Ichimaru Ichi

Ichimaru Ichi (市丸イチ) is a female independent Japanese Virtual YouTuber, who debuted on 22 January 2019. She speaks Japanese and some English, using both during her streams.

Personality
Ichi is a friendly and energetic streamer. She interacts frequently with her viewers and often streams in the morning just to chat. When someone joins her membership, she is known to sing a celebratory jingle and do a happy dance. She sometimes eats her super chats, particularly if they contain hamburgers (🍔).

She greets her viewers with "Ohamaru" (おはまる) and "Konmaru" (こんまる). She says goodbye with "Otsumaru" (おつまる).

Appearance
She has short, dark brown hair with light green eyes and green cat ears with white tufts.

Background
Ichi debuted on YouTube on 22 January 2019 as a 3D Virtual YouTuber, but her first stream is no longer available. She normally streams with her 3D model, but has has occasionally used a 2D model. She created her Twitter account on 20 January 2019.

2020
She celebrated her first anniversary with a live performance on 1 February 2020. During this performance she showcased a new 3D model with substantially increased detail, which she has used ever since.

Her subscriber count more than tripled in October 2020. During this time she had an influx of overseas viewers. This has led her to speak English more frequently in order to interact with her overseas fans, who often represent half or more of her chat.On her 400th morning stream on 31 October 2020 she started using an improved version of her default 3D model adding soft body bounce physics to her ears.

She celebrated Halloween with a live singing stream where she used different variations of her 3D Model; a demon, a vampire and a angel

She released a cover of Superfly on 25 December 2020

She celebrated Christmas with a live singing stream on 26 December 2020 where she debuted a new reindeer and santa outfit.

2021
She celebrated new years on VRChat walking around the garden of a shrine and writing kanji.

She celebrated her 2nd anniversary on 22 January 2021 with a singing stream. During this stream she debuted her new white dress 3d model

On 1 April 2021 she debuted a live2d model of a cute and small monster for her April fools special.

On 3 April 2021 she started an Endurance Stream to reach 20,000 subscribers which lasted a total of 50 hours live time in the span of 3 days. She was unable to reach 20k.

On her birthday 14 of July 2021 She made several birthday streams so viewers from all time zones could watch. This was also the debut of NEO, Ichimaru’s artificial intelligence assistant that gives the chat a voice with text to speech in streams to this day.

Fans

 * Her official fan name is "Ichimaru-gumi" (市丸組) or "Ichimaru gang".
 * Ichi also calls her fans "Ichibros".

Trivia

 * Officially, Ichi is a "mystery cute monster" (MCM). Though she is a youkai, she firmly denies being either a cat or a fox.
 * She can use youkai magic, which allows her to disappear into thin air. Presumably she has other magic powers as well.
 * Ichi especially loves hamburger steak. She also likes chocolate.
 * Some of her favorite anime include Bakaramon, Bakemonogatari, Promare, and Card Captor Sakura.
 * New viewers often mistake her for a boy due to her tomboyish hair style.
 * Ichi is best friends with Mearu Naito.
 * She does not like pineapple pizza.
 * Her name is representative of the number 101 (1→ichi, 0→circle/maru, 1→ichi).
 * Though she claims to only speak "a little bit of" English, she frequently does for entire streams and can converse in it for prolonged periods with her audience. She expressed reluctance to stream in Japanese for games like Among Us with other Japanese VTubers, worrying that it would put off her heavily English-speaking audience. She was surprised, and moved, when her chat encouraged her to stream in Japanese when she wants.
 * When her streams end, she plays scrolling credits thanking that stream's donors, super chats, and new members.
 * Ichi is bad at horror games because she can easily get scared to tears.
 * She has several alternative costumes. These include one for casual gaming and a maid outfit.

Media

 * Ichimaru Ichi - YouTube channel
 * Official Ichimaru Ichi Discord
 * @1maru_1 - Twitter account
 * @ichimaru_1 - Instagram account
 * ichimaru_1 - Twitch channel
 * u/Ichimaru_Ichi_Vtuber - Reddit account
 * r/Ichimaru_Ichi - Official Subreddit

Twitter hashtags

 * #ichibros - General
 * #いちまるらいぶ - General
 * #drawmaru - Fan art
 * ＃市丸絵巻 - Fan art

Other

 * VRoid Hub - Model showcase
 * Skeb - Voice Requests
 * Fanbox - Illustration Materials