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Ritsuka / リツカ

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Ritsuka is a prolific female utaite who began uploading in February 2008. She has a soft, gentle voice that can reach high notes seemingly with ease and without being hard on the ears. She can also sing in a cutesy way, but it does not feel fake or forced. She can sing pop songs very well, but I find her ballads exceptionally good. She covers mostly vocaloid songs, but has a lot of anime song covers as well. Ritsuka also has covers of Sound Horizon songs and has participated in the Sound Horizon cover band Acostoria Her breakout hit was her cover of Meltdown, and still remains to be her most popular upload. Some of her songs were mixed by Asamaru (such as her Meltdown), however she likely mixes most of her songs (since they do not have a mixer credited). Ritsuka is a regular member of EastNewSound, a Touhou arrange group.

Ritsuka most often does collaborations with Mitani Nana, and has worked with other artists in making original songs. She is also part of a music unit called “Quee Quee” with PENGUINS PROJECT and Aki. You can buy their first album digitally in many countries via iTunes and Amazon’s mp3 store.

She also writes songs and she posted a list of songs she has written on her blog. She also wrote some of the songs on Penguin Project's Quee Quee. Her songwriting style matches her voice, and the songs are light, calming, and sometimes upbeat.

She also provides the vocals for the image song “Clear Note” for Rodoku Shoujo, a Japanese audiobook reading application for the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. Like Quee Quee, you can purchase the song digitally at iTunes and you can see the PV here. Interestingly, you can even download the app for free at iTunes.


sample songs (covers)
celluloid (baker original)
Alice (FullkawaP original)
Yowamushi Mont Blanc (DECO*27 original)
Bokura no 16-bit Sensou (sasakure.uk original)
*Hello, Planet. (sasakure.uk original)
trick and treat (OSTER Project original)

sample songs (original)
Dearest (collab with Polyphonic Branch)
star in the dark (original by Ritsuka herself, a #prayforjapan song)
Nau! (Original by Ritsuka, collab with samfree)
blue bird (collab with PENGUINS PROJECT)

stephie says

Ritsuka is one my first female utaites, and still remains to be one of my favorites. I find her voice so cute, yet it never gets on my nerves. Her more energetic songs can be hit or miss for me, but her singing ability still impresses me. I'm more biased towards her ballads, which I think suits her voice perfectly. I had to restrain myself from listing a gazillion ballads under the sample songs list XD. My favorite song from her is still celluloid, it makes me tear up sometimes :’D.

To be honest, before I wrote this spotlight, I had not listened to her entire mylist, it's so long! But going through her songs, I found so many good covers and I wish I could list them all. I'll spare you guys this time. Recently I can't stop looping her cover of Mami's Theme from Madoka Magica.

I also find her doodles so cute (twitpic), she even drew the art for her Popopo~n cover.

EDIT(06/25/2011): I added a little bit more information here and there in this post after getting more info :) Sorry for the inconsistency!