Cathy Sumireneko

Cathy Sumireneko (菫猫キャシー) is a female independent English/Filipino/Japanese/Korean Virtual YouTuber.

Introduction Video / Channel Trailer
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Profile
[ VStreamer | Singer | Musician | Artist ] Hello, everynyan! I'm Cathy Sumireneko, a Virtual Streamer who learns about the outside world. Streaming via the motherboard, I hope to meet more konekos of the database! Hope to see you on the next stream! 💜

Personality / Lore
Cathy Sumireneko is a virtual cat girl who resides in the motherboard of her creator. She plays games, draws, sings, and does about anything to learn more about the human race.

Appearance
Cathy used to have purple eyes with sparkle highlights and simple purple hair. She wore a white sleeveless seifuku with dark purple collar and ribbon with the word "Cathy" written on the left side of her chest. She also wore a purple skirt with matching socks and sweatbands with white highlights, as well as light purple wedged sandals. She was able to change her appearance to other outfits.

As of January 2021, Cathy has dark brown eyes that transition to light purple, and purple hair neatly tied up with straight bangs. She also wears Korean-style makeup. She is known to wear a white and dark purple hoodie, a light purple camisole, a pair of ripped jeans, pink socks and dark purple sneakers with high soles. However, Cathy is known to change her appearance depending on what type of game she is playing such as letting her hair down or wearing something else. Twitch chat also has the ability to alter Cathy's appearance from changing her hair and eye color to her clown mascot.

Introduction
Cathy created her Twitch channel back in April 2019, but hasn't started streaming until August 21, 2020. She created her first Twitter account at April 2020 but only started as her personal art account where she would post her artworks and art journey. She created her VTuber Twitter account at December of the same year.

2020
On 13 April 2020, Cathy started out as a Twitter artist where she posted her artworks. She also started opening commissions on April 24, 2020. By the end of the month, she created her first (alpha) model via the VRoid Mobile app, however, she didn't start streaming till August.

On 4 August 2020, she created her first (beta) VRoid model on the desktop app, the same month and day her creator got her personal computer. She gradually started streaming at Twitch but never got a formal debut as a VStreamer.

On 24 August 2020, she initially applied to be a Discord moderator at Pearl Orient Production, a Filipino VTuber company. Although, the company had known that Cathy had started streaming on Twitch and decided to let her in as their upcoming 2nd Generation ambassador. Pearl Orient Production decided to rename her as Murasakineko as her previous name conflicted with another VTuber who was under the company.

On 27 December 2020, Pearl Orient Production announced the 0th Generation, The POPStars ⭐ on their official Twitter.

2021
On 28 January 2021, Cathy released a new, updated design on her 3D model. She called it the Omega model as its artstyle was based on the Webtoon "Our Omega Leadernim."

On 28 February 2021, Pearl Orient Production created her YouTube channel. No videos were uploaded during the time when the channel was still around.

On 6 March 2021, Cathy changed her Twitch name from Cathy_Sumireneko to Cathy_Murasakineko in preparation of her redebut under Pearl Orient Production.

On 8 March 2021, Cathy redebuted on Twitch as Cathy Murasakineko.

On 10 March 2021, Cathy celebrated her birthday by doing a live stream on Twitch.

On 1 April 2021, Cathy did a collaboration stream with KaremakiChan for April Fools. They wore match clown outfits during the stream with brought Cathy's clown model to life.

On 5 April 2021, Cathy resigned from Pearl Orient Production due to some conflicts that have happened in the past few months before, during, and after her redebut. She returned to being Cathy Sumireneko from thereon.

On 9 April 2021, Cathy did a collab Among Us stream with fellow VTubers Alexa Ch, Teru Teru, Lisa Natsume, Coral Aquareine, Sen Sen, Nemu Kurosagi, Naya Torinko, Arisu Hagururma, and Akii JP.

On 11 April 2021, the YouTube channel Pearl Orient Production created has been terminated. Cathy decided to create her own YouTube channel.

On 19 April 2021, Cathy took a short hiatus to finish her personal works and commissions, and another one month hiatus from 8 May to 8 June to rest.

On 7 June 2021, Cathy uploaded her first Twitch channel trailer and first YouTube video.

On 8 June 2021, Cathy returned to streaming every Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Trivia

 * Her surname "Sumireneko" 「菫猫」means purple/violet cat in Japanese, sumire「菫」meaning "purple/violet" and neko「猫」meaning "cat." These are two words that describe her appearance.
 * Despite her appearance and palette being purple or pink, her favorite colors are actually green and turquoise. She has mentioned that purple was her mother's favorite color.
 * She called her mother the "Motherboard."
 * Her fanbase is called "Konekos" meaning kittens in Japanese.
 * She is called the House Cat in her Discord server.
 * She can speak fluently in English and Filipino.
 * She can also speak in Japanese, Korean, and Spanish in rare occasions.
 * It has been confirmed that she is currently dating Twitch Streamer EonVaridus.