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Kimino Miya
About
Kimino Miya was a Japanese and English-language VTuber who debuted on YouTube in July 2018 through the Hanjo! Bilingual VTuber Project. She later joined XR Entertainment with her younger sister Otsuta L., then upd8 in 2019 until it disbanded in 2020. Her model was illustrated by taitai, and her fans were called the Hanjo Squad.
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Bio (from Twitter)
HANJO!(ฅ'ω'ฅ)HANJO! Bilingual VTuber 日米バイリンガル/#ワコンピ アンバサダー/#チュッキョアニメ/#あいち観光バーチャルサポーター/カラアゲニスト/葵歌劇団/🎨#miyart
Character Info
Community
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Personality
She was lively and friendly, but a little fussy about money. She claimed to be a "beckoning cat" (maneki-neko), not a regular cat, and saw bear and raccoon figurines as rivals. While beckoning, she said "hanjo, hanjo!" She had an affectionately bickering dynamic with her partner/producer Kokon.
Her partner, Kokon, was easy-going. He was carefree and careless with money. He's been alive for so long that he forgot his age. Producing VTubers (Miya in particular) was his hobby, along with visiting tourist spots in Japan (featured on the channel as HANJO spots) and cleaning his cloud. His mission was to "raise a full-grown beckoning cat" and "let it make the world thrive." His dream was to have Miya featured in Times Square.
Appearance
Miya has long black hair arranged into thick twintails with a starry sky pattern and slanted cut bangs. She has short, thick eyebrows and red makeup by the outer corners of her eyes. Her eyes have red irises.
Kokon has white fur and an oversized head with vaguely fox-like ears. He has red markings on his cheeks, forehead and red fur inside his ears, plus black fur on the tip of his fluffy tail.
Background
Her Twitter account was created in July 2018, while her YouTube channel was created on 17 July 2018.
Mascot and fans
- Miya's mascot is Kokon (ココン), a white fox-like VTuber who shares the channel with her as her buddy/producer.
- Her fans are called the "Hanjo Squad."
Relationships
- "MiyaEl" - Miya and Otsuta L.
- "UniVirtuals". An unofficial network of international VTubers.
Likes and dislikes
- Her favorite Japanese food is karaage (fried chicken). Her recurring birthday stream tradition was a karaage birthday cake, a huge stack of karaage with birthday candles.
Miscellaneous
- Kokon claimed he's met actor Matthew Perry.
- Miya frequently used the (ฅ'ω'ฅ) kaomoji, which resembles a cat putting their paws up.
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Art credits
Designers, illustrators, riggers and modelers credited on the official character.
- Illustratortaitai
More Info
Profile
As a bilingual speaker, Miya introduced and promoted Japanese culture to the English-speaking world, focusing on Japanese subcultures such as anime. She did gaming, singing, and free talk streams. Her specialty was live streams and short videos about Japanese culture, language, cuisine, anime/manga, tourism, and events. She had VTuber interview, event, and recommendation streams & videos, as well as VSinger recommendation streams. She also did song covers.
2018
On 18 July, she uploaded her first video to start her activities on YouTube.
On 24 August, she celebrated her YouTube channel reaching 10,000 subscribers.
On 10 September, Chukyo TV announced a mascot VTuber named Kokon to debut on Miya's channel.
On 13 September, she introduced Kokon, a new VTuber and her animal buddy/producer on stream. On the same day, she also held her 20,000 subscriber celebration stream.
On 20 September, she had her first YouTube livestream.
On 12 October, she became part of XR Entertainment, a new company formed by Chukyo TV. Broadcasting Co., Ltd. and iDEACLOUD Inc., alongside Otsuta L.
On 1 November, she uploaded the video of her first collab with Otsuta L, where they played Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection International.
On 8 November, her fandom name was decided. Hanjo Squad was chosen from five fan-suggested options, including HANBUDS (hanjo buddies), HANJO Dreamers, HANJO Friends, and KARAAGE ARMY.
2019
On 26 February, XR Entertainment announced LINE stickers for Miya and L. Miya's LINE stickers were made available in Japanese and English.
On 19 March, Chukyo TV announced that Kimino Miya would become the 1st Tourism Virtual Supporter.
On 21 May, she announced her affiliation with upd8, concurrent with her affiliation with XR Entertainment.
On 23 May, the VR rhythm game polyfuru feat. MIYA KIMINO launched on Steam. In polyfuru, Miya performs and players hit notes flying towards them & pose to get the highest possible score. The game also features the ability to load in custom VRM character models.
On 25 May, the short MV for her first original song, "Hajimari wa Kimi no Oto", was released.
On 31 May, the closure of her FANBOX, Hanjo Club, was announced.
On 18 July, the full version of "Hajimari wa Kimi no Oto" and two new original songs, "Love Big Bang" and "Japanesque", were released on digital music services.
On 22 August, she introduced the concept of a "World VTuber Club," UniVirtuals, for international VTubers to promote themselves to audiences inside and outside Japan. The VTubers that became part of UniVirtuals did so by responding to her on Twitter with the hashtag #UniVirtuals.
On 13 September, she announced that she would be featured as a character in War of Zodiac, an indie mobile casual real time strategy game featuring original characters and VTubers as playable units.
On 20 October, Miya and Kokon featured War of Zodiac on her channel.
2020
On 27 May, Miya became affiliated with 's V-Clan as one of its first 50 participating VTubers, many of them also coming from various agencies. V-Clan is not an agency, so she continues to be part of XR Entertainment at the same time.
On 26 June, XR Entertainment's VR amusement park called XR AMUSEMENT SASHIMA, opened. With it was the launch of the VR horror game AYAKASHI KITAN, featuring Miya as a support character. AYAKASHI KITAN would later be released for the Oculus Quest on 30 July 2021.
On 7 July, she celebrated her birthday and revealed a new hairstyle.
On 25 December, she debuted her new outfit on Christmas. The design of the new outfit is casual style.
On 31 December, upd8 ceased operations and Miya's affiliation with them ended.
Retirement
On 20 June, Miya announced that she would be retiring at the end of September to take on new challenges. In her announcement stream, she discussed a call she had about her future aspirations and, while her leaving was amicable, expressed a desire to work in a less limiting environment.
On 7 July, she celebrated her final birthday stream, where she had many announcements. She announced her fourth original song, as well as a collab song with Otsuta L. She will also participate in a Net Talking Festival meet and greet event on 18 July, 2021. During the birthday stream, she encouraged foreign fans to participate due to it taking place through Zoom. Her second outfit merchandise also had a re-sale. Her graduation stream was planned on 26 September at noon JST, with her "Last Meeting" stream held the same day in the evening. A Portrait Event and the Miya Exhibition in XRA were also announced.
On 23 July, she celebrated her 3rd and final anniversary stream.
On 25 July, Miya and Emiko Niwatori released a collab cover of "Kakumei Dualism" by Mizuki Nana and T.M. Revolution.
On 16 September, she released her final original song, Tip Top*Tips. The song was written and composed by her VTuber friend Wrench.
On 18 September, she did her final regular stream. This stream was the last installment of her popular audience participation "dating sim" roleplay series, chosen from the fan voted "Pick Your No.1 Favorite Content" poll. On the same day, she also announced that her graduation merch and the re-sale of her second outfit merchandise would be available on her Booth store until 30 September. Her collaboration cover of Secret Base by Zone with Hibiki Kasane from CocoTsuki Project premiered on the CocoTsuki Project channel.
On 20 September, Miya and L released their final collab song, "Hanamuke no Asa" (餞の朝). Miya and L will also perform Tip Top*Tips and and Hanamuke no Asa on Day 3 of Life Like A Live!2, a virtual idol festival.
On 26 September, she held her retirement stream, which was divided into three "acts". The Act 1 stream at 11am JST focused on fan favorite activities. The Act 2 stream at noon was a concert featuring her original songs and collab songs with friends. The featured guests were Edo Lena, Sifar & Hiyamizu Nurume, Hibiki Kasane, Wrench, and Otsuta L. The Act 3 stream was 1:20pm is the "grand finale." The retirement stream was also available on Bilbili.
On 30 September, she gave her final message on social media and officially concluded her VTuber activities. Kokon remained active on Twitter to provide updates on graduation merch on Booth and to promote the afterparty stream.
On 2 October, Kokon, L, and L's director Maui D, held a Secret Meeting "afterparty" behind-the-scenes stream.
On 31 December, Kokon announced the conclusion of his role through an "out of character" tweet, thanking fans and stating his mission was complete. He said he would continue his work as a producer, but in a different way and "continue to bring you entertainment".
Following Miya and Kokon's retirement, her YouTube channel was renamed from "Japanese HANJO! TV" to "OWARAI / Japanese Sketch Comedy" and then repurposed into a non-VTuber real-life comedy channel, with all of her prior archives being wiped. Otsuta L took on the duty of gradually re-uploading Miya's archives onto her own YouTube channel, uploading them every week: Miya's archived videos on Fridays, and Miya's archived streams on Saturdays.
Events
- On 2 June 2019, Miya and Otsuta L participated as MCs on the Nagoya VTuber Festival where they also held Q&A events, such as the NIJISANJI Stage where they interviewed Kanae and Honma Himawari who attended as event performers, the Re:AcT Stage where they interviewed Hanabasami Kyo and Shishigami Leona, as well as the VTuber Saikyou Ketteisen segment where they interviewed Shibuya HAL and Sumomo.
- In July 2019, she was a guest judge at ANIME EXPO (AX) for JAPANESE DREAM =AX Audition=, a contest to find a voice talent for an English speaking role in the anime Shikizakura.
- On 13 September 2019, she was one of eight VTubers present at the Saturn Awards 2019, an American awards show for the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror genres, to promote Japanese virtual culture.
- On 15 October 2020, she was part of day one of VirtuaREAL.02 alongside L.
- On 28 December 2020, Miya and L held an end-of-year "Secret Meeting" event, with the first half on YouTube and the second half on Zoom.
- On 15 August 2021, Miya's Portrait Event was held on Zoom. She met with fans for five minutes each, drawing their portraits based on the impression she got from their names.
- On 20 August 2021, she was part of the "Virtual Manzai Laughing Time" (バーチャル漫才笑たいむ) event on Twitcasting, featuring other VTubers and the comedy duo AMERICA ZARIGANI.
- On 12 September 2021, her Online Chatting Event was held on Zoom, her final online fan meet and greet event.
- From 17 September to 26 September 2021, the Miya Exhibition in XRA was held at XR Amusement Sasashima.
- On 26 September 2021, Miya and L's final "Secret Meeting" event, "Secret Meeting -Kimino Miya Last Night-," was held from 6:30pm JST to 8:30pm. The event includes the "first and final" MiyaEl concert. The event was held live at Chukyo TV Plaza C and livestreamed on Z-aN, with archive availability starting on 27 September from 12:00AM Japan time.
Quotes
- "HANJO HANJO! Miya here =^.ω.^="
Identity
- Because her English is so fluent, she was often mistaken for a native speaker and got complimented for her Japanese skills. In her first live stream, she confirmed that she is in fact Japanese. Kokon could understand what Miya said in English to some extent (though he claimed he's just "reading the atmosphere").
- Her catch phrase was "Hanjo hanjo." The Japanese word hanjou (繁盛) means prosperity and is a term associated with beckoning cats. They are the origin of her design.
- Many of her subscribers confused her catch phrase with her name and called her "Hanjo."
- She was born in Osu, Nagoya, Aichi prefecture. Kokon also comes from Osu.
- Her birthday on 7 July is a festival day known as in Japan.
Media
- Japanese HANJO! TV - YouTube channel
- 君之宮Official - Bilibili channel
- @MIYA_KIMINO - Twitter account
- @miya_kimino - TikTok account
- @miya_kimino - Instagram account
- Japanese HANJO TV Facebook - Facebook page
- キミノミヤ公式／MIYA KIMINO Official - FANBOX account
- Japanese HANJO! TV - Official website
- @KOKON_HANJO - Kokon's Twitter account
- キミノミヤ - Note blog archive for miyacomic, illustrated stream recaps
Hashtags
- #キミノミヤ - General
- #miyart - Fanart hashtag
- #HANJOLIVE - Live
Statistics
- Kimino Miya - Social Blade YouTube stats
- Kimino Miya - Playboard YouTube stats