Amiya Aranha

Amiya Aranha (アミヤ・アラニャ) is a female independent Vtuber. She can speak English and Japanese.

She was a member of Tsunderia's Gen 3 TsunDream alongside Tsurugi Nen, Uzuki Tomoya, Tetsuya Kazune and Chikafuji Lisa.

Profile
''Amiya is a kindhearted spidergirl tasked with showing up in the dreams of others to play whatever spider role is needed. Unfortunately, the dreams people have involving spiders are usually bad ones. Tired of playing the villain, she is determined to prove that spiders are our friends and turn everyone's spider-related nightmares into sweet dreams.''

Personality
Amiya is cute, sweet, and hardworking. She greets her chatters by name and likes giving her viewers virtual hugs. She is also a hardcore gamer who plays through difficult games with determination.

She is very fond of retro games and rarely plays any newer games on stream. She also streams presentations on retro games, as well as art-making, karaoke, and ASMR.

Appearance
She has long light purple braided pigtails with pastel purple-blue eyes and a white maid cap with two light blue ribbons. She wears a frilly lolita-esque white dress with a black neck ribbon and asymmetrical socks with purple shoes and white spider legs coming out of her skirt.

Background
Her Youtube channel was created on 16 September, 2021. Her Twitter account was created in September 2021.

On 5 November, Amiya and her genmates collaborated to create their first ever original song "hazy hours".

Amiya debuted on 7 November, 2021 (PDT). On the same day, she released her first official cover song "Koi wa Magnet" by Country Girls.

2021
On 29 November, Amiya celebrated her birthday.

On 5 December, Amiya celebrated her channel's monetization.

On 20 December, TsunDream 1 month anniversary.

2022
On 4 January, Amiya opened her channel membership feature.

On 31 July, she reached 10,000 subscribers on YouTube.

Dissolving
On January 25, Tsunderia announced that the agency would be dissolved. but that all members would retain their identities and continue their activities as independent VTubers.

On 19 March, Amiya announced that she would get a new outfit.

On 21 April, Amiya debuted her second outfit. On the same day, she announced the release of her hoodie, created in collaboration with clothing webshop Pastel Melon.

On 20 May, she debuted bat accessories for her second outfit including bat ears, wings, new hand movement, and a big purple heart on her chest.

Events

 * On 2 April 2022, OffKai Expo's Twitter account announced that Amiya Aranha and many VTubers would appear in "OffKai Expo" which would be held from 29 April to 1 May as guests.

Fans

 * Her official fan name is "Dreamweavers," and her moderators are called "Spiderlings."
 * Her channel members are called "Buckos." This is a reference to a time she said "You're finished, bucko" to a chatter. The phrase, and prototype design of the Bucko, later appeared as a t-shirt entry during a Tee K.O. game.

Trivia

 * Her surname "Aranha" is Portuguese for "spider."
 * Her special skill is impersonations.
 * She likes making music, okonomiyaki, sewing, collecting, condiments, cute girls, learning/teaching, pixel art.
 * She dislike pickles, spider killers, math, superhero movies, birds.
 * Amiya has a website she built in a stream Ami's Web of Wonder.
 * She has a counter for the amount of times she has meowed on stream. On 10 Feb 2023, she celebrated reaching 1,000 meows.
 * She shares the same character illustrator Mashiro Shiki with Yurikawa Yun from VEE.
 * Amiya shared that her second outfit was being made before Tsunderia disbanded, and that all TsunDream members would share the same theme of "Rock Stars."

Media

 * Amiya Ch. アミヤ・アラニャ - YouTube channel
 * AmiyaAranha - Twitch channel
 * @amiyaaranha - Twitter account
 * @amiyaaranha - Tiktok account
 * @amiyaaranha - Marshmallow
 * Wishlist on Throne Gifts
 * TsunDream Server - Discord server
 * amiyaaranha - itch.io page
 * amiyaaranha - Big Cartel
 * Carrd - All links

Twitter hashtags

 * #Dreamweavers - Fan
 * #Amionline - Live
 * #Amiyart - Fan art
 * #Amiyallure - NSFW
 * #Amimelody - Music
 * #Amemeya - Meme