Utai Makea

Utai Makea (歌衣メイカ) is a female and male Japanese Virtual YouTuber and a virtual cosplayer.

Personality
Female Makea is shown to have a more cool, calm, and collected personality and tone of voice, in contrast to Male Makea who is shown to be more loud and chaotic.

2021
On 21 December, it was announced that Makea would receive a new model. It was unveiled on 24 December. The new model was illustrated by K-SUWABE and modelled by Kanbutsu Himono.

Trivia

 * They know how to 3D model and has streamed the 3D modelling of Makea (male).
 * In the description of their channel, they say "5歳まで男でした 17歳まで女でした いろいろあって男と女で分離しました 18歳の今は、女が男をプロデュースすることになりました. ", which translates to "I was a man until 5 years old, a woman until 17. Various things happened, and I divided into a man and a woman. Now, at 18 years of age, the woman has decided to manage the man."
 * The tutorials, the art streams and most of the prerecorded videos feature Makea(♀), while the collaborations with other streamers and the singing streams/videos are made mostly by Makea(♂).
 * No matter the kind of content, they explicitly asked to respect the identity of the Vtuber in the video/stream.
 * Initially, Makea(♀) and Makea(♂) were active on two different channels, with Makea(♀)'s being more active. On 2 January 2020 Makea(♀) announced that she was going to make Makea(♂) the main focus of the channel, and that she was going to become his producer.
 * They frequently collaborate with their real mother, father and younger brother in both gameplay and singing videos, as can be seen in this playlist.
 * In this playlist there are also collaboration videos with the other members of the virtual Utai family (VTubers that Makea has illustrated), Utai Itsme and Utai Asme, along with Makea's real life friend Nejimaki Katari.
 * Their given name is the Japanese reading for the English phrase "Make a (...)".

Media

 * メイカちゃんねる - YouTube channel
 * UTAI_Makea - Official website
 * @makeagames - Twitter account
 * @meikahaotoko - Male Makea's Twitter account
 * メイカ - pixiv account
 * Utai Makea's profile on upd8 website

Twitter hashtags

 * #歌衣メイカ - General
 * #漢気ポム生 - Stream talk
 * #make_a_art - Fan art
 * #漢気名画 - Fan art (male form)

Further readings

 * 歌衣メイカ - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
 * 歌衣メイカ - Pixiv Encyclopedia