#shiro daifukuin

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Shiro Daifukuin

Today’s UTAU is a very unknown one with some fascinating lore! How often do you hear about UTAUs, mochi, and youkai in the same post?

Listen to her sample here!

Shiro Daifukuin (大福音白) is a Japanese UTAU created by Kaoru Hagiwara and Shinya Arino. She has CV and VCV voicebanks available. Her default tone is cute and cheerful, but it still sounds mature. She seems to sing with energy even with minimal tuning! She also has a voicebank that’s “not sweet,” but I couldn’t find a sample, so I don’t know what that means.

Shiro is 21 years old “in human terms.” It seems like the group of UTAUs that she belongs to can take three different forms: daifuku, “human” (a form used to blend in with actual humans), and ayakashi. Each form has a different appearance, voice, and personality. Google is telling me that an ayakashi is a type of youkai, but daifuku is a type of mochi? I may go back and do the other UTAUs later. I’m very curious about this.

...As for Shiro, the only form given is “human.” She’s free-spirited and unrestrained. Despite being smart, she can’t read the room, nor is she good at passing through automatic doors. I wonder what happens when she tries?

Another tidbit: rather than referring to others with second-person pronouns, it appears that she only uses nicknames. She’s just very interesting, OK? I may have found a new UTAU to use myself!

Read more about her here!