Kuroki Natsume

''This article is about Natsume's role as a VTuber. For the Utaite known as 96Neko, see the Utaite Wiki.''

Kuroki Natsume (黯希ナツメ) is a female Japanese YouTuber. She is the VTuber alias of Utaite 96Neko.

Background
Natsume's channel was created on 17 November, 2017, and was originally intended as a sub-channel for her (as 96Neko) gaming livestreams. She always used a static image that represented her avatar and sometimes used no image at all, and even used a 3D cat avatar.

It wasn't until 31 March, 2019 that she would use a 3D VTuber avatar. She announced in a tweet that she would stream under the name "V96". The first usage of her VTuber avatar was on OPENREC.tv on 4 April, 2019.

Eventually, on a stream held on 5 October, 2019, she decided the name "Kuroki Natsume" for her VTuber persona.

2020
On 11 January, she started using a new 2D model. She still uses the 3D cat avatar, especially when she's playing horror games and doing endurance streams, usually with a goal of returning back to human (2D model) and achieving a certain amount of kills (commonly when playing APEX).

2021
On her birthday March 30, she announced a version 2.0 of Kuroki Natsume's 3D model with the same illustrator in her previous 3D model.

Trivia

 * Like Hanayura Kanon, Natsume is also an Utaite.
 * She is part of the group "Natsumatsurikkai" (ナツまつりっかい), along with hololive production members Natsuiro Matsuri, Rikka and Nijisanji member Mayuzumi Kai.

Media

 * 【SUB】96NEKO-CHANNEL - YouTube channel
 * @Kuroki_Natsume - Kuroki Natsume's official Twitter account
 * 96猫/黯希ナツメ - Kuroki Natsume's official OPENREC.tv channel
 * 96猫/黯希ナツメ - Kuroki Natsume's official Mildom channel
 * Kuroki Natsume's official 3D model on THE SEED ONLINE

Twitter hashtags

 * #なつめ部 - Old Illustration Tag
 * #ナツメ絵 - Kuroki Natsume's New Illustration tag
 * #96猫絵 - Utaite 96neko's Illustration tag
 * #ナツメ部clip - Tag for clips submitted by the listeners
 * #おしゃべりくろちゃん - Tag for listeners' thoughts and feedback about her stream

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