Nakiri Ayame
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Nakiri Ayame is an active VTuber, affiliated with hololive. Presents as Female. Based in Japan. Broadcasts in japanese. Active on Twitch, YouTube, X (Twitter), TikTok. Operates as a Twitch Affiliate. Their reach includes 1.7M subscribers on YouTube, 1.4M followers on Twitter, 99.5K followers on Twitch. Primarily plays chatting, gaming, music, free-talk. Often tagged with idol, oni, #あやめ夜行, #百鬼あやめch. Debuted YouTube: 2018/09/03. Designed with illustrator by Kagura Nana & Bjorchi, live2d rigger by Ilie Tou & Naname, 3d modeler by Yuuji & schwarz. Personality: Ayame is an oni who seems to talk to humans as if they are below her. Visual design notes: She has long, loose white hair with tints of pink and white horns and reddish-pink eyes and bell-ribbon hair accessories with a red oni mask. Lore: Ayame's Twitter account was opened on 1 August 2018, while her YouTube channel was created on 12 August. Notable detail: The kanji of her surname「百鬼」can also be read as "Hyakki," which means "One Hundred Demons." A famous idiom related to this word is "" (Night Parade of a Hundred Demons), a parade… Nakiri stands at 152cm, character age 1,500+ years old. Zodiac sign: Sagittarius. Signature mark used by fans: 😈. Their profile includes an introduction video, a 267-image gallery. Their community goes by "Nakiri Gang (Nakiri-gumi)". Goes by Ojou (Miss) / Kijin Hyakki (hololive FAMS alias) / 百鬼あやめ in different contexts.
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Personality
Ayame is an oni who seems to talk to humans as if they are below her. However in spite of this, she is very friendly, playful and treats her audience equally to herself. Even sometimes looking up to humans she respects such as Houshou Marine to where she had difficulties approaching her.
Ayame is infamous for her approachability and her rather sensitive funny bone, as it's very easy to make her let loose a cute little giggle from the slightest amusement. She will laugh when she's up to no good, chuckle at her observations on things, giggle at her mistakes and burst at her chat's cheap jokes. Bad Japanese puns are especially her weakness as she starts giggling and laughing to where she can't contain herself anymore, bashing her table uncontrollably and needing to stop whatever she's doing just to let it loose.
She can be very analytical of new people in a social context, often taking 5 separate encounters before she collects enough "data" to know how to approach someone, which can sometimes cause analytical meltdowns when around people who prefer to know someone ASAP (like Marine). Additionally, typical of an oni, she can also have a really violent temper if pushed too far as she got into a physical fight with her father and kicked a hole in the wall when someone deleted all of her cable recordings...again. But when streaming she always keeps herself in a fantastic enough mood to avoid showing her anger in front of her fans, save for cute toothless outbursts.
She greets her fans with "Konnakiri!"
Appearance
She has long, loose white hair with tints of pink and white horns and reddish-pink eyes and bell-ribbon hair accessories with a red oni mask.
She wears a black kimono with red and golden accessories and spider lily on the bottom part, red and white checkered cloth covered with a green with golden flower and stem motif. She has a large, red and white bow and a two katanas on the back.
She wears a long, white stockings and zori-style sandals.
Background
Ayame's Twitter account was opened on 1 August 2018, while her YouTube channel was created on 12 August. She began activities on her channel with her introduction stream, which took place on 3 September 2018.
Relationships
- "AyaSuba," alongside Oozora Subaru.
- "FAMS," alongside Shirakami Fubuki, Ookami Mio, and Oozora Subaru.
- "Manji-Gumi" (卍組), alongside Murasaki Shion and Minato Aqua.
- "Irohanihoheto AyaFubuMi," alongside Shirakami Fubuki and Ookami Mio.
- "Happy Set," alongside Roboco-san and Natsuiro Matsuri.
- "PuiCure" (†魔幽鬼†ぷぃきゅあ), alongside Murasaki Shion and Utsutsu Yomi.
- "Senchinels" (せんちねるず), alongside Yumeno Akari, Shinomiya Runa, Aizawa Ema and Naraka.
- "Onigashima Combi" (鬼ヶ島コンビ), alongside Inugami Korone.
- "Saki Ike Ninja" (先いけ忍者), alongside Ichinose Uruha, Kogara Toto, Kohaku Teto, and Murakumo Kagetsu.
Mascot and fans
- Her fanbase is officially called "Nakiri-gumi"「百鬼組」which means "Nakiri Gang."
- Her mascot is called "Poyoyo."
Trivia
- The kanji of her surname「百鬼」can also be read as "Hyakki," which means "One Hundred Demons." A famous idiom related to this word is "" (Night Parade of a Hundred Demons), a parade of thousands of supernatural creatures called oni and yōkai that march through the streets of Japan at night.
- She always carries twin katanas on her back. The black-handled oodachi (ootachi) is the cursed sword Rakshasa (Japanese: 妖刀ようとう 「 羅刹らせつ 」, youtou "Rasetsu"), and its blade is haunted by dark mist. The red-handled dachi (tachi) is the demon blade Asura (Japanese: 鬼人刀きじんと 「 阿修羅あすら 」, kijinto Asura) and has a red blade. Both appear on her original design sheet, while their English names are attested in Ayame's appearance in Azur Lane.
- The original character board describes Rakshasa as an oodachi, or extra-long sword. While this term is often used to describe a sword longer than a normal katana, Ayame's sword appears to be of normal length, although it is slightly longer than Asura, which is described merely as a dachi, or sword. This combination of a katana and shorter sword (wakizashi) commonly appears in depictions of samurai, as popularized by Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings and other works.
- Rakshasa is referred to as "youtou," meaning a cursed, magical, or demon blade. The first kanji "you" appears in "youkai," a Japanese term for spirits or monsters of folklore.
- Asura is referred to as "kijinto" or "kijin katana," with "kijin" referring to a type of supernatural creature such as a demon, god, or rakshasa. The first kanji of kijin is the kanji for "oni," which also appears in the name Nakiri.
- Both rakshasa and asura are named after types of supernatural beings of Hindu myth. The rakshasa is a demon-like creature created from the breath of Brahma, and later popularized via Dungeons & Dragons as having a tiger-like appearance. The asura is a type of being who wars against the devas or gods.
- Before becoming a VTuber, she revealed she used to be a loner and had trouble interacting with others. Since joining hololive, she was progressively able to make bonds with the other members, open up and rely on them, and gain self-confidence.
- She admitted to wearing glasses. In fact, her eyesight is typically very terrible.
- She's a fan of FPS games and frequently plays them on stream, possessing lightning quick reflexes rivaling Minato Aqua as can be seen when she plays shooters like Apex Legends.
- She's bad at horror games and is easily scared.
- Yukihana Lamy and Shirogane Noel are big fans of Ayame.
- She owns a pet cat named Jirusuke.
- Ayame has a bad sense of direction, often going the wrong way. This has lead to the birth of the "Docchi Docchi" MAD (Songs made out of clips set to music), and she is sometimes teased with it by other members.
- She is a fan of Pretty Cure. Her favorite series is Smile Pretty Cure, and her favorite characters are Cure Happy, Cure Peace, and Cure Beauty. However, she denies being an otaku. This is because, domestically, Otaku is used to describe a person who is overly knowledgeable about a particular subject, similar to a mega nerd, as opposed to the western adopted meaning flanderized as "Anime fan."
- Ayame appears to be way more hyperactive than who she actually is in holo no graffiti, especially when she's the main driving character of the episode. Notable episodes featuring this are "Help! I'll be burned!" and "Beware, Beware the Blues of May". This hyper personality has partly influenced the jacket design on her 4th costume to read "YODAYO," a greeting fans took a liking towards because of the mini-series.
- She claims that she's asked why she has horns around every six months, to which she always responds with being born with them because she's an Oni. When asked, she would respond with "Why don't you humans have horns?"
- Ayame has once noted that she has a very strict mother, who would usually get on her for the smallest things such as having her elbows on the table before saying she won't eat or saying she won't help her if she doesn't help herself. Many traits (from how Ayame explains them) point to mama Nakiri being a very strong headed woman.
- Ayame shares her illustrator Kagura Nana with Spade Echo from hololive China, Fuyumori Shizuku from Idori Entertainment Post, Naki Kamizuki from PRISM Project, Lucifer Poi from AiryProduction and Amemiya Nazuna from VShojo.
Lore
A kimono-clad Oni girl from the Underworld Academy. As she loves to prank people, she always uses will-o’-the-wisp on them just to have fun. Many may not realize it, but she is actually the president of the student council.
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2018
On 30 September, Ayame reached 10,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.
2019
On 6 May, Ayame enabled membership feature on her YouTube channel.
On 14 May, she announced she would be getting a 3D model. She debuted her 3D model on 17 May.
On 9 August, she debuted her 3D swimsuit costume.
On 10 November, she reached 100,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.
On 20 November, she announced on her Twitter account a new 2D costume, which debuted during a stream on 23 November.
2020
On 1 January, she published in Twitter, that she would get her new year costume, which was later revealed during a stream the same day.
On 24 January along with the other hololive girls up to the third generation, she debuted her 3D idol outfit at hololive's 1st fes. Nonstop Story.
On 16 April, she reached 200,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.
On 10 July, she reached 300,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.
On 28 July, she announced on her Twitter account that her original 2D model would be updated to the 2.0 version, later on 31 July she debuted her updated model during a stream. Her updated model features more facial expression, her mouth for example has much more movement while talking and smiling, her hair bangs now have natural movement and she can turn freely in more directions.
On 5 September, she reached 400,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during a talking stream.
On 12 November, she reached 500,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during a karaoke stream, making her the 20th member in hololive and also the 3rd member in second generation to reach this milestone.
On 21 December, she reached 600,000 YouTube subscribers.
2021
On 10 February, she reached 700,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.
On 5 April, she reached 800,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during a karaoke stream.
On 28 April, hololive's Twitter account announced that Ayame would get fourth 2D costume.
On 2 May, Ayame debuted her fourth 2D costume. In this costume Nakiri styles her hair with twintails, she wears a white blouse with a black tie and a black skirt, she wears a jacket below the shoulders with a color scheme similar to her standard outfit, on the right site the jacket has the word "YODAYO," while the left site has "OGRE PUNCH" accompanied by a badge with the same design as the tatoo she has on her back, Ayame can also remove her jacket. At the peak of the reveal, she reached an audience of over 100,000 people.
On 23 May, Ayame reached 900,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.
On 8 July, Ayame reached 1,000,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, making her the 20th hololive member, as well as the 15th member of hololive JP, to reach this milestone. She is also the third member of the 2nd generation to reach it. An interesting thing is that she is also the 20th member in hololive and also the 3rd member of the 2nd generation to reach 500,000 subscriber milestone.
On 2 October, during her 3rd anniversary celebration Ayame debuted her first original song "Yoi no Yo, Yoi!."
On 3 November, Ayame debuted the original MV of her song "Yoi no Yo, Yoi!."
2022
On 21 June, Ayame went on an undefined hiatus due to family matters.
Around 28 July, she reached 1,000,000 followers on Twitter.
On 31 August, as part of the "hololive Summer 2022" event, Ayame debuted her 3D yukata. Like other 3D costumes the yukatas have a variety of styles that hololive members can choose from. The yukatas come in various colors and patterns including fireworks, flowers and goldfish.
On 2 September, Ayame returned to her streaming activities.
On 13 December, she released her second original song "YumeHanabi."
2023
On 8 January, Ayame's new year costume was updated to version 2.0.
On 19 March, Ayame debuted her new 3D idol costume during hololive 4th fes. "Our Bright Parade" DAY2. She also debuted her third original song "Kawayo."
On 24 March, hololive's Twitter account announced that Ayame would get her fifth 2D costume.
On 29 March, Ayame debuted her fifth 2D costume. Ayame has two new hairstyles, she uses long loose hair with folded twintails with thin locks of hair braided and put in place by hairpins, her side locks are decorated with small ribbons. In the other hairstyle Ayame uses long loose hair with a long braid to her right, both hairstyles can use red flower hairpins. Ayame wears a shrine maiden outfit. She uses a white top with a red collar. On top of it Ayame uses a piece of cloth that gradient from white to pink and is decorated with a big red, white, pink and black bow, a golden crecent moon, four petal pink flower and a fluffy white ball. The sleeves have a pink hamaya pattern. She wears a red mini skirt with a white zigzag and dot pattern. Her long socks also gradient from white to pink and have a curvy diagonal cut with a pink edge, they are decorated with smaller white fluffy balls and red ribbons. Ayame wears red and black sandals with a flower print.
On 27 August, as part of the "hololive Summer 2023" event, Ayame debuted her third 3D swimsuit during "hololive Summer 2023 Splash Party!" DAY 2 Night. The 2023 swimsuits are inspired in a sailor uniform. Members wear a two layered swimsuit, the first layer is blue from the straps going down diagonally to the center where each member has a mostly blue bow but one of the sides and the brooch are in one color representative of each member. The rest of the top is white. The edge has a semi circular cut. The lower piece of the first layer has two variants, one is a two layered blue skirt decorated with a white belt, a golden chain with some decorations hanging from it and a bow to the left and planks to the right. The second version is mostly the same but they wear blue shorts instead of a mini skirt. The second layer of the outfit is a matching striped bikini in white and another color depending on the member.
On 3 September, as part of her fifth anniversary, Ayame debuted new accessories for her fifth 2D costume. Including two new hairstyles, using a bob haircut in one and a straight ponytail complemented with a dark blue bow with a waning crecent moon in the other. She can also wear glasses with a circular frame with one having what appears to be a tear drop similar to those of Roboco. Ayame can also carry her mascot Poyoyo.
On 24 December, Ayame along with Korone, Noel, Lamy, Okayu, Koyori, and Chloe debuted their second 3D Christmas costumes during event hololive Xmas AR LIVE "Sweet Happy Holiday".
2024
On 13 January, Ayame reached 1,500,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel. This makes her the 18th hololive member, as well as the 3rd member of the 2nd generation, to reach this milestone.
On 3 February, during, Ayame debuted her sixth 2D costume. She uses braided low twintails decorated with and loose hair similar to her main hairstyle. Ayame uses red sport wear with white stripes and a white T-shirt with two variants. Ayame wears Poyoyo shaped slippers. She can also use glasses with spiral opaque lens. Ayame can take off her jacket.
On 17 March, she released her fourth original song "melting."
On 21 December, Ayame debuted a new hairpin accessory for her fifth 2D costume, and along with Mio and Fubuki released the opening theme song for the anime "", named "ame tokimeki koimoyou."
2025
On 9 March, she debuted her hololive 6th fes. Color Rise Harmony 3D idol costume during the event's day 2 STAGE 3. The costume has some variants, it can be black or white, complemented with a color representative of the talent. The midriff can be covered or not. One has variant has a skirt while the other uses pants, with one leg exposed. Aside for the design featured in promotional material, the costume also includes a short jacket.
On 4 May, Ayame's main model was updated. She has new expressions.
On 3 September, during her 7th anniversary, Ayame debuted a new 3D costume. Ayame retains her buns but with twintails, decorated with golden leaves ornaments. Ayame wears a white, black and red kimono with detached long sleeves, one in black and the other in white both with floral patterns. The kimono's skirt is red. Ayame can hold a paper parasol. She also released her fifth original song "Hanafubuki."
On 11 November, Ayame debuted her seventh 2D costume. Ayame uses loose, long hair with a braid on the left, or a long twintails hairstyle. Her hair can be complemented with a white beret. Ayame wears a short, white dress with golden buttons and a black belt. Her skirt has folds to the sides with red fabric. She has black boots. Ayame can also use long, white blazer o a short, black one. Ayame can also hold a white and red rifle.
2026
On 14 February, Ayame debuted her eighth 2D costume. Ayame has two hairstyles, low twintails tied with pink ribbons and small decorative pink flowers, the other is high twintails with buns decorated with red ribbons with bells, she can wear a black beret. Ayame wears a long sleeved, pink, red and white kimono, with a black obi. She uses long, black boots. Ayame can wear a white apron or short sleeved, pink blazer.
Discography
- Main page: Nakiri Ayame/Discography
Events
- On 12 September 2019, she made an appearance in hololive's collaboration with Dawn of the Breakers as one of the characters alongisde Akai Haato, Natsuiro Matsuri, Shirakami Fubuki, Oozora Subaru, Sakura Miko and Ookami Mio.
- On 27 November 2019, she made an appearance in hololive's collaboration with Azur Lane as one of the characters, alongside Shirakami Fubuki, Ookami Mio, Natsuiro Matsuri, Murasaki Shion, Minato Aqua and Tokino Sora, she was available from 27 November to 10 December.
- On 2 August 2020, she participated in Shibuya HAL's Apex Legends VTuber Most Cooperatitive Tournament (VSaikyou) along with Roboco-san and Natsuiro Matsuri as team "Happy Set". The team got 19th place in the overall ranking.
- On 24 January 2021, she participated in the Apex Legends VTuber Most Cooperatitive Tournament Season 2 (VSaikyou 2) along with Murasaki Shion and Utsutsu Yomi as team "PuiCure" (†魔幽鬼†ぷぃきゅあ). The team got 14th place in the overall ranking.
- On 24 March 2022, hololive announced a collaboration with Kanda Myojin Shrine featuring Nakiri Ayame, Ookami Mio and Sakura Miko in the "Kanda Myojin Shrine Support" set which includes 3 bottles of ginger ale and a plate postcards in each set. The products would be sold at the Kanda Myojin Cultural Exchange Center EDOCCO café MASU MASU and the online store starting 30 March 2022.
- On 20 October 2022, the amusement park Fuji-Q Highland announced its second collaboration "hololive in Fuji-Q Highland ~SNOW*WORLD~" with Shirakami Fubuki, Nakiri Ayame, Oozora Subaru, and Ookami Mio. The event would be held from 19 November to 30 December 2022.
- On 1 November 2022, hololive announced on Twitter that Ayame would appear in merchandise that could be won in Capcom Net Catcher featured in two different artworks, four prices could be obtained including: keychains, mouse pads, tapestries and cushions. The event would be available from 4-17 November 2022.
- On 28 April 2023, hololive's Twitter account announced a collaboration with the Japanese professional baseball team "Yomiuri Giants" in a match on 1 August 2023 at Tokyo Dome, featuring Ayame and another eight members participating in various promotionals: announcements, posters, signage in the halls, as well as tickets and merch.
- On 19 November 2023, she participated in the VSaikyou VALORANT Act1 tournament as part of the team Senchinels (せんちねるず) alongside Yumeno Akari, Shinomiya Runa, Aizawa Ema, and Naraka. Her team got 4th place.
- On 5 July 2024, hololive announced the water park-themed collaboration event "Party time: hololive production in water land" with OU-EN EVENT of CAPSULE, featuring Nakiri Ayame, Houshou Marine, Momosuzu Nene, Moona Hoshinova, Kobo Kanaeru, Ninomae Ina'nis, Gawr Gura, Fuwawa Abyssgard, and Mococo Abyssgard in special illustrations, food, merchandise, and exclusive contents in Leofoo Water Park, Taiwan. The event would take place from 7 August to 8 September 2024.
- On 22 August 2025, she appeared as a playable character in the mobile game The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden.
- On 9 November 2025, she participated in the VSaikyou VALORANT Act2 tournament as a member of team Saki Ike Ninja (先いけ忍者) alongside Ichinose Uruha, Kogara Toto, Kohaku Teto, and Murakumo Kagetsu. Her team took 4th place in the overall ranking.
Media
- Nakiri Ayame Ch. 百鬼あやめ - YouTube channel
- Nakiri Ayame's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
- @nakiriayame - Twitter account
- 百鬼绫目Official - bilibili channel
- nakiriayame_hololive - Twitch channel
Hashtags
- #百鬼あやめch - Live stream
- #百鬼絵巻 - Fan art
- #あやめ夜行 - Related tweets
Further readings
- 百鬼あやめ - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
- 百鬼あやめ (JP) / Nakiri Ayame (EN) - Pixiv Encyclopedia
- 百鬼あやめ - Japanese Wikipedia
- 百鬼あやめ - unofficial hololive Seesaawiki
- 百鬼绫目 - Moegirl Encyclopedia
- 나키리 아야메 - Namu Wiki
- Nakiri Ayame - Azur Lane Wiki
Statistics
- Nakiri Ayame - Social Blade YouTube stats
- Nakiri Ayame - Playboard YouTube stats
- nakiriayame_hololive - TwitchTracker stats
- nakiriayame_hololive - SullyGnome Twitch stats
- nakiriayame_hololive - Social Blade Twitch stats