Banzoin Hakka

Banzoin Hakka is a male English Virtual YouTuber endorsed by hololive's branch HOLOSTARS English. He is a member of "TEMPUS" joining the group in January 2023 alongside Gavis Bettel, Machina X Flayon and Josuiji Shinri.

Profile
Is that all you have got? You fail to entertain me! The exorcist of Adventurer's Guild TEMPUS. Dual wielding spears, he is the latest of a long line of exorcists who have defended Xenokuni from the evils of the world.

He fights not only out of a sense of duty, but also because he feels a special kind of excitement when on the frontlines. Unfortunately, his right hand is being eroded by the scourge of Records Corruption. Has inherited Karasutengu data, and thus possesses otherworldly leaping ability and endurance.

Joined TEMPUS after the battle in Xenokuni.

Personality
"The coolest and cutest exorcist in all of Xenokuni!" Hakka has a happy go lucky personality with a sarcastic sense of humor.

Background
On 2 January 2023, hololive production English Twitter account teased an announcement for TEMPUS along with a very short video.

On 4 January 2023, hololive production English Twitter account announced that four new members would be joining TEMPUS with an introductory video including their names, lore and social media accounts. Hakka made his first tweet on this date, including one written in Spanish and a small teaser video was uploaded on his YouTube channel. His Twitter account was created in October 2022 and his YouTube channel was created on 19 October 2022.

On 8 January 2023 (JST), Hakka debuted on YouTube. He also released his first original song "Raven's Paradigm."

On 5 February 2023 (JST), Hakka opened his YouTube channel's membership feature.

On 1 March, he reached 100,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 21 April, he released his second original song "Shattered Wings."

Discography

 * ''Main page: Rikka/Discography

Fans

 * His fanbase is officially called "Hakkitos," while members are called "Hakkafe."
 * His closing phrase when ending stream is, "Hakka la vista."
 * His mascot partner, is a little crow named "Ricrowdo."

Relationships

 * Notable units and groups Hakka is part of:
 * "TEMPUS Vanguard," alongside Gavis Bettel, Machina X Flayon, and Josuiji Shinri. They are debut-mates.
 * "TEMPURPLE," alongside Bettel and Magni Dezmond. They have purple as their color scheme.
 * "TEMPUPS" alongside Regis Altare, Magni Dezmond, Gavis Bettel, Machina X Flayon and Josuiji Shinri.
 * Hakka is close with Shinri, often calling him "father" out of respect.
 * Outside of Holopro, he's also friends with Ike Eveland, who shares his love of metal music.

Name

 * In Japanese, Banzoin Hakka writes his name 「万象院ハッカ」.
 * His surname, 「万象院」, banjyouin, means "universe temple" or "temple of all creation."
 * Hakka is written in katakana, often used to write foreign names. It has various meanings as a Japanese word, but given his status as an exorcist, it may refer to divination or fortune telling. It also refers to the herb mint, bleaching, or ignition.

Miscellaneous

 * Hakka shares the same character illustrator as Kaida Haru of NIJISANJI.
 * In debut he has shown to be able to speak English, Spanish and Japanese.
 * He's clarified in a zatsudan stream that he's still in the process of learning Japanese. He's noted to understand and read a little in hiragana and katakana. When listening to Japanese, he's able to process the context of what's happening.
 * He has also shown and stated to be an avid manga reader and anime watcher. Especially, when it comes to his knowledge of seiyuus and anime songs.
 * His favorite fruit is strawberries.
 * Similar to the -Myth- holomember Watson Amelia, he has many near-death and hurt stories.
 * In his debut stream, he made YAGOO angry by debuting in Spanish and not in English, so YAGOO irrupt in his house to punish Hakka, Hakka still has a trauma of this whole ordeal.
 * When Hakka was young, he and two friends were crab hunting when a group of crabs attacked them, while they were escaping from the crabs, Hakka fell into a beach sinkhole and almost drowned, luckily a fisherman saved him and his friends.
 * During a swamp tour, Hakka got stung by an Aedes Aegypti (Yellow Fever Mosquito) and got Dengue, the dehydration was so bad that the doctors couldn't see his veins, so the doctors put the IV in Hakka's feet. Also during that time Hakka's appendix bursted, during his recovery of that double problem, he got an Intestinal infection, he wonders why he is still alive.
 * He is the first "bird themed" HOLOSTARS member, having a tengu motif and one of his gaming alias is "justabirdguy." Also is the fifth "bird themed" hololive production member (sixth if one counts Oozora Subaru, who developed a duck-theme post-debut) after Takanashi Kiara (phoenix), Pavolia Reine (peacock), Nanashi Mumei (owl) and Takane Lui (hawk).
 * He has a pet dog and cat.
 * He specializes in Metal music.

Media

 * Banzoin Hakka Ch. HOLOSTARS-EN - YouTube channel
 * Banzoin Hakka's corporate profile on holostars.hololivepro.com
 * @banzoinhakka - Twitter account