The net “Kizuna Ai The Final Reside ‘hiya, world 2022′” live performance introduced on Saturday that fashionable digital YouTuber (VTuber) Kizuna Ai is launching an anime undertaking.

The live performance additionally introduced Kizuna (#KZN), an unique singing CeVIO AI (proven above to the appropriate of Kizuna Ai). #KZN is “serving as a hub to attach with everybody and supporting Kizuna Ai and creators whereas she is asleep.” (CeVIO is a set of software program that features voice synthesis.) Kizuna Ai‘s unique character designer En Morikura designed the AI with character idea artwork by Keigo Inoue.

Kizuna Ai‘s workers billed Saturday’s live performance as her closing live performance earlier than she goes on an indefinite hiatus. The workers cited an replace to “future actions with the objective of additional growing Kizuna Ai” as the rationale for the hiatus.

The Kizuna Ai YouTube channel “A.I.Channel” first launched in 2016. Since then, she has develop into the world’s most iconic Digital YouTuber and was on Newsweek Japan’s listing of “globally revered Japanese folks.” Her major channel has over 3 million subscribers, and her “A.I.Video games” channel has over 1.51 million subscribers. She has since appeared in tv packages and commercials, and carried out as a musical artist. The prevailing movies on her channels might be archived. Her Twitter, Instagram, and different social media accounts can even keep on-line however is not going to put up updates apart from “essential bulletins.”

In April 2020, Nozomi Kasuga signed on as an advisor at Kizuna Ai Co., Ltd. — thus formally confirming that she is the voice actress behind the character. The corporate was shaped out of Activ8, the expertise company which managed Kizuna Ai and different digital YouTuber expertise.

Kizuna Ai voiced cameo roles within the Ingress and Magical Woman Website anime, and she or he additionally carried out the theme tune within the Laidbackers film.

Supply: Kizuna Ai‘s Twitter account through Otakomu