Kuroki Natsume

Kuroki Natsume (黯希ナツメ) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber, who is also known as an under the name "" (read: KuroNeko).

Background
Natsume's channel was created on 17 November, 2017, and was originally intended as a sub-channel for her (as 96Neko) gaming livestreams. She always used a static image that represented her avatar and sometimes used no image at all, and even used a 3D cat avatar.

It wasn't until 31 March, 2019 that she would use a 3D VTuber avatar. She announced in a tweet that she would stream under the name "V96". The first usage of her VTuber avatar was on OPENREC.tv on 4 April, 2019.

Eventually, on a stream held on 5 October, 2019, she decided the name "Kuroki Natsume" for her VTuber persona.

2020
On 11 January, she started using a new 2D model. She still uses the 3D cat avatar, especially when she's playing horror games and doing endurance streams, usually with a goal of returning back to human (2D model) after achieving a certain amount of kills (commonly when playing APEX).

2021
On 30 March, for her birthday celebration, she announced a version 2.0 of Kuroki Natsume's 3D model with the same illustrator in her previous 3D model. She also announced in a stream held on 30 June that she would also have a version 2.0 for her 2D avatar, and shared a sneak-peek of it at Twitter on 05 July. She commented that the changes also applies on the avatar's face, the model having a slight sharp look instead of the previous' design "pretty-charming" look.

As of 9 July 2021 she settled to merge the personas, expressing that she finds it 'limiting' (and other factors) and decided to perform all her activities under her utaite name 96Neko, going back to it being her sub-channel. She said however, that people may still call her in whatever name they want, be that her VTuber alias "Kuroki Natsume" and asked them to not worry.

The unveiling of her new 2D model was announced in 31 October 2021, and streamed it the next day in 1 November 2021.

2020

 * On 24 July, she participated in Apex Legends RAGE x Legion: Doujou Cup as "Team Utaite" along with Soraru and Amatsuki. The team placed 3rd in overall ranking.

2021

 * On 15 May, she participated in Apex Legends 5th Crazy Racoon Cup as team "Mou Yurushite" (もう許して) along with  and Shaka (DeToNator). The team placed 5th in overall ranking.
 * On 22 August, she participated in Apex Legends VTuber Most Cooperatitive Tournament Season 3 as team "Neko-gami Ru Youchien" (猫神ル幼稚園) along with Annin Miru and Kanda Shoichi; with Ak1to (DeToNator) as their coach. The team placed 14th in overall ranking.

Fans

 * Her fans can be called "96 (kuro) kura"「96クラ」(96 Club).
 * At the end of her streams, her fans send her off with "Baicha" 「ばいちゃ」.

Relationships

 * "Natsumatsurikkai" (ナツまつりっかい) - Natsume, Natsuiro Matsuri and Rikka of hololive, and Mayuzumi Kai of NIJISANJI.
 * "Kurosorasuu" (くろそらすー) - Natsume, Soraru and Amatsuki
 * The name was a joke parodying "kanachikuzu" (かなちーくず) during their RAGE x Legion participation.

Trivia

 * Like Hanayura Kanon, Natsume is also an Utaite.
 * She is close friends with hololive production member Nakiri Ayame.

Media

 * 【SUB】96NEKO-CHANNEL - YouTube channel
 * 【MAIN】96NEKO-CHANNEL - YouTube Channel (Music)
 * @96_neko_sub - Twitter account
 * 96猫/黯希ナツメ - OPENREC.tv channel
 * 96猫/黯希ナツメ - Mildom channel
 * Kuroki Natsume's official 3D model on THE SEED ONLINE
 * 96猫 - Profile Card

Twitter Hashtags

 * #96猫 - General
 * #おしゃべり96ちゃん - Live stream talk
 * #なつめ部 → #ナツメ絵 → #96猫絵 - Illustration
 * #ナツメ部clip → #ちょき96 - Clips
 * #つかって96ちゃん - Thumbnail/Assets
 * #みてみてちゃんくろ - Fans sharing something they'd like her to see

Further Readings

 * - Utaite Wiki