Lycoris Banashi

Lycoris Banashi (リコリス・バナシ) is a nonbinary agender English-speaking independent VTuber. Without an official debut stream, they began posting short videos on YouTube in 2022. They currently focus their content on commentary videos on YouTube, ranging from audition tips to deep dive documentaries within the VTubing community.

Profile
They are not like other VTubers. Most VTubers intend to make content creation and streaming into a full-time job, however, Lycoris has stated multiple times that they have no interest in turning YouTube and streaming into a career. They a lil quirky like that. They touch grass often, surprisingly.

Personality
Lycoris hates editing videos, and yet forces themself to do it anyway. They are candid and handsome and very cool, and passionate about content creation. Lycoris is down to make jokes about themself for their own amusement, and if it's funny to their audience by chance, it's pure coincidence. Big e-Dad energy.

Can't sing. Can't draw. Can't entertain. Potentially can dance. Just vibes.

Appearance
Lycoris is a spider lily yokai with red skin, 7 eyes (the 8th is a secret, teehee), spider lily tendrils, and curly white hair. The ahoge and visible back hair are in the shape of a spider lily's petals. Their main set of eyes are black with a pinkish sclera, while their spider eyes are red with no visible sclera.

They wear ouji fashion (a sub-genre of lolita fashion) with a black long sleeve blouse, white vest, and black shorts. On their black cravat is a single spider lily accessory. The spider lily motif is present on all pieces of clothing.

Background
The Lycoris Banashi YouTube account was created on 2 June 2022. It was dormant until October of that year.

The first Lycoris Banashi Twitch account was created on 2 June 2022, but Lycoris forgot the password, moved countries, and could not change the password due to region locking their phone with a new SIM card, so the account sits abandoned. The same happened to their first Discord account.

Going by the publication of their first video ever, Lycoris' anniversary is on 7 October. However, Lycoris streamed for the very first time on 31 December 2022 for 1 hour before New Year as their new year's resolution to invest more time into VTubing.

2023
On 30 April, the YouTube channel hit 1,000 subscribers.

On 20 May, Lycoris' official Live2D model was revealed with a brief teaser video.

On 12 July, the YouTube channel hit 2,000 subscribers.

In late July, the YouTube channel hit 3,000 subscribers.

In early August, the YouTube channel hit 4,000 subscribers.

Mascot and Fan

 * Stewart is Lycoris' mascot. He is a black goldfish and wields a yokai anthology book.

Trivia

 * The name Lycoris Banashi comes from the scientific name for a spider lily, Lycoris Radiata, and the Japanese word for "story", hanashi. Since they began their content career focusing on yokai shorts, the plan was to be a storyteller, and so the name Banashi was created.
 * Lycoris does not officially have lore, they make it up on the spot whenever it's convenient.
 * Their Live2D model is only half-rigged from the waist up. They didn't have enough money lol.
 * Their favorite Japanese food is omurice and roasted oolong milk tea with pearls.
 * Lycoris adopted a pet Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle in the beginning of August 2023. His name was Baby. He died on 2 September.
 * They are a real English teacher in Japan.
 * They have been learning Japanese for over 10 years, but cannot speak it well. They can understand a good amount of daily conversation due to living there for a year.
 * Taught a group of high school teachers 3 dances, 2 days before the cultural festival where they would perform on stage.
 * They have White and East Asian heritage, some being Japanese, Korean, and pretty much all of scandinavia.
 * They were born and raised in Hawaii.
 * They want 1 million subscribers across all platforms and to go to a Stray Kids, ATEEZ, and INFINITE concert one day.
 * Hobbies include dancing, karaoke (you'll never see a karaoke stream from me, though lol), buying plants, writing prose, listening to Kpop and Jpop, reading (BL, danmei), sightseeing, and researching Japanese history and folklore.
 * They're lactose intolerant.
 * Lycoris posted their first long-form YouTube video, "I infiltrated vtuber twitter" on 4 January 2023, and it hit 1,000 views on 23 April.
 * The second long-form video, "Don't audition for vtuber agencies || DEEP DIVE ||" was posted on 22 January 2023, and it hit 1,000 views on 26 January just 4 days after posting. As of 23 September 2023, the video sits at 39k views.
 * On 5 July 2023, the first version of the lewdtuber deep dive documentary "So What's the Deal with Lewdtubers?" was released, but due to YouTube's age restriction policy, the video flopped. A day later, the censored version of the documentary was released, this time garnering immediate algorithm attention. On the first day, it hit 3k views, and 46k in a week. As of 23 September 2023, the video has more than 350k views. The first version is now set to member's only viewability.