Kanduki Ama

Kanduki Ama (神月天 / かんづきあま) a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber.

Profile
Kandzuki Ama is a Virtual Healer (バーチャルヒーラー) who wants to heal and cure broken and tired heart of her viewers by delivering comfortable stream by drawing healing power from the Moon. Mainly doing singing and gaming stream and sometimes ASMR.

Her stream greeting is Ohalo / おハロー. In the end of stream, the farewell catchphrase is Otsuama / おつあま

Personality and Hobby
True to her persona as a Virtual Healer, she's a soft spoken girl with comforting voice. However, when she starts playing Apex, she goes into wild mode and sometimes doing ora ora ora (オラオラオラ) battle cry ( still with her soft and comforting voice) and thus gained nickname Berserk Healer. She's often accompanied with a strange creature called Inukurage (a wordplay of Inu - dog and Kurage - Jellyfish).

Her favorite things to do are singing, gaming and eating. She hates studying and bugs. Her favourite food is meat, favourite drink is Ramen(soup) and hates Amazake (甘酒).

When unable to sleep, she sometimes do guerilla Apex, Minecraft or doing VTuber related work ( such as making thumbnails ) and Zatsudan / 雑談 (Chit-chat stream) while drinking in midnight JST. She's very sociable as she had done a lot of collaborations with many other VTubers. She never made any weekly schedule, almost all of her live-stream are announced 2-3 days prior to live. Her debut goal is to reach 10.000 Youtube subscribers.

From her newest self intro video, it's revealed that her dream is being able to do a 3D Live show and being a singer for Anime soundtrack. She admires the VTuber senpais (seniors) who hyped up the world of VTubers until it become very large like today. Her favourite Manga is Fullmetal Alchemist while her favourite anime is Cardcaptor Sakura. She also loves Disney movies.

Background
Before her current Virtual Healer VTuber personality, Ama has already started her online personality activity in NicoNico Douga (Japanese's video sharing site) since 2012 with the same name, doing covers of Vocaloid songs, such as 1-2 fan club (2012) and Junjou skirt (2013).

Around 2017, Ama began streaming on Youtube doing music covers and gaming streams, mostly PUBG. All those stream are done without having Live2D VTuber model. She used still image as Avatar. On November 2018, she gained her first Live2D model.

2020
On October 2020, she archived her original youtube account as sub channel and decided re-debut by starting a brand new Kanduki Ama Youtube account along with brand new model (current). For the remainder of 2020 after re-debut, she released Fansa 3D cover and Yoru ni Kakeru cover

On December 24th 2020 Christmas Eve, she revealed a new color variant for her model, Winter theme, white and light blue colored Ama.

2021
On April 20th, she revealed another new color variant for her model, Spring theme, pastel colored Ama. The color scheme is picked together with the channel membership.

On April 25th, she released a new Self Introduction video VTuber Short QA Self Intro (Vtuber一問一答自己紹介) along with Ama's Theme(あまのテーマ) as her new stream ending theme On May 8th, she reached 10k subscribers, her original goal from debut.

On May 12th, she revealed a new Pixie-idol outfit

On June 23th, she released a new cover song MV for 水の中の雲 (Mizu no Naka no Kumo)

Trivia

 * Due to the 月 (つき, づき) kanji, Her name actually reads as Kandzuki Ama / かんづきあま instead of Kanduki Ama / かんでぅきあま. This happens because in order to type づ hiragana character, it has to be written as 'DU' on alphanumeric keyboard. Because of this, overseas viewers with no Japanese language knowledge often mistaken her name for Kanduki (かんでぅき) instead of Kandzuki (かんづき)
 * She can understand a little bit of English comments, but cannot speak rather well. Fans often teases her English skill as "Amanglish"
 * when her japanese name (神月天) is Google Translated to English, it returns the God Moon Heaven result. Abbreviated as GMH, she often using GMH tag for various gaming name
 * Her fan name is called Amatou / あま堂 or Ama's Fans. This is a pun of 甘党 / Amatou, which means sweets lover
 * Reached Platinum rank in Apex Legends
 * She keeps track of the date when her Youtube subscriber count milestone reached certain number on 'About' section in her channel.
 * Actually has an original song called Ama's Theme (あまのテーマ) which she performed during singing stream
 * Has an actual twin sister and did PHOGS! collaboration stream once and karaoke collab on twitter singing Cruel Angel Thesis / 残酷な天使のテーゼ



Media

 * 神月天 / Kanduki Ama - YouTube channel
 * あまのサブチャン - Sub-channel
 * @kandukiama - Twitter account
 * @kandukiama - Marshmallow account
 * kandukiama.fanbox.cc - pixivFANBOX
 * 神月天SHOP - BOOTH store
 * 神月天@新人VTuber (@kandukiama) - Twitcasting
 * Ama - LINE Sticker Shop

Twitter hashtags

 * #神月天 - General
 * #あま放送 - Live stream
 * #天あまアート - Fan art