Kumagai Chisato

This name is written using the Japanese name format; the family name is Kumagai.

Kumagai Chisato (熊谷ちさと), also known as Beatani (べあたに), is a female independent Japanese Virtual YouTuber.

Previously a 24 year-old average office worker, she was thrown and locked into the internet by her sister. Chisato describes her current job as "gatekeeper of the Internet."

She prefers that her viewers call her Beatani.

Beatani was on hiatus from May 11th 2022 to Aug 6th 2022, and is currently back to streaming.

Introduction Videos
English =
 * -| English (06/03/2021) = -DEBUT-I_am_Beatani!-Vtuber-
 * -| Japanese = 【新人Vtuber自己紹介配信】熊谷ちさとが可愛い！年齢は？引きこもりって本当？姉との確執は？→驚愕の事実に涙が止まらない……

Personality
Beatani can be very straightforward in the way she presents her opinions. She tends to engage in topics with chat regardless of how unusual they are. Sometimes, Beatani will deliberately introduce an unusual topic on her own, and go into unnecessary detail about it.

Beatani can be easily distracted during stream activities that require her full attention (for example, leaving her drawing unfinished to talk about the Gondola meme and explaining Japanese slang), and has talked about her ADHD condition.

The mood during her streams can be heartwarming on rare occasions. Although there are instances where messages left by chatters rubbed her the wrong way despite their supportive intent, there are also instances where she voiced her appreciation for the feedback and support she received, such as her birthday stream. During her "MBTI Zatsudan", she gave encouraging advice to an anonymous submitter who voiced his worries about his Japanese skills.

Profile and Events
Beatani is a 26 year-old polar bear that used to be an average office worker, until her sister, Chihiro, threw her into the internet on October 2019 as a result of a fight and trapped her in there. She mentions circumstances similar to those of the game Myst. After that, she started living on the "XP hills" (for reasons she herself doesn't know), a term she uses to refer to the hills that appear in the default Windows XP background picture, Bliss.

One of Beatani's goals is to escape the internet after reconciling with her sister. Her other goals are to get 1000 friends, and have a talk with Hiroyuki of 2channel fame.

This is a transcript from her introduction video, 「姉が小石と小石チョコの食べ比べをしています」:

“Hello! I am Kumagai Chisato. I was supposed to be an ordinary office worker... but I had a fight with my sister, who possessed unusual technology, and because of that I was trapped in the internet. I was locked in an alternate dimension because of this fight with my sister. It's a situation similar to that famous mystery-solving game Myst! Since then, I've been drifting along the seas of the internet... and it's been really lonely!! Ahh, this is a painful part of my virtual existence. Because of that, for the sake of making friends, I've decided to become a VTuber! If it's possible, I want to play with (you), the viewer! If it's okay to be friends... because my surname is Kumagai, please call me Beatani!”



Background
Both her YouTube and Twitter accounts were created on January 2021. Her YouTube channel shows activity as early as 10/02/2021, and a proper self-introduction stream was broadcast on 27/02/2021.

March 6th, 2021 marks the date when Beatani expanded her following by advertising overseas, and a debut for English-speaking audiences (a summarized version of her self-introduction from the previous month) was released. As explained in a posterior zatsudan, although she planned to do English videos, she didn't originally plan to do the streams themselves in English.

Channel milestones and celebration streams

 * 14/Mar/2021: 1month & 1k sub karaoke PARTY is the karaoke stream celebrating the 1000 subscribers milestone being reached.
 * 31/Mar/2021: At the very end of the LISTEN MY PLAN OF MERCHANDISE stream, she reached the 2000 subscribers milestone.
 * 10/Apr/2021: KARAOKE PARTY thanks 2k subs!
 * 5/May/2021: The 3000 subscribers milestone was reached during this stream.
 * 30/May/2021: 歌枠/KARAOKE thank you 3k subs
 * 10/Jul/2021: 歌枠/KARAOKE IT'S PARTY TIME! まあゆっくりしてけよ、お前ら
 * 25/Sep/2021: [New outfit + karaoke 5k subs arigatou ]
 * 06/Nov/2021: [歌枠 / karaoke Thank you 6,000 subscribers!!! ToT ]
 * 02/Feb/2022: [歌枠 / karaoke 7,000 subs! I'll sing for us!! ]
 * 23/Jul/2022: 8,000 subscribers.

Membership
Beatani announced on 29/03/2021 that she could open her YouTube membership, and enabled membership at the same time as her celebration stream "[祝！monetization]OPEN MEMBERSHIP & SING A LITTLE". She was surprised, as she did not expect more than 10 people to become members, and much more people than that joined.

Fan Name
When Beatani was asked how to call her fans, she had to think of a name, and proposed calling her fans Friends, BeaTomo, BeaFriends, or Sentries. Beatani ran a twitter poll between the last 3 names and Sentries won. The next day Beatani decided that she would call her fans Sentries. As Beatani's content shifted away from Slay the Spire and as she gained a large amount of new fans the usage of this name stopped. Eventually, Beatani said that she considers her fans to be family, and she mostly refers to them as dads; her "fan-family" also includes moms, brothers and sisters. Later on, Beatani posted art of "Listener-chan", a character that represents her fanbase.

Catchphrases

 * "Ohadayo! I'm Kumagai Chisato." (At the start of each stream )
 * "Dads and moms and brothers and sisters." (Addressing her viewers)
 * "Dad! You should (x)!" (Urging her viewers to do something or behave a certain way)
 * "I may be 'Kumagai', but you can call me 'Bear-tani'."
 * "What's wrong with you?"
 * "Who is you?"
 * "I want to peropero kawaii girls."
 * "Are you kidding me?"
 * "You are very wise." (When listener-san says something wise.)

Quotes

 * "It's not surprising that you need practice to use an unfamiliar tool. Imagine if you were a baby; it takes about five years for you to learn to speak. You are baby in japanese. It takes about five years for a baby to learn to speak. babu? My dad becomes baby [...] Yah. So language is just a tool. You should practice more and more. Practice practice practice. And I think language is just a tool. So the most important thing is not to use a tool well [...] the most important thing is, what you want to say! Not to use the language well. Take care of the feelings. It's the most important thing."
 * "What do you mean? Nonsense. This person is baka! Foolish question! Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Baka question... Yah-yah-yah, he's baka, he's baka. You're baka, baka, baakabaaaaka, baaka... baka-sugii, baka baaaka... kuso-baka nandesukedo [...]"
 * "NTR? Boku wo netoreta? Mika is not my girlfriend? Why? Why? Is she bitch? Son of a bitch. I should kill you Mika; I can't forgive you. I, I want to use Plate Shard and I want to stab you. I hate you, I hate you. I dislike this bitch. I *dislike* this girl... 'Beatani your meds?' No! Meds away. Kusuri away.[...]"
 * "If I could make [Listener-chan] pregnant, she couldn't cheat on others. Okay? Hmmm? Preg-nant. Yes, so, I need ochinchin. Mmm? Boku niwa ochinchin ga hitsuyou desu. I need ochinchin. Is this dangerous? Moshikashite, YouTube will ban me? Is it okay ja nai no? [...] I just talk about my oshi."
 * "えぇぇぇ、生意気なんですけどこいつぅ、な、こいつ生意気じゃねか、生意気って -- [starts typing, presumably looking translations up] 生意気子！ [Reads along with TTS voice] saucy, cheeky, conceited, brazen, audacious, impertinent, cheeky, shota boy, eh, eh. [...] Hey, don't underestimate my energy. Shota boy. Cheeky shota boy. Don't underestimate my energy. I never give up. [...] 僕の子宮をお前に移植する. I'll transplant my womb into you. I can't forgive you. Never."
 * "Do it yourself. Anyone can do it."

Trivia

 * She has shown an addiction to Slay the Spire. According to her calculations, she played the game for up to 40 hours in the span of one week. When she used to play this game, she couldn't focus on anything else, going as far as saying that the game "ruined her life" and that she's glad that she could "escape the Slay the Spire arc."
 * Her hair's color is based on the hair of Touhou's Youmu Konpaku (her favorite Touhou character).
 * She designed and rigged her Live 2D model herself.
 * She designed her own outro BGM, although it has seen very little use since her debut video.
 * Her Beatani nickname is based on an alternative reading of the characters that compose her surname.
 * She can impersonate Kirby, and Toad.
 * During an Omori stream, she mistakenly said she was 155 "meters" (as opposed to 155 centimeters), and mentioned her difficulties with the imperial system. Chat corrected her, and then she immediately corrected herself, but it's a running joke among her fans now.
 * Her favorite actress is Fukada Kyoko (A.K.A Fukakyon).

Media

 * 熊谷ちさと Kumagai Chisato - YouTube channel
 * beatanichisato - Twitch channel
 * @beatanichisato2 - Twitter account
 * u/beatanichisato - Reddit account

Twitter Hashtags

 * #べあたに流 - Stream chat
 * #べあたに絵 - Beatani fanart
 * #べあたにえち絵 - Beatani R-18 fanart
 * #べあたに虐待絵 - Beatani R-18G fanart

Fan content

 * XP Hill
 * Sequenzia Booru (NSFW) - An image repository for Beatani fanart