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Konata is an German female Virtual YouTuber who debuted on 10 April 2022. She mostly uses English in her streams. She often streams as a pair with Uci (Loebad434).
Introduction Video[]
The Moon Bunny arrives! Kona's Debut and Birthday Stream!
Konata's introduction.
Personality[]
Konata is friendly and easy to like Moon Rabbit, who is usually calm and collected, although very reactive to things that happen around her. She blends her broad spectrum of knowledge and skills with foolish mistakes and clumsiness, much to the amusement of her viewers.
When first appearing on streams in 2021, Kona was very shy and clinged to Uci a lot, but she gains confidence over time and shows more and more of herself now.
She is very curious, likes to explore and learns about new things at impressive speeds, but also gets lost frequently, distracted, or makes silly mistakes repeatedly. Her silly antics and clumsiness multiply whenever she gets sleepy, which frequently happens during her long streams. Due to her reactions, she often gets teased by her friends and viewers.
She's not just taking the tease, of course, being very smug in nature she also uses situations that arise to be mischievous or to make cheeky comments, but without bad intend. She also shows no issues making fun of herself and still be very smug about it.
She is a supportive spirit, always trying to answer questions that she can answer and usually shows a caring and understanding side. Still, she is honest and direct, often saying what she thinks without being rude, which sometimes results in an amusing contrast between sweet and savage at the same time.
She's a hardworker and tries her best growing as a VTuber. While she often can't do things as she wants to due to her situation and is still learning about what to do as creator, she always puts effort and creativity in when she is able to do it. Even when she doesn't stream, she tries to be around and provide something to her community. It's easy to see that she enjoys what she is doing, talking about the things she creates or wants to create with passion. She tries to keep her content positive and fun as much as possible, even if things are not going well.
Konata cares about involving her viewers and be as inclusive as she can. When greeting for example, she would say "Good morning, good evening, happy lunch or night time!" to include as many different time zones as she can.
While she plays a large variety of games, she has a preference for faster paced games and combat. She appreciates challenging content and often gets into games more if she doesn't succeed right away. Some of her favorite genre are MOBA, (MMO)RPGs, Rhythm Games or Souls-Like Games.
Appearance[]
Konata is very short, reaching barely 142 cm (4'8'') in height. Her body type looks overall petite or even frail. She has very long, white hair, which she usually ties to classic bunny-style twin tails with black hair ribbons, has a forward pointing ahoge on top of her head and red eyes. Her art usually presents her with a single triangular fang in the top left corner of her mouth.
She usually wears a white, shoulderless coat with pink lines around the edges and waistline, a hoodie with bunny ear shaped fabric on top, a pink sailor-style scarf with a bunny head shaped ornament in the middle of it, featuring a ":<" face and hoodie straps to the left and right of it and detached sleeves with pink details and a black ribbon above the knot that ties the sleeve to her arm. Below the coat she wears a black, strapless dress that ends in a rounded, almost wave shaped cut that reminds of flower petals. Below that is a second skirt layer featuring pink frills.
Her legs are mostly covered by classic black thigh-high socks. She wears black boots with a white, fluffy-looking ring on top and pink shoe soles.
Due to her shape shifting abilities, she can sometimes be seen with animal ears such as cat or dog ears. However, unlike what her species would suggest, she was never seen with bunny ears yet.
History[]
Background[]
Even before she became a VTuber, Konata was already active in community and event management, hosting different activities online, such as tournaments (eg. for League of Legends) or even offline events and local meetups. With her charismatic personality, she quickly gathered people and support around her. Her activities declined together with her health, setting back the growth of her community and new events for a longer time.
Konata's YouTube channel was created on 14 July 2018, to which she uploaded her first video just one day later, on July 15. Her first videos been exclusively Beat Saber replays of her hitting perfect combos on different songs, which she uploaded not to establish a channel with it, but because she really enjoyed the game and the replays been too large to share on platforms like Discord to her friends and community. She used free 3D avatars from the Beat Saber Modding Community, however, she did not consider herself a VTuber at that time yet.
Her Twitch Account was created on 11 June 2015, and her first known stream there occurred on 15 October 2018. She wanted to try out sharing her gameplay live, but had no intentions of becoming a "proper" streamer at the time.
During 2021, Konata designed and published first concepts of her model on Discord and later Twitter. She wasn't intending to become a Virtual YouTuber at first, but rather wanted to create an own identity instead of using existing characters. During this time, should would also try out using sample Live2D avatars during Discord streams, which she said made her happy enough to commission her own model later. After receiving her first model, she called herself a "VTuber" for the first time, but didn't really think of herself as a "proper" one until she started streaming herself.
2021[]
In mid 2021, Konata revealed her first model on Discord and Twitter, but didn't use it for streaming. It has a very similar design, but different art style than her current debut model.
On 7 September 2021 she revealed her final model design on Twitter, which she used when debuting.
Konata made her first appearance as a PNG VTuber in a Genshin Impact stream from 6 November 2021 on Uci's channel using her static model design. She would frequently stream together on the same channels, both on YouTube and Facebook Gaming, where they gathered the most popularity.
2022[]
In a Q&A stream from 12 January 2022, Kona and Uci confirmed that they're a couple and plan to live and stream together in the future.
On 10 March 2022, she opened her own Facebook page, which gathered almost 400 followers within the first day of creation. She further got known by people mistaking her for the Pandaclip: The Black Thief character Chiwa, sharing her artworks and posts in groups and pages about the game.
On 10 April 2022, Konata officially debuted as a VTuber on her own channel. The stream was broadcasted to YouTube, Twitch and Facebook Gaming simultaneously. From there, she would stream her view to her own channel for the majority of streams, even when she was with Uci.
In the stream on 12 May 2022, she showcased a new background theme of a pink room, that both Kona and Uci would use as background for chatting streams going forward.
2023[]
During 2023, she stopped simulcasting and only streamed to YouTube for for a prolonged time, mainly because she wanted to focus a bit more on one platform, without the need of simulcasting software since her network would not allow her to do it locally.
In her birthday and anniversary celebration stream on 15 April 2023, she showcased her first model updates, including new facial expressions, cat ears as her first set of animal ears, as well as accessories like glasses and a collar and leash. Kona and Uci also presented the first few pages of a demo chapter of a planned web comic of them and confirmed the work on it. However, the work got postponed due to issues on the artist's end towards an unknown later date.
Throughout the year she had multiple health complications, forcing her to take frequent breaks in streaming. However, she would try to be around in her Discord whenever she can to stay in touch with her community.
2024[]
While being very enthusiastic in her first few streams in the new year, she had an emergency in early January and had to take a medical hiatus for roughly half a year to focus on herself and her health first. Due to a change in Uci's situation, for the first time Kona was having the majority of her streams solo this year.
On 17 August 2024 she returned from her medical break and streamed to both YouTube and Twitch. Her streaming quality got a big upgrade as she was finally able to upgrade a large part of her outdated hardware and her network, allowing her to stream and simulcast in much higher resolutions and more demanding games. She also read out all of her birthday messages she got during her hiatus.
On 22 September 2024, she changed her starting soon screen and music for the first time since her debut in 2022, featuring a fall park theme, fitting the start of fall on that day.
On 9 and 10 November 2024, she was displayed on the Comic Frontier 19 in Jakarta in a sponsored booth, showing her livestream and offering some Kona and Uci merchandise.
Trivia[]
Name[]
- Her name, Kuromiya Konata is written 黒宮・こなた in Japanese.
- She writes her name in a Japanese style, giving her surname first, despite using English.
- Her surname, Kuromiya, is written with the Kanji for black (黒) and shrine (宮), referring to the place she was in when first arriving on earth. Her first name, Konata, she has chosen herself because she liked it.
Lore[]
- Konata is the leader of an otherworldly species, called "Moon Rabbits". Moon Rabbits, according to her are not actually from the moon, but instead earned their name through their looks, with a body resembling bunnies from earth and a usually white-greyish textured fur, reminding of the surface of the moon. Konata is an exception, though, having pure white fur, which is reflected in her hair color.
- Moon Rabbits consume any kind of bio mass as well as a mysterious energy she calls "soul energy" because it is similar to human's concept of souls. It is regarded a source of supernatural power, comparable to magic. However, Konata now prefers to only eat "tasty things".
- Moon Rabbits originate from far away in space, having consumed every life from from many planets on their way to earth. Since Konata wasn't sentient during this time yet, she could not tell too much about it. This was different however when she discovered earth, which peaked her interest. She visited earth twice, at the first time during a medieval time of guilds, monsters and hunters, and much later, during a modern day era. During this time she met Uci, and with her influence she started her new journey as streamer.
- Konata explained that the reason why she chose the way she looks because she wanted to make sure she has a form that won't scare the humans. This form works almost perfectly like a real human body, because she wanted to have an authentic experience.
- She claims that she made sure her kin can get along by itself and doesn't really need her around most of the time. Some say she might just be lazy, but no one really knows.
- Uci was an active part of Kona's debut stream, where Uci was introduced as a part of her lore.
Miscellaneous[]
- Even before debuting herself, she appeared regularly on Uci's streams on her channel. They still stream together, with each of their views on their respective channels.
- She mostly streams to YouTube and Twitch simultaneously, but doesn't stream to Facebook gaming anymore.
- She can do a variety of different voices, and especially her high pitched, often random "Kona noises" are popular among many fans.
- During her first two years of streaming, she would often have issues ending the stream properly or forgets to unmute, so fans would stay after the end of the stream to hear her rambling or watch her fix something that didn't work as intended. However, she seems to have fixed it for the majority of her streams as of late 2024.
- Kona's exact age is a mystery. She doesn't know herself, but sometimes claim she's "11 in Moon Rabbit years". On her debut, her introduction card only stated "Age: Yes", to which she would comment "yeah... my age is difficult".
- During her debut, Kona named tables a thing she dislikes, because she would frequently hurt herself by walking against them or while getting up from a chair.
External Links[]
Media[]
- Kuromiya Konata Ch. - YouTube channel
- @KuromiyaKonata - Twitter account
- Kuromiya Konata - Facebook page
- KonacchiLive - Twitch channel
- UciKona Main City - Discord server for Kona's and Uci's Livestream and Video activities
- Animeys - Discord server of Kona's gaming community
- @konacchi - linktree
- Konacchi - Marshmallow QA
- Kuromiya Konata - Ko-fi