Kuroki Natsume

''This article is about Natsume's role as a VTuber. For the Utaite known as 96Neko, see the Utaite Wiki.''

Kuroki Natsume (黯希ナツメ) is a female Japanese YouTuber. She is the VTuber alias of Utaite 96Neko.

Background
Natsume's channel was created on 17 November, 2017, and was originally intended as a sub-channel for her (as 96Neko) gaming livestreams. She always used a static image that represented her avatar and sometimes used no image at all, and even used a 3D cat avatar.

It wasn't until 31 March, 2019 that she would use a 3D VTuber avatar. She announced in a tweet that she would stream under the name "V96". The first usage of her VTuber avatar was on OPENREC.tv on 4 April, 2019.

Eventually, on a stream held on 5 October, 2019, she decided the name "Kuroki Natsume" for her VTuber persona.

2020
On 11 January, she started using a new 2D model. She still uses the 3D cat avatar, especially when she's playing horror games and doing endurance streams, usually with a goal of returning back to human (2D model), achieving a certain amount of kills (commonly when playing APEX).

2021
On her birthday 30 March, she announced a version 2.0 of Kuroki Natsume's 3D model with the same illustrator in her previous 3D model. She also announced in a stream held on 30 June that she would also have a version 2.0 for her 2D avatar, and on shared a sneak-peek of it at Twitter on 05 July. She commented that the changes also applies on the avatar's face, the model having a slight sharp look instead of the previous' design pretty-charming look.

As of 09 July 2021 she settled to merge the personas, expressing that she finds it limiting (and other factors) and decided to perform all her activities under her utaite name 96Neko, going back to it being her sub-channel. She said however, that people may still call her in whatever name they want, be that her VTuber alias "Kuroki Natsume" and asked them to not worry.

Trivia

 * Like Hanayura Kanon, Natsume is also an Utaite.
 * She is part of the group "Natsumatsurikkai" (ナツまつりっかい), along with hololive production members Natsuiro Matsuri, Rikka and Nijisanji member Mayuzumi Kai.

Media

 * 【SUB】96NEKO-CHANNEL - YouTube channel
 * @Kuroki_Natsume - Official Twitter account (Old)
 * @96_neko_sub - Official Twitter account (Current)
 * 96猫/黯希ナツメ - Official OPENREC.tv channel
 * 96猫/黯希ナツメ - Official Mildom channel
 * Kuroki Natsume's official 3D model on THE SEED ONLINE

Twitter hashtags

 * #なつめ部 - Old Illustration Tag
 * #ナツメ絵 - Kuroki Natsume's Old Illustration tag
 * #ナツメ部clip - Kuroki Natsume's Old clip tag
 * #96猫絵 - Utaite 96neko's Illustration tag
 * #つかって96ちゃん - Tag for thumbnail submissions
 * #ちょき96 - Tag for clips submitted by the listeners
 * #おしゃべり96ちゃん - Tag for listeners' thoughts and feedback about her stream
 * #みてみてちゃんくろ - Tag for listeners' to share something they'd like her to see

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