Unofficial Arusechika Lore Wiki

**Welcome to the Unofficial Aruse Lore Archive!**
Hello! This is an archive for the *made-up* lore made by Nadekomari (@nadekomarii on Twitter) about the popular Vocaloid MV artist *Arusechika*

I didn’t expect to have the need to make this wiki a thing but due to the increase of the community I unexpectedly gathered I decided to place my thoughts and ideas into one accessible place. Do note that these were personal thoughts and weren’t meant to be publicised, so sorry if they seem off to anyone’s own assumptions and theories.

## About arusechika

arusechika (アルセチカ) is a Vocaloid MV Artist that rose to popularity after their free-to-use illustration got used in Chinozo’s Goodbye Sengen, which amassed over 100 million views in the span of three years. Since then, they’ve done the music video for songs such as Shamer, Elite, and Unfriendly Hater.

Their style is defied by how simplistic, yet flexible it is. Characters they can draw can range from cute to cool to even intimidating. They also often use a minimalist colouring style for their MVs, and their designs are simple yet recognizable through visual design.

Examples* INSTANT DAYS by MURASAKI
* White Out Cinema by Natsuyama Yotsugi
* 00c by Azusagawa
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aruse is involved with a multitude of Vocaloid Producers- most well known being Chinozo, Meddmia, Mizuno Atsu and Nanahoshi Orchestra, but they’re also involved with a bunch of smaller producers like manika, Natsuyama Yotsugi, Dopam!ne and KIRATORA. They’re also friends with other popular Vocaloid MV artists such as WOOMA, Ryuseee, and kusuriya. The amount of producers they’re involved with is so many to the point where their catalogue of MVs reaches *350+*, and this isn’t counting the songs that used their Piapro illustrations either.

Aside from their Vocaloid MV scene, aruse goes by many hidden aliases (*which **won’t** be revealed out of due respect.*) and does many activities- such as projects that involve fans submitting their original characters and more. They also have a ton of original characters themselves, which they make MVs for in one of their hidden channels. They also have a general YouTube channel and a secondary one for playlists and personal made music.

Their public persona also hosts producer collab events like paneeec and eneeemy.

### Links

* YouTube - Where aruse makes playlists of all the songs they’ve made MVs for and some miscellaneous videos.
	+ Alternate Account - Channel used for making playlists.
* Twitter - Their main account. They often post here.
	+ @bwxyz - aruse’s alternate account. They often mention this account to hide posts.
* Pixiv - Where aruse archives all of their artworks. Every six months they post a compilation of 200 drawings the did in the span of those six months.
* Instagram - Used to announce MVs they worked with. Currently inactive.[1]
* Blog - aruse’s blog. They usually post interviews with the producers they work with here.
* Piapro - Has many free-to-use illustrations made by aruse.
* Portfolio
* Skeb - For requests. Often opens and closes.

### Personas

aruse’s main personaaruse’s masculine personaPink dog? They seem to draw them oftenFuryune, aruse’s UTAU
### Trivia

* Their drawing program is Paint Tool SAI while their editing program is AviUtl.
* aruse’s gender is unknown. It’s commonly assumed that they’re female, but they often joke about themselves being a high school boy, have a rather androgynous voice, and have also stated that their more iconic female orange persona is “based off the girl of their dreams.”
* aruse’s mascot animal is a flapjack octopus. They’ve also shown a love for cats.
	+ In fact, aruse also owns a cat!

* Their closest friend in the Vocaloid MV scene seems to be video editor Aise Manami. The two communicate a lot on Twitter and even have a duo name: Aisechika (アイセチカ)
	+ They’ve also done stuff for eachother on their birthdays, such as Aise in a laise-time meeting, which was for Aise’s 2022 birthday, and Aise♡chika Revolution! Which was for Aruse’s 2021 birthday, which is also included in a XFD of a birthday album.
* aruse seems to like donuts a lot.
* The first producer they’ve ever worked with was Naruno. But when not under the alias of aruse, the first actual producer they worked with was Suzu.
* aruse’s favourite MV characters seem to be Rena, Kenji, Yoru, Tenka, Raikun, Mizuki and Momose.
* aruse seems to get embarrassed easily whenever drawing couples doing intimate things such as kisses.

## Unofficial arusechika Lore

While most of aruse’s MV characters are only meant to represent a singular song- in the lore, they’re all connected and can interact with eachother in some way. The main setting is a pocket universe where characters from Vocaloid MVs manifest and thrive as actual human beings. This isn’t that much of a major aspect in the lore though, minus some miscellaneous characters.

The scale of the stories the characters have is quite a lot. Due to the massive amount of characters being analyzed and created- it’s guaranteed that there *has* to be an archive for it: which is this wiki. **Every song can be interpreted in their own way, this is just to collect my thoughts into one easily accessible area.**

### Important Links

* Worldbuilding - As much as worldbuilding is a pain, these are the areas kept in mind in the lore.
* Characters - Category for characters. There’s also several minor categories for them.
* Songs Playlist - While there’s some excluded due to NicoNico exclusivity, this playlist manages to serve as a main hub for all of the character’s songs.

### Notes

* Even though the lore is primarily made by one person- It’s fine to have your own interpretations of the characters. If I were to gatekeep, would this even be a Vocaloid related media we’re talking about?
* MOST OF THESE ASSUMPTIONS ARE NOT OFFICIAL. As much as the lore characters stay close to their song personalities, their personal lives remain unofficial. The only exceptions to this are the Chinozo Characters and the Witches. We’ll try our best to state what’s intended and what’s not by the creators.
	+ This also goes for all of their names- of course, saving a few. Some characters have names that override their intended names, so we’ll try our best to archive them here too.
	+ Most characters aren’t colored, so any comments on designs are purely assumption.
	+ Character relationships fall under this category too.
* And lastly, if any of the creators involved show discomfort at the information provided in this wiki- I’m are completely free to change information if so. Even though this entire wiki seems like a boundary break in itself, I’ll try my best to respect any producer’s decisions if they potentially show discomfort.

### Acknowledges by Producers

* manika - manika seems to be fine with any headcanons (May even support a few) but what they’re more concerned about is people shoving it down other’s throats. They prefer that discussion of these headcanons stay outside of any fanart tags or any official interactive content.

## References

1. ↑ https://aruseee.wordpress.com/2021/05/27/%e3%82%a2%e3%83%ab%e3%82%bb%e3%83%81%e3%82%ab%e3%81%ae%e6%9c%ac%e5%90%8d%e3%82%84%e5%b9%b4%e9%bd%a2%e3%80%81%e6%80%a7%e5%88%a5%e3%80%81%e8%81%b7%e6%a5%ad%e3%81%af%ef%bc%9f%e9%a1%94%e3%83%90%e3%83%ac/
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/aruseee/status/1521874695171149825
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/0\_\_\_924/status/1670959523602001920?s=46