Colorist.ai Launches Browser Romance Chats With Animated AI Characters
The service's pitch is real-time visual response to typed input rather than text alone, which is the part of AI character chat that has stayed closest to static fiction.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
INNOVATE AI released Colorist.ai on September 23, 2026, a browser service for romance chats with animated AI characters. Six original characters appear, among them a conglomerate patriarch, a surgeon, and a mermaid sea god. Facial expressions, gaze, and movements shift in real time as the conversation proceeds. Users type freely or pick options, and the client states their reactions change based on their words. Original characters can be created from reference images and settings.
The client describes the service as browser-based, with scenarios set in several worldviews that a user can enter from a chosen situation. Six characters are offered at launch, each with a stated personality and a defined relationship to the user.
Haru is described as a university student who moves the underworld. Rei rules a conglomerate and, per the client, a second world beneath it. Rin is given as a 17-year-old contemporary artist. Shio, whose listing is cut off, is a mermaid sea god.
A creation tool builds original characters from reference images and settings.
- Haru: a university student who moves the underworld
- Rei: a conglomerate patriarch who rules over the financial world and the underworld
- Rin: a 17-year-old contemporary artist
- Shio: a mermaid sea god
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