Kaneko Lumi

Kaneko Lumi (金子瑠美) is a female VTuber, currently associated with Phase-Connect's 1.5 Generation alongside Amaris Yuri.

She was a member of CyberLive's 1st generation alongside Amaris Yuri, Momozora Seina, Utano Pandora and formerly Ayane Hylo before graduating from the agency on 31 March 2022.

Profile
The star known as Gliese 6667C and space's greatest thief, Kaneko Lumi, is here! After traveling the universe for millennia, a shining blue planet caught her eye. Curious about the Earth and the creatures that inhabt it, this young, mischevious star is here to cause mischief and bring light to all that look upon her.

Personality
She loves playing challenging games, singing, and learning everything she can about the Earth and its valuables! Previously very perky and jovial her on-stream persona has solidified into a more of a coolly polite yet very earnest, occasionally bratty form. Her habit of reading chat nearly every moment makes for a constant back and forth of opinions and emotions and encourages viewers to try and either make her laugh or surprised, both of which she likes to put on full display when it happens. Hardly a pushover she is however quick to draw a line in the sand when her comfort zone is violated, which has previously driven away certain people who thought they could control her. Just like many in the company her love of tangents easily overtakes the gaming content.

Background
Her YouTube channel was created on 1 June, 2021. Lumi debuted on 16 July, 2021 (PDT).

2021
On August 7, Lumi released her first original song "Wander".

On August 28, Lumi opened her YouTube channel membership.

On 11 October (GMT+8), Lumi's YouTube channel reached 10k subscribers. Also her Twitch channel reached 2k followers.

On 22 October, Lumi released her first ever official cover song "Lend Me Your Voice".

On 2 November, CyberLive Twitter account announced Lumi will have a new outfit.

On 10 November, Lumi revealed her new outfit.

On 17 November, Lumi celebrated her birthday on Twitch. She also revealed her other model name Gremlumi.

On 14 December, Lumi became a Twitch partner.

2022
On 15 to 16 January, Lumi celebrated her 6 months anniversary, Twitch Partner, and did her first Subathon in about 24 hours.

On 14 February, CyberLive Twitter account announced that Lumi would be debuting her 3D model on 18 February.

On 18 February, Lumi debuted her 3D model on Twitch channel.

Leaving CyberLive
On 6 March, CyberLive Twitter account announced that Lumi and Amaris Yuri would both be graduating from CyberLive and become independent VTubers on 31 March. Both also decided to take a spin on this by calling it an elopement.

On 31 March, Lumi and Amaris Yuri both made their graduation streams on both Twitch channels, officially becoming independent VTubers.

Joining Phase-Connect
On 13 April, Phase-Connect's Twitter account uploaded a video teaser introducing their new members consisting of Lumi and Amaris Yuri. She would also make her own announcement confirming the move.

On 15 April, Lumi redebuted as a member of Phase-Connect.

On 21 May, she reached 10,000 followers on Twitch channel.

On 27 July, she reached 20,000 subscribers on YouTube channel.

On 11 August, she reached 30,000 subscribers on YouTube channel.

On 17 August, Lumi featured SO87's new original song "LOVE SPEC."

On 3 November, she reached 40,000 subscribers on YouTube channel.

On 26 December, Lumi made a redebut stream with a new 2D model.

2023
On 8 January, Lumi released her second original song "Feeling."

Discography

 * Main page: Kaneko Lumi/Discography

Events

 * On 14 April 2022, OffKai Expo's Twitter account announced that Kaneko Lumi, Amaris Yuri and many VTubers would appear as guests in "OffKai Expo" which would be held from 29 April to 1 May.
 * On 27 August 2022, Series Ai announced on Twitter that Lumi would be performing at "AiMatsuri III," which would be held from 24-25 September 2022.

Fans
Her fans are called "LumiGumi."

Trivia

 * Lumi knows English, Spanish, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese to varying degrees.
 * Lumi's "decoder" that translate her star language into English often "glitches", leading to Lumi speaking in different accents, including American English, British English, Australian English, French, Irish, and American Southern English accents randomly.
 * Her dream voice acting role is Jabami Yumeko from Kakegurui.
 * Lumi's favorite gaming genres are Action RPG (including the Souls/Borne series) and Grand Strategy.
 * Lumi's favorite foods are: salad and soup.
 * Lumi's favourite Sailor Moon Episode is - "The one where Tuxedo Mask turns evil."
 * Lumi's favorite Sailor scouts are Venus and Mars.
 * Lumi loves cooking and sharing food she makes.
 * Lumi loves fashion, especially handbags.
 * Lumi is a classically trained pianist, and can also play ukelele, violin, drums, and guitar. Her favorite composer is Liszt.
 * She has 3 star tattoos. One on the left cheek, one on the waist, the last one on the right thigh.
 * Lumi doesn't like playing video games that involve a lot of reading, like JRPGs.
 * Lumi doesn't like darkness, she has a USB light plugged in all the time.
 * Lumi doesn't like to talk about girly things on stream because she's afraid her chat would perceive her as "stacy" -"Look I like genocide in games too, but I also really like fashion, ok."
 * Her grandmother is an actress.
 * A frequent streaming guest is The Car, who passes past her apartment almost every stream at the exact same time (don't worry about it)
 * She thinks fast food tastes bad.
 * Lumi refers to her real life father as "daddy" which tends to cause confusion among newer fans.
 * Lumi has been trying to "encourage" other Phase-Connect members to share photos / videos of their feet in roundabout and indirect way. -"hello miss @\tenmamaemi congratulations on 100k however i was promised some toes" despite this she claims she does not have a feet fetish.
 * Lumi has a bad habit of skipping meals for more than 16 hours.
 * According to herself Lumi has "above average hand endurance".
 * Lumi hates NTR, her favorite tags are Corruption and Vanilla.
 * Lumi believes that her wiki page is written by people who are on 4chan who think they know more stuff than they actually do "They pretend to know things about my life, they'll be like yeah yeah it's me guys, for real, for real!" - "If you're reading my wiki I don't know why they put that there, but it's stupid and I'm confused."
 * Lumi frequently shares stories from her friend and former roommate Sugar-Baby Roommate with great gusto and enthusiasm.
 * Lumi loves airplanes, with exception of Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey which she doesn't like because it -"looks so weird"
 * Lumi gets uncomfortable when people are "too nice" to her, both on stream and in real life.
 * Lumi used to work as a waitress.
 * Lumi's mother is accomplished scientist and gifted painter, Lumi has shared a few of her mother's paintings on stream, -"my mom is a true genius", despite this her mother has poor social skills.
 * Lumi drives an hand me down used and neglected BMW gifted to her by her parents, -"I wanted a Honda or Toyota but they gave me that stupid car because it "drives well". It needs premium gas, spare parts are expensive, and stupid sky roof thing is stuck open so I'm cold all the time, I hate it!"
 * Lumi's family is "from the north" and they were well off, but then "communism happened".
 * One of the most cursed Lumi streams happened on 2 April 2023 titled "narude sandstorm", Lumi spent almost two hours of the 2nd half of her stream (which was sponsored by Mihoyo), discussing acidity and and ph values of various lower body orifices and related topics, while playing Gensin Impact, as the stream continued it devolved into Lumi researching more adult and explicit topics while giggling maniacally, at some point chat stared telling her to stop googling things (she didn't), as stream went on viewers started getting genuinely concerned for Lumi's well being and mental state "Lumi are you ok, for real?" -"yeah, I'm just feeling really funny today chat".
 * After warping up "narude sandstorm" stream Lumi raided Kirsche with usual raid message which includes "Lumi Lick" emote, however chat decided to compose their own raid message using "Kirsche Feet" emote followed by "Lumi Lick" emote, Kirsche was visibly shaken after witnessing this and learning what transpired on Lumi's stream.
 * Earlier in Lumi's streaming career one of the mods (Smugdoka) noticed that her prebuilt PC isn't performing to spec, after an short diagnostic session live on stream he found that memory was misconfigured and xmp was disabled which had significant impact on system's cpu performance. Smugdoka helped Lumi configure bios settings correctly off stream. Short after Lumi was forced to go on a break, after attempting and failing to install additional M.2 SSD and upgrading her RAM after which Lumi's streaming PC needed to be sent back to system integrator for repairs. Despite this Lumi claims to have built PCs from scratch before.
 * Lumi received extremely cursed and lewd tts donation during the stream titled "We Have Stray At Home" which aired on August 2022. She demonstrated her wit by turning it into a joke, as soon as she managed to stop laughing that is.
 * Lumi doesn't believe Einstein was real. -"Einstein isn't real", -"Einstein was an lizard person, eat shit Einstein!"
 * Lumi "debates" with her mods on stream form time to time, those debates usually have old married couple vibe, and Lumi very rarely wins them.
 * Lumi competed in dating show hosted by Filian, where she tried to win the affection of Shylily. She was outrizzed by Neuro Sama, a VTuber which was at the time powered by fairly primitive A.I.
 * Lumi originally wanted her model to have white hair and purple eyes.
 * From all the members of Phase-Connect Lumi is the closest to Pipkin Pippa, they bounce incredibly well of each other and their colabs have a tendency to "derail" into multi hour "therapy sessions", were they discuss and sometimes debate various topics.
 * Lumi is very fond of fellow Phase-Connect vtuber Pipkin Pippa, to the point were fans have speculated if Lumi harbours romantic feelings towards Pippa. Lumi strongly denies that her feelings towards Pippa are anything but friendly and platonic.
 * Lumi couldn't wear her grandma's heirloom earrings because the pin was too thick to fit into her ear holes.
 * Lumi is "people pleaser" who loves taking care of others.
 * Despite displaying strong affection towards other woman Lumi denies that she's gay or bisexual, at this point not even her friends believe this to be true.
 * Fans have speculated that Lumi was "anonymous source" featured in attempted smear campaign YouTube video targeting Pipkin Pippa.
 * When Lumi was younger, she wasn't allowed to keep all of her presents. Her parents made her choose one to keep, and then re-gift the rest to other kids for their birthdays.  She has convinced herself this is "normal", despite being told many times by both her chat and other Vtubers, that it is not "considered normal."

Media

 * kanekolumi - Twitch channel
 * Lumi Ch.【Phase Connect】 - YouTube channel
 * @lumikaneko - Twitter account
 * @kanekolumi - TikTok account
 * Den of Thieves - Lumi public Discord server

Twitter hashtags

 * #LumiNation - Fan
 * #KanekoLumi - 💫General
 * #lumicast - Live
 * #Lumillust / #Lewdmi - 🎨Art/🔞Lewd
 * #LuMemes - Meme
 * #LumiTunes - 🎵Music