Kumagai Chisato

This name is written using the Japanese name format; the family name is Kumagai.

Kumagai Chisato (熊谷ちさと), also known as Beatani (べあたに), is a female independent Japanese Virtual YouTuber.

Previously a 24 year-old average office worker, she was thrown and locked into the internet by her sister. Chisato describes her current job as "gatekeeper of the Internet."

She prefers that her viewers call her Beatani.

Personality
Beatani:
 * has a cheerful personality, likes to joke around, and can focus when needed.
 * refers to subscribers as friends, and the mood in her streams is amicable. She strives for a friendly relationship with all people.
 * enjoys cooking, and states that she likes just about any dish such as gyoza, ramen, and her mama's croquettes.
 * names her own species as polar bear.

Beatani likes cats so much, that she would like a cat as her birthday present.

Beatani's favorite season is autumn. She likes cats and dislikes dogs. Beatani likes croquettes among other Japanese dishes.

Beatani has a recurring dream where her teeth fall out.

Attitude and temperament
Some of the games Beatani has played have revealed other sides of her personality as well. Her Darkwood stream and her Omori streams have shown the viewers a more scaredy Beatani, while CHKN has shown a Beatani more than eager to berate her NEET "dads" (see the Fans section) in the form of CHKN abominations. She showed a lot of determination when she cleared Touhou in Easy Mode for the first time on stream, and is aiming for the higher difficulties. .

While answering an online personality test on stream, she indicated that she completely agreed with the statement "You enjoy watching people argue". Not only that: her overall MBTI type indicated by the personality test site was ENTP-A, which was described as a "Debater" personality type. A lot of fans inferred that this meant she wanted dads to fight amongst themselves (an idea that was already brought up when she suggested a Super Smash Bros. tournament between dads in the previous zatsudan).

During her プロフ帳/ chismografo-answering stream, she described her temperament as "impatient".

Her motto is "You can do it."

Interest in otaku culture and internet culture
Beatani is very open about her otaku interests. She is a fan of RPGs, Popolocrois being her favorite, and does not shy away from more niche genres as seen in her Touhou & CHKN streams. Many of her jokes come from, or are related to, otaku culture.

Beatani has a sense of humor which is also based on Japanese meme culture, including Japanese flash video culture. She's happy to share information about traditional Japanese culture and Japanese internet culture with her audience ; she also likes to learn about western Internet culture from her audience.

Despite the NEET memery, she does wish her fans to have work.

"“But I love nukumority. Nukumority is important for me.”"

 “If my dream has came true, I could hear that a famos [sic] phrase by [Hiroyuki]

But I don't have anything what I wanna say him...

I wanna just talk to him, there is no topic to do” 

Familiarity with Western or English-speaking Culture
Before streaming, Beatani only studied English in middle school and high school for 6 years.

She has a surprisingly good grasp of the language, and is continuing to improve her English skills. She appreciates corrections. Beatani's streams are often an opportunity for her to learn about modern Western culture, including fads such as pet rocks.

Creative hobbies & interest in music
Beatani enjoys creative activities like drawing, but dislikes sports. Her hobbies include making music.

She's fond of old-school alternative rock music. In one occasion, she started singing along Pixies music, while her fans warned her of the impending copyright strike unless she stopped.

In addition to composing music as a hobby, Beatani learned piano in her childhood; additionally, she can play guitar a bit and drums as well. She would like her live model to dance in 3D some day.

Additionally, she outlines her hobbies as follows :
 * Streaming
 * Writing songs
 * Drawing
 * Reading books (comic)
 * Playing videogames
 * Watching Spurdo videos

Berating fans
Beatani can also enjoy teasing and scolding her fans. In her first drawing stream, she drew a Teddy Bear at her picnic and introduced him as her "boyfriend". She started describing him as a sweet, cool, funny, and cute NEET. It's worth noting that, previous to this stream, she had been suggesting that her fans were not being loyal to her.

As a way of teasing her fans, she also mentioned that her first love was Rabi En Rosu from Di Gi Charat -- Beatani's heart was pounding so much, yet her younger self didn't understand what was happening or what she was feeling. . Since then, her other love interests include, Suiseiseki, Faris Nyannyan, Eri Sawachika, and Louise Francoise Le Blanc de La Valliere.



Profile
Beatani is a 24 year-old bear that used to be an average office worker, until her sister, Chihiro, threw her into the internet on October 2019 as a result of a fight and trapped her in there. She mentions circumstances similar to those of the game Myst. After that, she started living on the "XP hills" (for reasons she herself doesn't know), a term she uses to refer to the hills that appear in the default Windows XP background picture, Bliss.

One of Beatani's goals is to escape the internet after reconciling with her sister. Her other goals are to get 1000 friends, and have a talk with Hiroyuki of 2channel fame.

This is a transcript from her introduction video, 「姉が小石と小石チョコの食べ比べをしています」:

“Hello! I am Kumagai Chisato. I was supposed to be an ordinary office worker... but I had a fight with my sister, who possessed unusual technology, and because of that I was trapped in the internet. I was locked in an alternate dimension because of this fight with my sister. It's a situation similar to that famous mystery-solving game Myst! Since then, I've been drifting along the seas of the internet... and it's been really lonely!! Ahh, this is a painful part of my virtual existence. Because of that, for the sake of making friends, I've decided to become a VTuber! If it's possible, I want to play with (you), the viewer! If it's okay to be friends... because my surname is Kumagai, please call me Beatani!”

Relationship with Chihiro
Chihiro is kind enough to keep in touch with Beatani sometimes, even sending a video letter once, despite the fight between them. However, Beatani's feelings toward Chihiro are ambivalent.

Although one of her goals is to reconcile with Chihiro, Beatani shows little remorse in transforming her sister into a monster in CHKN, which died somewhat quickly after Beatani failed to protect her.

She thinks that her sister is mean, and that she should be kicked out if Beatani has to live with her.

''“MY SISTER IS A DEVIL. NEVER FORGIVE HER”'' - Beatani, April 9th, 2021.

“Me and my sister are good friends.” - Beatani, April 9th, 2021.

Background
Both her YouTube and Twitter accounts were created on January 2021. Her YouTube channel shows activity as early as February 10th, 2021, and a proper self-introduction stream was broadcast on February 27th, 2021.

March 6th, 2021 marks the date when Beatani expanded her following by advertising overseas, and a debut for English-speaking audiences (a summarized version of her self-introduction from the previous month) was released.

Membership
Beatani announced on March 29th, 2021 that she could open her YouTube membership, and enabled membership at the same time as her celebration stream "[祝！monetization]OPEN MEMBERSHIP & SING A LITTLE". She was surprised, as she did not expect more than 10 people to become members, and much more people than that joined.

Fans



 * When Beatani was asked how to call her fans, she had to think of a name, and proposed calling her fans Friends, or possibly BeaTomo or BeaFriends. Eventually, Beatani said that she considers her fans to be family, and she mostly refers to them as dads; her "fan-family" also includes moms, brothers and sisters.

Quotes

 * "Ohadayo! I'm Kumagai Chisato. " (At the start of each stream )
 * "Dads and moms and brothers and sisters." (Addressing her viewers)
 * "Dad! You should (x)!" (Urging her viewers to do something or behave a certain way)
 * I may be 'Kumagai', but you can call me 'Bear-tani'." "
 * "What's wrong with you?"
 * "Who is you?"
 * "I want to peropero kawaii girls."
 * "What do you mean? Nonsense. This person is baka! Foolish question! Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Baka question... Yah-yah-yah, he's baka, he's baka. You're baka, baka, baakabaaaaka, baaka... baka-sugii, baka baaaka... kuso-baka nandesukedo [...]"
 * Are you kidding me?

Trivia

 * She has shown an addiction to Slay the Spire. According to her calculations, she played the game for up to 40 hours in the span of one week.
 * Her hair's color is based on the hair of Touhou's Youmu Konpaku (her favorite Touhou character).
 * She designed and rigged her Live 2D model herself.
 * She designed her own outro BGM, although it has seen very little use since her debut video.
 * Her background picture is Bliss, the default background picture used in the Windows XP operating system.
 * Her Beatani nickname is based on an alternative reading of the characters that compose her surname.
 * She can impersonate Kirby, and Toad.
 * Her favorite gun is Mami's musket from Madoka Magica.
 * Fans like to speculate (perhaps jokingly) that she's 'gyaru'. She denies being a gyaru, but she doesn't dislike gyaru.
 * During an Omori stream, she mistakenly said she was 155 "meters" (as opposed to 155 centimeters), and mentioned her difficulties with the imperial system. Chat corrected her, and then she immediately corrected herself, but it's a running joke among her fans now.

Media

 * 熊谷ちさと Kumagai Chisato - YouTube channel
 * beatanichisato - Twitch channel
 * @beatanichisato - Twitter account
 * u/beatanichisato - Reddit account

Twitter hashtags

 * #べあたに流 - Stream chat
 * #べあたに絵 - Beatani fanart
 * #べあたにえち絵 - Beatani R-18 fanart
 * #べあたに虐待絵 - Beatani R-18G fanart