#fumei

The Unclear Maid

The youngest sibling of Mugoi-San and Shiro-San.

Fumei-San's gender is unknown. It is assumed that they are a man, due to their short hair and somewhat aggressive temper, but that is stereotype.

Due to their tendency to cross-dress between different gendered clothes, it is difficult to discern their gender.

They are the tallest of their sisters, and looks very alike to Shiro-San with her braids cut off.

This UTAU is from the same group Coal Black is, but doesn’t have a limited download time. They have 3 voicebanks, and the one I’ll be talking about today is the most well equipped and fleshed out one. This review was requested by an anon, but I believe it might be the same person who requested Coal Black too <3 thank you! I’m glad this group has a big fan!

*Art by 谷地田かずき

Hear a Sample of Kataban Fumei  -才-

Bio

Name: 型番不明/ｶﾀﾊﾞﾝﾌﾒｲ/Kataban Fumei (The kanji for his name means “model number unclear”)

Height: 178 cm Weight: 68 kg Body type: Young man  Date of manufacturing: Unknown (There is a theory that it is April 27th, but he denies it) An android who appeared at the ykzroid series manufacturing plant one day. He always has an eerie smile on his face, and is uncannily like a flesh-and-blood human. He seems to be highly intelligent. He is a being modeled after a deceased person, as faithful to the original as possible.

Official Site

To make navigating the website easier, I’ll send a direct link to Fumei’s page. The first set of links on the page points to the voicebank I’m talking about today. The button at the top that says “ ダウンロード” will take you there. Fumei is about 610 MB when unzipped and comes with fully generated frq files.

First Impressions

Fumei has a crisp androgynous voice. With five pitches, he has a wide range from tenor to mezzo soprano. His pronunciation and accent are very strong.

Configuration

His five pitches are D3, G3, C4, F4, and G4; with G4 being a falsetto pitch. There is less of a robotic sound than CB which is a welcome difference! The samples/frqs on the falsetto pitch are a bit iffy, but that kind of voice is very hard to record, so I get it. It’s not even in the prefix.map by default anyways.

Fumei, also like CB, has a ton of extras, including consonant endings intended for use with other languages, rolled R samples, 3 types of breaths, vocal fry, and alternate pronunciations for some vowels. The consonant endings are kind of over pronounced and a little harsh sounding, but they work well enough for their intended purpose.

My recommended flags: h20H10P90F0

My recommended resamplers: f2resamp, fresamp12

Final Thoughts

Fumei is an overall great and fascinating voice with barely any mistakes. I would genuinely recommend using him, especially if you like multipitch voicebanks with lots of extras!

Momo: Yelled at?

Mei:

Lost Spirits - Fumei

- Fumei translates to lost or missing. They are the ones that most likely did something wrong as Time Spirits. If their offence wasn’t bad enough to get destroyed, they just end up as Damned spirits. Unless they get an artificial soul in time.  Artificial soul is part of waypoint crystal. There are countless amount of those crystals and the younger the crystal, the better results. Artificial souls corrupts spirits when it is placed in the chest. The color changes are part of the corruption and if the cracks reach back to the soul, the spirit will get destroyed. The soul also affects their physical form and for whatever reason they end up having longer tails than any of the other spirits but shorter ears. 

Fumei spirits tend to wander around but don’t pose any real danger unless you attack them. They are in constant feeling of emptiness and some can endure it forever and some may just end up ripping the soul off and destroying themselves. 

Damned Spirits - Akuryo

hell this was a month ago and i never saw it!!! oops!!!