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) after 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 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 9 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.

2020

 * On 24 July, she participated in Apex Legends RAGE x Legion: Doujou Cup as "Team Utaite" along with Soraru and Amatsuki. The team placed 3rd in overall ranking.

2021

 * On 15 May, she participated in Apex Legends 5th Crazy Racoon Cup Apex Legends as team "Mou Yurushite" (もう許して) along with Amatsuki and Shaka (DeToNator). The team placed 5th in overall ranking.
 * On 22 August, she participated in Apex Legends VTuber Most Cooperatitive Tournament Season 3 as team "Neko-gami Ru Youchien" (猫神ル幼稚園) along with Annin Miru and Kanda Shoichi; with Ak1to (DeToNator) as their coach. The team placed 14th in overall ranking.

Fans

 * Her fans can be called "96 (kuro) kura"「96クラ」(96 Club).
 * At the end of her streams, her fans send her off with "Baicha" 「ばいちゃ」.

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
 * @96_neko_sub - Twitter account
 * 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 - Profile Card
 * #96猫 - General
 * #96猫絵 - Illustration
 * #つかって96ちゃん - Thumbnail/Assets
 * #おしゃべり96ちゃん - Live stream talk
 * #ちょき96 - Clips
 * #みてみてちゃんくろ - Fans sharing something they'd like her to see