Kaneko Lumi

Kaneko Lumi (金子瑠美) is a female VTuber, currently associated with Phase-Connect's 1.5 Generation alongside Amaris Yuri.

She was a member of CyberLive's 1st generation alongside Amaris Yuri, Momozora Seina, Utano Pandora and formerly Ayane Hylo before graduating from the agency on 31 March 2022.

Profile
The star known as Gliese 6667C and space's greatest thief, Kaneko Lumi, is here! After traveling the universe for millennia, a shining blue planet caught her eye. Curious about the Earth and the creatures that inhabt it, this young, mischevious star is here to cause mischief and bring light to all that look upon her.

Personality
She loves playing challenging games, singing, and learning everything she can about the Earth and its valuables! Previously very perky and jovial her on-stream persona has solidified into a more of a coolly polite yet very earnest, occasionally bratty form. Her habit of reading chat nearly every moment makes for a constant back and forth of opinions and emotions. She encourages viewers to try and either make her laugh or surprised, both of which she likes to put on full display when it happens.

Hardly a pushover she is however quick to draw a line in the sand when her comfort zone is violated, which has previously driven away certain people who thought they could control her. Just like many in the company her love of tangents easily overtakes the gaming content. She gets uncomfortable when people are "too nice" to her but she loves taking care of others.

Background
Her YouTube channel was created on 1 June, 2021. Lumi debuted on 16 July, 2021 (PDT).

2021
On August 7, Lumi released her first original song "Wander".

On August 28, Lumi opened her YouTube channel membership.

On 11 October (GMT+8), Lumi's YouTube channel reached 10,000 subscribers. Also her Twitch channel reached 2,000 followers.

On 22 October, Lumi released her first ever official cover song "Lend Me Your Voice".

On 2 November, CyberLive Twitter account announced Lumi will have a new outfit.

On 10 November, Lumi revealed her new outfit.

On 17 November, Lumi celebrated her birthday on Twitch. She also revealed her other model name Gremlumi.

On 14 December, Lumi became a Twitch partner.

2022
On 15 to 16 January, Lumi celebrated her 6 months anniversary, Twitch Partner, and did her first Subathon in about 24 hours.

On 14 February, CyberLive Twitter account announced that Lumi would be debuting her 3D model on 18 February.

On 18 February, Lumi debuted her 3D model on Twitch channel.

Leaving CyberLive
On 6 March, CyberLive Twitter account announced that Lumi and Amaris Yuri would both be graduating from CyberLive and become independent VTubers on 31 March. Both also decided to take a spin on this by calling it an elopement.

On 31 March, Lumi and Amaris Yuri both made their graduation streams on both Twitch channels, officially becoming independent VTubers.

Joining Phase-Connect
On 13 April, Phase-Connect's Twitter account uploaded a video teaser introducing their new members consisting of Lumi and Amaris Yuri. She would also make her own announcement confirming the move.

On 15 April, Lumi redebuted as a member of Phase-Connect.

On 21 May, she reached 10,000 followers on Twitch channel.

On 27 July, she reached 20,000 subscribers on YouTube channel.

On 11 August, she reached 30,000 subscribers on YouTube channel.

On 17 August, Lumi featured SO87's new original song "LOVE SPEC."

On 3 November, she reached 40,000 subscribers on YouTube channel.

On 26 December, Lumi made a redebut stream with a new 2D model.

2023
On 8 January, Lumi released her second original song "Feeling."

Discography

 * Main page: Kaneko Lumi/Discography

Events

 * On 14 April 2022, OffKai Expo's Twitter account announced that Kaneko Lumi, Amaris Yuri and many VTubers would appear as guests in "OffKai Expo" which would be held from 29 April to 1 May.
 * On 27 August 2022, Series Ai announced on Twitter that Lumi would be performing at "AiMatsuri III," which would be held from 24-25 September 2022.

Fans
Her fans are called "LumiGumi."

Quotes

 * "Oh God what the fuck? Why is this one so much harder than the other one?"
 * "Why are you guys like this?"
 * "PLEASE EDIT MY WIKI WITH PROPER SPELLING AND GRAMMAR IDIOTS"
 * "I just want you guys to think that I'm cool, I don't want you guys to think that I'm mean. No, no, I didn't mean it! I'm actually not mean. I'm not mean I promise."

Likes and dislikes

 * Lumi's favorite gaming genres are Action RPG (including the Souls/Borne series) and Grand Strategy, but she dislikes those involving a lot of reading, like JRPGs.
 * She loves fashion, especially handbags.
 * She loves cooking and sharing food she makes.
 * Her favorite foods are salad and soup. Otherwise, she thinks fast food tastes bad.
 * She has a bad habit of skipping meals for more than 16 hours.
 * Lumi loves airplanes, with exception of Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey which she doesn't like because it looks so weird.
 * Lumi's favorite Sailor scouts are Sailor Venus and Sailor Mars. Her favourite Sailor Moon episode is: "The one where Tuxedo Mask turns evil," which is the 36th episode of the first season "Bad Hair Day" in English version.
 * She is fond of reptiles and considers them cute.
 * Lumi likes signs of stress in other people, such as grey hair, dark circles, etc, which she think means they're a hard worker.
 * Lumi doesn't like these foods: mac and cheese by itself, hot coco, chocolate in general, meatballs, bananas.
 * She doesn't like darkness, she has a USB light plugged in all the time.
 * Lumi doesn't like to talk about girly things on stream because she's afraid her chat would perceive her as "stacy".
 * She hates NTR, her favorite tags are "Corruption" and "Vanilla".
 * She doesn't like fidgeting noises.
 * Lumi doesn't like senpai culture as it can put her automatically above someone and that could give someone else a reason not to like her.

Miscellaneous

 * Lumi knows English, Spanish, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese to varying degrees.
 * While Lumi claims to understand 5 languages in varying degrees, she can't understand XqC juicer talk and saying that he's illiterated.
 * Lumi's "decoder" that translate her star language into English often "glitches", leading to Lumi speaking in different accents, including American English, British English, Australian English, French, Irish, and American Southern English accents randomly.
 * Her dream voice acting role is Jabami Yumeko from Kakegurui.
 * Lumi is a classically trained pianist, and can also play ukelele, violin, drums, and guitar. Her favorite composer is Liszt.
 * She has 3 star tattoos. One on the left cheek, one on the waist, the last one on the right thigh.
 * Her grandmother is an actress.
 * A frequent streaming guest is "The Car", who passes past her apartment almost every stream at the exact same time.
 * Lumi refers to her real life father as "daddy" which tends to cause confusion among newer fans.
 * Lumi has been trying to encourage other Phase-Connect members to share photos/videos of their feet in roundabout and indirect way, despite this she claims she does not have a feet fetish.
 * According to herself Lumi has "above average hand endurance".
 * Lumi believes that her wiki page is written by people who are on 4chan who think they know more stuff than they actually do.
 * Lumi used to work as a waitress.
 * One of the most cursed Lumi streams happened on 2 April 2023 titled "narude sandstorm". Lumi spent almost two hours of the 2nd half of her stream, discussing acidity and ph values of various lower body orifices and related topics, while playing Genshin Impact. As the stream continued, it devolved into Lumi researching more adult and explicit topics while giggling maniacally. At some point chat started telling her to stop googling things (she didn't), as stream went on viewers stared getting genuinely concerned for Lumi's well being and mental state: "Lumi are you ok, for real?" "yeah, I'm just feeling really funny today chat". After warping up the stream Lumi raided Kirsche with usual raid message which includes "Lumi Lick" emote, however chat decided to compose their own raid message using "Kirsche Feet" emote followed by "Lumi Lick" emote. Kirsche was visibly shaken after witnessing this and learning what transpired on Lumi's stream.
 * Lumi received extremely cursed and lewd TTS donation during the stream titled "We Have Stray At Home" which aired in August 2022. She demonstrated her wit by turning it into a joke, as soon as she managed to stop laughing that is.
 * Lumi debates with her mods on stream form time to time, those debates usually have old married couple vibe, and Lumi very rarely wins them.
 * Lumi competed in dating show hosted by Filian, where she tried to win the affection of Shylily. She was outrizzed by Neuro-sama, a VTuber which was at the time powered by fairly primitive A.I.
 * Originally, she wanted her model to have white hair and purple eyes.
 * Lumi is very fond of fellow Phase-Connect vtuber Pipkin Pippa, to the point were fans have speculated if Lumi harbours romantic feelings towards Pippa. Lumi strongly denies that her feelings towards Pippa are anything but friendly and platonic. They bounce well of each other and their colabs have a tendency to derail into multi hour therapy sessions, where they discuss and sometimes debate various topics.
 * Lumi doesn't watch other streamer's VODs, with exemption of streamers that she stalks.
 * Her duet with Amanogawa Shiina is called "Star girls".
 * Lumi is somewhat allergic to cats, but she still wants to visit cat cafes.
 * She used to draw a lot but fell out of the passion when she mismanaged commissions such as offering free revisions.
 * She frequently shares stories from her friend and former roommate Sugar-Baby Roommate with great gusto and enthusiasm.
 * She likes a Honda or Toyota but her parents gave her a BMW and she doesn't like it.
 * She doesn't believe Einstein is real.
 * She occasionally talks about her father on stream, what he loves and among other things. Over time Lumi's father has garnered more respect and admiration from her chat than Lumi herself.

Media

 * kanekolumi - Twitch channel
 * Lumi Ch.【Phase Connect】 - YouTube channel
 * @lumikaneko - Twitter account
 * @kanekolumi - TikTok account
 * Den of Thieves - Public Discord server

Twitter hashtags

 * #LumiNation - Fan
 * #KanekoLumi - General
 * #lumicast - Live
 * #Lumillust - Fan art
 * #Lewdmi - NSFW
 * #LuMemes - Meme
 * #LumiTunes - Music