guess who just got their copies of Secret Love and Hanamonogatari =u=

Secret Love was actually published a couple of months before what is generally considered the "first yuri manga", Shiroi Heya no Futari (well, first if you discount Sakura Namiki). It hasn't been scanned yet and digital copies aren't sold anywhere so I got a friend to send me her physical copy. (so kind T~T)

Hanamonogatari is of course the quintessential class-s collection, you've gotta read it if you have any interest in this sort of stuff.

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