>>26268113AZKi is super invested in her music, even when she was under the frog and had to work with management on making her music. Some of the coolest content she's ever put out was the liner notes that they would include with her older songs, talking about her challenges in recording the song, little details that you might not notice, and words from the composer and lyricists as well. AZKi also has written and composed some of her music, which really gives it a unique and personal touch, even if the lyrics are a lot of kayfabe stuff like IRyS's are, though I would admit that AZKi's topics of legacy and motivation are more interesting then IRyS's hope motiff from a writing perspective. People might not realize it, but Inochi is a really personal song for AZKi, for example, where it's talking about how she hopes that even after she graduates and stops being AZKi, her songs will always be with her fans and she hopes that'll make them smile, hence the song name 'Life' as in coming to life at the press of a button.
https://note.com/azkinoteAZKi is also super proactive to reaching out to people and is happy to work with anyone and everyone, which is why you have her making collab covers with a whole host of really talented 2views, her Last V standing series where she'd have other chuubas join her for a concert, and things like the DSTM where she was a focal point for the vsinger community. Working with people inside Hololive is cool, but doing that exclusively is kind of limiting. You can see this with how many people were hoping for something other then Mori X Suisei at V-Carni since they can do that any time either is having a concert, whereas Suisei x KAF at Vtuber FES was really cool and unexpected. While it's impossible to judge how proactive IRyS actually will be with external people at concerts since she's still under Omega's fist, she hasn't really made any inroads to forming those connections with streams or covers, which is the first step. AZKi, when she's not so busy she doesn't have time to stream at all, would spend a good amount of her time on other people's channels networking even if she hadn't streamed on her own for a while.
I don't dislike IRyS, but she just isn't the same as the hard working musician that AZKi has shown herself to be and that I'm so proud to be a fan of.
