YMMV / UTAU

• Archive Panic: Making certain voicebanks can induce this reaction, based off of how much is needed to record for it, especially those of foreign languages. The Japanese language only needs anywhere around 52 phonetic samples to make a CV voicebank, while a VCV voicebank can take anywhere from 100 to 200 samples, depending on how smooth you want it to sound. Want to make an English CVVC voicebank though? Hope you're willing to record anywhere between 500 to over 1000 phonetic samples! How about VCCV, which is the current gold standard for English in UTAU? That's 4000 SAMPLES that you're going to have to record.^noteNaturally, this is because English is one of the most complex languages out there, while Japanese is one of least complex ones.
• Broken Base: Ritsu's profile. Is it a parody of ridiculous Utauloid profiles in an attempt to get people to focus more on the music, or a serious background that needs to be stuck to no matter what?
• Common Knowledge: Despite being the first UTAU to really hit big, Teto isn't actually the first UTAU character overall: that title belongs to Uta Utane, who is the program's default vocal.
• Covered Up: A few UTAU covers have managed to completely trump their original songs:
  • Namine Ritsu was the poster child for early examples of this, with Ritsu's covers of "The Wanderlast" (originally with Luka) and "-ERROR" (originally with Lily) being the most well-known versions of both songs to the point the originals are practically forgotten.
  • Momone Momo's version of "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" is by far the most known in comparison to the original Miku version, mostly due to Momo's cover being the one featured in the memetic Nyan Cat video.
  • Although the original is also fairly famous, Teto's "Kasane Territory" is often mistaken to be original to her when it's actually a remix-cover of "⑨ destiny" by SilverForest, a Touhou Project fan song.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Most of the characters listed on the Character page can be counted, but there are a few standouts:
  • Kasane Teto, of course, is practically synonymous with the UTAU community due to being the first character to make herself known and popular despite originating as a prank. Nowadays, Teto has grown popular enough to migrate to commercial programs such as Synthesizer V.
  • Although their popularity has tapered off in recent years due to a variety of factors, Namine Ritsu was one for the early scene due to their rather attractive androgynous design, high-quality and powerful voice and their infamously nonsensical profile.
  • Gekiyaku and Kazehiki enjoyed a very high spike in popularity halfway through the 2010s for their versatile voices and dark designs, with them frequently topping charts in the Vocaloid scene. They ended up getting a resurgence when they were added as voicebanks for the recent VOCALOIDβ project.
  • Adachi Rei's popularity exploded through online Vocaloid music festivals such as The VOCALOID Collection, with many drawing to her for her cute design, charmingly clunky voice (that was made completely from scratch using sounds edited on Audacity) and her creator's passion towards making her into a real life-size robot.
• Fan Nickname: Uta Utane is usually called Defoko from the Japanese pronunciation of default, "Deforuto."
• Fanon:
  • Teto Kasane's official age is 31, but fans often retcon it into 15, explaining that she is "31 in chimera years".
  • Ruko's and Rook's official ages (12 and 13 years old respectively) have been retconned by fans into 19 and 20.
• Fanon Discontinuity:
  • Nearly everything on Namine Ritsu's official profile, specifically the fact that he is officially described as a 6-year old misanthropic Jerkass who pads his chest with missiles (and thus weighs 25 tons), tends to be ignored by fans due to the over the top nature.
  • Yokune Ruko's gender officially leans heavily on the male side, being 90% male. But due to their feminine appearance, some fans still refer to them using female pronouns.
• Friendly Fandoms: Unsurprisingly, they have this with the Vocaloid fandom, to the point that the two fandoms nearly perfectly overlap each other.
  • They also seem to have some synergy with the Puyo Puyo fandom, if Feveroid is anything to go off of.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: In spite of being a western UTAUloid, Pumpking the Testloid is immensely popular with Japanese UTAU users, to the point of even appearing alongside Teto in the Windows 100% magazine.
• Heartwarming Moments: More of a meta example, but to see Kasane Teto, who was originally intended to be nothing more than a joke parody of Hatsune Miku, get officially acknowledged by Crypton, to the point of being a playable character in Project Diva and even joining right alongside Miku and the other Crypton vocaloids in Miku Symphony 2018-2019 is nothing short of heartwarming, to the point that the Youtube official video upload for "Taisetsu Na Koto" is filled with comments from fans who are proud of how much Teto has grown, going from being a mere joke in her early days to becoming a well respected virtual singer who can officially stand toe to toe with Miku and the others. Thus, when she was announced she'd be commercially available through Synth V, her fans felt thoroughly vindicated and welcomed her status with open arms.
  • "Adachi Rei", an animated video by avogado6 depicting Rei's life story, based on the real events behind her creation. Rei starts as a mere character on a screen only communicating through beeps and text, but through her creator's hard work and passion for her she is eventually given the ability to sing like a certain turquoise idol (her UTAU voicebank), the ability to talk (her A.I.VOICE release), and thanks to her creator's crowdfunding campaign, a body to walk and move with. The ending of the video depicts Rei driving to the beach with her creator to take her first steps, all while Rei narrates how grateful she is for her creator's love despite all the roadblocks they faced to make her real. It's made all the more heartwarming when you consider that as her real-life creator missile_39 gets closer to completing her, this scene might eventually become a reality.
    I can sing songs. I can speak. And finally...I'm able to walk, too.
    >Happiness has been installed.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Ritsu, despite looking female, is supposed to be a male character and was advertised as the fourth in Crypton's Character Vocal series. Oddly enough, Crypton was planning to have a male vocal as their CV04... but he fell to the wayside and is indefinitely in a state of limbo.
  • In Synth V, it was possible to configure Genbu's gender factor setting in a way to make him sound like Teto. A few years later, Teto herself would be officially released for Synth V.
• Ho Yay: Scott-129's bio claims that his "favorite person" is Rook and lists him among his "likes".
• Idiosyncratic Ship Naming: The names of the most famous ships with Tei: Ten being with Len Kagamine, Tier being with Mayu, and Tension, being with Hatsune Miku herself.
• LGBT Fanbase:
  • Kasane Teto has a community of nonbinary and transgender fans, as her gender being canonically described simply as "chimera" (which Word of God states is technically meaningless, so the specifics of Teto's gender are up for interpretation) has led to Teto being oft-interpreted as nonbinary herself.
  • Genderqueer fans absolutely adore Yokune Ruko thanks to being intersexual and possessing high-quality male and female voicebanks.
  • Because of his female voicebank and appearance, Ritsu has popularity with gender non-conforming fans.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Fukkireta.^ExplanationA Fan Nickname for "Mischievous Function" by Kasane Teto. It is particularly used in reference to this PV featuring Teto dancing to the song, which became insanely popular back in the early 2010s, with hundreds of videos across Nico Nico Douga and YouTube replicating the dance featured in the PV (This montage should give one an idea on just how popular it was in its prime). The meme would later see a resurgence in popularity in recent years thanks to hololive.
  • The entire fact you can make your own voicebanks with this thing has become an entire internet trend. As in making voicebanks and covers out of several other characters and pretty much turning it into a Massive Multiplayer Crossover version of Vocaloid. Some good examples are A Speak and Spell singing "Mind Brand", Dio Brando singing "Snow Halation", The Terminator singing "Rocket Cider", The Scout singing "Matryoshka" and subesquently an entire concert was made with several of these in response to the COVID-19 lockdown.
• Memetic Troll: Ritsu, mostly due to the very trollish nature of their profile.
• Moe: Some of the cuter-looking UTAUs can absolutely have a moe feel, such as Momone Momo.
• Never Live It Down:
  • No matter how many updates are made to the program for smoother phonetic transitions or how much effort that was put into an UTAUloid to make it sound extremely realistic, UTAUloids are still mostly known for being extremely robotic sounding in comparison to Vocaloid, thanks to early resamplers being rather robotic sounding in general and CV for the longest while being the only recording style. It doesn't help that videos from this time period tend to be the most popular ones on both YouTube and Nico Nico Douga. Though, some would argue the more robotic tone to their voice is part of their charm. This reputation of UTAU voices has grown even more pronounced as incredibly realistic AI-based vocals such as the ones on Synth V and CeVIO have gotten more popular, leaving even the best CVV banks in the dust.
  • Although not everyone, the UTAUloid fanbase has developed a reputation of being a haven for Small Name, Big Ego content creators due to there being several notable examples of UTAUloid creators who believe their UTAUloid isn't just Vocaloid quality, but actively exceeds them. Several noteworthy creators have had rather choice things to say about negative comments towards their UTAUloids over the years, with a few even having public meltdowns in the process. This has, unfortunately, given the UTAUloid fanbase an unflattering stereotype of being populated with nothing but drama kings/queens.
• OT3: It's not uncommon to see Teto/Momo/Defoko as one, given their status as the three "representative" UTAU characters.
• Pop Culture Holiday: October 10th (10/10) is recognized as Teto Day, due to "ten" sounding very similar to Teto's name. Teto's birthday is also observed on April 1st.
• Popular with Furries: Since It's possible for anyone to make a voicebank for an UTAU, there have also been plenty of furry characters that have been created, with the characters themselves being well-liked. Notable examples include Rouon Aro, Mine Laru, WALTT, Waon Ikuto and Akagami Hero.
• Squick: Tei's obsession with Len can come across as this due to Tei being 5 years older than Len, who is 14.
• Values Dissonance: The ship between Tei and Len is quite popular in Japan, with fans finding Tei's over-the-top devotion either cute or funny. However, in most western countries the ship is much more frowned upon due to the former's unhealthy obsession with the latter and the five year age gap between them.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Kaiserine Sympherianne. Despite her official bio clearly stating her gender as female, there are some audiences who continue to mistake her for a male UTAU.

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