- Last updated
- 13 October 2026
- Nature
- AI persona
- Niche
- Fashion
- Style
- Photorealistic
- Debut
- 2019
- Origin
- Tokyo, Japan
- Created by
- Aww Inc.
Summary
plusticboy, who goes by Zinn, is a virtual human produced by Aww Inc., the Tokyo company behind imma, and presented as imma's younger brother. Aww's page says he appeared in 2019 and became a hot topic as imma's cool and cute brother; it describes him as very shy, and says his first modelling debut was the SLY x PUMA collection in February 2020. Tatler Asia dates his debut to July 2018 and lists his collaborations as SLY x PUMA, Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo 2020 and Hankyu Men's Osaka's fashion festival. virtualhumans.org adds that he has appeared on the cover of Uniform magazine in China, and describes him as a cool, mysterious male model representing Asia who likes music and concerts and sometimes follows his sister to art museums. Tatler also says he is dating Ria, another Aww virtual human. His Instagram bio reads 'virtual human. In the fake plastic earth.' and credits @aww.tokyo as his 'brain'.
Is plusticboy AI?
Yes. plusticboy, also called Zinn, is a computer-made virtual human and fashion model produced by the Tokyo studio Aww Inc. and presented as the younger brother of its virtual human imma.
The clearest evidence comes from the company that runs him. Aww Inc., which calls itself Japan's first virtual human company, lists plusticboy on its own site as one of its virtual humans. It describes him as imma's younger brother who appeared in 2019, and says he first worked as a model for the SLY x PUMA collection in February 2020. His Instagram bio, quoted on virtualhumans.org, calls him a virtual human and tags @aww.tokyo. Tatler Asia, in a feature on CGI influencers, gives Aww Inc. as his creator and says he is dating Ria, another virtual human.
No page names a human model, actor or voice behind him, and no page questions that he is synthetic, so the operator, his own bio and the press all agree. The only disagreement is his start date: Aww says 2019, while Tatler Asia and virtualhumans.org give July 2018. That does not change the answer.
Some things are still unknown. None of these pages explains how his images are made (fully 3D rendering, or a generated face added to photos of a real body), or who writes his posts. The research recorded no AI labels from Instagram or X. virtualhumans.org lists him as inactive, but his Instagram and X accounts were still posting in 2026.
Evidence
Aww Inc.'s official site lists plusticboy as one of its virtual humans and describes him as imma's younger brother who appeared in 2019 and first worked as a model for SLY x PUMA in February 2020.
aww.tokyovirtualhumans.org calls him a virtual male model representing Asia produced by Aww Inc. It quotes his Instagram bio: 'In the fake plastic earth. @aww.tokyo I'm virtual human'.
virtualhumans.orgTatler Asia's feature on CGI 'meta-fluencers' lists Plusticboy aka Zinn as created by Aww Inc., calls him the younger brother of Imma, 'Japan's first virtual human', and says he is dating Ria, also a virtual human.
tatlerasia.com
Assessed 9 October 2026
Audience over time
How their audience has moved
Followers · all platforms
80k
▼ 12 (−0.0%) since 9 Oct 2026
Facebook 41k · Instagram 39k · X 778
Added up from 9 Oct 2026, once every platform had been read; tracked since 5 Oct 2026. Each platform is read about once a week.