Chanko Oedo

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Oedo Chanko(大江戸ちゃんこ)
Profile information
Gender	Female
Pronouns	She/Her
Ethnicity	Japanese
General information
Introduced	May 21, 2017
Type	Zunzun Project
Voicer	Sashide Maria
Affiliation	SSS LLC.
Language	Japanese
Voicebank	VCV
Range	Pitch groups: B3, E4, A#4
Formats	Hiragana encoded and aliased
Sources	Official Website

Oedo Chanko (大江戸ちゃんこ(おおえどちゃんこ)) is a Japanese UTAU made by SSS LLC.. She is capable of singing. She was announced to carry out a crowdfunding campaign for a talk voicebank for VOICEPEAK, a commercial AI text-to-speech software co-developed by Dreamtonics Co., Ltd. and AH-Software Co. Ltd. (the latter which will handle production of the voicebank).

She is voiced by Maria Sashide (指出毬亜).

History

Oedo Chanko's first official artwork was published on March 20, 2013 when she got her own official Twitter account; there she was depicted riding a then-unnamed giant robot suit shaped like a sumo wrestler. This sumo robot was given the name Genjimaru one week earlier. Her first mention on Tohoku Zunko's official Twitter happened three months later.

In June 2016, SSS LLC., in collaboration with WAO Corporation and Studio Live, applied for the young animator development project "Anime Tamago 2017"; they were selected as the commissioned production organization. The film was animated under the title Zunda Horizon (ずんだホライずん). As requested by the commissioning organization, it was produced in full animation, as were the other animations. It also introduced five singing songs –all made in vocal synthesizers like VOCALOID for the lead protagonist Zunko and UTAU for all other characters, including lead antagonist Chanko–, some of which featured musical-style performances.

On February 11, 2017, the anime film's full cast of characters and their voice actresses was published; it listed Oedo Chanko as being voiced by Maria Sashide. On March 11, a completion announcement screening for Zunda Horizon was held at Ikebukuro HUMAX Cinemas along with three other films, followed by a late show screening at Theatre Shinjuku from April 22 to April 28, and an in-flight screening on JAL. The UTAU soundtrack recorded for the anime was also released along with demo songs, including at least one with Chanko. Her debut demo song "Toritome", also featuring her two companions Kansai Shinobi and Chubu Tsurugi, was released on NicoNico on April 21.

On May 9, the anime was released on YouTube and NicoNico for free for a month, and the production story was broadcast on Studio Live's channel. A crowdfunding campaign was also conducted for this anime; if a certain percentage was to be achieved, then the next production would be considered. Chanko, Shinobi, and Tsurugi's UTAUs, produced under the direction of Higenashi (also known as Higeoex), were released as free downloads on May 21 along with the YouTube upload of "Toritome".

Concept

Chanko is a second-year primary school student at Furusato Girls Academy. She is also head of the rival organization "Daitokai", which seeks to turn everything into natto (as opposed to Zunko's group, which seeks to turn everything into zunda-mochi; both natto and zunda-mochi are made from edamame beans). She looks childish, but is also very selfish. Her birthday is July 10, which is also dubbed Natto Day.

• Hobbies: Ordering other people around. Because of that, she was never able to attend school while growing up, and thus enjoys going to school now.
• Abilities: Controlling and riding in her sumo robot, Genjimaru. She possesses the strongest ability out of all the characters who have made their debut in Zunda Horizon. Using the fan that she wears on her head, she is also able to manipulate the actions of anyone whom she douses with her special salt.
• Aspirations: Creating a world under "Daitokai" that is hospitable and accepting of those who possess special powers... or at least it was. Now, it's just "having fun in school".

Etymology

Her given name, Chanko, was taken from chankonabe, a Japanese stew usually eaten by sumo wrestlers in vast quantities to gain weight until they hit their target. Her surname, Oedo or Ōedo, is a reference to the Toei Ōedo Line, a subway line operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation; it literally means "big Edo", Edo being the old name for Japan's capital city of Tokyo.

Appearance

WORK IN PROGRESS

Relations

• Tohoku Zunko - Rival
• Kansai Shinobi - Scout for "Daitokai", as well as Zunko's underclassman and co-worker at her part-time job
• Chubu Tsurugi - General of "Daitokai" and Zunko's upperclassman
• Genjimaru - Sumo robot operated by Chanko as her means of transportation at "Daitokai"

Voicebanks

Voice	Reclist ; Range	Description ; Download
VCV	VCV (Pitch groups: B3, E4, A#4)	"Chanko's voicebank, multipitch.; DL"

Voice Samples

Demos

• "トリトメ" (Toritome) by Bakuha Mikan on NicoNico and YouTube
• "テトテンシャン" (Tetotension) by Taira on YouTube (deleted)

Reputation

WORK IN PROGRESS

Gallery

Chanko riding her sumo bot Genjimaru

External Links

• Official Website
• VocaDB – UTAU entry