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Matara Kan is an English speaking VTuber affiliated with VShojo. She debuted on Twitch on 15 October 2023.
Profile[]
The World's Most Resilient VTuber.
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Personality[]
Matara is known as "mom" by her fans due to her doting, supportive behavior. Other VTubers generally regard her as a trustworthy person who will lend an ear to their troubles. Her streams have a reputation among viewers for a comfy, healing atmosphere.
From time to time, Matara presents herself as a "boomer," (or more accurately, Generation X), who is not very well-versed with the Internet, such as claiming to still use Internet Explorer as her main browser or prefixing the names of social media websites with "the" (e.g. "the Facebooks", "the TikToks", etc.)
Despite her nurturing personality, Matara also has a cunning, borderline sadistic side to her.
Appearance[]
She possesses multiple insect-like claws and antennae. She has long pink hair with blunt bangs and other shades of pink streaks with orangey eyes with long lashes and markings underneath one of her eyes. She wears a pink dress that shows her cleavage in the middle and a golden brooch pin with dark pink jewels in the shape of a cockroach. She has skeletal insect legs without shoes.
History[]
Background[]
The Twitter and YouTube accounts for Matara Kan were registered on 1 September 2023.
The announcement of a new insect-themed VTuber was teased on the VShojo Twitter account beginning on 8 October, with a series of live-action black and white news reports, a brief animation titled "Something Wicked This Way Comes," and a B-movie style poster for "Attack of the Cockroach Woman."[1][2]
On 12 October, her name was announced, along with a debut date. Her Twitch channel already had partner status by this date, and reached 5,000 followers within around four hours of the announcement. Prior to debut, she released some short teaser videos on her YouTube channel. She was so nervous the night before the debut that she slept for only two hours.
Debut[]
She debuted on Twitch on 15 October 2023 at 3:30PM PT or 6:30PM ET. She reached over 25,000 followers and over 1,000 subscriber points by the start of the debut stream, which at peak was attended by 44,578 viewers. By stream end, she reached over 42,000 followers and over 3,600 sub points.
It was followed at 8:15 ET by the release of a music video on YouTube, 【REMIX】DECO*27 - Zombies x Rob Zombie - Dragula 【MATARA KAN - VSHOJO】 by DECO*27. It is a mashup of DECO*27's Zombies, a Vocaloid song with Japanese lyrics; and Rob Zombie's 1998 single Dragula.
2023[]
On 20 October, Matara reached 100,000 Twitch followers.
2024[]
On 8 February, Matara debuted her second outfit, a casual outfit.
On 1 April, Matara announced that she would be cohosting a new podcast alongside the returning VTuber Mint Fantôme.[3]
On 3 April, Matara reached 200,000 Twitch followers.
On 15 October, Matara celebrated her 1st debut anniversary with a subathon and a new Kan-mander outfit.
Mascot and Fans[]
- Matara's fans are called "Momos". They are represented by a cute white bug creature with purple wings, and *cake*.[4]
Quotes[]
- "Bug me anytime you like, honey."
- "Happiness is not enough. I demand euphoria."
- "Matara will mata ne!"
- "Bye honeys!"
- "I will eat you. And you will love it. Alright honey?"
- "live laugh lactate"
Trivia[]
Lore[]
- She is a cockroach-like creature from an alien world.
- When her homeworld was crushed in an instant by an ancient space god, she escaped on a spaceship and travelled through space for a long time, asleep in a cocoon. She was accepted by a peaceful alien planet, but her presence drew the attention of space monsters and she left to protect them.
- She arrived on Earth, where she was researched by scientists who discovered her invulnerable. She escaped and accidentally robbed a gas station, since her home culture had no concept of money. This attracted the attention of Ironmouse, who became her first friend on Earth.
- She became an actress on Earth, appearing in such movies as Shin Gokiburi, Juroachic Park, The Good, The Bad, and The Cockroach, Blade Roach 2049, Silence of the Kans, Mandibles, Mad Mata: Fury Road, E.T.C. the Extra-Terrestrial Cockroach. She did all her own stunts.
- She retired at the height of her career as she was tired of being typecast as a villain. She began a new project, Humanity Educated thru Human Engagement (HEHE).
- She uses her antennae to sense the world around her. She can remove them, but that makes her feel like she's wearing earmuffs.
- Her powers are to create swarm, metamorphosis, regeneration, mind control, body takeover, and soft hug.
- Her birthday of 4 February is actually the day she landed on earth.
- She lives in a cave that she carved out herself.
- She is working on giving herself human limbs for dancing, so that she can have a 3D debut.
Name[]
- The name Matara Kan appears to derive from mata, which means "mother" in numerous world languages; and the Russian тарака́н, "tarakа́n," meaning "cockroach."
- As Matara herself explains, her "alien" name is "Mat'tarakan". The apostrophe is occasionally used by Russians when transliterating Russian words into English to signify the presence of a soft sign, or "ь". In this case, "Mat'tarakan" is a transliteration of "мать таракан", which means "mother cockroach" in Russian.
- Early on, other VShojo members including Kuro and Melody referred to her by the nickname Tara. She tends to refer to herself as Mata.
Likes and Dislikes[]
- She is a fan of wine.
- She likes spicy food, red wine, seafood, talking, long walks, slice of life anime, reading, baths, and delegating.
- She enjoys reading and wants to start a book club.
- She dislikes hard work, not sleeping for 9 hours, computer problems, cleaning, horror, jumpscares, and graphic design.
- She is a fan of the Metal Gear video game series.
Miscellaneous[]
- Matara is the 15th VTuber to join VShojo, and the sixth original character.
- She refers to twitch.tv as "Twitch Television."
- She is quadrilingual in Ukrainian, Russian, French, and English and learned the languages in that order.
External Links[]
Media[]
- MataraKan - Twitch Channel
- @MataraKan - Twitter Account
- MataraKan - YouTube Channel
- MataraKanVODS - YouTube VODs Channel
- MataraKanSHORTS - YouTube Shorts Channel
- matara_kan - Instagram Account
- Mint & Matara's Summer Special - Podcast Channel with Mint Fantôme
- Mint & Matara's Summer Special Highlights - Podcast Channel Highlights
- Summer Special podcast - TikTok podcast
- Mint & Matara's Summer Special Podcast - Spotify podcast
- Mint & Matara - Patreon podcast
- Official profile - VShojo
- Merch store - VShojo store
- Podcast merch store - Podcast store
- The SWARM - Official Discord server
- matarakan.vshojo.com - Bluesky account
- matarakan.shop - Shop
Hashtags[]
Statistics[]
- MataraKan - TwitchTracker stats
- MataraKan - SullyGnome Twitch stats
- MataraKan - Social Blade Twitch stats
(V T E) | |
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Zentreya (🐲⚡)Ironmouse (😈)Projekt Melody (🥯)Apricot (💀)Hime Hajime (🤖🐲)Kson (🍕)Haruka Karibu (🍀)Henya the Genius (📛)GEEGA (🔝)Kuro Kurenai (🪦❤️🩹)Matara Kan (🪳🤍)Michi Mochievee (💍💜)Akatsuki Hotaru (🐍⚓)Hestia Happiness (👼🏻💫)Yutori Peke (❌)Okamoto Nagi (🔫🦈) | |
Former | Silvervale (🌸)Veibae (🖤)Nyatasha Nyanners (👻)Amemiya Nazuna (🍭) |
References[]
- ↑ VShojo [@VShojo]. (2023, October 8). #VSJBreakingNews ⚠️🚨 [Tweet]. Twitter.
- ↑ VShojo [@VShojo]. (2023, October 10). Something Wicked This Way Comes #VShojo [Tweet]. Twitter.
- ↑ Kan, M. [@MataraKan]. (2024, April 1). Introducing our NEW Podcast :
Mint & Matara's Summer Special!
new episode every monday
NOON PST
3PM EST
7PM UTC
1st EPISODE LIVE in 4 HOURS
-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgamkncHH1Q
We'll be live on my twitch & YT in 3 hours to discuss this :)
hehe @MintFantome [Tweet]. Twitter. - ↑ Kan, M. [@MataraKan]. (2023, October 13). Everyone please meet Momo. Momo wasn't always Momo. Momo became Momo. You will all become Momo. [Tweet]. Twitter.