Okay, I Figured It Out! Otoma-chan Is The Hat. GUMI Uses U-chan For Una, Just Like Gackpo.

Okay, I figured it out! Otoma-chan is the hat. GUMI uses U-chan for Una, just like Gackpo.

I'm scrolling through Gackpo's official Twitter right now, and oh my gosh, the social media team behind this whole thing is made of geniuses. It's only GUMI, Gackpo, and Una for now, but it's still great. They all have their own little character quirks, and it's so cute!!

Una uses a lot of cutesy emoticons in addition to emojis, whereas the other two gravitate more toward emojis.

Gackpo calls Una "U-chan" and doesn't use any honorifics for GUMI. He's also a little goofy and refers to himself in the third person sometimes.

GUMI calls Gackpo "Gakunii-chan" and Una (or her hat? Google Translate can only do so much) "Otomachan." She also tweets in English the most frequently of the three.

Oh, and we're getting GUMI and Gackpo bath salts I guess???

COWABUNGA!

Rise fans, here’s how to ACTUALLY get the show renewed:

Ok gang, looks like the creator of rottmnt has hinted that if we make enough noise, renewal can creep back onto the table. As someone who’s spent the better part of a year in the Our Flag Means Death fandom and have observed organized tactics that actually worked to draw attention and get it renewed, I have some advice.

Whenever you tag #rottmnt, tag or @ Nickelodeon as well. I cannot stress enough how important this is. When you don’t do this the chances of someone from the team actually seeing your post drops exponentially. When we were grinding to get ofmd season 2, a hugely important part of that success was the organized effort to call out to HBO Max directly.

Likewise, find out which social Media Nickelodeon networkers, producers, representative accounts, etc are actually active on. Post there. Again, it’ll increase the chances of the campaign actually being noticed for the scale that it is. Posting #saverottmnt on sites that Nickelodeon simply doesn’t frequent is not pointless, but it really only serves to drum up hype and tell fans possibly in the dark about the movement. But as I said before, our most important target is the Studio itself.

Try to also hashtag #saveRiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinja Turtles. It’s a lot to type I know, but the show’s acronym may not show up in whatever systems the studio uses to track the internet presence of their content.

Watch the show and movie on it’s official platforms like you need it to breath. Watch it as many times as you have the whim to, turn it in in the background while you do chores, show it to your friends and family members, ANYTHING to help cause a noticeable spike in viewership. It HAS to be official platforms too or it doesn’t count. Ratings are king.

This one’s a little more involved but if even just a a few dozen or a hundred people have the means, it can make big waves. Send in physical letters. Especially in our near completely digital age, a real stamped, hold in your hand letter is not going to be buried. It is way harder to ignore something that showed up at your door rather than something you need to either be looking for, or be in the right place to see. If you can, write to Nickelodeon about what the show means to you, make appeals directly to them about why the show deserves to be renewed, and also importantly, why it would be profitable to the company. Your main incentive to have a paramount plus prescription is the turtles? Let them know you’ll cancel it when you get bored watching the same two seasons over and over. This show had a huge impact on your life at a time you needed it most? Share that!

The bottom line: campaigns are only as successful as their volume and audience. Make sure you’re not only making the right kind of noise, but make sure you’re talking to exactly the people your message is for. Alright everyone,

LETS GET ROTTMNT BACK!

I'm scrolling through Gackpo's official Twitter right now, and oh my gosh, the social media team behind this whole thing is made of geniuses. It's only GUMI, Gackpo, and Una for now, but it's still great. They all have their own little character quirks, and it's so cute!!

Una uses a lot of cutesy emoticons in addition to emojis, whereas the other two gravitate more toward emojis.

Gackpo calls Una "U-chan" and doesn't use any honorifics for GUMI. He's also a little goofy and refers to himself in the third person sometimes.

GUMI calls Gackpo "Gakunii-chan" and Una (or her hat? Google Translate can only do so much) "Otomachan." She also tweets in English the most frequently of the three.

Oh, and we're getting GUMI and Gackpo bath salts I guess???

So...

AI Otomachi Una is a thing.

I'm debating over whether or not to get her.

Pros:

She's cute. She sparks joy.

Her updated Sugar voicebank honestly sounds really good.

Since she has two cross-lingual voicebanks, I might be more motivated to practice using XSyn. I love GUMI V4, but copy/pasting Japanese syllables from Wikipedia to make song lyrics is painful. (Is there any way to make this process quicker?)

GUMI will have a friend that isn't one of the standard Yamaha voices.

She'd be the first non-adult voice in my (admittedly very small) arsenal, adding a bit of variety to the lineup.

This will show Internet Co. that their products are wanted. With enough interest in/purchases of their V6 voicebanks, maybe more of their characters will get updates. That's a big maybe, but never say never.

Cons:

She's freaking expensive ($138 US before tax).

Her updated Spicy voicebank is kind of underwhelming.

I love playing around with tuning/making covers privately, but I haven't had the courage to actually upload anything to the internet; in this sense, it might just seem like an expensive waste of time.

The whole "interest in Internet Co.'s stuff" thing outlined above isn't guaranteed to work.

So with all that said, I'm tossing this decision to a third party since I'm super indecisive.

Okay, now please give us more.

Maybe a third season, maybe a second movie. It doesn't matter.

Just give us more. Give this show a fair chance to shine. It was written for three seasons. One and a half just isn't going to cut it. Being shoved to Nicktoons isn't going to cut it. Airing a single episode at 5:30 a.m. isn't going to cut it.

Let Rise of the TMNT prove its worth.

Some of the gorgeous and electric backgrounds revealed at the SDCC Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Panel!

Time really is a flat circle.