Amanogawa Shiina

Amanogawa Shiina (天ノ川 しいな) is a female English Virtual YouTuber and a member of Phase-Connect's second Generation "PhaseALIAS," alongside Remilia Nephys, Chisaka Airi, Himemiya Rie, Makina Erina, and Komachi Panko.

Profile
''A seamstress created by the gods to sew the stars into the night sky and create beauty for all who come after. She grew bored and lonely after cons of sewing. Having an affinity for observing mortals and their creativity, she decided to █████ █████ and perhaps learn new ways of creating and █████ while finding company to fill her lonely heart with joy and inspiration.''

Personality
Shiina always talks in a formal way and uses lots of words to express her thoughts, but it doesn't prevent her from shouting insults whenever she gets angry. Under her evident taste for refined things and her usual calm, Shiina likes pulling out slightly shocking puns. Even if she knows she is supposed to control herself and keep her composure, Shiina can't help manifesting her most thirsty instincts over very seductive video game characters.

Otherwise, Shiina interacts a lot with her community and likes sharing about her personal experiences. Thus, Shiina encourages her viewers to improve their life to have a better opinion of themselves. She jokes sometimes about her lack of skill at video games, but still tries her best to make all her streams entertaining.

Background
Her YouTube channel was created on 27 February 2022, her Twitter account was created in December 2021.

On 18 June 2022, during Phase-Connect's one year anniversary, they announced their new Generation labeled as "PhaseALIAS". On 24 June 2022, Phase-Connect revealed PhaseALIAS's members and their debut schedule. After the announcement, Shiina made her first tweet and uploaded her first video on YouTube channel. On 5 July 2022, she released her first official cover song "CH4NGE" by Giga. On 7 July 2022, she announced her debut schedule. On 9 July 2022, Shiina debuted, at the end of the stream, she revealed her second cover song "Comet" which would take place on 11 July.

2022
On 29 July, Shiina celebrated her YouTube channel monetization with an unarchived karaoke stream, she also reached 10,000 subscribers during the stream.

On 27 August, she opened membership feature on YouTube channel.

On 16 December, Shiina's YouTube channel reached 20,000 subscribers.

2023
On 11 January, she reached 30,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On 2 March, Shiina reached 40,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

Events

 * On 31 August 2022, Series Ai announced on Twitter that Shiina would be performing at "AiMatsuri III," which would be held from 24-25 September 2022.

Mascot and Fans

 * Her mascot is "Dan Butter Cook" (DANish BUTTER COOKies), a box of cookies.
 * She has a pink friend named "Bloobert." It was decided by a poll during a stream on YouTube after many tries.
 * Her fanbase is called "Butter Cookies."

Relationships

 * "Yellow star women," alongside Kaneko Lumi.

Lore

 * Her species is Celestial Seamstress.
 * Based on the story during her debut stream, after landing on earth, Chisaka Airi found and brought her home because she mistook her for a 5 star character.

Miscellaneous

 * Her first name "Amanogawa"「天の川」in Japanese means "Milky Way."
 * She can speak English and knows a bit of Japanese, Mandarin and French.
 * She likes singing, drawing, cooking, reading (BL, Fanfiction), stairmaster, collecting lint to make big lint balls.
 * Her favorite food are spicy food, watermelon, butter cookies, and ketchup (one of the great inventions).
 * She dislikes olives, mushrooms, black holes, Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones, loose threads on clothes and plushies, Silerfish, Sakana's deadlines (the longest deadline that Sakana gave her was two weeks), and thinking.
 * Her goals are to get better at drawing, draw everyone in Phase-Connect, improve singing skills, write a song, inspire and encourage viewers to live a healthier lifestyle, get 3D model and perform live at a major event, voice acting role, taste and determine the finest ketchup brand on the world
 * Shiina shares her illustrator with Usada Pekora of Hololive and Tsukiyoi Avi of Varium.
 * A day after her debut stream around 11 July, her Twitter account was banned because a misunderstanding when the Twitter bot thought her cover song teaser video violated the Twitter rules.
 * She confirmed that she types a bit slow, about 38 words per minute.
 * She made her overlays and ending screen herself.
 * Her favourite streamer in flesh is Moonmoon, on Twitch.
 * Japanese is her native language, but she someday moved out in another country and learned English at a good degree. However, Shiina learned it so good she since young took the habit to naturally talk in a very formal way.

Media

 * Shiina Ch. 天ノ川 しいな 【Phase Connect】 - YouTube Channel
 * Shiina Official Vod Archive - YouTube Channel (VODs)
 * amanogawashiina - Twitch channel
 * @AmanogawaShiina - Twitter account
 * AmanogawaShiina - DeviantArt account
 * @amanogawashiina - TikTok account
 * @amanogawashiina - Marshmallow account

Twitter hashtags

 * #amanogawashiina - General
 * #shiinaLIVE - Live Stream
 * #shiillustration - Fan Art
 * #shiinaughty - NSFW
 * #mememaw - Meme