Yui

Cosplayer and livestreamer, Chongqing, China. She goes by 一唯 — Yui. Two years of it now.

How she works

One costume, one to two months

One cosplay takes her one to two months. She reads the reference art until she knows it by heart, then tracks down the wig, the costume and the props one piece at a time, and keeps trying things until they match the character. She does her own makeup on shoot day — if it comes out wrong she washes it off and starts again. The shoot isn't the end of it either: there are a few hundred frames to pick through and grade, and nothing goes out until that's done.

She's built up a wardrobe of wigs. Mostly she pulls from Mushoku Tensei, To LOVE-Ru and Diabolik Lovers — she's done Roxy Migurdia twice and still wants another go at her. Also Asuna, Maomao, Kurumi Tokisaki, Elaina, and a few from Wuthering Waves.

Roxy Migurdia
Asuna
Maomao
Chixia

Where she streams

Douyin, every night at midnight

Midnight, China time, every night — four or five hours of it. Talking, singing, keeping people company on the way home from work. Her room is small enough that she knows the regulars by name, and she'll ask where you've been if you miss a few nights.

She works the convention circuit in Chongqing too, standing on her feet all day, and comes home to edit. She's slow at getting photos back to people, and she says so, but she always does.

Her accounts

These two, and nothing else

Douyin — 208353791
RedNote (Xiaohongshu) — 9775758197

If you got here from a clip someone reposted, that's how most people outside China run into her. The reposts aren't hers. These two accounts are.

看中文版 · Chinese site →

The rest of the site is in Chinese — her photo sets, her videos, a wall where people leave her notes, and a paper fortune she wrote herself. The pictures don't need translating.