Thread by @vy2gumis

#vy2 Hello everyone! After saying I'm gonna do it for years I've finally decided to make an information thread on a well beloved design commonly used for VY2: Manbou no Ane's 66 Roro design ! Most art seen in this thread is by Tsukasa Ryugu aka Manbou no Ane (@/manbou_ane)

Starting with a most important point: while Roro has his main roots as a VY2 design, if you're calling him Yuuma, VY2's Codename, you are (saying this as gently as possible) wrong. Roro's name is Roro. Yuuma is a Codename for VY2, yes, but it's not his Actual Name™️. Roro is Roro

I did this too when I first discovered him don't feel bad it's ok

Second important point: Roro is not The Design for vy2. He is one of many. I am emphasizing this fact in light of the VY ai voice reveal. I attempted to rephrase the tweet in the alt text since the machine translation isn't too good, as well as include a screenshot from voca wiki

So! Where did Roro come from? Shortly after the release of VY2 in 2011, there was an event called vocafest that hosted a "design a VY" fan contest. The winning entries were Rimiko's Kiku Kobushi for VY1 and ManbouAne's 66 Roro (arts here by the mentioned artists)

These were later illustrated by the artist who did the illustration book for VesFes (I sadly couldn't find the name of this artist! If anyone knows the name of the artist pls let me know! I really can't find much info on vesfes itself which is sad.....)

And that is where the story of Roro begins. While usages of Kiku weren't seen very often, Roro kicked off his own adventures across the works of sibling duo ManboP and Manbo no Ane, making his PV debut with the infamous A Clingy Boy Sticking for 15 Years

Fun fact this was originally a Miku song made about a year prior to the VY2 version. But Roro came in and really made it his own

Here are some other works featuring Roro :
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From then on, we saw more and more varying works from the sunfish siblings featuring him, which really solidifies his presence in relation to VY2

And then comes monster series by the manbou siblings, which features Roro as a side character !

Roro is featured in this series as a character named Miroku Rokugo! Miroku's personality is a bit different from how Roro's is usually depicted, but it's still our funny pink guy at the core

I won't go too much into Miroku's character, but you can read the translated series here! I need to reread it myself since I had stopped while the series was still being translated 😅 vgperson.com/other/mangavie…

While we haven't seen Roro much from the Manbos over the last few years, he's still important in their history and Manbo Ane deserves for her character to be treated correctly! Please be mindful that Roro is, at his core, Manbos' character!!!

It's hard for me to talk about this without exploding into infodump scrambled brain hell, so for the sake of wrapping up, the core point of this thread is to give ppl some point of origin for where roro came from, since info gets scrambled around across the point of 12 years lol

And I hope if at least one person sees this and goes "ohhh I didn't know this" then I'll be the happy. I'm a huge huge huge fan of the Manbou siblings' works and it's been killing me for years seeing the beloved character Tsukasa made not get treated right djdjdjd

Roro means the absolute world to me, and has for over a decade, so he's a critter that I feel very strongly about lol. He's been very crucial my life w

Also not to go on a personal tangent but manbo ane drew roro and gumi togehter a lot sooooooooo 😗

Ok I'm done happy VY Revival Day everyone VYs live forever and ever

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