Recently I’ve been looking back through the old blog of Momone Momo’s character designer, momomomo-P. Never quite a celebrity figure in the development UTAU culture but still an important contributor even beyond Momo’s creation and this old blog becomes a perfect time capsule for readers’ enjoyment today (and by readers plural I really just mean me =u=)
音声合成大辞典2010 Project
A daring attempt to catalogue every single UTAU voicebank released, an immense effort for 2010 and probably impossible to achieve again in current year.
1st post:【あお】~【こう】
(the term ‘maidcore’ shows up in the entry for Acme Iku… I didn’t realize maidcore was so ancient)
2nd post: 【こと】~【ぴー】
3rd post: 【ぴー】~【わん】
MMD Cup Entries list
第3回MMD杯本選の投票は明日までです
第4回MMD杯・予選 UTAU関連
第4回MMD杯・本選 UTAU関連
第5回MMD杯 UTAU関連
第6回MMD杯 UTAU関連動画
The Semimonthly VocaUTAU Popularity Ranking
A great archive for tracking the relative popularity of certain voicebanks
UTAU用音源の趨勢
The Nyan Cat Saga
You might remember that the version of Daniwell-P’s Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya! that made it into the viral nyan cat video was actually a Momone Momo cover of the song, and that cover… made by our lovely momomomo-P
「にゃ」ゲシュタルト崩壊 (Initial cover upload)
でんどーいり?? (momomomo-P discovers the nyan cat video)
みりおん!! (nyan cat reaches one million views)
祝 いっせんまん!!!!!!!! (nyan cat reaches ten million views!!!!!!!)
アカペラだニャン♪ (nyan cat reaches twenty million views♪)
The Manga of momomomo-P
Hopefully I’ll translate these in another post (I promise, I promise)
Also an early example of Defoko’s dandere characterization…
まんが描いてみましたです
続けて描いてみましたです
まんがでGo! その3
まんがでGo! その4
まんがでGo! その5
まんがでGo! その6