Bukimera

Shishira Bunmei, aka BunmeiRA is a female American VTuber and Streamer. She has streamed art on Twitch since 2016 but moved into variety streaming in 2020, mixing both gaming and art into her content.

She is a member of the second generation of Yokomeshi. Despite popular belief, she is not a dog.

Personality
Bun is an awkward but energetic chimera with what has been referred to as "comfy gremlin" energy. She swears she is the cleanest streamer on Twitch but spends most of her streams swearing and making lewd jokes. Despite seeming to always be tired, Bun brings an excitable energy to her streams and is known to make many weird noises such as Minecraft Villagers and the "gnome" sound redeem, and acts as her own soundboard during streams.

It is a running joke that Bun is a dog, and she will often bark at chat. She has a very unique laugh similar to that of Hololive's Usada Pekora, and it is a running joke that it often sounds like a dolphin. This led to the making of her !laugh command, which is a play on the format Pekora's laugh is often typed in: ↓ 🐬 ↑ 🐬 ↗ 🐬 ↘ 🐬 ↓ 🐬 ↑ 🐬 ↗ 🐬 ↘ 🐬

Appearance
Bunmei is a typical chimera, a mix of a lion, a ram, and a snake. She has fluffy pink hair and soft lion ears with white fluff inside. Ram horns curl around her ears toward the front of her head. She has one blue eye and one yellow eye, the yellow eye being a reference to her old brand and model. She also has two sharp fangs used for chewing on cables and biting ankles. She has a fairly large chest and enjoys playing with her own "jiggle physics" on stream.

Her default outfit is a layered hoodie dress with cutouts of pink plaid on the sleeves and skirt. She has a spiked collar around her neck and claw-like nails. She wears two different thigh-high stockings, one fishnet and one regular that is ripped in multiple spots. Her shoes are black and white Heelys with pink accents and claws on the toe.

Bun debuted a second holiday outfit in December of 2021 which featured an ugly Christmas sweater. The sweater has a Christmas Tree with a star cutout at the top on her chest and patterned sleeves.

Background
BunmeiRA has been present online in the art community since 2012, and has undergone multiple username changes throughout the years. She was most recently known as Buniiu when she began VTubing, and she used a different model and character named Buni. This character was what she called a "bunny gremlin", and she had many similar design aspects to her current persona (fluffy pink hair, yellow eyes, semi-pastel color scheme.)

In May of 2021 she tweeted a TwitLonger stating she had branded herself as a bunny girl for her entire online career and no longer felt comfortable with it, and stated she was going to be redesigning and rebranding.

2021
On 28 August, BunmeiRA debuted her chimera model.

On 12 September, BunmeiRA hosted her first ever Subathon where she attempted to play all of the Chilla's Art Japanese horror games. Due to the games not running properly, she attempted her first playthrough of Visage instead.

On 7 November she hosted her second charity stream for StackUp.org and made a second attempt to play Visage.

2022
In spring of 2022 Bun announced that she would be redebuting in August of 2022, and began raising funds for the redebut.

On 24 April, BunmeiRA worked alongside Playstream.gg to raise money for GamersOutreach. She played Detroit: Become Human.

Trivia

 * Despite popular belief, Bunmei is actually NOT a dog.
 * Bunmei is the Milfager at Milf Dennys
 * BunmeiRA is a play on the word Chimera
 * Bun prefers to be called Bun, but Bunmei is also acceptable. She doesn't like to be called Mei.
 * Bunmei suffers from chronic pain in her back, neck, and jaw, and therefore struggles to keep her energy up some days.

Media

 * bunmeiRA- Twitch Channel
 * bunmeiRA- YouTube Channel
 * @bunmeiRA- Twitter
 * bunmeiRA- TikTok
 * Bun's Litterbox- Discord Server

Hashtags

 * #bunRALive (Live Tag)
 * #bunRAWRT (Live Tag)