Maisaki Berry

Maisaki Berry is a female independent Japanese Virtual YouTuber focused primarily on doing singing stream.

Profile
Maisaki Berry is a "Virtual YouTuber Idol" from StrawberryKingdom (in Japan). I would like to challenge various genres such as playing games, singing songs, chatting, and ASMR. Can you support me, everyone?

Personality
Berry is easy-going and cheerful. Her current fanbase are a mix of Japanese and overseas people.

Berry loves to play horror games despite being bad at them, though her skill with Monster Hunter Rise is average, as well as Super Mario Bros. 35 in which she's very good at, consistently ranked top 5 during a stream, something mentioned by herself. She loves to sing as most of her live-streams are karaoke streams as she is a talented singer who has a wide voice range. She also loves story-telling, in the mornings of every weekday from 2020 until 2021, she released short 1 minute skits of random activities called 毎日べり or "Daily Berry."

She often does various "onee-san" (elder sister), Doraemon and sometimes old woman impressions during stream.

She greets her viewers with "KonBerry" and ends her streams with "OtsuBerry. Matta ne~".

Background
Her YouTube channel was created on 4 July 2020. She uploaded three small introductory videos to her YouTube channel from 15 August 2020 to 4 September 2020. However Berry officially debuted on 5 September 2020 with a singing stream.

2020
On 15 September, she uploaded her first cover of the song "ANIMA" by ReoNa.

On 15 November, Berry celebrated reaching 5,000 subscribers on YouTube.

On 26 November, her channel's membership was opened.

On 17 December, Berry reaching 10,000 subscribers on YouTube.

2021
On 30 January, she did a 100 Japanese song marathon stream and she completed in 10 hours.

On 13 February, she debuted a new 2D model, dubbed as Berry ver. 1.5.

On 5 March, she graduated from being a rookie idol into full-fledged idol from Strawberry Kingdom.

On 6 March, she debuted her first original song "Happy Lucky Strawberry."

On 14 March, Berry reached 20,000 YouTube subscribers during a singing endurance stream.

On 19 March, she announced that she sang the ED song「My Dearly Feelings」for an upcoming visual novel "FuyuKiss."

On 25 March, she announced that she would start a crowdfunding for her 3D model with a target of 800,000 yen.

On 27 March, the crowdfonding camping for her 3D model started at 9pm JST. Not even 30 minutes has passed and the target was reached.

Berry also released her second original song "Start Roll."

On 11 June, Berry reached 30,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 24 July, she debuted her 3D model. Her 3D model is an original design not based in either of her previous 2D models. Her hair color is notably paler than both of her previous appearances

On 10 September, Berry debuted her third 2D model model. This costume as a style and color palette similar to her 3D model. In this model she can move her arms, hold a knife or a microphone and has the option to wear cat ears.

On 27 September, she debuted her third original song "to you." as a reward for passing the stretch goal milestone of her 3D crowdfunding.

On 10 October, she debuted her fourth original song "New World!!" as the second reward for passing the stretch goal milestone of her 3D crowdfunding.

On 26 October, she reached 40,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

2022
On 16 January, Berry reached 50,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during a singing endurance stream.

On 2 April, she released her first album, "Strawberry Garden."

On 23 April, she reached 60,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 24 April, she released her second album, "Bouquet."

On 15 May, Berry debuted her second 2D costume. Unlike previous 2D reveals this is the first time she uses an existing model as a base instead of debuting a brand new model, using her third 2D model from September 2021 as the base. She wears a blue and white sailor fuku complemented with a pink cardigan that can be removed.

On 15 August, she debuted her second 3D costume during her birthday celebration stream. In this costume Berry uses casual clothes wearing a pink sweater.

On 29 August, Berry reached 70,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during a singing endurance stream.

On 5 September, she debuted her third 2D costume. In this costume Berry has a new hairstyle using small twintails that curl on the tips. She wears a light pink dress decorated with various black ornaments including bows, the sleeves and the upper portion of her skirt have a dot pattern.

Events

 * On 19 March 2021, she participated on AZKi's "Don't Stop the Music 3" event as the 17th performer, singing her original song "Happy Lucky StrawBerry."

Mascot and Fans

 * Her fanbase is called "BerryMane" where "Mane" is short for manager.

Likes and dislikes

 * Berry's favorite food is spaghetti or "meat sauce pasta" as she calls it.
 * She doesn't like carrots.
 * She is afraid of injections and sharks.

Miscellaneous

 * She is often called "Berry mama" by fans for singing old Japanese songs.
 * Her fans started calling her "Berry baba" stating that her actual age is 51 instead of 15 due to singing enka songs on the 2nd half of a karaoke stream.
 * Although her intro states that she is 15, during a drinking stream she said that her age is 1015 since 15 is minor and therefore illegal for drinking.
 * Berry create and edit most of her music videos by herself. She can also do audio mixing.
 * She owns a black cat named Yuki-chan.
 * Due to a fan pointing out that her pronunciation of "Everything" by MiSia sounded like "ABC" while singing its chorus, fans started calling the song "ABC" to tease Berry when she requests what song to sing during a karaoke stream.
 * Her daily short video skits, 毎日べりぃ started on 7 September 2020 and ended on 1 October 2021, posting over 270 videos.

Media

 * 苺咲べりぃ / Maisaki Berry - YouTube channel
 * @MaisakiBerry - Twitter account
 * @maisakiberry - Marshmallow account
 * maisakiberry - Instagram account
 * 苺咲べりぃ - FANBOX page
 * 苺咲べりぃ - BOOTH page

Twitter hashtags

 * #苺咲べりぃ - General
 * #べりなま - Live stream
 * #べりうた - Singing Clips
 * #べりマネ - Fan
 * #べりあーと - Fan art
 * #まいにちべりぃ - Daily short videos (Morning 8AM JST)

Further readings

 * maisakiberry - unofficial Seesaawiki
 * Fan Discord - Unofficial Discord server (Approved and acknowledged by Maisaki Berry herself)