Minami Nami

Minami Nami (美波七海) was a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber/VSinger affiliated with LiveCartoon.

Personality
Minami Nami was a virtual singer who loved rock music, the sea, the sun, alcohol, and singing songs. She spoke Japanese, English, and Chinese. She was also studying Spanish.

Though her musical focus was pop music, she was a rocker at heart and as such had a crude sense of humor and tendency to pose like a delinquent.

On her birthday, she was asked "Hey babe, are you on YouTube?" She was discovered by a jokester talent scout and joined the virtual world.

After giving up on singing once, she's now trying again as a VSinger.

Background
Minami's channel was created on 15 July 2019 and she made her debut on 29 September 2019.

2019
On 3 November, she did a 3D studio stream to celebrate her channel monetization.

2020
On 21 March, she did a live viewing stream of the China-Japan VSinger concert Borderless Live 5G, featuring Kizuna Ai, Kilin and Xi from Tacitly, YuNi, and Lingyuan yousa.

On 20 June, she received an erroneous ban from YouTube for sitting with her legs open. This error was later corrected. On 22 June 2020, the archive stream of her "evacuation" to Twitcasting during the ban was uploaded.

On 31 October, she got a new Live2D costume.

2021
On 13 March, she got a new Live2D costume, which was actually her "brother", Minami Yami.

On 15 July, she had her birthday concert.

On 2 April, she got a new Live2D costume.

On 29 September, she had her second anniversary concert. .

On 1 October, she announced a collaboration with V-MANI to release limited time merchandise, only available from V-MANI from 8 October at 12pm JST to 17 October at 11:59pm JST. These were mostly acrylic character goods, including A3 size oversized panels, 40cm oversized stands, smartphone stands, and keychains, with the exception being the can badges.

On 4 December, she got a new Live2D costume.

2022
On 21 September, LiveCartoon announced that Minami would be going on an "indefinite hiatus" on 5 November 2022.

On 28 October, LiveCartoon announced her "Ver. 5" 3D model was on sale in VRM format.

Minami had her last concert on 5 November.

Events

 * On 10 February 2022, it was announced she would be making an appearance on Kizuna Ai's Last Live "Hello, world 2022" on 26 February.
 * On the weekend of 29-30 October 2022, she was part of WaiWai Talking Festival at Shinagawa J-SQUARE, doing an IRL meet and greet on the 29th.

Trivia

 * She lived with a cat.
 * Though she streamed with both a 3D and Live2D avatar, she mostly streamed in 3D.
 * She was a casual Boys Love fan.
 * Although she's Japanese, her first name is actually Minami and is usually displayed in Western order.
 * For 3D streams, she used Luppet, PrprLive, and Facerig.
 * She studied and did mixing and video editing on her own.
 * While she started as a VTuber, she pivoted more to Bilibili later on.

Media

 * Nami Minami 【Vsinger】 - YouTube channel
 * @37373v - Twitter account
 * 美波七海-official - Bilibili channel
 * バーチャルYoutuber | 美波七海 Official Website - Official website
 * Fanbox - Fanbox
 * Booth - Booth
 * Twitch - Twitch
 * Twitcasting - Twitcasting

Twitter hashtags

 * #みなみな民 - General
 * #みなみなみあーと - Fanart