Kay Yu: Difference between revisions

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* [https://www.twitter.com/kaynimatic/ @kaynimatic] (Main Account)<ref group="lower-alpha">Mainly used for posting art and described by Kay as a 'art portfolio'</ref><ref>(Jun. 10, 2023). Retrieved from https://twitter.com/kaynimatic/status/1667415106739904512/</ref>

* [https://www.twitter.com/holocuredev/ @holocuredev] (HoloCure Development)

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'''Kay Yu''' is an American animator and video game and is the developer of the [[Hololive Production|Hololive]] [[Fan Games|fan game]], [[HoloCure]].

==Overview==

'''Kay Yu''' is an American animator and video game developer best known within the Hololive Community as the developer of HoloCure.

Kay Yu has worked on multiple anime's including [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_Art_Online Sword Art Online], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece_(TV_series) One Piece] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boruto Boruto: Naruto Next Generations].<ref>(May. 13, 2023). Retrieved from https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11323315//</ref>

==History==

In 2005 when Kay Yu was a kid he found a game engine called Game Maker and developed a interest in video game development, He also started learning animation on his own due to wanting to become a video game developer.<ref>(May. 13, 2023). Retrieved from https://youtu.be/WogHjW9qepA?t=158/</ref>

Kay Yu created his YouTube account on December 13, 2012.

Kay Yu created his Twitter account in December 2015.

===Involvement in Hololive===

{{See also|HoloCure}}

Kay Yu was the animator of [[Mori Calliope|Calliope Mori's]] and [[Gawr Gura|Gawr Gura's]] original song, [[Q]].

HoloCure Development was started by Kay Yu around late February 2022.<ref>(Jun. 21, 2022). Retrieved from https://www.reddit.com/r/Hololive/comments/vjfea9/holocure_demo_1_a_fangame_heavily_inspired_by/</ref> HoloCure released to the public on June 24, 2022 after a period of closed beta, It included all members of [[Hololive English]] at the time.<ref group="lower-alpha">[[Hololive English -Advent-]] debuted after the first public demo was released</ref><ref>(Jun. 24, 2022). Retrieved from https://www.reddit.com/r/Hololive/comments/vjfea9/holocure_demo_1_a_fangame_heavily_inspired_by/</ref>

Kay Yu stated that he wants to keep HoloCure strictly a passion project.<ref>(Jun. 29, 2022). Retrieved from https://www.reddit.com/r/Hololive/comments/vmcks4/games_radar_free_vampire_survivors_fan_game/ie3dk8t/?context=3</ref>

Kay Yu created another account in April 2023, Saying that it was due to him wanting his main account to act like a art portfolio.<ref>(Jun. 10, 2023). Retrieved from https://twitter.com/kaynimatic/status/1667415106739904512/</ref>

HoloCure 0.6 released on Steam and Itch.io on August 17th, 2023.

==Career==

Kay Yu has worked on many TV Series and video games, This is a list of everything he has worked on.<ref>(May. 13, 2023). Retrieved from https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11323315//</ref>

===TV Series===

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!TV Series!!Role!!Number of episodes!!Year

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|Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation||Key animator||6||2021-2023

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|One Piece||Key animator||1||2023

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|Sydsnap||Ending animation||6||2021-2023

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|Ippon Again!||Key animator||1||2023

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|Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War||Key animator||1||2022

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|Boruto: Naruto Next Generations||Animation||9||2020-2021

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|Castlevania||Animation||2||2021

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|Sword Art Online||Key animator||1||2019

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===Video Games===

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!Video Game!!Role!!Year

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|Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp||Key animator||2023

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|River City Girls 2||Animation Director, Key animator and sprite designs||2022

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|Shantae and the Seven Sirens||Cinematic animator||2019

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|River City Girls||Key animator and sprite designs||2019

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=Trivia=

*Yu is Kay Yu's real family name and Kay is the first letter of his real Chinese name.<ref>(Jun. 12, 2023). Retrieved from https://twitter.com/kaynimatic/status/1668032124103057408/</ref>

*Kay Yu speaks Taishanese.<ref>(Jun. 12, 2023). Retrieved from https://twitter.com/kaynimatic/status/1668133844955074560</ref>

=Footnotes=

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