Hayate Takanashi
About
Meet Hayate Takanashi, an active VTuber working independently. Gender: Female/pear (but babiniku). Based in Japan. Communicates in english and japanese. Can be found on Twitch, YouTube, X (Twitter). Tracked follower counts: 39.4K subscribers on YouTube; 18.1K followers on Twitter; 141 followers on Twitch. Content focus: asmr, cooking, gaming, drawing, free-talk. Common descriptors: free talk, japan, #hayalive, #hayarte. Debuted YouTube: 2020/11/11. Designed with illustrator by Nyori & Previous:. Known to be hayate is energetic, unique, cute, active, sweet as a pear, intelligent, sometimes salty, with charming gremlin laugh. Lore: Hayate originally began as a male VTuber. Trivia: Hayate is a Native Japanese speaker, but streams mostly in English. Hayate stands at 161 cm (5'3") (as of 3.0 model) 153 cm (5'0") (as of 4.0 model), character age 18 (forever). Born under Pear. Oshi mark: 🍐🍳. Signature emoji: 🍚(current) 🍐(former). Available media: an introduction video, a 6-image gallery. Fanbase known as Peartners. Also known as Hayate-Chan, Haya-Chan, Haya.
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Personality
Hayate is energetic, unique, cute, active, sweet as a pear, intelligent, sometimes salty, with charming gremlin laugh.
Background
Hayate originally began as a male VTuber. His original YouTube channel and Twitter account were both created on 10 May 2020. His 30 second introduction video was posted the following day, introducing him as an "oshigoto-kei VTuber" (work-style VTuber), with a Live2D model.
Hayate (male) produced a number of videos, but never achieved much success. A new YouTube channel was quietly registered on 11 October 2020. In a final livestream to celebrate his six month streaming anniversary on 11 November 2020, he announced a new role as "producer" of new female VTuber, "Hayate-chan" (full name also Hayate Takanashi). The original channel retired a few days later.
Hayate-chan's introduction video premiered on the new YouTube channel on 11 November 2020. A Twitter account for Hayate-chan was created on the same day.
Mascot and fans
- Hayate's fans are called Peartners (Pear + Partner).
- In the past, Hayate's fans are called Pear-Gang.
- Hayate sometimes wonders if her fans are real, or if they are actually ghosts/robots/her imagination.
- Hayate's fans sometimes call her "Bob" for some reason, even if Hayate's name isn't Bob.
Lore
- According to her old bio, she has a younger brother, and grew up with nice parents, especially her father who is good-natured and always puts others before himself.
- However, in her updated bio (shown during the model 3.0 reveal), she is revealed to be an ordinary office worker who was suddenly enveloped in a blinding light and woke up in another world, where she is a Princess of the Pear Kingdom.
- She is half pear, half human.
- Ever since Hayate 3.0 was revealed, Hayate 2.0 now lives as an energy drink can.
- Hayate was once consumed by an onigiri.
- Hayate purchased one acre of land on the moon, one star, and is a baroness of Sealand. All from perfectly legitimate websites.
- On a few occasions Hayate has dived into a giant mug of beer.
- Hayate can transform into various objects, such as a bike or a bench.
- She burned the sins of her fans in a volcano.
- She can talk to her viewers' minds directly.
- You aren't watching her, she's watching you.
- Her current job is "Asian Food Enjoyer."
Likes and dislikes
- In her introduction stream, she mentions that her favorite foods are cheesecake, smoothie, and some cute gummies, but shows burgers, vodka, and potato chips in the background.
- Her hobbies are cooking, singing, watching anime, and playing games.
- Her favorite games are music games, Nintendo games (Pokemon, Tetris, Super Mario), 2D Platform action, Curtain fire shooting games (Touhou), Minecraft, and Undertale.
- Her dream was to become a top idol and to sing at the Uyuni Salt Flats.
- Her favorite Seventeen Ice ice cream flavor is Grape Sherbet.
- She is pretty good at rhythm games (such as Muse Dash and Rhythm Heaven Fever), and is a god at Minesweeper. However, she dislikes playing rage games (especially Jump King).
- She once got stuck on an elevator, so now she hates riding on elevator.
Miscellaneous
- Hayate is a Native Japanese speaker, but streams mostly in English. She also has tried to learn Bahasa Indonesia and Portuguese.
- Because she mostly speaks in English, her fan sometimes calls her an EN VTuber.
- Hayate has cooked a lot of Indonesian cuisines, leading to her Indonesian fans to call her an Indonesian VTuber and giving her the nickname "Hayati."
- Her most viewed video is called Hayate-chan Energy Drink 24 Hours【Summer in your Body】, which aired on 27 August 2021 and gained over 335,000 views.
- She shares her character designer, Nyori, with Moona Hoshinova, Tsukinami Nato, Uten Hiyori, Yukine Miiya, Sano Chlori, Agata Yo, Amau Meiko, Hoshifuri Iku, Nikki Rei, Tenko Sorara, Mayuno A. Charlotte, Kiyoraka Fuwari, and Temako.
- She shares her surname with Takanashi Kiara (no relation).
- She is able to converse well in English and Japanese.
- Originally, she considered herself as a "jack of all trades" and would try any kind of skilled hobby to stream, but eventually she has found passion in the culinary arts.
- Hayate sometimes rides the train for an hour to get rare ingredients for cooking.
- She once joined Kureiji Ollie's stream for Valentine's day and made chocolate bars for Ollie. Ollie described Hayate as "Kureiji."
- Viewers who take bath less than 20 minutes can't join her stream (maybe).
- She has rickrolled her viewers thrice.
- She has expressed disappointment over the shortage of potatoes in Japan. So she wanted viewers to export potatoes to her.
- She wants to have her own energy drink actually made.
- She wants to have her own cookbook published someday.
- Hayate got shorter after her 4.0 model debut, from 161cm (5'3") to 153cm (5'0"), although she denies it, claiming the latter is Natural Hayate Size.
- Despite being Japanese, Hayate reveals that she has nearly no Japanese fans.
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Hayate 3.0
Hayate's 3.0 model is an updated version of her 1.0 and 2.0 model, carrying over most of their base elements into the updated design.
Hayate has green-blue short hair with blunt bangs and wears a dark blue hairband with two flower hair pins. She has aquamarine colored-eyes, and GOOD sized booba. She wears a white open shoulder dress with dark blue, gold, and blue marine highlights, a blue ribbon with golden pear flower pin, a red-brown skirt with pear flowers on it, dark blue tights with four point stars lining the left and right sides, and brown shoes.
Hayate 4.0
Hayate's hair color changed from the usual green-blue into a light pink with green-blue highlights. Her hair is also longer and in twintails style. With the exception of her knee-high socks, she now wears an all-black outfit with pink and green-blue colors serving as highlights. She wears a black removable jacket, a black, sleeveless blouse paired with a black skirt with a black belt, as well as black arm sleeves, black shoes, a black arm band on her left arm, and black ribbon on her hair.
2020
On 13 November, Hayate posted her first gaming video.
On 29 November, she made her debut livestream.
On 29 December, the video Hayate-chan Energy Drink 24 Hours was uploaded. "Hayate-chan Energy Drink 24 Hours" became a popular phrase.
2021
On 16 January, she celebrated reaching 5,000 subscribers on YouTube.
On 30 January, she held her first karaoke stream.
On 14 February, she held her first cooking stream. She made apple tart. Cooking would go on to be an important part of her content.
On 27 February, she opened monetization on her YouTube channel
On 7 March, she celebrated reaching 6,000 subscribers on YouTube by punching on stream for 6,000 seconds (1 hour 40 minutes).
On 7 March, Hayate model 2.0 was revealed.
On 20 March, she held her first travelogue stream. She walked around Akihabara.
On 28 March, she celebrated reaching 7,000 subscribers on YouTube with a Resident Evil 7 endurance streaming.
On 18 April, she celebrated reaching 8,000 subscribers on YouTube with a Rhythm Heaven Fever endurance streaming.
On 30 April, she celebrated reaching 9,000 subscribers on YouTube with a Takoyaki Party stream.
On 19 June, she made her first VTuber lunchbox. It was a lunchbox themed after hololive member Takanashi Kiara (no relation).
On 26 June, she celebrated reaching 10,000 subscribers on YouTube by streaming from real onsen (hot spring).
On 14 August, she sang HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA 128 times in a row.
On 21 August, she celebrated reaching 13,000 subscribers on YouTube. She made pancakes for viewers.
On 25 August, she held the first stream to feature a live camera. It was an origami stream.
On 9 September, she got a score 840 on TOEIC (official English exam).
On 28 September, she held her first cooking stream to feature a live camera. She cooked foil-baked buttered salmon and mushrooms.
On 3 October, she held her first icing cookie stream.
On 31 October, she celebrated reaching 15,000 subscribers on YouTube with a homemade ramen endurance stream..
On 11 November, she held her 1st anniversary celebration. She received a beautiful cake with fruits on them. She did a bit of karaoke, reviewed some fanarts, and read messages from fans.
On 22 November, her Twitch channel was created. She streamed for over 13 hours, reaching a peak of 12 viewers. However, she would not use the Twitch channel much.
On 19 December, she celebrated reaching 16,000 subscribers on YouTube by meeting fans in Cluster 3D world.
2022
On 11 January, Hayate model 3.0 was revealed.
On 16 January, she held her first latte art stream. Though she failed the first time, she would eventually succeed in the next stream and it would become an ongoing series.
On 13 March, she celebrated reaching 18,000 subscribers on YouTube by meeting fans in Cluster 3D world, and visited her fan-made world.
On 1 May, she ran a 20 km marathon in Ring Fit Adventure, during which she reached 20,000 subscribers on YouTube. She celebrated by making.
On 16 June, she celebrated reaching 21,000 subscribers on YouTube by meeting fans in Cluster 3D world and visited her new fan-made world.
On 14 July, she launched an ongoing series called "Drawing Hololive Members but on COOKIES AtoZ," where she draws VTubers using icing on cookies.
On 11 November, she held a 2nd anniversary countdown and celebration. During the countdown, she did a tier list of all the food she has made on stream, read messages from fans, and did a karaoke. She celebrated by meeting fans in Cluster 3D world and revisited her fan-made world.
On 3 December, on a membership stream, she played a Japanese horror game called The Bathhouse. Hayate appears in one of the Ema (hanging wooden plaques) in the game.
On 19 December, she collaborated with Kureiji Ollie in a cooking stream where Hayate tries to cook dishes from a menu that Ollie created.
2023
On 18 March, she collaborated with Nikki Rei in a ramen cooking stream.
On 11 May, for a 2.5th anniversary celebration, she met fans in Cluster 3D world.
On 4 June, she celebrated having 500 videos on YouTube by doing a review of her old videos and streams.
On 1 August, she did a travelogue stream about her time at Hololive City in Tokyo.
On 3 November, she held a 3rd anniversary celebration. She did a subathon stream where she read messages from her fans, played Geoguessr, cooked carbonara, and played Gartic.io with her viewers.
2024
On 4 June, she shared her travel stories in Spain and Italy on a travelogue stream.
On 6 August, she collaborated with Iku Hoshifuri in a cooking stream where she cooked sukiyaki.
2025
In January, Hayate took a break from streaming for the entire month, having moved to a new house and preparing new set ups for her streaming and cooking equipment.
On 11 February, Hayate resumed streaming activities with a cooking stream. At the end of the stream, Hayate announced her 4.0 model by niyori, originally scheduled for March, although it would later be rescheduled for April.
On 8 April, Hayate debuted her 4.0 model. Most notably, her hair color has changed from teal green to lilac with teal streaks, and is now worn in a twintails hairstyle. She also changed her channel's name to Hayate Kitchen.
On 22 April, she reached 31,000 subscribers on YouTube.
On 27 May, Hayate collaborated with YouTube channel Muse Indonesia, where she cooked a large hamburger steak on Muse Indonesia's livestream. The food is based on the hamburger steak shown in the anime Frieren.
On 11 November, Hayate celebrated her 5th anniversary.
2026
On 5 March, Hayate announced that she had become a father, following the birth of her son.
Quotes
- "Ohayippie!"
- "Hayate-chan Energy Drink 24 Hours!"
- "Bainii~"
Media
- Hayate Kitchen - YouTube channel
- @hayatechaaan - Twitter account
- Hayate ch. - Discord server
- Hayate Ch. - Streamlab
- hayate_takanashi - Twitch channel
Hashtags
- #HayARTe - Fan art
- #HayaLive - Live tag
- #Hayaeats - Food tag
Statistics
- Hayate Takanashi - Social Blade YouTube stats
- Hayate Takanashi - Playboard YouTube stats
- hayate_takanashi - TwitchTracker stats
- hayate_takanashi - SullyGnome Twitch stats
- hayate_takanashi - Social Blade Twitch stats