Amano Pikamee

Amano Pikamee (天野ピカミィ) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber under VOMS Project.

Personality
Pikamee is very energetic and often laughing at the smallest things. Despite this, she is very reserved and shy in real life. She frequently jokes about having "no friends," although she also occasionally recounts stories involving her friends, she even invited Agomy (her only otaku friend) to the stream on June 16 2020.

She is known to use Japanese phrases like "sousousou" and "dakara," even when speaking English.

Her usual greeting is "Ohao!" and her sendoff is "Otsupika!" (a combination of "otsukare," meaning "thanks for coming," and "Pikamee.")

Background
Her Twitter account and YouTube channel were created on 7 February 2020 although she did not start her activities on YouTube until her first stream on 19 March.

Celebration Streams/Milestones

 * Debut (19 March 2020)
 * 20K Subs (13 April 2020)
 * Monetization (25 April 2020)
 * Video 100° (27 May 2020)
 * 40K Subs (30 May 2020)
 * 50K Subs (6 July 2020)
 * Membership (6 July 2020)
 * Birthday (12 July 2020)
 * 100k Subs (19 August 2020)
 * 200k Subs (18 September 2020)
 * 300k Subs (11 November 2020)

Mascot and Fans

 * She has an affinity for wooden spatulas. Her favorite is an Ikea spatula which she often keeps next to her while streaming. This spatula was dubbed "Tomoe," a combination of her VOMS co-stars' names, Hikasa Tomoshika and Jitomi Monoe. Tomoe has become a mascot of sorts, sometimes appearing next to Pikamee in streams, and often being depicted in fanart.
 * Her fanbase is referred to as the "Pikarmy."
 * Her Members fanbase are known as the "Pikair Force".
 * One time a spider appeared in her room and after a failed attempt to capture it, the spider went missing in her room so she decided to keep it as a pet. She named it Emoto, as an anagram to her wooden spatula's name, Tomoe. Since that day Emoto was nowhere to be found, and after she encountered a Mantis in front of her house, Emoto is thought to be dead due to a run in with the Mantis.

Trivia

 * Pikamee has an American father and a Japanese mother, and often talks about her life in Texas and Japan. However, trying to stay in-character, she refers to these locations as "Virtual Texas," "Virtual States," and "Virtual Japan."
 * She speaks English almost fluently and sometimes holds English only streams, along with mixed Japanese/English streams.
 * She loves donuts and is often depicted eating them in fanart. Though overall, she's fairly picky when considering on foods or drinks.
 * She tries to avoid swearing to keep her streams "family-friendly," although she sometimes lets swears slip and plays games that have explicit dialogue. Whenever this happens, her fans often tease her or make "family-friendly" jokes.
 * Her original streaming computer wasn't powerful enough to run some games. For instance, on her Apex streams, she resorted to using a still image instead of her Live2D character, as her computer couldn't run both programs at the same time. She began referring to her PC as Potato-chan.
 * On 29 May 2020, she tweeted "fuck this im selling meth!" This was a reference to an Akai Haato and Kiryu Coco stream where Haato attempted to translate English memes into Japanese. Due to the lack of context and the rare use of explicit language from Pikamee, this tweet quickly spread, receiving thousands of likes and retweets within hours. This lead to in-jokes with her fans about Pikamee selling meth.
 * She easily gets dizzy which lead to her rarely do motion heavy games like surgeon simulator and also motion sickness.
 * The chat convinced her to eat vegetables and go out, and as of 2021 eating vegetable seems pretty natural for her.
 * She hates bugs, especially flying ones. Their buzzing sound makes her uncomfortable, but she had a family of spiders living in her bicycle. The spider family were reported dead due to the heat of the Summer, but new spiders were showing up.
 * Due to bringing spiders as a conversation topic a few times, both her and fans decided to call it "spider deck", as her trump card for when she doesn't knows what to talk about.
 * She was in the Softball club, but she didn't like it because it was too tiring. She was also in a light music club, though she didn't specify what music instrument she can play.
 * Fans like to compare her laughing to a tea kettle or a dolphin, due to having a high pitched squeak.
 * She has worked at Subway, Taco Bell, 7-Eleven, bike rental, freelance translator, and a car rental (where she crashed a car). She still have another job while streaming everyday in the first half of the year of her debut, though she did not specify what job she's doing in the meantime. Now she goes fulltime streaming, though she did take another job from time to time.
 * Her favorite anime of all time is Spice & Wolf, which leads her doing cosplays as Holo on an anime convention once.
 * Her favorite color is purple.
 * She leaves a few easter egg on her channel playlist sometimes.
 * Sometimes her face tracking doesn't apply to her 2D model, causing the model to perform a smiling stare to the audience.
 * When she first started playing minecraft (18/06/20), one of the viewer suggest her making a giant statue of the VOMS girls specifically Pikamee herself, she misinterpreted this suggestion as the viewer want to see Pikamee's model in "giant formed" or zoomed. She screams "giant pikamee" as she enlarge her model which she quickly realize that she has misinterpreted the viewer suggestion afterward. This leads to chat sometimes suggest to see giant pikamee from time to time and she creatively play with her model as she enlarge/ abbreviate her model.

Media

 * 天野ピカミィ. Pikamee - YouTube channel
 * Amano Pikamee's profile on VOMS.net
 * @amanopikamee - Amano Pikamee's official Twitter account
 * PikameeAmano - Twitch channel
 * @amanopikamee - Amano Pikamee's official Marshmallow account (closed)

Twitter hashtags

 * #pikatube - Stream talk
 * #pikart - Fan art
 * #pikask - Questions
 * #pikameme - Memes

Further readings

 * 天野ピカミィ - Unofficial VOMS Wiki
 * 天野ピカミィ - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
 * 天野ピカミィ - Pixiv Encyclopedia