I noticed something strange about 6 days ago. It was last Tuesday.
My body feels heavy and I feel cold. Uncomfortable feeling in the throat.
ah. This has finally turned me off.
The thermometer read 37.3 degrees Celsius, but it was easy to predict that this would not be the case.
This is because a few days before that, there was a bioterrorist who had come to work even though his family had been diagnosed with coronavirus.
When I inquired with the company, I was told that I could receive sickness and injury benefits even if I had the coronavirus, as long as I had a doctor's certificate, so I went to a medical facility to quickly get rid of it, and as expected, I was tested and it was positive.
As of April 29th, as I write this, my fever has subsided and my condition has calmed down enough to write a blog post, but my throat is still so dry that I can't stop coughing at the slightest sound.
I won't be able to do voice training or karaoke for a while.
For the first three days, I had a high fever of nearly 40 degrees, and even though the virus had weakened, I think it was more intense than the flu I had about 10 years ago.
This is probably the first time I have contracted coronavirus.
It's possible that he was actually infected even though he had no symptoms.
However, because he recently deleted his X account, he has become out of touch with society, and he did not know that five days' worth of coronavirus treatment is now quite expensive with a 30% burden.
Zocoba tablets are a special drug for coronavirus.
The price is surprisingly 7,400 yen per pill.
Not all of them, 7,400 yen per pill.
You can buy a mid-range smartphone for a total of just over 50,000 yen.
If you pay 30%, it will cost you about 16,000 yen, but it is still quite a pain for one prescription.
The price is so high that the pharmacist even checks to see if you have the money before prescribing the drug.
There are probably people who refuse because they can't pay...
The recent coronavirus seems to be coming to cause serious damage not only to our bodies but also to our bank balances.
It's too brutal.
Previous article I talked about how I aspired to be a vocal singer and started practicing singing a female voice.
She has been practicing a little bit every day for about four months, trying various things based on the courses of various biphonic people.
Now I can hear voices like this.
I don't use any kind of voice changer.
Perhaps because it's based on falsetto, it sounds a little childish.
It's a little different from my ideal direction, but it seems like it's better to develop the feminine voice that I'm comfortable with first, so I think I'll probably go this route.
Even though my voice has started to come out, it still breaks down when I try to speak or sing.
There's probably a wall up ahead.
The road to becoming a beautiful singer-songwriter is high and difficult...
My natural voice is quite low, but it seems like if I practice for a few months I'll be able to get a voice like this.
The learning period varies from person to person, with some people being able to do it in a day and others taking about a year.
DLSite, a major download sales site for doujinshi and doujin games, has become an uproar over its decision to effectively restrict expression under pressure from some credit card company.
According to DLsite's explanation, ``Credit card payments account for more than half of all payments, and in consideration of the impact on the user circle, we have decided to comply with the request from the credit card company.''
Recently, a barbaric act known as economic censorship has become widespread, with credit card companies threatening to withdraw from the market and suppressing expression.
Recently, the incident where Niconico Douga and MasterCard parted ways is still fresh in my memory.
Since then, I have continued to be a premium member of NicoNico, and my MasterCard has been sleeping in the back of the store without using it at all.
If you repent and fight together for freedom of expression, we will do nothing to free you from the dark prison.
There are pros and cons about DLSite's response, and some think that they have protected the creators' place of business by using a workaround that uses slang, but I have a different opinion.
I understand that since it is a for-profit company, there are circumstances in which they have to make ``adult choices'' in order to feed their employees.
Actually, I'm not a creator who sells content on DLSite, and I only buy voice synthesis software such as CeVIO and Synthesizer V, and I don't buy adult content.
Therefore, there is no actual harm in this case.
But I don't think that regulating adult content doesn't matter to me.
It is a common tactic of those who want to control expression to eliminate the minorities that are easier to regulate, and if they can have a successful experience here, they may eventually start making inroads into content for the general public, like in Hollywood.
Why do they do that?
There may be various motivations, such as wanting to maintain their own brand image, wanting to create a beautiful society (in order to do that, we must eliminate filthy adult content), or simply making money or performing as a vote-gatherer.
Censorship and suppression of expression by private companies must not be allowed.
The root of all evil is credit card companies, but we will also take firm action against companies that go along with it.
I will not be shopping at DLSite again unless they reverse their policy.
If new Vocaloid, CeVIO, or Synthesizer V sound sources come out in the future, I will buy them from other sites even if they are a little more expensive.
There's only so much a common man can do on his own, and even if I boycott card brands and mail-order sites, it won't do much damage to them, and the current situation won't change at all.
It's just self-satisfaction.
However, if there is someone who reads this article who is as angry about the suppression of expression as I am, and even one person practices modest resistance to the extent that they can, then that will not be the case. .
If you love Japanese anime, manga, games, etc. culture, and don't want it to decline due to political correctness like Hollywood, why not join us in the fight?
Expressing your intention to protest and boycott credit card companies and mail-order sites on the Internet, actually stop using your credit card or making purchases, collect signatures to protect freedom of expression, campaign to support politicians, and credit card companies like Niconico and DMM. We buy and support companies that have fought and broken up with them, and so on.
Any resistance, no matter how small, that an individual can make is fine.
Although their individual power may be small, when their numbers increase, they become a voice and may become the power to change something.
DLSite may change its mind if more users declare that they will support their purchases with other cards or payment methods even if some credit card company withdraws.
However, if things like this keep happening, a cashless society will be nothing but hell.
A black market like Comiket, where cash payments are the mainstay...In a sense, spot sales may be the last bastion of creators.
Akira Toriyama, a great creator who brought many masterpieces such as Dragon Ball and Dragon Quest to the world, and the origin of my creativity, passed away suddenly.
My father was a big fan of Toriyama Sensei, and he bought Jump every week and watched the anime without fail, and I also became addicted to Dragon Ball.I imitated Toriyama Sensei's drawings, forgot to eat and sleep, and kept copying them on drawing paper until I was able to create originals. I started drawing characters and learned the joy of creating things.
Without Toriyama-sensei, creator Enin may not have existed.
He was such a big presence.
Please rest in peace.
In order to mourn for a while, the site's color scheme will be set to dark mode only.
I've been doing voice training every day for about two months now.
I got into Hitokara a few years ago, but then I got tired of it and stopped playing it.
To begin with, I didn't really like my own voice.
But late last year, I came across a video that shocked me.
what is this……
How can a human voice change so much depending on training?
Apparently, people who are male but produce a female voice (or female but male) are called ``amphophonic'' people.
My brain went crazy while watching it.
This is probably how people in the past felt when they learned that the world was actually a sphere, not a flat surface.
Of course, it's not hard to imagine that the voices they sing in this video are the ones they acquired through hard work and natural talent.
Hal, who was especially amazing, seems to have been singing as a female voice for 15 years.
This is exactly what Ichinen Rock is all about.
While he was composing songs for Vocaloid, CeVIO, and SynthV, somewhere in his heart he wanted to sing with them.
Maybe that dream will come true.
With her hopes in mind, I have been practicing for years to achieve my goal of having a beautiful voice like Hal's, and when I listen to the recordings of my own voice, which I have made through trial and error every day, I am overwhelmed by reality.
But the results of my practice are starting to show little by little.
If you are interested in diphonics after reading this article, I highly recommend the following books.
If you don't like your voice, try making it into a voice that you like.