: Relics e となり

Nomeada com o apelido de sua provedora de voz e usando vestes semelhantes à de membros de bandas marciais, Akeko (あけこ) é uma UTAUloid de voz calma e leve que possui dois appends que deixam-a mais nasalada: Light e Vivid.

Asane Sana

•  Nome: アサ音さな (Asane Sana) •  Datas de lançamento: 13 de janeiro de 2012 (Windows100% fevereiro/2012) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 23 de janeiro de 2012 (UTAU Starter Pack) •  Provedor de voz: Asami Sanada •  Ilustrador: Hinata •  Exemplos de uso: Kagaribito e Ai Kotoba

Com visual tradicional e moderno ao mesmo tempo, Asane Sana (アサ音さな) é uma UTAUloid de voz jovial, suave, e até um pouco andrógena, que possui dois appends: Vivid e Boyish.

DeoFairy NOL

•  Nome: 消臭妖精ノール (Shōshū Yōsei Nōru) •  Datas de lançamento: 11 de maio de 2011 (produto) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 13 de julho de 2011 (primeiro voicebank) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 13 de fevereiro de 2012 (Windows100% março/2012) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 17 de dezembro de 2012 (UTAU Perfect Master) •  Provedor de voz: confidencial •  Ilustrador: KEI •  Exemplos de uso: I'm sorry, I'm sorry e too Cute!

DeoFairy NOL (消臭妖精ノール) é uma personagem originalmente criada para representar um desodorante produzido e comercializado pela empresa japonesa KALMOR, e atualmente está presente em diversas mídias. Ela virou uma UTAUloid poucos meses depois do lançamento do produto e seu primeiro banco pode ser baixado gratuitamente em seu site oficial. A versão da revista, além de trazer algumas melhorias, acrescentou gravações em VCV e dois appends, Soft e Vivid.

Matsupoid

•  Nome: まつっぽいど (Matsuppoido) •  Data de lançamento: 13 de março de 2012 (Windows100% abril/2012) •  Provedor de voz: Matsuda Shigeharu •  Ilustrador: グラゲイダー •  Exemplos de uso: MACARON e Paranoia

Matsupoid (まつっぽいど)  foi o primeiro UTAUloid da SHINYUSHA a não aparecer mais tarde em mooks sobre UTAU. Com uma voz forte, ele é baseado no personagem Mukku, do programa infantil Hirake! Ponkikki, e seu provedor é o dublador oficial deste, o que explica o motivo dele e Gachapoid (baseado no Gachapin) serem vistos frequentemente juntos em fanarts e covers.

KUJILOID

•  Nome: くじロイド (Kujiroido) •  Datas de lançamento: 13 de abril de 2012 (Windows100% maio/2012) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 17 de dezembro de 2012 (UTAU Perfect Master) •  Provedor de voz: Wakako Matsumoto (Kujira) •  Ilustrador: Romilio •  Exemplos de uso: Corpse Dance e GLIDE

KUJILOID (くじロイド) é uma UTAUloid de voz madura e grossa, voltada para músicas enka, que possui apenas um append, Adult. O nome “Kuji” (くじ), além de significar “baleia”, foi tirado do nome artístico de sua provedora, Kujira, e a vestimenta da personagem se assemelha à usada por cantores veteranos de enka e tem elementos que remetem ao mar.

Harune Hana e Kazane Funa

•  Nome: 春音ハナ (Harune Hana) ㅤㅤㅤㅤ  風音フナ (Kazane Funa) •  Datas de lançamento: 12 de maio de 2012 (Windows100% junho/2012) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 17 de dezembro de 2012 (UTAU Perfect Master) •  Provedor de voz: Fuuka Haruna •  Ilustrador: ポリポリ •  Exemplos de uso: Lies and a Parade e First Kiss and… (Hana) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ It's Another Maze There e Night Tales Deceive (Funa)

Lançados na mesma edição da revista, Harune Hana (春音ハナ) e Kazane Funa (風音フナ) são dois UTAUloids que passam a impressão de serem irmãos. Enquanto Hana tem uma voz um pouco mais madura e passa a imagem de “irmã mais velha“, Funa (nome dado em homenagem ao gato de sua provedora) tem um vocal mais infantil e fofo.

Mitsuko

•  Nome: みつこ (Mitsuko) •  Datas de lançamento: 13 de junho de 2012 (Windows100% julho/2012) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 17 de dezembro de 2012 (UTAU Perfect Master) •  Provedor de voz: Satomi Arai •  Ilustrador: uturo •  Exemplos de uso: The White Snow Princess Is e KiLLER LADY

Com um uniforme policial colorido e acessórios futurísticos, Mitsuko (みつこ) é uma UTAUloid de voz madura e forte que possui apenas um append, Light.

Maita

•  Nome: まいた (Maita) •  Datas de lançamento: 11 de agosto de 2012 (Windows100% setembro/2012) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 17 de dezembro de 2012 (UTAU Perfect Master) •  Provedor de voz: Mai Kadowaki •  Ilustradores: toshi e Punk •  Exemplos de uso: ALICE2ALICE e Lience

Maita (まいた) é uma UTAUloid de voz nasalada e fofa, como se fosse uma personagem de anime, que possui um append, PLANE, que a deixa mais madura. Seu nome vem do apelido de sua provedora e, como esta costuma interpretar personagens que usam óculos e usa o item como uma marca registrada, a personagem também usa um.

DAICHI

•  Nome: DAICHI •  Datas de lançamento: 13 de setembro de 2012 (Windows100% outubro/2012) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 17 de dezembro de 2012 (UTAU Perfect Master) •  Provedor de voz: Daichi Kanbara •  Ilustrador: 煎茶 •  Exemplos de uso: Folia -Flight of the Iron Chain- e 夏夕空

DAICHI é um UTAUloid com uma voz baixa e polida, descrita como muito fácil de manusear, que possui apenas um append, PLAIN. Pelo seu provedor ser o dublador oficial de Hokuto Ijuuin, do The iDOLM@STER, ele é mais reconhecido pela comunidade do anime (principalmente pelos fãs do personagem) do que pela de UTAU em si, tendo diversos vídeos no NicoVideo de “DAICHI canta, Hokuto dança” (DAICHIが歌い、北斗が踊る). Uma curiosidade é que os acessórios de tigre que DAICHI usa são uma referência ao time de beisebol Hanshin Tigers, o qual Daichi é fã.

Kane Tomo (1sai)

•  Nome: 奏音トモ（1さい） (Kane Tomo (1 sai)) •  Datas de lançamento: 13 de outubro de 2012 (Windows100% novembro/2012) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 17 de dezembro de 2012 (UTAU Perfect Master) •  Provedor de voz: Tomoko Kaneda •  Ilustrador: 今泉昭彦 •  Exemplos de uso: In Spring, With You e Goodbye, April's Mr. Doppel

Lançada em comemoração ao primeiro aniversário de Kane Tomo, 1sai (1さい) é uma versão atualizada da UTAUloid, transformando a parte VCV do banco anterior, antes monopitch, em um tripitch e acrescentando mais dois appends: High e Low. Junto dele, vem um modelo 3D da personagem, feito por Aun.N, para o MikuMikuDance no DVD.

KA-CHANLOID

•  Nome: かあちゃんロイド (Kaa-chanroido) •  Datas de lançamento: 13 de novembro de 2012 (Windows100% dezembro/2012) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 17 de dezembro de 2012 (UTAU Perfect Master) •  Provedor de voz: Aoki Kazuyo •  Ilustrador: くらふと •  Exemplos de uso: Joking Speaker e Doraemon no Uta

Tendo a figura de uma senhora de sorriso gentil vestindo um avental, KA-CHANLOID (かあちゃんロイド) é uma UTAUloid que transmite gentileza e bondade em sua voz, como uma mãe. Possui algumas amostras extras de falas parodiadas da mãe de Gouda, personagem do anime Doraemon a qual sua provedora dubla.

Hoshino Fumika

•  Nome: 星野フミカ (Hoshino Fumika) •  Datas de lançamento: 13 de dezembro de 2012 Windows100% janeiro/2013) ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 17 de dezembro de 2012 (UTAU Perfect Master) •  Provedor de voz: Fumi Hirano •  Ilustrador: Shizuma Yoshinori •  Exemplos de uso: ME!ME!ME! e Dependent Fritters

Hoshino Fumika (星野フミカ) é uma UTAUloid descrita como fácil de usar, sendo recomendado para usuários iniciantes de UTAU. Combinando com seu visual, sua voz normal possui um tom um pouco sensual, enquanto seu append Breathy soa de forma mais suave e calma.

Chono Masahiroid

•  Nome: 蝶野マサヒロイド (Chōno Masahiroido) •  Data de lançamento: 12 de janeiro de 2013 (Windows100% fevereiro/2013) •  Provedor de voz: Chono Masahiro •  Ilustrador: グラゲイダー •  Exemplos de uso: Sugarvine e Chono on Your Right Shoulder

Com o visual baseado no gimmick do ex-lutador japonês de wrestling, e seu provedor, Chono Masahiro, Chono Masahiroid (蝶野マサヒロイド) apresenta uma voz grossa surpreendentemente suave, mas que pode ficar intimidadora dependendo de como for ajustada.

Utanami Kazusa

•  Nome: 歌浪カズサ (Utanami Kazusa) •  Data de lançamento: 13 de fevereiro de 2013 (Windows100% março/2013) •  Provedor de voz: Kazusa Aranami •  Ilustrador: Romilio •  Exemplos de uso: FREELY TOMORROW e Regret Message

Carregando um grande jarro que parece conter uma bebida chamada Aranamin C (アラナミンC), Utanami Kazusa (歌浪カズサ) é uma UTAUloid introduzida na revista como tendo uma voz animada, vívida e emocionante, e possui um append Vivid e outras fontes sonoras extras.

Momochi Minami

•  Nome: 桃知みなみ (Momochi Minami) •  Data de lançamento: 13 de março de 2013 (Windows100% abril/2013) •  Provedor de voz: Minami Momochi •  Ilustrador: ha-ru •  Exemplos de uso: Circus Monster e GO MY WAY!!

Com a mesma imagem e nome da DJ e idol japonesa, não há muitas informarções relevantes sobre o banco de voz de Momochi Minami (桃知みなみ). Junto à ele, vem um modelo 3D da personagem, feito por Kio, para o MikuMikuDance no DVD.

Ihiro

•  Nome: いひろ (Ihiro) •  Data de lançamento: 13 de abril de 2013 (Windows100% maio/2013) •  Provedor de voz: Hiromi Igarashi •  Ilustrador: kakao •  Exemplos de uso: Artemis e Ninja Re Bang Bang

Também conhecido como Ihiro-chan (いひろちゃん), Ihiro (いひろ) foi o último UTAUloid lançado pela  SHINYUSHA na revista. Para combinar com seu visual andrógeno, dois tipos de vocais foram gravados e inseridos em seu banco de voz: um masculino, que é sua voz padrão, e outro feminino.

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ㅤㅤNota-se pelos nomes, visuais e conceitos básicos que grande parte desses voicebanks são uma representação de seus provedores de voz, os quais são personalidades famosas, dentro do UTAU. Mesmo com o investimento em contratar estas pessoas para participar das gravações, nem todas as vozes apresentam uma qualidade sonora muito boa, fazendo com que a imagem delas seja a única coisa que possa incentivar os compradores a quererem ter os bancos em sua coleção. Além disso, por serem considerados raros, poucos usuários do sintetizador os adquiriram (principalmente de forma legal), fazendo com que não haja tantas músicas e covers com eles. Pode-se dizer que o projeto da Windows100% trouxe bons frutos, mas praticamente todos não são tão memoráveis assim, sendo facilmente esquecidos e deixados de lado por boa parte da comunidade.

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Referências bibliográficas

•  Windows 100% UTAU, no UTAU Wikia; •  UTAU窓百組, no NicoNicoPedia; •  Windows100%, no UTAU音声ライブラリwiki; •  Windows100%, no MikuMikuDance Wikia; •  Comentário presente no jornal Windows 100% UTAU and Macnes????, no DeviantArt.