Aozora Kurumi

Aozora Kurumi (青空くるみ') was a female Virtual YouTuber associated with Project Kavvaii. She was the sole VTuber in its first generation. Kurumi is fluent in English, Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese, Korean, a little bit of Malay, and knows some Japanese as well.

Profile
As an apprentice messenger of Hermes the Greek God, Aozora Kurumi was required to travel between worlds in order to deliver messages for her superiors. One day, she flew to Earth and became fascinated with this world and enamored with Idols. Thus, she decided to become a part-time idol and streamer outside of her apprenticeship. In her free time, Kurumi enjoys watching humans from her ‘Cloud Palace’ (her home above the clouds) along with her pet called Jetson, a white Munchkin cat wearing a tiger hoodie whom she often calls her “son”.

Personality
Kurumi is a chill and sometimes chirpy VTuber with a penchant for horror games and Mobile Legends. For her unarchived karaoke streams, she sings songs in different languages. A powerhouse singer, she enjoys all types of music, except screamo and EDM.

Debut
Kurumi's debut stream was scheduled on 8 May 2021 at 8PM (GMT+8). Over 10,000 viewers tuned in to watch the event.

She wowed her viewers with rendition of virtual K-pop inspired girl group K/DA's single POP/STAR and Sweet Memories by Olivia Ong.

2021
On 3 May, Kurumi was announced by Project Kavvaii.

On 8 May, Kurumi reached 1,000 YouTube subscribers after her debut stream.

On 5 June, Her first VTuber collaboration was with Liliana Vampaia playing "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes".

On 18 July, Her second collaboration was with Hoku "exchange language Thai & Korean".

On 22 July, Kurumi had her first interview with Daem and Stella Astel on Muse Indonesia's YouTube channel. Kurumi reached 6,000 YouTube subscribers on the same date of her first interview.

On 1 August, Kurumi opened membership feature on her YouTube channel.

On 28 August, Kurumi celebrated her 10,000 subscribers on her Youtube channel.

On 4 September, She released her "first ever official cover" VILLAIN to celebrate 10k subscribers.

On 14 November, Kurumi celebrated her 6 months anniversary. She also announced her first collaboration cover song "BUTTER" by BTS with Miori on 20 November.

On 20 December, Kurumi celebrated airasia's 20th Anniversary on her channel.

On 21 December, Project Kavvaii in collaboration with Muse Indonesia held a Crab Game, with the participation of 40 VTubers in 7 teams.

2022
On 14 January, Kurumi reached 20,000 subscribers on her channel.

On 8 May, she celebrated her one year anniversary.

On 9 May, Project Kavvaii's Twitter announced that Kurumi would be taking a break from streaming activities during June to recharge and take care of personal matters, and would return in July.

Graduation
On 4 July, Project Kavvaii's Twitter announced that Kurumi would be graduating on 7 August 2022. According to the announcement, the channel membership and her Streamlabs account would close on August 9, all videos on her YouTube channel and Twitter account would remain public as a part of the airasia ecosystem. She also held a Q&A stream to talk about this.

On 7 August, Kurumi held her last stream as a VTuber. She said farewell to everyone and a message that although she left, she will not disappear, if anyone misses her they can leave a message in the chat box on the free-chat stream on her YouTube channel, she will read all the messages that people send.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called Kurumates, a reference to "crew" because of her association with AirAsia.
 * During stream breaks, Kurumates open the Kurupitiam for food and drink orders, just for fun. Kurupitiam is a play on "kopitiam", the Malaysian coffeeshop.

Catchphrases

 * "Zero deaths"
 * "Hail hydrate"
 * "TSKR GWS"
 * "LISTEN"
 * "I'M YOUNG"
 * "I'm seiso"
 * "Wangy Wangy"

Identity

 * Her name in Korean "Gureumi" 「구름이」 means "cloud". In Japanese, "Kurumi" 「クルミ」means "walnut".

Lore

 * She often mentions Greek mythology characters such as Hermes, Hades and Zeus in her streams.

Likes and Dislikes

 * Her favorite color is gold.
 * She has a fear of deep water.

Media

 * Kurumi Ch. Project Kavvaii - YouTube channel
 * @aozorakurumi - Twitter account
 * @aozorakurumi - Instagram account
 * @aozorakurumi - Facebook Page
 * @aozorakurumi - TikTok account
 * Project Kavvaii - Discord server
 * linktr - All links

Twitter hashtags

 * #AozoraKurumi - General
 * #KurumiOnAir - Stream talk
 * #KuruClips - Clips
 * #Kurumates - Fans
 * #KurumINK - Fan art
 * #KuruMeal - Food posts
 * #KuruMemes - Memes
 * #KuruTunes - Music