Banzoin Hakka

Banzoin Hakka is a male English Virtual YouTuber endorsed by hololive's branch HOLOSTARS English. He is a member of "TEMPUS" joining the group in January 2023 alongside Gavis Bettel, Machina X Flayon and Josuiji Shinri.

Profile
Is that all you have got? You fail to entertain me! The exorcist of Adventurer's Guild TEMPUS. Dual wielding spears, he is the latest of a long line of exorcists who have defended Xenokuni from the evils of the world.

He fights not only out of a sense of duty, but also because he feels a special kind of excitement when on the frontlines. Unfortunately, his right hand is being eroded by the scourge of Records Corruption. Has inherited Karasutengu data, and thus possesses otherworldly leaping ability and endurance.

Joined TEMPUS after the battle in Xenokuni.

Personality
"The coolest and cutest exorcist in all of Xenokuni!" Hakka has a happy-go-lucky personality with a sarcastic sense of humor, he is versed in the double sense and loves to make jokes with his guild mates and other holomembers. He has stated many times that he loves his fans.

Background
On 2 January 2023, hololive production English Twitter account teased an announcement for TEMPUS along with a very short video.

On 4 January 2023, hololive production English Twitter account announced that four new members would be joining TEMPUS with an introductory video including their names, lore and social media accounts. Hakka made his first tweet on this date, including one written in Spanish and a small teaser video was uploaded on his YouTube channel. His Twitter account was created in October 2022 and his YouTube channel was created on 19 October 2022.

On 8 January 2023 (JST), Hakka debuted on YouTube. He also released his first original song "Raven's Paradigm."

2023
On 15 January he released his first cover of "Living ghost is alive" by Utsu-P

On 5 February 2023 (JST), Hakka opened his YouTube channel's membership feature.

On 14 February he covered the song "Sentimental Feelings of Love" for valentines day.

On 18 February he took part in the Kureiji Arcade, and was teamed with Tokoyami Towa of hololive, and Arurandeisu of HOLOSTARS.

On 1 March, he reached 100,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 26 March, he covered the song "KiLLiNG ME" by SiM

On 1 April, he took part in the holoTEMPUS's April Fools prank, where Hakka streamed on Machina X Flayon's channel, while Flayon streamed on his.

On 21 April, he released his second original song "Shattered Wings."

From 23 May, to 27 May, Hakka took part in the HOLOSTARS Rust event for season 1. He then took part of the second season, which was held from 25 August to 31 August.

On 27 May he released a cover of the song "IDOL / YOASOBI."

On 17 June he covered the song "Tower of Babel."

On 29 July he covered the song "My Roar" by Tokoyami Towa.

Discography

 * ''Main page: Banzoin Hakka/Discography

Fans

 * His fanbase is officially called "Hakkitos," while his membership is called "Hakkafe" and individually referred to as "Membirbs."
 * His closing phrase when ending stream is, "Hakka la vista."
 * His mascot partner, is a little crow named "Ricrowdo."
 * His channel's membership has five tiers: The Eggy, Hakkito, Birbxorcist's Apprentice, Full Fledged Birbxorcist, and El Hakkito Supremo.

Relationships

 * Notable units and groups Hakka is part of:
 * "TEMPUS Vanguard," alongside Gavis Bettel, Machina X Flayon, and Josuiji Shinri. They are debut-mates.
 * "TEMPURPLE," alongside Bettel and Magni Dezmond. They have purple as their color scheme.
 * "TEMPUPS" alongside Regis Altare, Magni Dezmond, Gavis Bettel, Machina X Flayon and Josuiji Shinri.
 * Hakka is close with Shinri, often calling him "father" out of respect.
 * Outside of Holopro, he's also friends with Ike Eveland, who shares his love of metal music.

Name

 * In Japanese, Banzoin Hakka writes his name 「万象院ハッカ」.
 * His surname, 「万象院」, banjyouin, means "universe temple" or "temple of all creation."
 * Hakka is written in katakana, often used to write foreign names. It has various meanings as a Japanese word, but given his status as an exorcist, it may refer to divination or fortune telling. It also refers to the herb mint, bleaching, or ignition.

Likes and dislikes

 * He likes Music, Learning languages, Reptiles!, Casting out the demons inside my head, Hispanic Food, STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE, Horchata.
 * He dislikes BODIES OF WATER & Jet skis, Getting sick....., Beets, Basilisks, Soy Milk.
 * His favorite Anime & Manga: Medabots, Hellsing, Tokyo Ghoul, Ao no Exorcist, Hypnosis Mic, Mob Psycho 100, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Zankyou No Terror, Beastars, Blackjack.
 * His favorite Video Games: MEGAMAN!, KIRBY!, POKEMON!, SURVIVAL GAMES!, Dungeon Crawlers, Survival/Simulator GAMES, BEAT EM UP RETRO GAMES, PEW PEW GAMES, Insaniquarium Deluxe.
 * His Goals are: Sing for an anime opening!, Not dying, Release several original songs, and albums <3, Release a song with  YAGOO  himself (my #1 idol), NEW WORLD ORDER Having a nice community !, Have a Capy ranch, REACH A GAZILLION SUBS TO MAKE MY MOMMY PROUD!

Miscellaneous

 * Hakka shares the same character illustrator as Kaida Haru of NIJISANJI.
 * In debut he has shown to be able to speak English, Spanish and Japanese.
 * He's clarified in a zatsudan stream that he's still in the process of learning Japanese. He's noted to understand and read a little in hiragana and katakana. When listening to Japanese, he's able to process the context of what's happening.
 * He has also shown and stated to be an avid manga reader and anime watcher. Especially, when it comes to his knowledge of seiyuus and anime songs.
 * His favorite fruit is strawberries.
 * Similar to the -Myth- holomember Watson Amelia, he has many near-death and hurt stories.
 * In his debut stream, he made YAGOO angry by debuting in Spanish and not in English, so YAGOO irrupts in his house to punish Hakka, Hakka still has the trauma of this whole ordeal.
 * When Hakka was young, he and two friends were crab hunting when a group of crabs attacked them; while they were escaping from the crabs, Hakka fell into a beach sinkhole and almost drowned, luckily a fisherman saved him and his friends.
 * When Hakka was in school, playing kickball with some friends in the school warehouse when the ball used in the game was kicked and landed in the school ceiling, so Hakka who was the shortest at that time, climbed a guava tree to go to the ceiling. In the ceiling, Hakka spotted a lizard, so he scared and lost his balance, also the roof moved, so Hakka fell with this butt into the ground with the roof tiles, also the ball fell on his head.
 * During a swamp tour, Hakka got stung by an Aedes Aegypti (Yellow Fever Mosquito) and got Dengue, the dehydration was so bad that the doctors couldn't see his veins, so the doctors put the IV in Hakka's feet. Also during that time, Hakka's appendix burst, during his recovery from that double problem, he got an Intestinal infection, and he wonders why he is still alive.
 * He is the first "bird themed" HOLOSTARS member, having a tengu motif and one of his gaming alias is "justabirdguy." Also is the fifth "bird themed" hololive production member (sixth if one counts Oozora Subaru, who developed a duck-theme post-debut) after Takanashi Kiara (phoenix), Pavolia Reine (peacock), Nanashi Mumei (owl) and Takane Lui (hawk).
 * He is the first HOLOSTARS English member to not be a native English speaker and the second of Hololive Production EN as a whole, after Takanashi Kiara.
 * He has a pet dog and cat.
 * He specializes in Metal music.
 * He was the first holomember to cover the song IDOL by YOASOBI.

Media

 * Banzoin Hakka Ch. HOLOSTARS-EN - YouTube channel
 * Banzoin Hakka's corporate profile on holostars.hololivepro.com
 * @banzoinhakka - Twitter account