AVAST, ME HEARTIES!!!

AVAST, ME HEARTIES!!!

It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

If ye get lost in the vast sea of pirate vocabulary, don't worry! There be plenty of islands out there to shelter ye until ye be shipshape and ready to plunder. In fact, I have map to one right here. ×v•

Now get out there 'n' make Cap'n Foxy proud!

I'm scrolling through Gackpo's official Twitter right now, and oh my gosh, the social media team behind this whole thing is made of geniuses. It's only GUMI, Gackpo, and Una for now, but it's still great. They all have their own little character quirks, and it's so cute!!

Una uses a lot of cutesy emoticons in addition to emojis, whereas the other two gravitate more toward emojis.

Gackpo calls Una "U-chan" and doesn't use any honorifics for GUMI. He's also a little goofy and refers to himself in the third person sometimes.

GUMI calls Gackpo "Gakunii-chan" and Una (or her hat? Google Translate can only do so much) "Otomachan." She also tweets in English the most frequently of the three.

Oh, and we're getting GUMI and Gackpo bath salts I guess???

So...

AI Otomachi Una is a thing.

I'm debating over whether or not to get her.

Pros:

She's cute. She sparks joy.

Her updated Sugar voicebank honestly sounds really good.

Since she has two cross-lingual voicebanks, I might be more motivated to practice using XSyn. I love GUMI V4, but copy/pasting Japanese syllables from Wikipedia to make song lyrics is painful. (Is there any way to make this process quicker?)

GUMI will have a friend that isn't one of the standard Yamaha voices.

She'd be the first non-adult voice in my (admittedly very small) arsenal, adding a bit of variety to the lineup.

This will show Internet Co. that their products are wanted. With enough interest in/purchases of their V6 voicebanks, maybe more of their characters will get updates. That's a big maybe, but never say never.

Cons:

She's freaking expensive ($138 US before tax).

Her updated Spicy voicebank is kind of underwhelming.

I love playing around with tuning/making covers privately, but I haven't had the courage to actually upload anything to the internet; in this sense, it might just seem like an expensive waste of time.

The whole "interest in Internet Co.'s stuff" thing outlined above isn't guaranteed to work.

So with all that said, I'm tossing this decision to a third party since I'm super indecisive.

Okay, I figured it out! Otoma-chan is the hat. GUMI uses U-chan for Una, just like Gackpo.

I'm scrolling through Gackpo's official Twitter right now, and oh my gosh, the social media team behind this whole thing is made of geniuses. It's only GUMI, Gackpo, and Una for now, but it's still great. They all have their own little character quirks, and it's so cute!!

Una uses a lot of cutesy emoticons in addition to emojis, whereas the other two gravitate more toward emojis.

Gackpo calls Una "U-chan" and doesn't use any honorifics for GUMI. He's also a little goofy and refers to himself in the third person sometimes.

GUMI calls Gackpo "Gakunii-chan" and Una (or her hat? Google Translate can only do so much) "Otomachan." She also tweets in English the most frequently of the three.

Oh, and we're getting GUMI and Gackpo bath salts I guess???

💀

..official tmnt twitter please

I love her.

I FOUND IT GUYS I SPENT HALF AN HOUR LOOKING FOR THIS VIDEO AND ITS HERE