Kayamori Emma / Emma Chouette

This page is under construction Kayamori Emma/Emma Chouette (栢森エマ・エマシュエット) is an independent Japanese VTuber. She's a half-owl half-human botanist who lives deep in the forest, away from the eyes of humans.

Profile
According to Emma, her real name is "Emma Chouette", but she picked the name "Kayamori Emma" for humans to have something more familiar to call her by.

Emma is a botanist who lives deep in the forest. Born in a human form, but also has an owl form she can change into. Spends her days in the forest carefreely, but if a human enters the forest she takes care not to be found out by them.

Lives in a tree house whose interior is filled with botanical books, plants, and flowers.

Taking care of and grooming animals and plants are some of her hobbies. Loves making sure the forest remains plentiful.

Emma was abandoned by her parents and had to learn to be self sufficient since she was young. The only thing she remembers about her father is that he was a huge white owl, her mom is a human. She doesn't know her exact age.

Emma discovered the human world, video games, anime, the internet, etc. when she found a laptop dropped by a human explorer who passed through her forest.

She lives with a cat, a denizen of the same forest, who she allows to live with her in her house. She calls him her "Roommate" (同居人さん, doukyonin-san).

Personality
Emma has a bright, fun, and friendly personality. She loves streaming and interacting with her fans. Her streams vary in tone from comfy and relaxed chatting streams to high energy and eardrum-piercingly loud whenever she gets spooked while playing a game. Emma has many interests, including anime, games, Vocaloid songs, Japanese drama, comedy and Japanese comedy, to name a few.

She often refers to herself as an introvert, saying one time that she's as an introvert who wears the skin of an extrovert.

Appearance
Emma has the appearance of a pale skinned, short, white haired human girl that's only betrayed by her pair of white-and-brown feathered wings growing from her lower back and her ears (the tufts of hair growing from the sides of her head) and her black tipped plumicorns (the two tufts of feathers growing from the top of her head). She has a big feather that grows from her left bangs and two, long, side bangs that end in a cyan colored curl. The back of her hair is curly and Emma says it's hard to control. She has two beautiful amber-colored eyes framed with long black eyelashes. She takes pride in her eyes and says they're one of her best features. Her eyebrows are a little on the thick side and they're the same white color as her hair.

She wears a sort of black, metallic, bow-like hair ornament on her head, partially covered by her "air intake" shaped hair formations. Emma wears a long-sleeved white-and black shirt-like outfit with gold and purple accents, adorned by a large golden torque necklace, shaped with fountain pen as a motif. In the middle of her necklace there's a large and shiny cyan gem that's the same color as her cyan side bangs. From the necklace hangs a purple necktie that's decorated with a golden vertical line of text which is written, according to Emma, in the owl language.

Her outfit has black skirt-like hems that open in the middle. She wears black short-shorts and black thigh-highs that wrap around her thighs with black leather straps. She also wears tall boots with a short heel and golden claws that are reminiscent of an owl's talons.

Her nails are painted with lilac nail polish in order to strengthen her nails, which are naturally weak, as well as decorate them.

She's often seen holding a red book with a golden owl crest on its cover. Emma says she uses this book to keep notes of plants and various things on the forest she lives in.

As of 24 April 2022, with her 1.5 Live2D upgrade, Emma can now grow hair hair to about waist-length. Her long hair is very volumetric and sprawling, with the tips being cyan like her side bangs. She also received "owl glasses" - round rimmed eyeglasses with orange-tinted lenses and a bridge that's shaped like an owl's beak. They bear resemblance to the Pokemon Ho-Ho.

Her official measurements are 93 - 61 - 94 and she's 160 cm tall.

Emma might appear like a human girl but her gender is unconfirmed. With owls it's really difficult to ascertain the gender of the owl. You'd have to do DNA test or wait for them to lay an egg to know if it's a male or a female and as such Emma's gender is also unconfirmed. She can't do a DNA test because she'll be abducted by scientists for experimentation. She also has an, as-of-yet, unveiled owl form that she can turn into as well.

Debut
On 17 October 2021 Emma made her first tweet. She posted a teaser picture of her key art and wrote "Waaaah! (as in a baby letting out their first cry). On 20 October 2021 she uploaded her self-introduction video, followed by a short Twitter video of her smiling and making a pouting expression. On 24 October 2021 she made her debut stream. In it she introduced herself, some of her goals and dreams, her mama and papa, decided on her tags, unveiled her fan name, showed off her full model, answered some questions sent to her through Marshmallow, and showed off some of her facial expressions. The stream is fully captioned in English.

2021
On 29 October her channel got monetized. On 19 November she did her first endurance stream, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, for about 22 hours. On 23 November she had her first collab, appearing briefly in Tammy Tomoe's stream. On 29 November she reached 10,000 channel subscribers. On 25 December she did a Christmas special, doing 8 streams over the span of 14 hours. On 30 December she did a birthday countdown stream.

2022
On April 24 she celebrated six months since her debut and unveiled her 1.5 Live2D model. On June 18 she did a singing stream inspired by the Endless Eight arc from season 2 the anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. She kept looping the same 30 minutes 8 times, singing the same songs and saying generally the same things with small changes added in places. On June 23 her Endless Eight stream was made into an article on Yahoo News Japan.

Fans



 * Her fans are called Nonezumi-san (野ねずみさん, lit.: Field Mice).

Media

 * 栢森エマ / Emma Chouette - YouTube channel
 * @Emma_Chouette - Twitter account
 * @Emma_Chouette - Marshmallow account

Twitter hashtags

 * #しゅえったいむ - Stream tag
 * #えまえっと - Fan art
 * #シュエっとね - Fan creations other than drawings
 * #えまじぇすと - Clips