Nekomata Okayu

Nekomata Okayu (猫又おかゆ) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber. She is a part of a unit inside hololive called Hololive Gamers (ホロライブゲーマーズ) alongside Shirakami Fubuki, Ookami Mio, and Inugami Korone.

Introduction Video
Nekomata Okayu's introduction.

Appearance & Personality

 * She is a cat catered by granny who owns an onigiri shop. She uses the PC situated in her granny's rooms for livestreams.
 * Since granny is also a gamer, she has installed a gaming PC in her room. (which explains why Okayu's computer is not a toaster)
 * Wears an oversized crop top with an image of onigiri in the front, the trousers is pulled up on the right leg due to personal preference. Believes her purple clothing suits well with her gaming PC.
 * Once attempted to described herself with an animal, but instead of choosing cat or dog, she believes she is more like a turtle.
 * She is nocturnal and usually streams at night, just like cats.
 * A member of Hololive Gamers, who majors in streaming games, and has a lot of collaborations with other hololive Gamers.

History
She was first announced on 22 March 2019 in Shirakami Fubuki's stream during which Fubuki debuted her new 3D model. Fubuki announced that she alongside with Inugami Korone will join Hololive Gamers in April. This was followed up by an announcement on Hololive's Twitter account on 25 March. She was officially introduced on 1 April.

Her Twitter account was opened on 24 March 2019 while her YouTube channel was created on 25 March although she first started her activity there with an introductory stream on 6 April.

Trivia

 * Viewers have noted an interesting similarity between her voice and mannerisms to Mina of AyaMina Games who ceased to be a VTuber a few months before.

Personal-related

 * Her family name "Nekomata" originated from a traditional Japanese cat-like monster.


 * The other Hololive Gamer member Inugami Korone's family name "Inugami" originates from another dog-like monster in Japan, which led to them teaming up as "Yokai (monster) group"


 * Since she has no official Chinese name at first, there were translations that of her name into "猫又陆汤" and "猫又小粥", literally "Nekomata Soup" and Nekomata Congee" respectively. Due to her candid and tomboyish behaviors, she is sometimes nicknamed "Soup" or "Soup (elder-)brother" in China.
 * Her birthday on 22 February is "Cat's day" in Japan because the word "2" in Japanese is similar to the sound when a cat meows. According to Okayu her birthday is decided by granny.

Greet words

 * Uses the term 「もぐもぐおかゆ」when greeting her viewers, in which the viewers would respond 「ウマ！ウマ！」
 * 「もぐもぐ」literally translates as chewing food vigorously with the mouth shut, which can also allude to "start eating". 「ウマ」on the other hand is an abbreviation of the word「うまい（tasty）」.
 * Uses the term 「完食おかゆ」to replace goodbye, while the viewers would respond by saying 「ゴチ！ゴチ！」
 * 「完食おかゆ」literally translates as "I have finished eating", while 「ゴチ」is an abbreviation of「ご馳走（thank you for serving the meal）」.
 * Favorite food is rice soaked in tea, while her favorite type of onigiri is onigiri with salt.（塩むすび）
 * Likes to eat onigiri that are hard pressed, because granny is talented at making that.
 * Likes to play RPG and action games on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES/SFC) platform.
 * Mentioned in her debut video that granny is also a gamer who likes to play Dr. Mario overnight.

Livestream-related

 * During the livestream on 21 August exposed her inner desires homosexual tendency: such as recording songs as gifts for Minato Aqua; thinks that Shirakami Fubuki is extremely cute, and also promised to record a song with Murasaki Shion, because she thinks her voice fits well with that of Shion's. "Everyone in Hololive, yagoo (executive director of Hololive), and everyone here, daisuki❤", but only mentioned yagoo (and everyone here) to cover up her embarrassment.

Video clips
Learn about Nekomata Okayu in five minutes