Ayumu Denno

## Ayumu Denno (電野アユム)

Ayumu was a virtual idol singer whom Moaya began having an obsession with before she became a VTuber. Prior to debuting as a virtual idol with his current name, he was formerly known as Kanata Shimizu and used to work for the same company until he quitted the company following allegations of his group's producer having an affair with Minori's mother being exposed online in 2010.

## Profile

* Name: Kanata Shimizu (清水カナタ)
* Nickname: Ayum, Ayumu Denno
* Gender: Male
* Race: Human
* Birthday: August 13
* Age: 28
* Zodiac Sign: Leo
* Zodiac Sign (Chinese): Pig
* Appearance: Blue short hair, blue eyes
* Height: 169.5 cm (5 ft 6 in)
* Weight: 58 kg (127 lbs)
* Personality: Sweet, kind, caring, nice, friendly, tsundere
* Likes: Anime, manga, singing, dancing, fans, communicating with fans
* Dislikes: Stalkers, affairs, allegations, paparazzi, when anyone takes a picture of him, anti-fans
* Weakness: When his headpiece breaks

## Biography

### Prologue

Ayumu was born in the former Niibo village on August 1995, as his original birthname Kotaro Maruyama, to a family of misogynic farmers, who treat women like his mother as if they were housemaids and pressuring them to do manual labor for them. His father Ichiro Maruyama was influenced by his own father and like him, they didn't trust their wives and frequently argued with them to the point it was becoming more common along with domestic violence in the family, much to the ire of the neighbors who were concerned about his son's safety, as well as his sister Ayana's 2 years after.

After only 2 years of marriage, their mother Risa got fed up of getting abused by her own husband and his family, and as a result, they got divorced thanks to her lawyer's advice and the testimony of his first wife Yasmine whom he assaulted a few years prior. Upon his wife winning a lengthy court battle between the two parties in 2001, Ichiro lost legal custody of 6-year-old Kotaro and 4-year-old Ayana, who along with their mother would live with her friendly ex-brother-in-law and his wife in Kyoto afterwards and had to pay child support until the two turned 20.

A year after the court filing, Risa had to change her children's legal family name from Maruyama to her mother's maiden name Shimizu to prevent any association with her abusive husband and in-laws, and their uncle changed his surname from his own surname to his wife's maiden name. Life was normal for her and her children until their village were merged along with the other subdivisions to create Sado City in early 2004 and due to her ex-husband's threats towards her, they decided to relocate to the United States until he was finally arrested on his son Kotaro's 10th birthday in 2005 for not paying child support to his two wives and sentenced to 20 years in jail.

3 years after his arrest, in 2008, Risa took 13-year-old Kotaro to a local superior court in Niigata with legal documents along with his passport in order to change his legal name from Kotaro to Kanata, and therefore he was now Kanata Shimizu. After his name change, Kanata had enough of his classmates calling him by his old name and as a result transferred schools and upon graduating from middle school at the age of 14 in April 2010, he chose to not continue through high school and decided to join a short-lived boy band formed in 2009 where he met 18-year-old Ibuki whom he became good friends with but unfortunately, things didn't go well as Japanese news outlets reported that his band's manager was revealed to have an affair with 6-year-old Minori's mother whom the members didn't know about, and upon the agency learning about the affair, they decided to fire the manager and disbanded the group in less than 6 months.

Upon hearing that his group got disbanded, 15-year-old Kanata went live on a obscure livestreaming site to explain what happened and one comment asked him to become a virtual idol, in which he became Ayumu Denno a few months later, and shortly after debuting as a virtual idol, he uploaded his very first video which consisted of him introducing himself to his viewers before uploading his music videos he did with low and high-profile songwriters 2 weeks later and it became an instant success that he gained fans, mostly those who were in their preteens, and one of his fans was 10-year-old Moaya, who was obsessed with him and wanted to become like him, in which things didn't last long for her, as she fell over the stage in 2014, with her 11-year-old brother Itsuki and the security guards helping her get up.

A year after her incident, 20-year-old Ayumu told her father's lawyer friend about the incident and how he was here at the site of the incident as Kanata by filming the entire scene, with 15-year-old Moaya quitting his agency and as a result, her, the girls whom she was involved with 3 years prior and the other idols' parents sued the agency for causing stress to them. 3 years after her family left Japan for Thailand, 23-year-old Ayumu held his very first concert as a virtual idol in her birthplace of Laos and she bought tickets for his concert, so she went to cross the Lao frontier where she was able to enter his concert thanks to the tickets.

After the concert ended, 18-year-old Moaya decided to stay in Laos for 2 years before she went back to Thailand a month before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country and isolated herself from the rest of the world by staying hidden in her apartment room by watching his videos, which included his first-ever virtual concert and kept in touch with him through their conversations on a chat website, in which he demanded her to become a VTuber and an net idol, in which she accepted. A year later, in October 2021, while 26-year-old Kanata was going back to his home after singing at a karaoke cafe that evening soon after he held his concert in Osaka, he met 17-year-old Yinuo putting a sign of Chinatown Heroes at the doors of a nearby 7-Eleven and she didn't recognize him at first, so he introduced himself to her and upon knowing about each other, they went to his house in Nagoya where they watched one of his music videos and listened to his debut album on TV through his phone.

Soon after they finished watching his videos and listening to his album, Yinuo brewed green tea and put the teacups along with the fortune cookie she bought from her neighbor in China on the table, and once Kanata tore his cookie apart, he saw a message from the fortune cookie "Congratulations, you're now one of the Chinatown Heroes." in Chinese and got skeptical about it, so he told her if he can become himself and she wanted to see him as the virtual idol Ayumu Denno, in which she gave him a costume of his avatar and he started to cosplay as his own character. Yinuo got happy with how Kanata looked as Ayumu, and they decide to leave the house together, with him locking his apartment door and soon, they went to Sakurahama Island.

While in the island, Ayumu and Nitara were summoned at the same time and along with their summoner Yinuo, they met Mingyu, Mochi, Chizuru, Iliana, Hwayeon, Kiran, Lolli, Yonako, Nagomi, Miro, Saphir, Adelia, Komuku, Pop, Nuri, Aguya, Xinyi, Tien, Lilin, Laila and Nico who welcomed them with open hands, and since he had experience with livestreaming and worked part-time at a Japanese company known for creating her, Yonako took the two in only to arrange a karaoke livestream and a ASMR session in her home studio by using her drone RE:NEO to film it and communicate directly with fans. While both sessions were very successful, the ASMR one was much popular with both genders alike due to him uploading it online. Soon after hosting both sessions, they immediately became an instant success in Japan and on the other hand, while she went to exterminate viruses on her way, he decided to take a break on his idol career and go on a mission to rescue the Chinatown.

## Relatives

### Family

* Ichiro Maruyama - Father
* Risa Shimizu - Mother
* Ayana Shimizu - Younger Sister

## Gallery

*Main Article: Ayumu/Gallery*

Ayumu's portrait.Ayumu's portrait.
## Trivia

* Ayumu is currently the oldest male character of Chinatown Heroes.