Marikyuun is an English-speaking independent VTuber from Portugal. A streamer of art and Nintendo games on Twitch since 2020, she officially debuted as a VTuber in May 2023. Her YouTube channel focuses mostly on Art content. She calls herself a "retired magical girl" and works as a professional illustrator. She designed and drew her own model.
Nowadays, she streams a variety of games twice a week and art once a week. She uses her streams to hang out with her small, but united, community. She is also known for many popular YouTube shorts.
Introduction Video[]
MEET MARIKYUUN - VTUBER DEBUT ANNOUNCEMENT
Mari's introduction.
Personality[]
Marikyuun is very passionate about magical girls, kawaii culture and Nintendo games. She often mentions she is quite shy around people, which is why she rarely reaches out to others for collabs.
She is very experienced with digital art and is always open to offer advice to aspiring artists who ask her questions about social media growth and illustration.
Marikyuun is quite hard working, as she created most of her stream assets, including her lore video, She also edits her own videos and draws all her thumbnails, merchandise and promotional material.
Appearance[]
She has long, slightly wavy vibrant orange hair with a side ponytail, a large heart hairclip and a round blue hollow O-shaped clip, blue eyes, earrings and a pink jacket.
History[]
Background[]
The name "Marikyuun" comes from her real name and she has been using it as her online artist alias since 2015, before she started streaming. Sometimes, the username is taken, so she has to add an extra N at the end, making it Marikyuunn.
Her YouTube channel was originally registered on 7th of January 2017. Her Twitch account was registered on 17 December 2018.
On 27 February 2020, Mari made her first test stream on Twitch. She originally streamed as an on-camera streamer, focusing on art, single single-player Nintendo games and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, a game she played competitively.
Early forays into the VTuber space began on 20 December 2020, when she held a Twitch stream titled "[ART+CHAT] Working on a V-Tuber Model! Day1 - character design".[2] On 2 January 2021, a clip shows her streaming as a PNGTuber while drawing her original character. However, she mainly streamed on camera.
In late 2022, however, she decided to rebrand as a 2D character, in order to showcase her art at all times, even when she wasn’t streaming art. Clips featuring her current character design began to appear as early as 30 August 2022.[3] The model featured some animation, although it was not fully rigged.
2023[]
On 7 May, Mari officially debuted as a VTuber, using a Live2D model drawn by herself and rigged by Suzuta. Titled "[DEBUT STREAM] Retired Magical Girl needs more CONFIDENCE 💖🦑", the stream lasted just over an hour and received a 267 viewers at peak. The VOD was posted to YouTube on the same day.
On 30 May, she reached 10,000 Twitch followers.
In September 2023, she reached Twitch Partner.
2024[]
In March 15, 2024, Mari debuted her Pipsqueak Model drawn and rigged by StrawberryVT. Titled "PIPSQUEAK MODEL DEBUT!!!!!!!! | !socials !faq !discord" on Twitch and "[DEBUT] Pipsqueak Model Chatting Party!!!!!" on Youtube.
Fans[]
- The members of her community are known as the Calamaris, represented by tiny squids on the stream.
Trivia[]
Lore[]
- Marikyuun was a normal girl until she got to high-school, when she met Calamari, a mysterious squid-like alien creature. They quickly became close and one day Calamari spat a heart-shaped magical gem that gave Marikyuun magical girl powers.
- After finishing high-school and running out of magical girl duties to do, Marikyuun eventually lost most of her self-confidence, which led to her losing the ability to use her powers.
- Now, 10 years later, Calamari gave her the mission to become confident again in order to get her powers back. That means streaming and creating content for people all over the world. When people support Marikyuun, their feelings take the shape of a smaller, digital calamari, who stays by her side so she can be reminded of how much she is loved.
- When enough calamaris are created, Marikyuun will find the power to transform into a magical girl again.
Likes and dislikes[]
- Her favorite games and game franchises are Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Yakuza 5, Ace Attorney, Xenoblade Chronicles 1 & 3, and Super Mario Bros. 3.
- Her favorite color combination is pink, red, and white.
- Her favorite anime are Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Mob Psycho 100, Ojamajo Doremi, Heartcatch Precure, and One Piece.
- Her favorite Pokémon is Azumarill.
- Her favorite foods are sweets, cheese, gin sour, sushi and most pasta.[1]
- Her favorite VTubers include Houshou Marine, Chocovania, SuperKrazyBones, and Ironmouse.[1]
- Her goals are to let the world know she's not just an artist, to share her content with more people and improve as a content creator, to work on big projects with other VTubers and talented people, and to become a Twitch partner and full-time streamer and content creator. She considers the last one an unrealistic goal.[1]
Miscellaneous[]
- She edits the majority of her videos herself.
External links[]
Media[]
- marikyuun - YouTube
- MarikyuunVODs - YouTube VODs
- marikyuun - Twitch
- marikyuunn - Twitter
- marikyuun - TikTok
- marikyuun - Instagram
- marikyuun - Beacons.ai links
- Discord - Discord
Hashtags[]
- #MarikyuunLive - Stream, clip, and meme tag
- #MarikyuunArt - Art tag
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Marikyuun [Marikyuun]. (2023, May 7). [DEBUT STREAM] Retired Magical Girl needs more CONFIDENCE 💖🦑 [Video]. YouTube.
- ↑ https://twitchtracker.com/marikyuun/streams/40421369020
- ↑ https://clips.twitch.tv/SincereSeductiveSwanMikeHogu-dxudtAff56Q_CK7F