Anya Melfissa

Anya Melfissa (アーニャ・メルフィッサ) is a female Indonesian Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, debuting as part of its Indonesian (ID) branch second generation of VTubers alongside Kureiji Ollie and Pavolia Reine.

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Personality
Anya is a very introverted, sleepy, and calm person, in complete opposite to her genmate Kureiji Ollie, except she mumbles when she gets nervous. She is not that much talkative, to the point she barely mentions her personal experiences. However, this doesn't stop her from being a smug sadistic loli. Her skills in Japanese gives her easy opportunities to interact with Japanese hololive members and Japanese HOLOSTARS. Her main quality she puts in relief is her righteousness, as she always reject any attempt to corrupt her. For these reasons, some hololive members devote her a special respect. For example, during an Among Us game, Ollie once cut short an argument between her and Takane Lui by convincing everyone Anya was not lying because she was speaking in Japanese.

Even so, Anya is funny and easygoing, and also the type of person who is easy to joke around at certain times. Sometimes, her sense of humor is a bit demeaning to others such as when she called Ollie a cutting board and made her height a comparison between her senpais as in Gura, Shion, and Rushia. Unlike most of hololive ID members, Anya's humour rarely tends to get borderline, but aims at being subtile.

Anya is also often categorized as a yandere girl by some of her fans because of her sadistic comments and thoughts on events in the Mad Father game stream. Her fans often say that during horror game streams, the scariest part of the stream is Anya herself. She is also notably hard to scare. In fact, when playing horror games, Anya typically scoffs off the scares as if they're sunshine and rainbows. On this plane, she shares tastes with Kaela Kovalskia in video games, as long as they require being patient or facing horror, which leads them collaborating often.

Background
Anya was announced as part of hololive's ID branch second generation on hololive's Indonesia Twitter account with the other second generation members on 1 December 2020 JST. Her Twitter account was created on November 2020 and she made her first tweet on 1 December. Her YouTube channel was created on 1 September but Anya debuted on 5 December 2020, reaching 100,000 subscribers on the same day.

2021
On 12 January, she reached 200,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 4 May, Anya reached 300,000 YouTube subscribers on her channel.

On 16 May, Anya celebrated her 300,000 subscribers and also opened her channel's membership feature.

On 11 August, hololive's Indonesia Twitter account announced that every hololive ID 2nd Gen member would receive their second 2D costumes.

On 14 August, Anya released a cover of "Gira Gira" by Ado, her first solo cover.

On 16 August, she debuted her second 2D costume, in this costume Anya got a new hairstyle with a small braid on the right side of her head, she wears light brown glasses that match her big coat which Anya can remove, she also uses a light brown blouse and a black skirt both complemented with Indonesian inspired motifs, Anya can also move her hand to her face as if she is adjusting her glasses.

On 5 November, Anya reached 400,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 5 December, Anya celebrated her one year anniversary.

2022
On 12 March, Anya celebrated her birthday on YouTube channel.

On 20 June, she reached 500,000 subscribers on YouTube channel making her the 54th member of hololive to reach this milestone, as well as the last member of her generation to achieve it.

On 27 July, Anya debuted the 2.0 version of her original costume with new facial expressions.

On 28 July, Anya, Reine, and Ollie debuted their 3D models named "Smoloro," and announced that they would get their third 2D costumes.

On 13 August, she debuted her third 2D costume. In this costume Anya got a new hairstyle using short hair. In this costume Anya wears a steampunk inspired outfit. She uses a green blouse with with a dark green bow with a white handkerchief. Under her chest she uses a brown corset with golden decorations and straps that go up around her chest. Anya wears brown utility belts with a holster and a hand watch on the right side and a green book on the left. She has brown shorts and light brown high boots. Anya can also wear a side cape to her left and a gas mask.

2023
On 30 January, hololive Indonesia's Twitter account announced that their nine members would get new kimono costumes.

On 4 February, Anya reached 600,000 subscribers on YouTube channel.

On 5 February, Anya debuted her fourth 2D costume, a kimono to celebrate the new year. Anya uses her hair tied in a bun, most of her previous yellow lights are now blue, she has lots of light blue and white flower hairpins and some golden hair sticks. Anya wears a blue kimono with white clouds, sakura flowers and diamonds prints. Around her neck she carries her familiar a fox named Moko that Anya can pet. She can remove her haori revealing white and blue sleeves. Anya can also hold a white kitsune mask.

On 10 February, during 600k subscribers celebration stream, Anya released a 2.0 update to her second costume, adding some new expressions, body movements.

On 19 March, Anya debuted her 3D idol costume during hololive 4th fes. "Our Bright Parade" DAY2.

On 25 June, hololive Indonesia's Twitter account announced that its second generation would get their main 3D models.

On 3 July, as part of the "hololive Summer 2023" event, Anya debuted her 3D yukata. These are the same designs that Japanese members debuted the previous year.

On 28 July, Anya officially debuted her main 3D model. During the stream, she also released her first original songs "Unreal Veil" and "Everlasting knife."

On 3 August, Anya released the music video for her original song "Unreal Veil."

Discography

 * Main page: Anya Melfissa/Discography

Events

 * On 8 July 2021, Comic Frontier's Twitter account announced that every hololive Indonesia member would appear in "Comifuro Virtual," Anya alongside with Reine would appear as guests.
 * On 16 July 2022, Crunchyroll Expo's Twitter account announced that Anya and other members of hololive Indonesia would appear in "Crunchyroll Expo 2022," which would be held from 5-7 August 2022.
 * On 10 September 2022, Anime Festival Asia announced on Twitter that Anya and other members would be appearing at "Anime Festival Asia Singapore 2022," which would be held from 25-27 November 2022.
 * On 12 September 2022, Comic Frontier announced on Twitter that Anya and other hololive ID members would be appearing at "Comic Frontier 15," which would be held from 24-25 September 2022.

Mascot and Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called "Melfriends," while members are called "Melhomies."
 * On 5 February 2023, during her new year costume reveal, Anya introduced her familiar "Moko" a female fox that is resting around Anya's neck.

Relationships

 * "K.I.R.A," alongside Ouro Kronii, IRyS and Pavolia Reine.
 * "OKFAIR," alongside Kureiji Ollie, Ouro Kronii, Ceres Fauna, IRyS and Pavolia Reine.
 * "Zenya," alongside Vestia Zeta.
 * "HoloJEI," alongside Tsunomaki Watame (Japan), Ninomae Ina'nis (English) and Kureiji Ollie (Indonesia).
 * "Omet," alongside Kaela Kovalskia. The name stand for Om & jaMet.

Trivia

 * Anya is a personification of a Keris knife, also known as a Kris.
 * Anya likes: sleeping, comfy bed, gacha games, relaxing places, visual novels, idols and seiyus and Shirakami Fubuki.
 * Her favorite games include: Fate/Grand Order, rhythm-based games (Arcaea), DOD3 and RPG-maker horror games.
 * Her favorite anime are: Psycho Pass, Fate/Zero, Monogatari series, Rozen Maiden and Land of the Lustrous.
 * While she dislikes: irresponsibility, troublesome things, people's glances, crowds, noises and raisins.
 * Anya's goals are: interacting with senpais and doing collabs, having a 3D model, reach Fubuki's sub count, getting a new PC suitable for streaming, she originally also included, doing covers of her favorite songs and releasing an original song however she later claimed to not being confident in her singing abilities and changed these goals to improve her singing first.
 * She doesn't wear shoes.
 * Some of her streams have some lag. Fans often call this case "RIP PC-kun."
 * At 147 cm, Anya is the shortest in hololive ID.
 * Anya's Japanese speaking is so good that many people, even among hololive members, like teasing her by pretending she is in fact Japanese.
 * Anya was nominated hololive ID most serious member in 2022.

Media

 * Anya Melfissa Ch. hololive-ID - YouTube channel
 * Anya Melfissa's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
 * @anyamelfissa - Twitter account
 * Anya Melfissa hololive ID - Fanpage on Facebook
 * anyamelfissa - Instagram account
 * anyamelfissachhololive-id - Streamlabs account

Twitter hashtags

 * #Anya_Melfissa - General
 * #Liveissa - Stream
 * #anyatelier - Fan art
 * #melfriends - Fans

Further readings

 * アーニャ・メルフィッサ - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * Anya Melfissa - Moegirl Encyclopedia
 * Anya Melfissa - Hololive Fan Wiki