Weatheroid Type A Airi

Weatheroid Type A Airi (ウェザーロイド Wezaaroido) is a female Japanese virtual YouTuber and a forecaster of Weathernews, a Japanese weather forecasting company.

Introduction Video
Airi's introduction.

History
She debuted as a weather anchor on 13 April 2012 at SOLiVE24, a 24-hour weather live stream broadcasted by Weathernews. She appeared with a 2D artwork designed by Taue Shunsuke, and used pre-recorded voices which were voiced by Airi Yamagishi (山岸愛理) a weather girl belonging to Weathernews. Her 3D form was introduced at a fan event on 7 December 2012.

On 10 April 2014, she got her solo program, and started live streaming with motion and voices performed by Yamagishi.

Although SOLiVE24 had already been streamed to multiple sites include Youtube, niconico and AbemaTV, she created her Youtube channel on 17 May 2018.

She wrote a weather book, Weather Forecaster Onee-san VTuber Weatheroid Airi's Recommendation for Sky-viewing (お天気お姉さんVTuber ウェザーロイドAiriのソラヨミのススメ. ) published in March 2019 by Kadokawa Corp.

Trivia

 * Due to the motion capture software not functioning properly, the joints of Airi's avatar will sometimes twist in odd directions. Fans endearingly refers to this phenomenon as "bone fracture"(骨折).
 * Every Thursday, Airi is voiced by the weather forecaster, Yamagishi Airi, while the rest of her live streams use text-to-speech software.
 * When Airi debut as a YouTuber in 2018, she was called "a new star who has seven-year career" (7年目の新人, literally: new star of seventh-year). She was first debut at SOLiVE24 in 2012, and her actress, Airi Yamagishi, joined Weathernews in 2008. Yamagishi is also the longest-tenured SOLiVE24 anchor as of 2018.