Amane Kanata

Amane Kanata (天音かなた) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, as part of its fourth generation of VTubers alongside Tsunomaki Watame, Tokoyami Towa, Kiryu Coco and Himemori Luna.

Introduction Video
Kanata's introduction.

Personality
Kanata is an angelic denizen currently studying at the Heaven Academy to become a full-fledged angel. She is currently 17-years-old (though she specifies this is her "angel-age", meaning in typical human years she may be far older). She typically wears her Heaven Academy school-uniform along with a small, shiny metallic halo over her head that resembles the shape of a star. The high collar of her school-uniform frequently conceals part of her face. Her uniform's ribbon is consistently uneven/lopsided. Gaps in her bangs reveal that she has cobalt-blue highlights.

Kanata's personality as a streamer has been described as extremely sweet, friendly and demure. She is somewhat quiet and reserved when compared to her contemporaries in hololive's fourth generation, and her sense of humor generally tends to be less crass or vulgar. However, she admits she has a playfully "sadistic" streak to her, which usually manifests in her teasing her audience or playing pranks on her fellow hololive members. She has also admitted that she is markedly shy and that she sometimes tries to conceal this with a "cool facade" when around other people. Kanata has also been noted by viewers as genuinely somewhat innocent and even a little naive, leading to viewers becoming (jokingly) concerned that she may be "corrupted" by other hololive members such as Matsuri.

Background
Her Twitter account was created on November 2019, while her first tweet was made on 25 December, while her YouTube channel was created on 4 December and her debut stream was made on 27 December.

2020
On 9 February after being rejected for monetization from the start, her channel became monetizable.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called "Hey-min" (へい民), a Japanese term roughly translating to "Plebeians" or a general lower strata of social class.

Trivia

 * Her nickname of "PP Tenshi" ("PowerPoint Angel") originates from her use of Microsoft PowerPoint in her debut stream. Her fans have also given joking alternate meanings for the abbreviation in different situations ("Perfect Pitch Tenshi" when she's singing, "Perpetually Panicked Tenshi" when she's playing horror-games, etc.).
 * During her debut stream Kanata included a vocal performance of the traditional Japanese sea shanty Sōran Bushi, complete with the backing-music being entirely composed of her singing A cappella. Kanata has since become intrinsically linked with Sōran Bushi, with it becoming somewhat of her de facto theme-song. A remixed version of her performance frequently serves as the stand-by music on her streams.
 * During Kanata's debut stream she specified that her training at Heaven Academy is in the specialization for Curative/Healing angelic abilities.


 * She owns two pet rabbits.
 * Kanata has the rare distinction of earning a perfect score of 20 points on Yuzuki Choco's Trivia Quiz. This indicates she may be quite intelligent, and has earned her the alternate nickname "BB Tenshi" (Big-Brained Angel) among English-speaking fans.
 * Kanata is a noted fan of the anime/manga series Pop Team Epic, Hunter × Hunter and especially Detective Conan, with references to them frequently cropping up in her streams. Fan-art also frequently depicts Kanata as an analogue to the character Popuko from Pop Team Epic.
 * Kanata is an avid fan of baseball. Since joining hololive she has begun attending baseball games together with Korone, also an avid baseball fan.
 * Kanata has a notably wide vocal-range, even compared to other hololive members with established singing talent. Kanata has demonstrated on stream an impressive ability to simulate a wide range of voices (usually to voice an NPC in a game, for example) including convincing child-like voices, deeper-sounding male voices and exaggerated cartoon voices, all to the surprise of her audience. She has also routinely been able to successfully make prank-calls to other hololive members via Discord, impersonating another hololive member in a totally convincing manner and only revealing herself to have actually been Kanata at the end of the call before hanging up. The idea that Kanata is secretly the only member of hololive and and is simply providing voice-acting for all of the group's various streamers has become a running-joke among English-speaking fans.