Help:Creating an UTAU character

Naming is one important aspect for an UTAUloid. As with their roots, the VOCALOIDs, their names give an insight to their purpose. This aspect for the UTAUloid is one with outmost importance.

Naming Type

 * 1) Purpose-based Naming: An UTAUloid is named based on what they will be used for. An example of this is VOCALOID Luka Megurine. Her Kanji-based name stands for "Encompassing Sound", which is the target of her bilingual voicebank, reaching out both to Japanese and English enthusiasts alike. For UTAU, UTAUloids like Tsubame Utanomiyatsuko is named to "Be the creator of songs," pertaining to his voicebank's purpose.


 * 1) Aesthetically Descriptive Naming: An UTAUloid is named based on his or her aesthetics or visual design. Many UTAUloids are named this way, like in the case of Taya Soune.


 * 1) Preferential Naming: An UTAUloid is named based on how the creator wants it; either after himself or herself, or by a name unrelated to musical terms. VOCALOIDs Gackpoid and Megpoid are such examples. For UTAU, Camila Melodia and Anaka Blythe stand out as examples.

Except for Preferential Naming, it should be noted that most family names of UTAUloids end with the Ne, Uta and other Kanji characters related to music or voice. This has been the naming pattern that was inherited from VOCALOIDs, but there are creators deviating from this pattern.

Naming Ethnicity

 * 1) Defined Japanese Name: UTAUloids named this way have proper Japanese names, whose Kanji characters resolve correctly with the pronunciation and their purpose. For foreigners, this is rather tricky without understanding the types of Kanji in circulation, and understanding of the Japanese language.

As carried over from VOCALOIDs, only their first name is written in Katakana; Their surname MUST be written in Kanji. In seldom cases, a Hiragana character may appear alongside the family name written in Kanji. The exception however, is with Nana Macne, whose family name is written alongside with English characters. This is not encouraged however unless in special cases.

Matching Kanji surnames must typically comprise of an adjective or verb. Also, in the Japanese way of naming, it is written family name first before given name. In the case of a person with two given names, the family name is written first before the given names.


 * 1) Western Name: Western naming goes as