Akai Haato

Akai Haato (赤井はあと) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber endorsed by hololive.

Introduction Video
Haato's English introduction. Haato's Japanese introduction.

Appearance & Personality

 * A prideful junior, she is arrogant in nature but would start coquetting once she familiarizes herself. Likes red ribbons and heart shapes, which she always puts on her clothing as accessories. She is also represented with the emoji "❣️".
 * Classic tsundere, who claims to be always on the "cold, arrogant" (tsun) side, wants viewers to call her Haato Master "Haato-sama（はあと様）", though in reality, she is usually more on the "embarrassed, lovey-dovey" (dere) side
 * An exchange student in the virtual world, currently studying in Australia, claims to know a little bit of English. She is also interested in foreign language and is able to introduce herself with simple Chinese.
 * Is actually a dojikko, who sometimes talks about the embarrassing things she has done in the past, and make questionable comments. Despite being the first batch in Hololive which majors in live-streaming, uploaded a lot of short videos because the internet connection in Australia is unstable at best.

History
Her Twitter account was opened on 21 May 2018 while her YouTube channel was created on 24 May although she did not start her activities on YouTube until her self-introduction stream which was live on 2 June.

On 24 January 2019, it was announced that she would debut her 3D model on 25 January. On the next day, she broadcast her 3D model.

On 12 April, she announced in a stream that she will be receiving a new 3D model. It was announced that the debut date is 17 April. She debuted her new 3D model on 17 April.

On 9 July, Haato showcased the swimsuit for her 3D model. It was first announced at the end of their karaoke session earlier on 7 July.

Events

 * On 12 September 2019, she made an appearance in hololive's collaboration with Dawn of the Breakers as one of the characters alongisde Natsuiro Matsuri, Shirakami Fubuki, Nakiri Ayame, Oozora Subaru, Sakura Miko, and Ookami Mio.

Personal-related

 * As seen in her English introduction, she is able to speak some English due to her studying abroad.
 * Her family name "Akai" which means "red" in Japanese, while "Haato" is an attempt to pronounce the English word "heart" in Japanese.
 * Her birthday 10 August (810) also has a pronunciation similar to "heart" in Japanese.
 * Adds the word 「ルージュ（rouge）」after greetings, i.e. "Hello rouge!" "Goodbye rouge!", which is a french word meaning red.
 * Calls her viewers "senpai" (senior), while her fans are called 「はあとん」(Haa-ton), which is a combination of her name "Haato" with the word 「豚（とん）」(literally translates as a pig, together Haato's pigs).7b5bd5a88226cffc0209ffd3b7014a90f603ea54.gif

Caption: DD execution
 * Claims that she would chop off the heads of whoever angers her 「execution/head-chopping（打ち首）」, but is just another way to disguise her embarrassment (classic tsundere). Usually repeats the phrase twice whenever she says it.
 * Her mascot is a yellow pig (implying her fans) with a sign that says "打ち首" (execution) and clear marks of stitches around the neck.
 * According to twitter, her biological father bought a pig farm......
 * Whenever her livestreams are coming to a close and having put up the ending slide, sometimes reappears again and again to "surprise" the viewers, or make small jokes before ending the stream again.
 * She is an actual exchange student (not just a role-playing element), and has been to the Philippines and Australia before.
 * Despite being an exchange student, she once took a learning test during the stream, but the results show that her English, general knowledge and Chinese were all below average.
 * Is a victim of the poor connection in Australia, leading to high pings, lower resolution quality livestreams, interesting livestream periods (for Japanese viewers), etc. Which is also a reason for her lower video count and relatively few collaboration videos in her channel.
 * Is a clumsy girl who cries easily, is not good at playing games, and usually exacerbated by poor internet connection, which can lead to the games freezing, lagging or looping during livestreams. One can usually hear her sob whenever it occurs.
 * Finds it embarrassing to cry during livestreams, hence she often makes promises to herself not to cry during streams, but...... (Same video clip as below)
 * Despite her bad gaming skills, she enjoys playing games that are made to frustrate players. After completing a series of such games, she made a tweet claiming she can no longer find joy in normal games, then made a love confession to these masochistic games, ending with another tweet shocked and embarrassed at what she has written.
 * She is pretty good at playing Tetris among Vtubers. Other notable VTubers that plays Tetris well include Kagura Mea and Yuzuki Choco. (Hoshimachi Suisei is in another plane of existence)
 * Sometimes make posts on Twitter that are masochistic. She seems to enjoy the whole process during collaborations with Hoshimachi Suisei on Tetris and Mario Kart even though she is thoroughly beaten by Suisei both times. She also promised to collaborate again if they have the opportunity. (According to Suisei, none of her friends play Tetris with her anymore because she is overpowered, hence Suisei was very glad when Haato promised to play with her again). This led to fans wondering if she is actually a masochist in nature.
 * Sometimes make livestreams of her cooking, but the food usually looks a little bit better than dark matter,  to a point she mentioned: "I might be banned if the food came out to be too horrifying".3c01ac282df5e0fe2cdbc860526034a85fdf72b4.gif

"Air live-streaming"

 * Happens in one of the earlier videos when Haato was live-streaming Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy but forgot to turn on the stream, which means she has everything set up, except the camera. Viewers were also confused as to why there was no video and audio coming from the screen. In order to kill time they started imagining the gameplay and making comments as if they were really watching the stream, also known as "air real-time" commentary. This led to Haato believing that everything is alright since she could see her viewers commenting on her gameplay, and started talking to herself for half an hour before realizing that something is wrong.....when she finally fixed it she started laughing before bursting into tears and asking her viewers when did her stream stopped working (from the beginning) ... the same mistake occurred again in another stream, and she started crying again.

「はあとん劇場」(Haato's theatre)

 * A series of by-talk video clips (livestream or otherwise) that focuses on "virtual" overseas activities, including incidents that she experienced, and those she heard from friends and families, such as how a terrorist ran into her school with a banana disguised as a gun...... 3c01ac282df5e0fe381c3460526034a85edf726f.jpg

Learning Chinese

 * Suddenly sprouted foul language in Chinese fluently during one livestream, which led to huge repercussions in China. According to her, she learnt it from her Chinese roommate.
 * She originally thought it meant "I love you", but instead it meant "fxxk your mother" and "you dumbass". She was abhorred and denied having ever said that after learning the meaning of the words.
 * While many new fans joined because of this, it also negatively affected her reputation in China, hence it is advised not to overuse this meme.

Interpersonal relationship(s)

 * Akai Haato、Yozora Mel、Aki Rosenthal、Yuzuki Choco and Shiranui Flare are sometimes referred to as the "blonde group" because of the color of their hair and because they are all members of Hololive.