Yakumo Beni

Yakumo Beni (八雲べに) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber affiliated with the Virtual eSports Project, debuting as its second solo member after Kaminari Qpi.

Profile
Beni is sweets, stylish and cool. But she is not naive in her approach to games. Her style is all about winning and losing, and the amount of practice she takes is what sets her apart from others. She is secretly trying to get a sexy slot in VSPO.

Appearance
Beni's original design has the look of a fashionable gal. She has long green hair. She also has pure white skin with purple eyes. On her ears she wears purple gem earrings. On the neck she wears 2 necklaces, the first necklace has a blue gem, the second necklace has a purple gem.

Beni wears a fashionable black dress that shows off her shoulders and stomach. On her left hand she wears two different bracelets, blue and black bracelet. On her right hand she wears a black ring. In addition, her fingernails are painted black. She wears black shorts with all the legs to the waist wearing net stockings. On the feet she wears black heeled boots with purple and blue shoelaces.

Background
Beni's Twitter account was created on April 2021, while her first tweet was made on 14 April. Her YouTube channel was created on 14 April and her debut stream was on 16 April.

2021
On 25 April, Beni did celebration stream for the monetization of her channel.

On 18 June, Beni did an Valorant 300-kill endurance stream 300 kill to celebrate her channel reaching 50,000 subscribers.

On 23 August, Beni did celebration stream for her channel reaching 100,000 subscribers.

On 29 September, VSPO's Twitter account announced that Beni was suspended for a month due to a controversy related to the use of alt accounts in Valorant.

2022
On 6 April, Beni revealed her new outfit and hairstyle.

On 12 May, Beni reached 230,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

2021

 * On 19 May, Beni participated in the Valorant Light Tournament Vol 3 Group 6 as team "Valorant Excitement Corps" along with Naraka, Wokka, Arisakaaa and Uruca. The team won 1st place.
 * On 28 May, Beni participated in the PUBG VCC Custom 1 as "Team 4" along with Kurumi Noah, Shirayuki Reid and Tonakai Hendy.
 * On 6 June, Beni participated in the 1st VALORANT Crazy Racoon Cup as team "High Calories" along with Daruma is God, Nethydra, Sutanmi and hNt. The team placed 6th in the overall ranking.
 * On 15 June, Beni participated in the PUBG VCC Custom 2 as "Team 8" along with hNt, Nethydra and Dizzy.
 * On 1 August, Beni participated in Twitch Rivals: VALORANT Japan Showdown as "Team D" along with SPYGEA, Daruma is God, HiNas3, and aroe. The team took 2nd place in overall ranking.
 * On 22 August, she participated in Apex Legends Vtuber Most Cooperatitive Tournament Season 3 as team "Obekka" (おべっか) along with Utai Makea and Odanobu. The team placed 16th in overall ranking and won a PC as Shibuya Hal's special price.
 * On 28 August, she participated in Apex Festival Summer Campaign (えぺまつり夏の陣 Apex Matsuri Natsu no Jin) as team "Pachimon Gosan-ka" (パチモン誤算家) along with Rader and Arisaka (Crazy Raccoon).
 * On 30 August, she participated in Battle Field V BFJ Streamer Cup as Team B's Squad George along with Cpt (Crazy Raccoon), Nun Bora, and SoVault.
 * On 4 September, she participated in ABEMA presents VALORANT VICTORY CHALLENGE as Team D along with Kaga Nazuna, RobiN (DeToNator), k4sen, and Suzuki Noriaki. The team tied on 3rd place in overall ranking.
 * On 14 September, she participated in 2nd VCC Apex organised by VAULTROOM as Team 17 along with Masanori and Mabodofu. The team took 2nd place in overall ranking.
 * On 23 September, Beni, along with the other VSpo members, participated in VSpo! Autumn Surprise Test ~Get out from the academic ability Bronze lobby~ (ぶいすぽっ！秋の抜き打ちテスト～抜け出せ学力ブロンズ帯～) hosted by Kisaragi Ren, Ichinose Uruha, and Shirayuki Reid as the special guest. Beni ended up in 10th place.
 * On 26 November, Beni participated in Valorant Girls' Party as Team B along with Ichinose Uruha, Komori Met, Kaminari Qpi, and Tachibana Hinano. The team placed 1st in the overall ranking.
 * On 27 November, Beni, along with the other VSpo members, participated in VSpo! Final Battle to Decide the Remote Bistro Queen (リモートビストロクイーン決定戦) hosted by Kisaragi Ren and Shirayuki Reid, with Tonakaito Hendy as the remote chef.

Quotes

 * アホ(Aho, Stupid)

Fans

 * Beni's fans are called "Benny's".

Trivia

 * Preferences
 * Favorite Game: Valorant, Apex Legends, PUBG, Splatoon and more.
 * Favorite Food: Chocolate, All sweet things, Sea urchin, Katsudon, Grilled meat.
 * Fashion, Shopping, Cosmetics beauty products collection.
 * Eat, Sleep, Eat.
 * Beni claims that her room is fairly clean and always cleaned with a quickle wiper every day.
 * Beni admits that she is not good at arithmetic, though she is good at her national language.
 * Beni's voice has been noted to resemble that of the voice actress Sawashiro Miyuki; Beni occacionally does impressions of her roles on her streams.
 * Beni is the third child of four sisters.
 * 1st daughter called Yakumo Bani (八雲ばに) - the most pretty, looks like Hasegawa Jun.
 * 2nd daughter called Yakumo Bini (八雲びに) - the best in cooking, really good in impersonation (esp. Echizen Ryoma from Prince of Tennis).
 * 4th daughter called Yakumo Buni (八雲ぶに) - the smartest among Yakumo sisters, still a student, and a hardcore otaku (she found out about Beni's activities as VTuber).
 * Beni shares the same character designer with Koinoya Mai, Mirea Sheltzs, Shinosaki Honoa and Oumiya Emma.

Equipment & Game Setting
 Some of the equipment listed may not be up to date.(Updated 4 August 2021)* 


 * Gaming PC
 * CPU         : I9-10850K
 * Graphic Card : RTX 3070
 * Memory      : 32GB RAM


 * Peripherals
 * Monitor         : ASUS ROG SWIFT PG258Q 24.5 240Hz
 * Keyboard        : Topre REALFORCE SA R2 Thynkeyless
 * Mouse           : Logitech GPROX superlight white
 * Mouse pad       : ZOWIE G-SR-SE (red)
 * Capture board   : AVerMedia C878
 * Audio interface : Yamaha AG03
 * Headphones      : Iphone genuine earphone
 * Microphone      : Shure SM58-LCE
 * Microphone Stand : Roycel
 * WebCamera       : Logicool C920r


 * Apex Setting
 * DPI                : 800
 * In-game sensitivity : 1.5


 * Valorant Setting
 * DPI                : 800
 * In-game sensitivity : 0.25

Live Chat Etiquette

 * Common VTuber chat etiquette is summarized here: "Vtuber Chat Etiquette"


 * Please don't mention the names of other streamers not involved in the stream (exception if Beni talks about them first).
 * Please don't mention her or her collab partners' names in unrelated streams of other people.
 * Please don't spam comments.
 * Please avoid inappropriate remarks, expressions or words that are offensive to public order and morals.
 * Do not be "carrier pigeons" (viewers who bring messages and comments from other streams).
 * Do not "stream snipe" (deliberately joining her games while watching her stream to gain an unfair advantage).

Media

 * 八雲べに - YouTube Channel
 * 八雲べに - TwitCasting Channel
 * @beni_yakumo - Twitter Account
 * @896_beni - 2nd Twitter Account
 * Beni Yakumo - Marshmallow Account
 * Lupinusvg - Official Booth

Twitter Hashtags

 * #八雲べに - Main hashtag
 * #やくもーしょん - Live Streaming hashtag
 * #べにっき - Fanart hashtag
 * #しもべに - Fans hashtag
 * #八雲べに#べに様 - Egosurfing hashtag

Further readings

 * 八雲べに - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * 八云贝妮 - Moegirl Encyclopedia
 * Official Japan Website
 * Official English Website