Merryweather Media, formerly known as Merryweather Comics and also known as Merryweatherey, is a Danish YouTuber who uploads dubs of his original webcomic works from Webtoon to YouTube.
He handles the production of his stories at Webtoon and his YouTube Channel since mid-2018, and collaborates with various friends under the Merryweather Comics circle who handle story art and voice roles in Japanese or English. Before he began his YouTube channel, he began writing comics since the 2012 Danish Genki convention, according to his ON THE AIR interview from WEBTOON.
On August 9, 2022, it was announced on his Twitter page that he has made another channel called Merryweather Media EN. This new channel; which was first created on July 31, 2022, will contain exclusively English dubbed videos (at the moment they are being done in YouTube Shorts format), while the current channel will now be exclusively making Japanese-language content. Since February 2021, he also has his own personal Virtual YouTube channel only with the name Merryweather, of which it contains clips and shorts from his Twitch channel.
Comics[]
His comics feature mostly moe anthropomorphism characters from internet browsers, applications, memes, smartphone gadgets, or gaming consoles. His most prominent moe anthropomorphism character is Internet Explorer-chan, an anime version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser that was released in August 1995.
Notable works[]
As of March 2021, 5 of Merryweather's self-published works on Webtoon Canvas have reached over 1 or 6+ million likes. All of these are listed below and have been dubbed for his YouTube channel, with the exception of My Succubus Girfriend (2017).
Internet Explorer[]
A Webtoon original comic first created by Merryweathery on August 22, 2018, with art by Princess HInghoi and guest art by Carillus.
The series focuses on Internet Explorer-chan as the protagonist, with Google Chrome as the main antagonist. The two frequently went head-to-head with each other, often escalating into action and suspense; however, most story chapters fall under comedy & drama. It hit over 4.4 million likes as of March 22, 2021.
While all the browsers are depicted as female in the comic, an April Fools' short depicting a Yaoi relationship between genderbent-IE and genderbent-Chrome was produced and released on Webtoon in April 2019. The subsequent comic dub was later uploaded to Merry's channel on April 2, 2020.
Stalker x Stalker[]
First uploaded to Webtoon on December 5, 2018, also featuring art by Princess Hinghoi. Stalker x Stalker focuses on two yandere stalkers, Yukio and Junko, as they encountered each other and fell in love. It currently has over 6.8 million likes as of March 22, 2021, being the most popular of Merryweather's self-published works on Webtoon Canvas.
Clinic of Horrors[]
First uploaded on March 7, 2019, with character designs by Satchely (Doki Doki Literature Club) and art by PokuriMio. The summary of the story says: "In a strange city, there is a clinic that will treat the victims of horrific diseases. For a price." This Webtoon series features Bianca Abercrombie and Dr. Albright as their main characters.
Meme Girls[]
Since its inception on June 3, 2019, Meme Girls contain all the anthropomorphism female characters derived from well-known internet browsers, applications, memes, mobile gadgets, and consoles. Art is provided by a mix of artists, including Princess Hinghoi, Dr ErMao Wu, AT2, Rayno and Carillus.
My Succubus Girlfriend[]
The original comic was first uploaded on October 2, 2017, with art by Yoshitaka Maki for the first season and Carillus for the second. As of March 22, 2021, it hit over 2.1 million likes; however, it was eventually cancelled due to a few challenges. The original artist left to pursue his own projects, requiring a change in artist - however, reception to the change was poor, although the appearances of new characters Lucifer and Malphas were praised. While this version is undubbed, the series can still be found on Webtoon itself.
A rebooted version with the same name featuring art by Joakim Waller, was launched on June 14, 2020. This is the version that appears on the Youtube dub episodes. According to Merryweather, he and Joakim first met at the Genki Convention in 2012, and Joakim was the first artist to work together on a comic with him.
Collaborations[]
Calliope Mori collaborated with Merryweather Comics to make a short comics series. He has also made comics for VShojo VTubers Projekt Melody, Froot, Veibae and Ironmouse.
Design[]
| Model | Designer |
|---|---|
| Military model | Kirero[1] |
| Femboy model | emulapis (design), 2wintails and Dya Rikku (rigging)[2] |
| Fall outfit (Femboy model) | rakusan_maple (design)[3] |
| Panda outfit (Femboy model) | rakusan_maple (design)[4] |
| Chibi model | Yuniiho (design) [5] |
| Regal model | epebe (design)[6] |
| Masked man model | epebe (design), DrakontheKnight (art + rig)[7] |
| 2023 model[8] | Yuniiho (design), 2wintails (rigging) |
Quotes[]
- "Hey babygirl, are you tired? Because you've been running around in my head all day!"[9]
- (Pippa Pipkin, upon seeing the list of streamers at Twitch Con 2022: "dang no VTubers :("[10]) "xQc is there! He's a vtuber!")[11]
- "When I was 9, I loved Beyblades. I told my dad about them, and told him I wanted to be the the strongest beyblader at my school. He asked to see my beyblade. After inspecting it, he made the observation that weight was the deciding factor in which beyblade won. And weight came from the metal core at a beyblade's center. So he created a custom core for me. A very heavy one. I took my beyblade to school the next day, and in my first game, I cracked my opponents beyblade in two. After that, nobody wanted to play against my weighted beyblade."[12]
Partnerships[]
Merry was a part of DreamHack 2022[13], alongside SenZ, 2wintails, bao, Yuniiho, LumiTuber and Lost Pause.
His other spnosrs have included Square Enix.[14]
Personal Life[]
He was born to a Turkish mother and a Danish father. Currently, he splits his time between Japan and Denmark.[15][16]
His dad passed away from cancer in 2018.[17][18]
Subscriber milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
- 1 million subscribers: July 20, 2021
Video view milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones. Some of the milestones may not have been recorded.
- 225 million views: August 9, 2022
Trivia[]
- The majority of the videos uploaded to the channel feature Japanese voice acting, with English dubbing being more of a rarity. In recent years up until the creation of Merryweather Media EN on August 9, 2022, English dubbing became more frequent, owing to collaborations with several other English-speaking YouTubers, such as WolfyChu, who voiced Nintendo Switch in English.
- On April 28, 2020, Merryweather Comics launched a merchandise store together with Mosobox.
- In the video by Webtoon, the person running Merryweather Comics is revealed to be a male. Up until March 27, 2020, when that video was published to Webtoon's YT channel, many thought that this channel is female, probably caused by the usage of female Japanese/English voice actors and that the picture of Internet Explorer-chan was used as a mascot character for his former image/channel icon of the YouTube channel.
- There was also his first video (posted in November 2018; which is currently Unlisted), which shows the real male voice. Due to it being Unlisted, that fact was not been known until his Webtoon interview less than 2 years later.
- His real name is not yet known.
- He is capable of speaking English, Japanese, and Danish.
- There is a Danish podcast where Merryweather can be heard speaking his native language. Already, that archived stream has since been privatized.
- He is a fan of Gura Gawr and praised her song REFLECT[19].
- He is the first VTuber to be interviewed on Wikitubia, by content moderator Mebh Og MacTire.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Merrydawg/status/1325147906823872516/photo/1
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Merrydawg/status/1582792573655011329/photo/1
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Merrydawg/status/1569320986159218688/photo/1
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Merrydawg/status/1567903036160327680/photo/2
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Merrydawg/status/1419273053654163459/photo/1
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Merrydawg/status/1594054506819395585
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Merrydawg/status/1614684441519050753/photo/1
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Merrydawg/status/1647239223370747904/photo/3
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Merrydawg/status/1569748696086069253
- ↑ https://twitter.com/pipkinpippa/status/1575524749312139265
- ↑ https://64.media.tumblr.com/40c9c2b89b464092e6bbc9754c619bb9/10bf04cfe5444a85-19/s500x750/081e734531d0f1cdf17581dc9c137a13676abef3.jpg
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Merrydawg/status/1577422397191294977
- ↑ https://twitter.com/DreamHack/status/1521958062269030401/photo/1
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Merrydawg/status/1540495304872574977/photo/1
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Merryweatherey/status/816689978822561792
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Merrydawg/status/1531191873817165825
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Merryweatherey/status/1042613849847869440
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Merrydawg/status/1577422652654096385
- ↑ https://64.media.tumblr.com/85c4ff36446455b6c41de019950af6ce/0a11243a01a82657-57/s500x750/7d2b5a442cd8bdbb6b35fed540c9a0c8eaac7107.jpg