Shigure Ui

Shigure Ui (しぐれうい) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber and illustrator. She also did the character designs for the light novel series OsaMake and anime series WIXOSS DIVA(A)LIVE.

Personality
Ui's streams are regarded by fans as being extremely quiet, laid-back and mellow, owing to her gentle and comparatively mature personality. Her art streams have also been noted as being very informative for aspiring digital artists.

In spite of this generally wholesome streaming persona, Ui has now and again let it slip that she really enjoys using crass or vulgar humor, and that she's an avid fan of a few "less than wholesome" professional artists associated with the Ecchi genre. She's also not above brutally teasing or making fun of her fans, especially when answering Q&A's. She is also accused of being a neglectful or abusive mother of her brainchildren, as seen with when she's around Oozora Subaru or even her own "Andou Rainbow JJ".

Appearance
Ui is a 16-year-old high school student, with a conservative school uniform with a skirt and a beret and little balls of fluff in her braids and collar. She has red socks with white tufts and black dress shoes.

Background
Her Twitter account was created on 28 August 2009.

2018
Her YouTube channel was created on 16 September. She started as a VTuber in collaborations with other VTubers.

2019
She officially debuted on her channel on 18 May with a stream.

2020
On 23 March, she debuted her second 2D costume, an alternate summer school uniform, now featuring low small pigtails, reminiscent of her younger illustration. She can combine her new and old assets. She also received an update in her modeling.

From 2 October to 28 October, she hosted her first solo art exhibition at Tokyo's pixiv WAEN GALLERY.

2021
On 26 May, Ui announced on her Twitter account that she would get her third 2D costume.

On 27 May, she debuted her third 2D costume, this costume was clearly designed to match Oozora Subaru's fourth 2D costume, probably intended as "mother-daughter" matching outfits. The costume comes in two variants, "Short Style" where Ui retains her original hairstyle and "Long Style" where she uses long hair. This style also comes with two additional hairstyles, both bearing different types of twin-tails. In this costume Ui also retains her traditional beret, with a white and blue coloration instead of red, and uses a white blouse decorated with a blue ribbon. Ui can also optionally wear a yellow sweater or remove her beret.

On 30 May, Ui announced on her Twitter account that she would get a 3D model.

On 9 July, she reached 500,000 YouTube subscribers during a stream.

2022
On 16 January, Ui debuted her 3D model.

On 7 April, she announced her first solo album "The Rain Hasn't Stopped Yet" on stream, and a solo concert titled "Ui-on-Stage -After the Rain Cultural Festival-".

On 8 June, Ui revealed an alternate model that can face forwards during her birthday stream.

2023
On 23 September, Ui reached 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 10 September, she debuted her 3D loli model.

Discography

 * Main page: Shigure Ui/Discography

Trivia

 * She is the character designer of hololive's Oozora Subaru. Her first appearance was when she joined Subaru's stream. She then became a Virtual YouTuber at Subaru's request.
 * She makes loud sounds while typing and types at a very high speed.
 * In a Project Winter stream with other members from hololive, Ui scared off Minato Aqua and chased her while talking in a yandere tone. Ui was a survivor and Aqua was one of two traitors (who win by killing said survivors) during that round.
 * She is very familiar with Inuyama Tamaki; they have collaborated several times and Ui has met Tamaki's mother Norio Tsukudani offline.
 * She likes female high school students, especially 17-year-olds. She however said, "I like all girls" in her "Strongest Shigure Ui Decisive Battle" stream, when Subaru asked her "what kind of girl is your cup of tea?".
 * She sometimes streams using an illustration of her 9-year-old self, which is called loli-haishin in Japanese. She has streamed with her 9-year-old state four times so far. Excluding the 3D promo stream for Loli Kami Requiem, all three times were punishment for losing in games. (Ui has never admitted that she is bad at games, rather attributing the losses to other reasons.) Two of the punishment streams were the result of losing Tetris games to Kenmochi Toya.
 * The first loli-haishin was the result of challenging Kenmochi Toya during a gaming stream by chance. Ui lost and read marshmallows from her audience in loli form. (Marshmallow is an anonymous message service mainly used in Japan.)
 * The second loli-haishin was the result of a pre-scheduled collaboration stream where she played Tetris with Kenmochi Toya. The loser had to sing for 1 hour in 60/40 scale. Ui lost and became 9-year-old Ui again, singing for an hour in said form.
 * Ui has seemingly hated turning into a loli since, even muttering "kuso" (a profanity regularly translated to Sh*t in Japanese) in front of Subaru in 'Strongest Shigure Ui Decisive Battle', after being requested to say something in loli form.
 * The third loli-haishin was due to an illustration order from Kusunoki Sio, which had to be finished in loli form, as Ui had lost a game to her during a collaboration stream.
 * She declared Kenmochi Toya her "natural enemy" during her birthday stream, due to Toya causing her to enter the 9-year-old state several times. She drew "Toko", a gender-bent Toya, in high school student form as well as in child form and published these illustrations to Twitter as payback.
 * Ui barely wins any action or sports games (including Fall Guys) but is somehow proficient in luck-based games requiring little or no physical effort such as hanafuda, yacht and mahjong. Ui-mama Nami (ういママ並み, meaning 'Same as Ui-mama') has become a term used to describe someone that is not good at video games.
 * She is not good at English. In her stream where using Japanese would end the stream, she lasted 11 minutes in total, ending with her muttering "who" in Japanese. Moreover, she hardly started any conversation with members speaking English during the 11-minute stream.
 * Ui's voice, as well as distinct mannerisms such as her laugh, have been noted by fans and even other VTubers as being extremely similar to those of hololive member Tsunomaki Watame. Oozora Subaru even claimed that when she watched Watame's debut stream she was confused and thought that it was actually Ui streaming under a new identity. The little fluff-balls in Ui's design are also notably reminiscent of the texture of Watame's wool. The idea of a conspiracy where Ui and Watame are secretly the same person has become a minor running joke among both fan-bases.
 * Ui drew the comic "Kankitsu Punch" on Manga Time Kirara Miracle in 2015. She also recently worked as the illustrator for the light novel "Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Comedy", while also being the original character designer of its anime adaptation by Doga Kobo.
 * Ui beam is an inside joke which she usually plays along with chat. The joke started during a game of tetris99 with Kenmochi Toya where she spotted a player with a name "ファンサ うたって" (please sing Fansa), referring to a popular HoneyWorks song. On another stream she recalled seeing that player, and decided to sing Fansa where she playfully changed the lyric "愛のこもったmonaビームで" (Mona beam of love) to use her name instead, "Ui beam of love". Her chat and other streamers usually joke around asking for the "Ui beam", where she playfully responds. In another stream, she credited Watame as the original creator of Ui Beam, who coined the term during a collab stream with her.

Media

 * しぐれうい - YouTube channel
 * しぐれうい - Pixiv account
 * @ui_shig - Twitter account
 * @ui_shig - Marshmallow account
 * しぐれうい - Tumblr account

Twitter Hashtags

 * #ういの校内放送 - Stream
 * #どろういんぐ - Arts
 * #ういしぐれぇ - Others

Further Readings

 * Ui Shigure - English Wikipedia