Okay, I Figured It Out! Otoma-chan Is The Hat. GUMI Uses U-chan For Una, Just Like Gackpo.

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???

Health Update

I've actually been meaning to post this for a while, but hey, better late than never.

Upon further ultrasound analysis, it seems that I don't actually have a teratoma!

But.

The OBGYN thinks I have hemorrhagic cysts instead. So blood, clots, etc. build up into ovarian cysts over the course of my cycle and then just bleed out again when it's time to go. Not the worst thing in the world, but in my case, they're still getting big enough to be a risk factor for ovarian torsion. Fun.

Anyway, that's all for now. I'll see you on the next episode of "I hate my body and my body hates me."

I love her.

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

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, but why is Donnie such a mood?