Matara Kan

Matara Kan is an English language VTuber affiliated with VShojo. She debuted on Twitch on 15 October 2023.

Appearance
She possesses multiple insect-like claws and antennae. She has long pink hair with blunt bangs and other shades of pink streaks with orangey eyes with long lashes and markings underneath one of her eyes. She wears a pink dress that shows her cleavage in the middle and a golden brooch pin with dark pink jewels in the shape of a cockroach. She has skeletal insect legs without shoes.

Profile
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Background
The Twitter and YouTube accounts for Matara Kan were registered on 1 September 2023.

The announcement of a new insect-themed VTuber was teased on the VShojo Twitter account beginning on 8 October, with a series of live-action black and white news reports, a brief animation titled "Something Wicked This Way Comes," and a B-movie style poster for "Attack of the Cockroach Woman."

On 12 October, her name was announced, along with a debut date. Her Twitch channel already had partner status by this date, and reached 5,000 followers within around four hours of the announcement. Prior to debut, she released some short teaser videos on her YouTube channel. She was so nervous the night before the debut that she slept for only two hours.

Debut
She debuted on Twitch on 15 October 2023 at 3:30PM PT or 6:30PM ET. She reached over 25,000 followers and over 1,000 subscriber points by the start of the debut stream, which at peak was attended by 44,578 viewers. By stream end, she reached over 42,000 followers and over 3,600 sub points.

It was followed at 8:15 ET by the release of a music video on YouTube, 【REMIX】DECO*27 - Zombies x Rob Zombie - Dragula 【MATARA KAN - VSHOJO】 by DECO*27. It is a mashup of DECO*27's Zombies, a Vocaloid song with Japanese lyrics; and Rob Zombie's 1998 single Dragula.

Mascot and Fans

 * Matara's fans are called "Momos". They are represented by a cute white bug creature with purple wings, and *cake*.

Quotes

 * "Bug me anytime you like, honey."
 * "Happiness is not enough. I demand euphoria."
 * "Matara will mata ne!"
 * "Bye honies!"
 * "I will eat you. And you will love it. Alright honey?"

Lore

 * She is a cockroach-like creature from an alien world.
 * When her homeworld was crushed in an instant by an ancient space god, she escaped on a spaceship and travelled through space for a long time, asleep in a cocoon. She was accepted by a peaceful alien planet, but her presence drew the attention of space monsters and she left to protect them.
 * She arrived on Earth, where she was researched by scientists who discovered her invulnerable. She escaped and accidentally robbed a gas station, since her home culture had no concept of money. This attracted the attention of Ironmouse, who became her first friend on Earth.
 * She became an actress on Earth, appearing in such movies as Shin Gokiburi, Juroachic Park, The Good, The Bad, and The Cockroach, Blade Roach 2049, Silence of the Kans, Mandibles, Mad Mata: Fury Road, E.T.C. the Extra-Terrestrial Cockroach. She did all her own stunts.
 * She retired at the height of her career as she was tired of being typecast as a villain. She began a new project, Humanity Educated thru Human Engagement (HEHE).
 * She uses her antennae to sense the world around her. She can remove them, but that makes her feel like she's wearing earmuffs.
 * Her powers are to create swarm, metamorphosis, regeneration, mind control, body takeover, and soft hug.
 * Her birthday of 4 February is actually the day she landed on earth.
 * She lives in a cave that she carved out herself.
 * She is working on giving herself human limbs for dancing, so that she can have a 3D debut.

Name

 * The name Matara Kan appears to derive from mata, which means "mother" in numerous world languages; and the Russian тарака́н, "tarakа́n," meaning "cockroach."
 * As Matara herself explains, her "alien" name is "Mat'tarakan". The apostrophe is occasionally used by Russians when transliterating Russian words into English to signify the presence of a soft sign, or "ь". In this case, "Mat'tarakan" is a transliteration of "мать таракан", which means "mother cockroach" in Russian.
 * Early on, other VShojo members including Kuro and Melody referred to her by the nickname Tara. She tends to refer to herself as Mata.

Likes and Dislikes

 * She is a fan of wine.
 * She likes spicy food, red wine, seafood, talking, long walks, slice of life anime, reading, baths, and delegating.
 * She enjoys reading and wants to start a book club.
 * She dislikes hard work, not sleeping for 9 hours, computer problems, cleaning, horror, jumpscares, and graphic design.
 * She is a fan of the Metal Gear video game series.

Miscellaneous

 * Matara is the 15th VTuber to join VShojo, and the sixth original character.
 * She refers to twitch.tv as "Twitch Television."
 * She is quadrilingual in Ukrainian, Russian, French, and English and learned the languages in that order.

Media

 * MataraKan - Twitch Channel
 * @MataraKan - Twitter account
 * MataraKan - YouTube channel
 * MataraKanVODS - YouTube VODs channel
 * MataraKanSHORTS - YouTube shorts channel
 * matara_kan - Instagram account
 * Official profile - VShojo
 * Merch store - VShojo store
 * The SWARM - Official Discord server

Hashtags

 * MataraKan - General tag
 * KanCraft - Art tag

Statistics

 * MataraKan - TwitchTracker stats
 * MataraKan - SullyGnome Twitch stats
 * MataraKan - Social Blade Twitch stats