Unnämed

Unnämed (often referred to as 'U-san') is a Japanese-Korean English-speaking streamer and singer-songwriter on YouTube, referring to themselves as a "musician with Live2D". In conjunction with releasing original songs and covers, they also stream on YouTube and do live spaces on their Twitter.

Personality
Unnämed is a singer with a powerful and androgynous voice. Their vocal range is very wide, allowing them to hit angelic high notes as well as lower tones. Because of their love for rock music, they prefer to use chest voice to perform high notes as much as they can. Singing is their main hobby and passion, and they have a deep love for music and performing.

They are playful and can be loud, with streams featuring them screaming frequently. They are also an emotional person (as mentioned on a Twitter space) who puts a lot of feeling into their singing, as shown when they accidentally cried while singing Kokoronashi on stream. Additionally, they are a kind and caring person with much appreciation for their fans, friends, and community.

Appearance
They have two versions of their 2D model, black and white, with blue and yellow eyes respectively. While not featured in their model, their reference sheet also includes designs for Mephistopheles, a dog-like demon featured in their lore video.

Background
Initially, there was no umlaut in their name.

On 18 December 2022 (JST), they streamed for the first time with nothing shown on stream. During the stream, they introduced themself as someone without a name yet, with no future plans but started streaming so their singing would reach out to the people they love. They proceeded to sing guitar rendition of songs, including 'The Beginning' by ONE OK ROCK and 'Kaen' by Queen Bee. Unnamed ended the stream by thanking the viewers and telling them to smile. The stream had 53k concurrent viewers and was unarchived.

Since then, they would start Twitter Spaces randomly, only to be deleted afterwards.

On 5 February 2023, they released their first original "Summer Song" along with their new name "Unnämed".

Unnämed would then continue to do unarchived livestreams and Twitter Spaces, only keeping the song release afterparty ones.

Live2D Debut
Originally, their Live2D debut was scheduled on 28 May 2023 (10PM JST). However, due to video-editing issues, the stream was delayed to 29 May 2023 (12AM JST), two hours later than initially planned. Unnämed opened up a Twitter Space half an hour before the debut stream started, explaining the issue.

2023
On 25 March, Summer Song reached 1 million views.

On 8 April, Unnämed reached 200,000 subscribers on their YouTube channel.

On 3 June, Unnämed released their Live2D reveal merchandises.

On 18 June, they released their second original song, "Erased" in conjunction with their half-year anniversary.

On 17 July, their KICKBACK cover reached 1 million views.

On 6 August, they released their third original song "Flower", in conjunction with #Rootingfor_U advertising campaign organized by fans.

On 29 September, they released their Halloween merchandise collection.

Events

 * On 12 March 2023, guerilla online fans meeting in Bangkok, Thailand (Maruya#35).
 * On 27 May 2023, guerilla online fans meeting in Taiwan (CWT).
 * On 2 June 2023, guerilla online fans meeting in Philippines (Conquest)
 * On 3 June 2023, they were invited as one of the special guests on Maruya#36.
 * On 3 June 2023, Lore-Based Live Concert: Erased - Unnämed.
 * On 23 July 2023, guerilla online fans meeting in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam (Manga Festival 2023)
 * On 30 July 2023, guerilla online fans meeting in Hong Kong (ACGHK 2023)
 * On 6 August 2023, digital billboard mini concert in Shinjuku, Japan (Shinjuku Alta Vision)
 * On 22 October 2023, they were one of the highlighted guests for Wonderful Festival, Bangkok
 * On 5 November 2023, they were one of the featured guests at AniAni Festival, Vietnam
 * On 11 and 12 November 2023, they opened a booth and performed on respective dates at Anime Creator Expo, Taiwan

Fans

 * Their fans are called "U-reis", a portmanteau of "U-san" and "yuurei" (幽霊), the Japanese word for ghost. This served as an unofficial fan name until it was confirmed on their debut stream.

Fan Policy
During the Live2D debut, Unnämed introduced some fan policies:

General

 * Please DO NOT repost or reprint all artworks on any other social media or platform
 * Please DO NOT use all artworks for profit purposes
 * Don't forget to credit artist if you want to use them as your own wallpapers or profile pictures.

Merchandise

 * ✅️ Making merch using artwork of your own
 * ❌️ Making merch from FA or other designers.

Tracing

 * NO TRACING from other creators (unless it is memes and parodies)

Trivia

 * Unnämed's pronouns are they/them.
 * Their theme color is blue and black.
 * Unnämed is multilingual; English, Japanese, Korean and Thai, though they're not good at reading Hangul and Thai script confidently.
 * Initially, Unnämed wanted to come up with a different name. After seeing the fans' supports in the #dear_u_san tag (which was also made by the fans) during their first hiatus, they decided to keep being 'U-san' so to not lose what the fans built up.
 * Mephistopheles, the demon from their lore video, is based on two things; Unnämed's nightmare, and their pet dog that passed away years prior.
 * On their Live2D merchandise, 'Strange Soul SINCE 1218' was written on the guitar pick keychain. '1218' refers to the date of their first livestream (18 December, 2022).
 * Unnämed associates themselves with the Full Moon and New Moon phases, as most activities are done around those dates. Their debut stream background includes a moon phases floorpiece.
 * After their Shinunoga E-wa cover was released, fans nicknamed their different versions U-kuro (black-haired) and U-shiro (white-haired). On June, during the Live2D merch drop, Unnämed named the models New Moon (black ver.) and Full Moon (white ver.) but on their carrd site (created in August), they used the fans' nicknames instead.
 * Whenever they go on semi-hiatus, they would often update their Twitter bio rather than tweeting normally.
 * They sometimes wear glasses if they need to focus, claiming it makes them feel smarter.
 * They are a dog lover.
 * They are allergic to peanuts, dogs, and pollen.
 * Allegedly, they have watched over 200 animes.
 * They are introverted and do not go out very often, calling themselves a "shut-in". Whenever they need to meet someone, especially someone new or an online friend like Shxtou, they would practice going out to avoid getting panic attacks during the actual day. Most of these outings are illustrated on their Instagram account.
 * In an unarchived stream in which they shared the results of a DNA test, they stated that they are lactose intolerant. Despite this, they have said that they will continue to consume milkshakes and ice cream.
 * They used to be in a band. Two of their band members, Mine and Alex, does the instrumentals for some of their covers and are featured in their role video.
 * They are friends with some members of Algorhythm Project, most notably ORION.
 * Love the bullet chat on Niconico that they made it as their chat layout.
 * U-san is an artist, and has shown their old works on Twitter.

Media

 * Unnämed - YouTube channel
 * unnamednow00 - Twitch account
 * @unnamednow00 - Twitter account
 * @u_san_des - Instagram account
 * carrd.co - Product & fan policies, Reference sheets
 * solo.to - All links

Twitter hashtags

 * #dear_u_san - General
 * #ur_ärt - Art