Gokigen Naname

Gokigen Naname (ななめちゃん) is an independent female Japanese Virtual YouTuber, who first debuted in late 2019. She redebuted with her redesigned model on the 10th of April 2021.

Naname's first language is Japanese, but she is also currently studying English.

She mostly does video games streams on her YouTube channel.

Personality
Naname is laid-back and nice to her viewers. She is a little clumsy.

Appearance
Naname has the appearance of a girl mixed with the theme of donuts. She wears pink pyjamas with a white stripe down the middle and a donut badge on her left side. She wears a silver fork as her tie. On her right hand, she wears a donut ring. She also has a donut themed small white collar. She is barefoot.

She has brownish-yellow eyes and very light blonde hair. She has a pair of tiny fangs in her mouth. She has a pink donut pin on her right side of her head.

She can be often seen carrying a white teddy bear mascot named Chippo.

Background
Naname made her Twitter account in May 2018 and she made her YouTube channel on the 25th of September 2019. She also made a TikTok account on an unknown date. In the days leading up to her redesigned model reveal, she has deleted all of her tweets and her videos on her YouTube channel and TikTok account that used her old model. Prior to her redebut, she has gain 14k followers on her Twitter, 58k subscribers on YouTube and 6,5k followers on TikTok.

She posted her first tweet after the purge on the 2nd of April 2021 and it showed her zoomed-in donut pin with a little bit of her head. The next day she unveiled her mascot, Chippo. On the 4th of April, she tweeted a video in which she showed her full head. She officially presented her full new model by Amashiro Natsuki on the 5th of April. She redebuted on the 10th of April 2021 on YouTube.

2021
On the 11th of April, she did a video game marathon, where she played Minecraft, Plug & Play and Getting Over It  all within one single day. Also that day, she opened her YouTube membership.

On the 13th of April, she did her first English learning stream. She also on that day streamed APEX Legends for the first time.

On the 14th of April, she streamed her road trips in the Euro Truck Simulator 2 and did a Dead by Daylight collab stream with her current character designer, Amashiro Natsuki (Nacho).

Mascot and Fans

 * Naname is usually seen carrying around a white teddy bear that is named Chippo . Chippo has pink button eyes and a donut on top of its head.
 * Naname calls her fans Nanamefam. It's a combination of her name with the word family.
 * If you try to go to sleep in her stream, she will force you to have insomnia together with her. From this, comes an alternative nickname for her fanbase, InsomniaFam.

Trivia

 * Naname shares the same character designer, Amashiro Natsuki, with Kamiko Kana, Gawr Gura and Araka Luto.
 * Her connections with Luto go deeper, as they share the same character modeller, Shirasawa Kazane, as well.
 * Her favourite foods are donuts (all types of them) and snacks.
 * Her favourite anime are Toradora and Nichijou.
 * Her favourite video games are the Pokémon series, the Kirby series, Apex Legends and Minecraft.
 * Her favourite colors are pink, yellow and white.
 * Naname shares her name with the Nikoli logic puzzle called Gokigen Naname, as the phrase is Japanese for "to be in a bad mood".

Media

 * ななめちゃん /gokigen naname - YouTube channel
 * @Naname421 - Twitter account
 * @naname0421 - TikTok account
 * ごきげんななめちゃん - Twitch account

Twitter hashtags

 * #nanameart - Fan art
 * #nanamefam - Fandom