Nemu

Nemu is an independent English-language VTuber who debuted in early May 2020. Her name is pronounced "neemu". She previously went by Luna the Magikarp.

Personality
Nemu has a calm demeanour and a no-nonsense attitude. She is skilled at video games, and a self-described "really big nerd". She finds joy in pursuing the more niche side of gaming such as breaking them through bugs and researching the statistics behind them. Throughout her streams, she is very interactive with her chat, often managing to engage in challenging gameplay, read chat, and keep up a conversation the whole time.

She is known for her quirky behavior. Examples include hosting Pokémon tournaments with random and arbitrary rules, positing conspiracy theories linking Knuckles the Echidna to Jesus, singing a song every time someone follows her channel, reading cursed Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction, having a hand swoosh in from off-screen and pet her head.

Appearance
Nemu has long indigo-blue hair tied at the back and topped with a small silver crown. She has deep blue eyes and wears an off-shoulder white t-shirt bearing the Japanese text 「水族館」, "suizokukan", meaning "aquarium". As Queen Fishe, she wears a small silver crown with a blue gemstone.

Background
Nemu became a VTuber almost by accident.

While suffering from COVID-19 in April 2020, she learned that hololive English had opened auditions, and decided to apply. On 23 April she posted an original character, which she used as a static avatar in her Twitch art streams. On April 30 she drew a new character design which would be used for the finished model.

She created her YouTube channel on 1 May 2020, and throughout the first week of May she created her own Live2D model from scratch, teaching herself rigging in the process. Nemu is one of a rare few VTubers who created their Live2D model entirely from scratch, including both drawing and rigging. The process took 39 hours in total.

She continued streaming on Twitch throughout May on a regular schedule in order to build up a portfolio of streaming work, and on 21 May 2020, she submitted her audition to holoEN. While her application was ultimately unsuccessful, she continued to stream on Twitch. Nemu originally did not intend for the model to be used seriously.

2020
Nemu announced her first 1,000 Twitch followers on 13 July, celebrating with a 24-hour Minecraft stream. On 7 August she announced a 3D model for use in VRChat.

Nemu was made a Twitch Partner on 8 October 2020, at which point she had 7.8k followers on Twitch. She actually received the email Partner status offer several weeks earlier, but missed it because it was in her spam folder. Nemu did not tell her viewers this, and pretended it had just arrived. She was one week away from a self-imposed deadline after which she had planned to quit streaming if she had not achieved partner status.

Starting on 29 November, Nemu played in Leaflit's weekly Dungeons & Dragons game. She played a character called Henn, a high fae ranger / fey pact warlock with a custom harpoon gun. Nemu described the character as completely broken in any normal campaign.

2021
On 16 March, Nemu began the process of switching software from Facerig to VTuber Studio. On 3 April, she completed the revised version of her model, referred to as "Nemu 1.5", and moved her character model to the left side of the screen.

On 13 April, Nemu received a 5,258-person Twitch raid from Nyanners, who had just finished an Among Us collab with Kizuna Ai. Nemu sung "magi magi karp karp" for new followers for 39 minutes.

On 9 September, Nemu officially changed her Twitch account name from LunatheMagikarp to Nemu, and her Twitter from @LunaMagikarp to @OsakanaNemu. She planned to continue using the Magikarp notifications.

On 24 October, Nemu debuted her new Live2D avatar, illustrated by wickedAlucard and rigged by shioutishirom. It introduced three alternate outfits: tomboy, royal, and shark onesie, in additional to her traditional Suizokukan t-shirt.

2022
On 20 February, Nemu went on a short hiatus for personal reasons. After a brief Mental Darkness Kitchen stream on 28 February and an interlude stream on 18 March, she officially returned to streaming on 25 March.

Relationships
Nemu is friends with other VTubers, including Leaflit, Reiyu GuiGui, Artemis of the Blue, and Minya September.

She is a fan of Nyatasha Nyanners and Nekomata Okayu.

Fans

 * Nemu's fans are known as the Fish Friends, and can be found on her official Discord, the Fish Bowl.
 * Nemu sings the Magikarp song for each follow. Its lyrics are as follows: "Karp karp magi magi karp karp magi magi karp karp magi magi karp karp karp karp karp".
 * Nemu's Twitch subscribers are known as the Glub Glub Club.
 * Nemu congratulates subscribers by singing "Magikaaaaaarp!"
 * Follows and subs are modified during headpats:
 * If a follow occurs during headpats, she will instead sing "Pat pat magi magi pat pat". Witnessing a magi pat is a blessed event.
 * If a subscription occurs during headpats, she sings "Magipaaaaaaat!"
 * Nemu uses a jellyfish as her 3-month sub icon. She congratulates 3-month subscribers with "Congratulations on becoming a jellyfish! How do you feel? Leave your bones at the door, because you're entering (enables reverb) the no bone zone!"

Quotes

 * "Sand is a spice. But instead of adding flavor, it adds texture. It's like rice puffs, like in chocolate. It doesn't really add any flavor to it, but it definitely adds texture."
 * "I have something that's like dyslexia, but instead of it being like dyslexia, I'm just stupid."
 * "Dante's Inferno is just Jesus fandom fanfiction."
 * "Parfect."
 * "The Hand was summoned? Alright chat. *shoop!* Paaaaat pat pat pat pat pat pat pat pat pat. Thanks! For! All! The! Paaaaaats! Paaaaat pat pat pat pat... *shoop* Good pats."
 * "I really like Magikarp, so my name is Magikarp. Because who uses their real name on the internet?"
 * "You just run to wherever the light is, and that's where you go. There's no getting lost if you know where the light is."
 * "Abababababababababa. Hi! Good morning!"
 * "Is this a weakling joke that I'm too strong to understand?"
 * "I want to be confident, even if I'm bad. I want to be confident and bad."
 * "Be the outlier that you would remove from your dataset."

Lore

 * Luna the Magikarp's name isn't Luna, and she's not a Magikarp. Her name is Nemu, and she's a jellyfish. Officially, "Luna the Magikarp" is just her screen name, because nobody uses their real name online.
 * The name Nemu comes from Point Nemo, the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, the furthest place from land; and "nemu", the Japanese word for sleep. It is pronounced "nee-mu".
 * Nemu is not a Magikarp, but rather an underwater fishfolk whose royal blood allows her to assume an aquatic appearance which reflects their personality. This form is not inherited; Nemu's mother was an octopus.
 * Her form is based specifically mauve stinger jellyfish.
 * Nemu's crown reflects her position as queen of an underwater kingdom whose name has not been mentioned. Her official title is Queen Fishe Nemu III. Nemu's mother, the former Queen Fishe Nemu II, first opened diplomatic relations between the underwater kingdom and the surface. Nemu III inherited the throne, though she shirks her duties to hang out on land and play video games.
 * Leaflit has referred to her by the full name of Karpius Luna Nememu Karpington The 69th of the Osakana Clan.
 * Nemu was gifted her 「水族館」 shirt and her sand-containing pendant at an aquarium during a diplomatic visit to the surface.
 * She can speak to fish, but only some fish, as many fish are dumb.
 * Nemu is tall, and comes from a family of tall people. While this is not obvious in her streams, she appeared much larger than her co-hosts in a collab stream where she was depicted to scale next to Leaflit and Minya September.
 * She has resistance to poison.

Bizarre quirks

 * Nemu used to have a soup plate. This is because it would cool faster, so she could eat the soup faster.
 * She once fell asleep eating chocolate in bed.
 * Nemu used to have a special maze-shaped baking tray that allowed her to create brownies which were all edge pieces.
 * She likes to swim at edges of deep underwater ravines, where you can look over the edge into the abyss.
 * She is scared of whales. A whale's cry is so loud that it crushes your lungs, causing them to fill with blood. Sound travels much better through water. However, she likes dolphins and sharks, describing sharks as "beautiful", "extraordinarily cute, and very sweet", and "absolutely adorable". She enjoys swimming with sharks.
 * She is allergic to so many land-based things that the doctors had to extend the allergy scale. Among the things she is allergic to are grass, trees, paper, rain, and the sun. She's also allergic to photosynthetic plankton and her own sweat. Scientists have studied her in a laboratory.
 * Fennel seed tastes like gasoline to her.
 * Nemu's favourite fish is the Pacific spiny lumpsucker.
 * Her streams often feature excessive headpatting. Viewers can redeem channel points to summon The Hand, who is Nemu's son.
 * The Hand Golem, a creature created from headpat hands with eyes, is also her son. The Hand Golem loves jello, gogurt, and Lego. Leaflit is the Hand Golem's godmother.
 * Nemu once bought a Nintendo Switch, capture card, and other accessories to become a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate streamer, but discovered during her first Smash stream on 2 October 2020 that poor online experience made the game unplayable. She was so annoyed that she added an on-screen note reading "Nintendo is a scam - DO NOT BUY A NINTENDO SWITCH" and played the game for a full 24 hour stream just to spite Nintendo. She was the most viewed Smash Ultimate streamer on that day.
 * Nemu once entered Leaflit's Waifu Wars create-a-character contest. The theme of the contest was "Seiso Waifu", meaning "pure". Nemu instead created a dog girl with purple octopus tentacles named Professor Wagglewompy.
 * She created a Dark Souls III character named Kirito Bradley and defeated difficult late-game boss Dancer of the Boreal Valley with mouse and keyboard, without locking on, without rolling diagonally (due to a keyboard glitch), while only level 15, without wearing armor, and without having played a Dark Souls game before. The process took multiple attempts spanning 10 hours and 47 minutes across three streams, and was followed by a 64-hand pat. She later complained that the boss fight was too easy.
 * When she beat Dark Souls III, she played through again using a Dark Souls III Pokémon mod that lets you capture enemies and battle with them. She named her character Ass Ketchup.
 * She played Elden Ring for the first time with a set of conducts that included no armour, no horseback attacks, no levelling above the minimum stat requirements for gear found, and must equip most recently found item of each type.
 * She generated a new Minecraft world and spent most of a stream digging out an entire world chunk down to the bedrock. It took approximately 5 hours 22 minutes and she deleted the world immediately afterward.
 * She once befriended a tarantula named Jeremy and played Smash Bros with it.
 * She used to play with slugs and snails a lot. She once found a giant banana slug and they went on an adventure together.
 * She once drove a car through a river. Once, at driving school, she bought an entire discount pineapple as a snack and cut it up using a plastic knife from McDonalds, eating about half of it and handing out pineapple wedges. Nemu is no longer allowed to drive.
 * Nemu suffered from dehydration, which she attributed to eating crackers in bed. This did not stop her from eating crackers in bed.
 * Although fighting games are normally played with either a controller or fight stick, Nemu played Guilty Gear Strive with mouse and keyboard.
 * She has a spider in her bathroom, whom she named Jerry Tinklestein.
 * She likes to sleep on a big rock. She has a favorite rock, and has to hike over a mile to reach it.
 * Nemu's tongue is so long that she can lick her own sternum. She doesn't think this is particularly remarkable.
 * She can put a Starburst candy wrapper in her mouth and use her tongue to make it into an origami frog.
 * She can burp on command. She used to be able to burp the entire alphabet in three to four burps, sometimes fewer.
 * She once got a fishing hook stuck in her hand and had to go to the hospital to have it removed. She kept the fishing hook and later used it for fishing.
 * Nemu is only subscribed to one YouTube channel: Bryan Ropar's Plastic Chair World.
 * She used to have goats, who she went swimming with. They were very skilled a jumping and kept getting onto the roof.
 * She commissioned intro music from a professional composer and pianist at great expense, only to later make her entrance theme the British novelty song "One Pound Fish".
 * Later, her chat commissioned One Pound Fish Man Muhammad Shahid Nazir to produce a custom version of the song, titled One Pog Fish. Nemu now uses this as her intro music.
 * She uses her phone as a tray to carry hot plates.
 * She named her Pokémon Legends: Arceus character "ßůššïñšHëêšH".
 * She once forgot to clean her rice cooker for several days. Concerned it may have gone mouldy, she decided to just never make rice again so she wouldn't have to open it. She finally opened the rice cooker two years later and threw it out.

Likes and dislikes

 * Nemu always chooses food over sleep when it comes down to it.
 * Nemu is a fan of cake. Her favorite is cookies and cream ice cream cake, which she holds to be objectively the best cake. "I'll fight anybody who does not wanna slice of that." She also enjoys cucumber and walnut cake.
 * She's not a fan of Bethesda games.
 * She does not like mustard or pickle.
 * She does not like tuna or corned beef. "I don't think it's corned beef's fault. I think it's my fault."
 * Her favorite color is #F6BABA, a shade of pink.
 * She is a fan of Nekomata Okayu, and was inspired by her to become a VTuber.

Miscellaneous

 * While suffering from COVID-19, Nemu played Runescape Classic because it was easy to play without paying much attention.
 * Nemu plays a considerable amount of Minecraft, and is skilled at the game:
 * She played a server running the RLCraft mod to make the game more difficult.
 * She hosted a Pixelmon (a Minecraft Pokémon mod) server, with tournaments which use bizarre and arbitrary rules such as "no Pokémon with the letter 'E' in their name or "no two Pokémon with the same type". She built a gacha machine for items which costs diamonds, and players spent tens of thousands of diamonds on it.
 * When she played on a vanilla Minecraft server with Leaflit, Nemu was granted the title of Hero of the Village. She eventually built her base on top of the Nether by glitching through the bedrock ceiling.
 * She appears in one of Leaflit's stream transitions, in which Leaflit is fishing and is disappointed to catch a tiny Magikarp, to which Nemu replies "Pog".
 * The true reason her Twitch account was "Luna the Magikarp", when she is neither Luna nor a Magikarp, is that it was already her Twitter account and she didn't want to change it.
 * The knot on Nemu's amulet is a fishing knot.
 * Nemu's hairstyle is intended to evoke ocean waves.
 * VTubers with similar names include Nem, Nimu Spacecat, and Momozono Nemu.

Media

 * Nemu on Twitch
 * Nemu Channel on YouTube
 * Nemu VODs on YouTube
 * Luna the Magikarp Wiki

Statistics

 * Nemu - TwitchTracker stats
 * Nemu - SullyGnome Twitch stats
 * Nemu - Social Blade Twitch stats

Hashtags

 * #ShowFeesh - Art
 * #ShowFussy - Art (NSFW)