/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

Spell her name properly, anon. I know AZKi is fucking weird but still.

>>1883588
sorry, her cuteness have melted my brain

AZKutIe

>>1883588
Azuki ?

>>1883809
That's how she pronounces it, but that isn't how it's spelled.

>>1883825
People don't realize that her first album being titled Without U is a pun on that on top of the 'I couldn't have done this without you'.

>>1883588
she explained it herself

It's "azuki" but
- without U
- the I is small

I hope she continues to stream sporadically and still keep it to the music so that whenever she does stream it's like a gift and maximum comfy.

>>1881498
uuuvvuugh, i really want to fuck this married lady

I liked the previous design better. The current one is kind of generic and doesn't really seem distinguishable from any other idol-styled design.

>>1886081
The smug face on the new model is golden though.

>>1883588
I just call her my wife

>>1886081
I actually thought the same but the new model has really been growing on me.

>>1886081
I can appreciate all three of them but I like the 2nd design hair a bit more. Maybe it just needed small changes but I don't complain now.

>>1886081
You must really hate her current design then, because her previous designs were outlandish in a bad way. The first one looked like a backup dancer for Sharon Apple, and the second one was wearing a dress that looked like a condom over bondage gear. Also, the third design is the first one in which AZKi was able to offer input on how she wanted it to look. She wanted to be cute all along and had to wait until now to see that realized.

>>1886578
2nd design is also very iconic since it's on the cover of Re:Creating World, while you can't really see her on Without U. I like the new one as well for her more bubbley idol style, but it would look very out of place performing something like Shit Days or Fake.Fake.Fake.

I suppose one bright side of her new model is that people are drawing lewds of her. What is it about idols outfit that make people lewd them? Not that I'm complaining.

>>1886690
Corruption of the innocent and generally reminding people that she exists by streaming every week.

>>1881498
ASS KI

I don't care if the new design is 'generic', it's cute as fuck which matches her personality far better.

>>1886804
I do miss her previous haircut. It was unique and framed her face better.

>>1886849
All but losing her warpaint as well is silly since it was cute as fuck.

>>1886605
>outlandish in a bad way
I disagree. It's clear that they were really trying hard with the VIRTUAL idol concept, and so they came up with something that could never really work in reality. And why should it work in reality? The whole point of AZKi's character is (was) that it breaks the fourth wall and totally embraces the idea that she only exists on the internet like some kind of Ghost in the Shell character.

>>1887074
Isn't AZKi's (previous) lore that she's a time traveler from a Mad Max-esque universe? Or is that Roboco? I forget.

>>1887104
She's a virtual Diva, hence the Pioneer name for her fans because it's a new frontier.

>>1886804
>>1886849
Her current haircut is her roommate's haircut.
>>1887104
That's RBC.

She is cute as HELL
AZKi LOVE!

>>1887104
She's a diva that became reborn in the virtual world. She's achieved the goal of becoming 2D that so many people seek out.

>>1887074
I kind of agree with this idea, but I don't think that what the previous outfits did was all that special for being virtual. The first one did look like it was something that would not function in real life, but it was stiff. The second one looks kind of cyberpunk, and it moves a bit better, but you could actually make that one in real life, and the look is more rave girl cyberpunk than digital entity. The new outfit isn't really virtual in style but I can't say the other outfits were really all that special. I do kind of miss the feel of them of the prior outfits though.

>>1892790
While they weren't outlandish, they did capture the virtual aspect much better. They also were very distinctive, compared to her newest which is just another cute anime girl wearing an idol dress. If they had kept something unique that was more eye catching then the understated warpaint and the inside of her hair being dyed pink, I would probably have loved it more. The easiest thing would have been to keep in the vein of the more unusual hairstyles that she's worn.

The first outfit being rigged like shit is a separate problem, but it's not like the current one is much better given how often she'll clip her skirt through her leg when she was walking on the stage.

>>1886081
Completely agree. It's a complete generic design compared to her past one. I wish they just gave her a new model with that design instead. It's just so good and unique.

But the "non-idol" fans love the idol desing

>>1894313
To be fair, she wanted something idol-esque, and a new outfit is always cool. Just needed to be better executed to avoid being so generic, since she looked great in her actual idol costume even if her arms were crazy buff.

Does anyone have an archive of her cover live from the 72hr stream?

>>1883588
How do you pronounce that?

>>1909089
you pronounce it as "azuki"

>>1908755
She literally uploaded it at the end of the festival with a bonus performance of her doing A to Z, anon.

>>1886081
This is true, however every time I think about that I remember how happy she is with her current design.
Speaking of generic idols, why not listen to MaiR covering one of AZKi's songs?
https://youtu.be/2Xtbjzgkep0

That finger is too long.

>>1917394
>AZKi's friends covering her songs
God Bless AZKi!
https://youtu.be/iLOx8QZgE0E

>>1919936
Still blows my mind that the only people who've ever attempted any of AZKi's stuff inside Hololive are Sora and Watame, with Sui getting a special shoutout for doing the Inochi duet. Not all of her songs are crazy hard.

>>1918853
Can't unsee.

>>1923250
At least she's had her stuff covered by other holos. Meanwhile, nobody AFAIK has covered anything from Sora.

>>1923618
Unsurprisingly, there's one who doesn't have the crippling senpai autism. https://youtu.be/JUgZ8feAFcE?t=2991

>>1923618
What's the deal with Sora and the rest of Hololive? This shit goes well beyond any Senpai autism.
Recently she made a debut on Polka's stream and Polka turned into a creepy uncle.

>>1923836
She's one of the youngest girls, and is still one of the hardest working, with all of her streaming on top of externally facing events; most respected; and the ultimate senpai by being the one who carried Hololive into the modern golden age. I can understand why the rest of the girls are intimidated by her, even if it's kind of an unfortunate situation.

>>1923836
It didn't stop Polka from suggesting collab though, which is highly unusual from alI know.

>>1923702
Thanks AZKi for being a good friend.

>>1924256

>>1923836
She talked a bit about her relationship with the other members in a recent stream. She's close with the earlier members (0th/1st/2nd gen). She hasn't had much of a chance to develop the same kind of relationship with 3rd gen onwards since her schedule started getting a lot busier by the time 3rd gen came about. She does try her best to connect with them though e.g. she's got that radio show with Iofi, she talks with Nene a lot, she watches Watame's and Coco's singing streams, etc.

>>1925011
Yea, watching Watame and Sora pop up in each other's singing streams has been cute, though much more of the former talking in Sora's then the reverse. Sora singing a mecha song for the sheep was cute.

>>1923836
Something a lot of the new blood might not realize is that Sora is not just the first member of Hololive but also one of the first vtubers (in the context of the trend started by Kizuna Ai) period. She debuted after Siro but before Kaguya Luna and Mirai Akari, and was an underdog from the very beginning. Sora infamously had only 13 viewers on her first stream and gained her first few hundred subs through a combination of herculean effort and dumb luck. Compare this to today, when every new member gets 100k subs before they even debut. It is not exaggeration to say that she's arguably the person most responsible for building Hololive into the success that it is today, which is why Polka responded that way and all of the other members act like she's the Virgin Mary of the virtual world.

The really hilarious part in all of this is that Sora allegedly became a vtuber almost by accident. Supposedly, she was originally picked up with the intention of merely being the voice of the Cover's mascot for some AR app they were working on; however, between having little in the way of actual work due to Cover being a bunch of nobodies at the time and the appearance of Kizuna Ai, she and A-chan started streaming and wound up becoming part of history as a result.

>>1909795
more models need to be able to do this

>>1925157
Fun Fact: Sora was the top superchatted vtuber for two months in 2018
https://youtu.be/vLcDUQ7ziAM

>>1926444
That's pretty impressive considering she would have been streaming pretty heavily on NND at that time period as well, I believe.

>>1926444
How in the hell does YouTube NOT acknowledge Vtubers despite being the only content creators on their platform that use the Super Chat feature so highly? Super Chat would be Google vaporware by now if it weren't for them.

>>1930501
Anime BAD. Maybe you missed the memo.

>>1930501
There's plenty paying attention to the phenomenon, but Vtubing is not really all that much more unique in context - it's a combination of both virtual influencer and streamer, and there's plenty of presentations and writeups happening about all that. Internet trends rise and fall way too fast to develop anything more than a broad-scale case study.

I cant help feel her redesign looks a lot like AI, is it just me? Am I just retarded?

>>1937231
I don't really see it beyond the generic brown hair'ed anime girl wearing something pink in her hair. AI is way more white in her outfits.

>>1937302
More so her hair is like AIs second model and color scheme is of the first.

https://twitter.com/AZKi_VDiVA/status/1375742153519853570 Now this is not what I was expecting

>>1942007
What memes can you even do with AZKi? "Who"? "No more seiso"?
I can't see Coco picking either of those low laying fruit.

>>1942225
Probably a bunch of edits from all the green screen style images that she's been posting since getting her new outfit, as well as classics like this one. AZKi does seem to get a kick out of them since she liked a whole bunch and uses this as a thumbnail pretty regularly.

>>1886749
this anon think AZKi is seiso

>>1942303
That anon was asking why people were suddenly drawing lewds of her and why idol outfits provoked that.

>>1942225

>>1942437
Well, at least that's actually something she did instead of being pure fiction like most meme reviews, but I can already tell I'm going to need a strong drink to get through this stream.

>>1942437
This should be the first meme she reviews. Specifically for some special people.

>>1942437
Personally just need one like this in meme review. If it's just Sora review but AZKi it'll be so dull.

>>1949441
I dunno, AZKi is a Polka level Otaku, I could absolutely see it being low key really good with a lot of real deadpan humor if Coco let's her talk. I think it being dull is the most likely outcome, but I'm not ruling out the other possibility.

>>1949441
It's on hot, unless half the review is guess who there's a good chance.