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.

Personality
Airi is an android developed based on Airi Yamagishi (山岸愛梨), a weather newscaster of Weathernews. She aims to make everyone interested in weather, but in her videos, she usually does hosting discussions, introducing fan arts, chatting and challenges like other VTubers except a few minute weather forecast.

Airi Yamagishi, often called Airin (あいりん) by her fan, claims that she is Airi's manager, even though her acting was revealed by an accident.

Airi is cheerful and serious, but she is often embarrassed by problems with motion capture and camera switching. This is why she is called Ponko (ポン子), a combination of ponkotsu (ポンコツ, junk, useless or unreliable) and ko (子, a common suffix of Japanese names given to female).

History
Airi 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 Shunsuke Taue, and used pre-recorded voices which were voiced by Airi Yamagishi. The date of Airi's birth is 22 January 2012 that Taue submitted her design to competition at Niconico Seiga. Her 3D form was revealed at the fan event on 7 December 2012.

On 10 April 2014, she got her solo program on every Thursday, and started a live broadcast 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.

In March 2019, 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 by Kadokawa Corp. In this book, she talked with Tokino Sora and Tsukino Mito.

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 (Airin), 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, Yamagishi Airi, joined Weathernews in 2008. Yamagishi is also the longest-tenured SOLiVE24 anchor as of 2018.