Minya September

Minya September is an independent VTuber who streams on Twitch. She plays video games, sings, and occasionally plays acoustic guitar. She speaks both English and Japanese.

Personality
Minya has a soft and easygoing attitude.

Appearance
Minya has pink hair with yellow ties, and green eyes. Her artwork has a characteristic thick outline and flat shading.

Her main outfit is a green hoodie. Her second outfit is a short-sleeved purple ninja outfit, although Minya is not a ninja; it's just a costume.

Background
Minya's Twitch account was created on 23rd August 2019. Her earliest known stream was made on 24 August, where she played Monster Hunter: World to a peak audience of 10 viewers. She became Twitch affiliate on 17 December 2019, and began streaming regularly from the beginning of 2020.

Minya did not originally intend to be a VTuber. While seeking Twitch affiliate status, she commissioned an original character art to use as an avatar, in order to avoid using a copyrighted character. On 5 March 2020, she revealed a piece of character art by gryphin1424, in an iconic thick-outlined style. This was followed on 6 June 2020 by another art of the character by the same artist.

Minya had the first piece of art turned directly into a VTuber avatar. Its first recorded appearance is in Minya's second-oldest VOD in an Escape From Tarkov stream on 22 July 2020. Minya has yet to hold an official debut stream for her avatar.

2020
On 15 July, Minya became Twitch partner.

On 25 August, Minya revealed a new ninja-style costume. Its invention was originally an accident. For a collab stream with Leaflit, Minya had an artist friend modify the original art, because she felt the folded arms looked too bossy. However, the artist misinterpreted folds in the hoodie sleeves as representing as a short-sleeved hoodie with long undersleeves. Minya felt this looked like a ninja, and the artist subsequently drew her as a ninja. Minya had this integrated into her VTuber avatar.

Over Hallowe'en, Minya temporarily used a variant of her character model with vampire-like red eyes.

On 13 December, Minya described plans to have a new model made. She felt the original character concept was too generic, and her original models lacked a lower half. While the ninja costume was popular with fans, Minya's plan was to return to the original Minya costume but make the character a vampire. She later decided the new model would be a ninja instead, although this model was not made.

Minya's top played games this year were Escape from Tarkov, Fall Guys, Dead by Daylight, and Phasmophobia. She streamed 1,394 hours.

2021
On 26 May, she announced the version 1.5 of her Live2D model. The design of this new model was the same as her original model, although she no longer had the ability to change into the ninja outfit.

Minya's top played games in 2021 were Pokémon Unite, Back 4 Blood, Escape from Tarkov, and Dead By Daylight. She streamed 2,092 hours.

Quotes

 * "In the old days, people had the freedom to create unique games with great stories and systems. Now that we have an environment where small game companies can have the freedom to sell original games with their own ideas, it's very exciting!"

Trivia

 * Minya chose her first name in the hope that it would sound Russian, as she frequently played Escape From Tarkov. Her surname September was chosen to be easily memorable, and refers to her birth month.
 * Minya's Twitter account, @Minya_923, refers to her date of birth, 23 September (9/23).
 * Her favorite games include Escape From Tarkov, Dead by Daylight, Rocket League, Sea of Thieves, Chrono Trigger, Ōkami, moon, undertale, Stardew Valley, and To The Moon.
 * Minya's most played game on Twitch is Escape From Tarkov. She playd over 600 hours of this game in 2020. Her second most popular that year was Fall Guys, with over 260 hours.
 * She has collaborated with other Twitch Vtubers including Haruka Karibu, Leaflit, BungoTaiga, and Luna the Magikarp.
 * Minya makes a cameo in Leaflit's Twitch intro, where they appear as samurai. Leaflit in turn makes a cameo in Minya's Twitch intro.
 * She speaks both Japanese and English.
 * She was licked by FeFe. Minya licked Fefe back.
 * Minya's favorite VTuber is Artemis of the Blue. She enjoys Artemis' calm voice and chill stream, which are also features of Minya's stream.
 * Minya's mascot character is an avocado named Bochan. It references an event in a Jackbox game where she answered "throw abocado", misspelling avocado. "Abocado" thereafter became Minya's catchphrase for when she makes a mistake: "Baka Minya! Abocado!"

Media

 * minyaseptember - Twitch Channel
 * @minya_923 - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #MinyaStreamAlert - Stream tag
 * #minyaart - Fan art

Statistics

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