Amatsuka Uto

Amatsuka Uto (天使うと) is an independently produced Japanese VTuber who debuted on 14 December 2020. She mostly streams on Twitch.

Personality
Uto is noted for her gentle attitude and cute voice. She tries her best when speaking English.

Appearance
Uto has long, silver-white hair with a halo-shaped ahoge, decorated with silver hair clips and a pair of tiny angel wings. She has bright sky-blue eyes. Her clothing is white, with a flowing dress decorated with blue ribbons, and a white ribbon around her neck.

Background
Uto's YouTube channel was created on 19 April 2020. Her Twitter account was created in September 2020. Her oldest YouTube video is a song cover of Kinmokusei by Orange Spiny Crab dated 7 October 2020.

Prior to her VTuber model debut, she made a number of streams using a static image. She had around 36,000 subscribers in the weeks running up to her debut.

2020
Uto made her VTuber debut on 15 December. Her channel subsequently grew rapidly, drawing substantial interest from an English-speaking audience.

On 21 December, she reached the 100k subscriber milestone on YouTube. On Christmas day, by Japan time, she reached 200,000 subscribers.

During her New Year's stream on 31 December, Uto broke her previous viewer record, reaching over 12,000 viewers.

2021
Uto's YouTube channel continued to grow in 2021, reaching 300,000 subscribers on 5 January.

After 9 January, Uto ceased streaming for several weeks. On 17 Feburary, she revealed the reason as trouble with an agency, including meta-tagging streams with the names of unrelated VTubers and pursuing contracts without her consent. Uto announced her intent to return as an independent VTuber. The same day, she uploaded a song cover of KING by Kanaria to YouTube. She returned to streaming on 20 February.

On 3 March, she reached 400,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On 12 June, she announced on her Twitter account that she would receive her second 2D costume. Two days later, Uto debuted two versions of her costume during a stream. The first version features a white dress and coat, long hair extending past her knees, and bandages and straps across her legs and waist. The second version, referred to as "Nyamatsuka", features pigtails, fingerless gloves, cat ears, a cat tail, a rifle resembling an AR-15 or M4 Carbine with a blue finish, and a rifle case slung behind her back.

On 10 October, Uto announced on Twitter that she would receive her 3D model on 14 October, also her birthday celebration. Said stream was an hour-long performance that would conclude with the announcement of her first album, Utopia, that was being produced by Pony Canyon.

On 6 December, Uto reached 600,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

2022
From March to July of 2022, Uto had taken an extended hiatus. Though she did not explain much about the cause of it, she did mention that she was taking a voice acting role. When she came back in July, she expressed her interest in focusing more on her Twitch account.

On 2 August, Sekashiba anime's Twitter account announced that Uto would have a speaking role in the anime adaptation of Sekai no Owari ni Shiba Inu to as guest in episode 46.

Retirement
On 6 April, 2023, Uto made a tweet announcing that she would be indefinitely suspending her activities on 25 April. All of her content would be set to private, with memberships ending on 30 April.

Discography
Main page: Amatsuka Uto/Discography

Events

 * On 22 August 2021, she participated in Apex Legends Vtuber Most Cooperatitive Tournament S3 as team "Youjosenki" (幼女戦姫) along with Yuki Chihiro and Morinaka Kazaki. The team ranked 19th.
 * On 18 September 2021, she participated in Apex Legends Reignite Cup #2 Arena Tournament as team "Tenshi Futari & Neko-san Ippiki" (天使2人＆猫さん1匹) along with Restya and Anzu_o0. The team won 1st place.

Fans

 * Uto's fans are called "Tenshimps". This is a portmanteau of the words "tenshi" and "simps".
 * Her YouTube channel membership is called うとふぁんくらぶ which translates to "Uto fanclub".

Trivia

 * The name Amatsuka is written with the kanji 「天使」, usually read as "tenshi", which means "angel".
 * Her name Uto is written in hiragana, 「うと」.
 * In a kanji drawing stream, she also wrote her first name with the kanji 「兎跳」, meaning "rabbit jump". However, this is an uncommon reading, and she usually writes it in hiragana.
 * Uto's illustrator, Nabi, is also the illustrator of hololive EN's Watson Amelia. Uto has described herself as Ame's sister, as they share the same "mama." However, Uto has a different modeler, Takeshita Fungi, whereas Amelia's "papa" is Naname. Fans have drawn art depicting them as siblings. Ame however does not reciprocate this, considering Uto a cousin at best. However, this answer was Ame playing safe as she was pretty new in hololive and didn't want the fans creating lore that doesn't involve her coworkers.
 * She enjoys video games and singing. She likes melon soda, mochi, and Hi-Chew.
 * One of her goals is to learn English.
 * She likes to watch hololive. Her favorite hololive members include Usada Pekora, Watson Amelia, Gawr Gura, and Uruha Rushia.
 * She tends to say "GG Men" whenever she finishes a game.
 * On her second Getting Over It stream, Uto started calling herself Blue Pumpkin and Aoi Kabocha after suffering sanity damage.
 * She loves shotguns.
 * She doesn't like her ahoge getting flicked.
 * She used to enable a custom URL for her YouTube channel, but she discarded it at some point in 2021 for unknown reasons.
 * As of 17 March 2022, Uto has started taking care of a ragdoll cat named Ui-chan.

Media

 * utonyan - Twitch channel
 * Uto Ch. 天使うと - YouTube channel
 * @amatsukauto - Twitter account
 * amatsukauto - Marshmallow account
 * [lit.link/uto10q Website]

Twitter hashtags

 * #うとらいぶ - Stream talk
 * #Tenshimp - Misc. / Fan name
 * #utoart - Fan art
 * #Utomeme - Memes