Senka

Senka (染香) is an utaite known most prominently for his extremely flexible voice, easily being able to produce a male and female voice without using a voice changer or editing his voice^[1], most clearly heard in his cover of "Pierrot".

His male voice is smooth, mid range and could be described as ikemen. His female voice is high and clear, and is easily one of the most outstanding of the community. For this reason, he is seen as a "ryouseirui". Senka tends to put more emotional quality into his singing, as seen through his 'crying' in "Pierrot", giving the songs he covers a more meaningful interpretation.

He was once known as Kuze/Kuzu, but he has deleted all songs associated with this name for unknown reasons.

Senka is a very secretive utaite, as he does not release very much information about himself. Despite this, he appeared in person at THE VOC@LOID MASTER 20 to release his first album.

He is part of the doujin circle "Necklace" with the artist RAHWIA. RAHWIA also illustrates and animates original PV's for many of Senka's cover. They typically feature a male character with mid length black hair in a tragic story interpretation of the song.

On May 25, 2012, Senka announced he would be ceasing all activity under that name on Nico Nico and would start under a new name, however, would no longer be doing Utattemita videos. He will, however, create a compilation CD of his works. The announcement was made concurrently on his community page by RAHWIA.^[2]

In 2013, he appeared as Akira Kusonoki, the director and singer of the newly founded STUDIO GUIANA, initally completely isolated from his work as Senka. STUDIO GUIANA was active until late 2017. However, on September 1, 2019, after eight years of "inactivity", he uploaded a cover of "Sunset Bus Stop" on the STUDIO GUIANA Youtube channel, but under his Senka name, officially confirming that he and Akira Kusonoki are the same person. At some point afterwards, he deleted his Twitter account but returned to Twitter in 2021. On April 27, 2024, Senka uploaded a "Pyrokinesis" duet cover with Lon on a brand new Youtube channel.

Affiliations and Collaboration Projects

1. Member of Necklace (Doujin circle) with RAHWIA

List of Covered Songs (Kuze/Kuzu)

List of Covered Songs (Senka)

Discography

Gallery

Top to Bottom: "BadBye", "Ginga Tetsudou wa Yoru no Machi ni", "Reflect", "Pierrot", Himself
Right: "Musunde Hiraite Rasetsu to Mukuro"
Left: "World's End Dancehall"
Illust. by RAHWIA

Senka as seen in "Reflect"
Illust. by RAHWIA

Senka as seen in "Pierrot"
Illust. by RAHWIA

Senka as seen in "BadBye"
Illust. by RAHWIA

Senka as seen in "Ginga Tetsudou wa Yoru no Machi ni"
Illust. by RAHWIA

Trivia

• He was the lyricist for "Nostalgic Dream Girl" with RAHWIA as the illustrator and Akiakane who did the character design.
• On July 06, 2012, Senka posted on his blog, that he was seeking to recruit someone who could translate from Japanese to English and vice versa, as well as possibly French and Korean. The recruited individual will be involved in activities under Senka's new name, which is unknown at this time. Senka also posted a comment on his videos directing viewers to the post.^[3]

External Links

• Blog (deleted)
• Twitter

References