Mint Fantôme

Mint Fantôme (ミント・ファントーム) was a female English/Japanese-speaking Virtual YouTuber who debuted independently on the 24th of July 2020. She was a ghost maid with a full-time haunting job but had a lot of free-time on hand to watch anime and buy idol goods.

Personality
Mint was a shy, very bubbly, often energetic but otherwise relaxing person who has good conversation skills and often refers to herself as Boo from Mario. . She claimed that she is bad at multitasking, but fans know that she is capable of playing a game and talk to the chat at the same time. With the addition of being attentive to the stream chat, she can make the game entertaining and fun even if the game is relatively bad.

She was known to have bad luck, especially with things that she has planned, occasional migraines and headaches, but continues despite setbacks. She likes running but seems to be bad at the exercises in Ring fit, but can last a good amount of time. She has an extreme love of idols, which includes VTubers. She tends to be a lot more expressive on Twitter.

She particularly enjoyed playing Ace Attorney, enjoys Touhou in general and listens to Kishidan and songs/Idols from Idolmaster. She has the ability to sing quite well, which can be very cute but normally goes at a stronger voice, which she calls Ara Ara Voice. This includes an opera voice.

Appearance
She was a VTuber who had the appearance of a Japanese café maid, with a symbolic hitaikakushi, often referred to with other names since the actual name isn't as well known, especially or more specifically with English viewers. She had two bowties, one blue and one black, with a ghost clip with a green gradient color. She had a primarily white collar with black and green stripes that go inside the top part of the outfit, with a black flap and blue tie under the collar.

She had short white hair with green ends, with straight cut bangs. She had a black corset, tied with blue strings that puff out the bust more, and is where the apron starts. Knee length green skirt, with two black stripes, the highest being the thickest compared to the second, black bows on top, and the skirt ending with black. She had a petticoat, making the entire skirt more puffier, ankle white symmetrical socks, with black shoes that have a green welt and heel.

On the 14th of March 2021, Mint debuted with a second model, that is slightly similar but very different. Her hair being more curlier, with the addition of pigtails that have mint colored stripes with blue bows. Her green ends instead faded in to a deeper mint color, with one side bang having a double yellow band. The collar was shorter, less stiff, more frilly, with only a mint stripe. The blue tie was replaced with a milk chocolate-colored bowtie. She had mint colored sleeves with attached frills at both ends, a diamond shaped hole at the upper end of the arm, with a brown strand with frills and a blue bow on top.

The outfit itself was more similar to a French maid outfit, with a pinafore, with the ghost clip being bigger and on top of the pinafore. The pinafore extended from the skirt and cuts off before the bust. Behind her there was a white patterned ribbon which extends outwards with a translucent mint gradient, with brown parallelogram milk chocolate shapes, which extends outwards also.

Her skirt was brown, with parts of it being covered by a green, patterned white stripes, with a yellow end and blue bow in the center layer. She wore an over-knee-length white sock, with there being chocolate on top, with frills outward, and a brown garter belt with a blue bow on top, while on the other leg is an ankle-length white sock, with a blue patterned end, with translucent frills that have a gold patterned end, and a blue band with frills over the knee. She wore brown shoes with a lighter chocolate pattern, a brown bow behind, with a single brown strap at the front with a golden button, and double strap on the instep.

Background
Mint auditioned for hololiveEN but didn't make it and decided that she wants to become a VTuber anyway. She created her Twitter account on June 2020, but started her YouTube activities on 18 July.

2020
Mint debuted on YouTube on the 24th of July with her viewership peaking at around 200 and she quickly gained subscribers. There was a difference in mic quality during the debut, which the fans dubbed it "Toaster Mic" turning it into a joke amongst her community. She says that she had no experience of streaming, with little experience of graphic designing.

On the 30th of July she quickly rose up and hit a milestone of 2,500 subscribers, for which she streamed a celebration.

On the 1st of October she celebrated her birthday, which to her surprise, a group of her fans had made a visual novel of her, which is based on their interpretation of Mint's past, as she herself cannot remember.

On the 14th of October she reached 4,444 subscribers, which she considers a milestone since 4 in Japanese can mean shi, meaning death.

On the 31st of October she opened up memberships. She stated that the first 44 members would receive a card signed by Mint herself, so the fight for the first 44 was intense. The term for her members are Memboos, which relate to her being a ghost.

On the 5th of November she had a collaboration with Amano Pikamee, who she is a fan most of, and could roughly be said that this boosted the viewership and subscriber count as she was introduced to many new people.

On the 4th of December she reached 10,000 subscribers, which occurred during an Among Us collaboration. As a result, she streamed Phasmophobia, playing by herself.

2021
On the 12th of January she reached 12,000 subscribers, which was also her 6 month anniversary stream.

On the 14th of March she debuted her second model and during it she rewrote her lore.

On the 19th of March she announced her retirement, with her final stream set for April 3rd. Her reason for why she even got her second model despite retiring so soon (some people were asking "why even bother with the second model?"), is, to quote, "You may think it was a "waste of money" but it was important to me", and as a thank you to everyone who supported her.

On the 22nd of March she reached 15,000 subscribers, which Mint considered as one of the goals as a Vtuber.

On the 3rd of April, an additional announcement in terms of her you tube videos, only very few, specifically the more shorter ones will stay unprivatised, but the remainder will on the 10th of April. The privatisation of her Twitter along the way, deletion of any accounts related to Mint other than that such as her Twitch, Discord, her main Discord server, suspension of YouTube membership, etc. She reached 17,000 subscribers on YouTube, 13k followers on Twitter, and concluded with her final stream, which ended with BUSTIN by Neil Cicierega. Her covers are available.

Fans

 * The official name for her fan base is Fandôme, a merge of "fandom" and Mint's last name, "Fantôme".
 * The fans think of themselves as wisps.

Trivia

 * Mint can't have spicy food or she'll die (again).
 * Mint can't remember much of her past life or how she died, but one of her regrets is she couldn't take a checkie with her "very best idol" before her graduation and died of a broken heart.
 * Answering the question about how people can see her as a ghost, Mint replied that she gets the energy to be visible to human eyes from seeing cute girls and idols.
 * Mint is known for her legendary toad voice.
 * Off-stream, Mint would sleep in the staff room of a maid café.
 * Mint is a boomer who occasionally tells dad jokes.
 * Mint shares her character designer with Lyrica & Phoebe (Feebeechanchibi).
 * Her favourite characters from the game Touhou, consist of Kogasa Tatara, and Patchouli Knowledge.
 * Mint had 1 braincell, but gained more as she played UNDERTALE.
 * Before becoming a VTuber, she received a key to a Visual Novel.
 * She had two covers that was supposed to come out in late 2020, but due to reasons, wasn't able to get them in until March 2021.
 * She had PayPal issues.
 * Her second model was suppose to come out earlier, but due to reasons, it came out later until 14 March.
 * Her favourite character from Macross Delta is Freyja Wion
 * She's open about playing eroge games.
 * After 8 hours and some collaborations she lowers the limit of being family friendly.
 * She is called a Boomer due to her long age.
 * She sang Forbidden Borderline (いけないボーダライン) from Macross Delta 50+1 times in one karaoke stream, and more on others.
 * She ships Edgeworth and Wright from Ace Attorney.
 * Mastered the art of sleeping on the train where you sleep and stay awake simultaneously.
 * She streams in a closet, which used to get hot as she had to turn off her fan, but eventually got a Dyson Fan.
 * She has many wives.
 * Her first husbando was Goku from Dragon Ball Z
 * She drinks black coffee because of a character, Godot, from the game Ace Attorney.
 * She fangirls pretty much every time she sees Godot, and enjoys his theme.
 * Inuyasha was her first anime to watch in Japanese.
 * She surprisingly has good aim in APEX and other games.
 * She still has her PS4 with P.T. installed
 * She's really short, when she's at her desk, she uses a footstool as her feet can't touch the ground, and has trouble driving.

Media

 * Maid Mint Ch. ミント・ファントーム - YouTube channel
 * @MintFantome - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #ミント心霊写真 - General tag
 * #ミントLIVE - Live tag

Social Groups: Not company owned, but rather, simply a group of VTubers