Bukimera

Shishira Ibuki, who prefers to go by Buki, is a female American VTuber and Streamer. She is a Chimera VTuber who streams primarily on Twitch. She is an artist who plays a variety of games, and she also likes to sing.

Despite popular belief, she is not a dog.

Personality
Buki 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, Buki 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 Buki 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 many say she 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
Ibuki 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 black bodysuit with a cropped hoodie. She has a spiked collar around her neck and claw-like nails. She wears two different stockings, one fishnet and one regular that is ripped in multiple spots. Her shoes are black and white Heelys with pink accents.

Buki 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
Ibuki 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, Bukimera debuted her chimera model.

On 12 September, Buki 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 Buki announced that she would be redebuting in August of 2022, and began raising funds for the redebut.

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

On 27 September, Bukimera redebuted with a new model and new outfit, again self-made. She also released her first song cover where she sang "Ch4nge" by Giga. She worked with Shirobeats and DJ Dax on the cover.

2023
On May 1st of 2023 Ibuki made the change from her old alias, BunmeiRA to her current one, Bukimera. She stated in early 2023 that she did not like going by "Bun" anymore since she was not a bunny character and wanted to finish shedding her old bunny persona for good.

Trivia

 * Despite popular belief, Buki is actually NOT a dog. A random visitor to stream called her a "weird dog" and since then it has been a running gag on streams.
 * Buki is the Milfager at a popular grocery chain called Milf Market and often tells tales of fighting Karens in the wild.
 * Bukimera is a play on chimera, with her name Buki and the Japanese pronunciation of the word "kimera".
 * Buki prefers to be called Buki, but Ibuki is also acceptable. Other nicknames include BukBuk, Bucky, Bukster, and BookEmail which was given to her by Nanase Cain.
 * Buki suffers from chronic pain in her back, neck, and jaw, and therefore struggles to keep her energy up some days. She often states she has a heat pad on during her streams in order to ease the pain.
 * She is known to be close friends with fellow VTuber Eros and often states her love for the other on stream.

Media

 * bukimera- Twitch Channel
 * bukimera- YouTube Channel
 * @bukimeravt- Twitter
 * bukimera- TikTok
 * The Chimera Crew- Discord Server

Hashtags

 * #bukiLive (Live Tag)
 * #bukiRAWRT (Art Tag)