Akai Haato

Akai Haato (赤井はあと) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber endorsed by hololive.

Introduction Video
Haato's English introduction. Haato's Japanese introduction.

Appearance & Personality

 * A prideful junior, she is arrogant in nature but would start coquetting once she familiarizes herself. Likes red ribbons and heart shapes, which she always puts on her clothing as accessories. She is also represented with the emoji "❣️".
 * She claims to always be cold, arrogant, wants viewers to call her Haato-sama（はあと様）, whereas in reality, she is more on the embarrassed, lovey-dovey side.
 * She is a clumsy girl who cries easily, is not good at playing games, and her emotion is usually exacerbated by poor internet connection. She finds it embarrassing to cry during streams, so she promises not to cry again.
 * Sometimes she reappears at the end of the stream to surprise her viewers, or make jokes before finally ending the stream.
 * She sometimes talks about the embarrassing things she has done in the past.

Origins

 * Her family name "Akai" means "red" in Japanese, while "Haato" is borrowed from the English word "heart."
 * Her birthday, 10 August, has a pronunciation similar to "heart" in Japanese.
 * She greets viewers with "Hello rouge!" Rouge is a french word for "red."
 * She calls her viewers "senpai" (senior), while her fans are called 「はあとん」(Haa-ton), a combination of her name "Haato" with the word 「豚（とん）」(pig)
 * For role-playing, she would "execute" whoever angers her. Her mascot is a yellow pig with a sign that says "打ち首" (execution) and stitches around the neck.

History
Her Twitter account was opened on 21 May 2018 while her YouTube channel was created on 24 May although she did not start her activities on YouTube until her self-introduction stream which was live on 2 June.

On 24 January 2019, it was announced that she would debut her 3D model on 25 January. On the next day, she broadcast her 3D model.

On 12 April, she announced in a stream that she will be receiving a new 3D model. It was announced that the debut date is 17 April. She debuted her new 3D model on 17 April.

On 9 July, Haato showcased the swimsuit for her 3D model. It was first announced at the end of their karaoke session earlier on 7 July.

Events

 * On 12 September 2019, she made an appearance in hololive's collaboration with Dawn of the Breakers as one of the characters alongisde Natsuiro Matsuri, Shirakami Fubuki, Nakiri Ayame, Oozora Subaru, Sakura Miko, and Ookami Mio.

Trivia

 * As an actual exchange student currently studying in Australia, Haato is able to speak some English. She is interested in learning foreign languages. She also introduced herself in simple Chinese.
 * Haato is well-traveled. Besides Australia, she has been to the Philippines.
 * Due to the curse of Australian internet, she uploaded short videos to compensate for her imperfect live streaming conditions.
 * She is very good at Tetris.
 * According to twitter, Haato's biological father bought a pig farm.
 * Despite her bad gaming skills, she enjoys playing games that are made to frustrate players. After completing a series of such games, she made a tweet claiming she can no longer find joy in normal games, then made a love confession to these masochistic games, ending with another tweet shocked and embarrassed at what she has written.

Caption: DD execution
 * Sometimes make posts on Twitter that are masochistic. She seems to enjoy the whole process during collaborations with Hoshimachi Suisei on Tetris and Mario Kart even though she is thoroughly beaten by Suisei both times. She also promised to collaborate again if they have the opportunity. (According to Suisei, none of her friends play Tetris with her anymore because she is overpowered, hence Suisei was very glad when Haato promised to play with her again). This led to fans wondering if she is actually a masochist in nature.
 * Sometimes make livestreams of her cooking, but the food usually looks a little bit better than dark matter,  to a point she mentioned: "I might be banned if the food came out to be too horrifying".3c01ac282df5e0fe2cdbc860526034a85fdf72b4.gif

"Air live-streaming"

 * Happens in one of the earlier videos when Haato was live-streaming Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy but forgot to turn on the stream, which means she has everything set up, except the camera. Viewers were also confused as to why there was no video and audio coming from the screen. In order to kill time they started imagining the gameplay and making comments as if they were really watching the stream, also known as "air real-time" commentary. This led to Haato believing that everything is alright since she could see her viewers commenting on her gameplay, and started talking to herself for half an hour before realizing that something is wrong.....when she finally fixed it she started laughing before bursting into tears and asking her viewers when did her stream stopped working (from the beginning) ... the same mistake occurred again in another stream, and she started crying again.

「はあとん劇場」(Haato's theatre)

 * A series of by-talk video clips (livestream or otherwise) that focuses on "virtual" overseas activities, including incidents that she experienced, and those she heard from friends and families, such as how a terrorist ran into her school with a banana disguised as a gun...... 3c01ac282df5e0fe381c3460526034a85edf726f.jpg

Interpersonal relationship(s)

 * Akai Haato、Yozora Mel、Aki Rosenthal、Yuzuki Choco and Shiranui Flare are sometimes referred to as the "blonde group" because of the color of their hair and because they are all members of Hololive.

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