Kumagai Chisato

This name is officially written using the Japanese name format, the family name is Kumagai.

Kumagai Chisato (熊谷ちさと), also known as Beatani (ベアタに), 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 loves autumn. She likes cats and dislikes dogs. She likes croquettes among other Japanese dishes. She prefers that her viewers call her Beatani.

Personality
Beatani has a cheerful personality, likes to joke around, and can focus when needed.

Beatani refers to subscribers as friends, and the mood in her streams is amicable. She strives for a friendly relationship with all people.

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.

Part of Beatani's sense of humor is also based on Japanese meme culture, such as 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.

She enjoys creative activities like drawing, but dislikes sports.

Beatani enjoys cooking, and states that she likes just about dish such as gyoza, ramen, and her mama's croquettes , and her hobbies include making music.

Some of the games she's 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. .

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

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

She has a recurring dream where her teeth fall out.

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, and 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, 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.

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.

Fans



 * Although Beatani proposed that her fans should be called Friends, or possibly BeaTomo or BeaFriends, Beatani considers her fans to be family, mainly refering to them as "dads", but her fan-family also includes her moms, brothers and sisters.

Quotes

 * "おはだよ!　熊谷ちさとです. " (At the start of each stream )
 * "僕のことは熊谷だから、べあたにと呼んでください. "
 * "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 [...]"

Trivia

 * Before streaming, she 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 learn and improve her English skills. She appreciates corrections.


 * She's shown an addiction to Slay the Spire. According to her calculations, in one week she played the game for up to 40 hours.


 * 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.


 * Beatani names her own species as polar bear.


 * 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 enjoys watching people argue . When answering an online personality test, not only did this question pop up, but her overall MBTI type indicated by the personality test site was ENTP-A, which was described as "Debater." 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 Smash Bros. tournament between dads in the previous zatsudan).


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


 * She can impersonate Kirby, and Toad


 * Her favorite gun is Mami's musket from Madoka Magica.


 * A running joke among her fans is speculating that she might be a gyaru. She denies all claims, but she says she doesn't dislike gyaru either.


 * In addition to composing music as a hobby, Beatani says that she learned playing piano in her childhood, and she can play guitar a bit , and drums as well.


 * In her first drawing stream, she drew a Teddy Bear at her picnic and introduced him as her "boyfriend", and started describing him as a sweet, cool, funny, and cute NEET. It's worth noting that, previous to this stream, she had been hinting at fans not being loyal to her.


 * She commited a mistake during her Omori streams and said she was 155 "meters" as opposed to centimeters, and was thinking about her difficulties with the imperial system. Chat corrected her, but it's a running joke among her fans now.

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