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Nimi Nightmare is an independent English-speaking VTuber who debuted in January 2025.
Introduction video
You can trust Nurse Nimi!
Nimi's introduction.
Profile
Konbakuwa! I'm Nimi, the baku nurse VTuber of your nightmares 💭
Tapir who loves gaming, singing, and just being silly!
Personality
Nimi has a soft, caring attitude and a gentle demeanor. She rarely swears or loses her temper, and prefers comfy games to violent ones. She has a soft and slow-paced voice that is easy to listen to. She cares a great deal for animals.
Appearance
Nimi Nightmare has green eyes, blonde hair, and tapir ears. She wears a green dress with a nametag pinned on her chest, and wears white tights. She also has a mole on the bottom left part of her belly. Her pipe has spirit effects coming out of it occasionally.
History
Background
In August 2024, the Nimi Nightmare Twitter account was created. It was inactive until 3 January 2025, when its Twitter profile picture changed to a silhouette, and its profile description read "???". At the same time, a YouTube channel previously used by ASMR VTuber LemonLeaf changed its username to @niminightmare shortly after achieving 300,000 subscribers.
The name Nimi was chosen to sound cute and alliterate with the surname Nightmare. It was decided quite early on, and didn't mean anything in particular. "Nimi" was chosen to be a cute name, and one which was not be received as too "chuuni" or overly grandiose. Despite this, her surname is Nightmare.[4]
On 14 January 2025, she made her first tweet, "konbakuwa! ⸜( *ˊ ᵕ ˋ* )⸝".[5] The following day, she also opened a Bluesky account, and made her VTuber debut announcement.[6]
Her debut stream took place on YouTube on 17 January 2025 at 3 PM PST / 6 PM EST. She initially debuted in chibi form, with a full model forthcoming in the future.[6] She also released a set of merch, including a 12.5" plush, stickers, and signed cards. The merch sold out almost instantly, and the plush and stickers were quickly re-released on a pre-order basis.[3]
2025
On 18 January, she reached 400,000 YouTube subscribers.
On 23 January, she reached 500,000 YouTube subscribers.
On 21 March, she held Baby Bean's Charity Bash, named in memory of her cat, who passed away on 9 March 2025.[7] It was an eight hour charity stream to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. She reached all of her goals and raised a total of $361.017,03, which set a new record for money raised in a single VTuber charity stream.[8]
On 22 April, she debuted her full-size model, designed by Asagi Tōsaka. It features several emotion settings and a bald head mode. The reveal stream reached over 92,000 viewers at its peak. During the same stream she also reached 600,000 YouTube subscribers.[9]
On 14 June, Nimi debuted her 3D model. She can take off her apron.[10]
On 5 July, she debuted her 3D idol outfit during the concert "Virtual Vacation 2025," along with Dooby3D, Ashton Marten, and Hyuni.[11]
On 22 July, Nimi announced that she was getting married.[12]
On 1 August, Nimi debuted her third 3D outfit. She wears a green bikini, transparent crop top, and lifeguard vest fitted with a whistle. She wears flower-shaped sunglasses and a cap that reads "LIFEGUARD", has a red bracelet with black buttons on her left arm, and wears sandals with ribbons on her ankles.[13]
Mascot and fans
- Her fanbase officially goes by the name "Naplings".[3]
- They are represented by ghost-like nightmare creatures.
- Her mascot is a tapir.
- She has two black cats who appear on stream, named Luna and Artemis. Luna is the green-eyed cat, and Artemis the yellow-eyed one.
- They are based on two real stray kittens who she adopted in March 2025. They are brother and sister.
Relationships
- Notable units and groups Nimi is part of:
- "NiMiNTO," alongside Mint Fantôme.
Quotes
- "Uuu~"[3]
- "konbakuwa!"[5]
- "Feel-better beeeeam!"[3]
- "Is this a VTuber for ants? No, this is a VTuber for you!"
Trivia
Lore
- Nimi is a baku, a mythological tapir-like creature believed to eat nightmares.
- She has a special pipe which absorbs nightmares. She became addicted to video games and forgot to capture any nightmares for years, which weakened her until she shrank to 10 cm in height.[3]
- In April 2025, she finally consumed enough nightmares to return to her full height of 158 cm or 5'2".
- She is also a "nurse." She opened the Nimi Wellness Center to find patients whose nightmares she can consume.[3]
- She has four ears: the baku ears on the top of her head, and human-like ears at the sides of her head.[14]
Like and dislikes
- She is vegan.
- Her favorite ice cream flavors are strawberry and chocolate chip cookie dough. She prefers vanilla to chocolate. She also likes mint.[14]
- She prefers dark chocolate to milk chocolate.[14]
- She likes the taste of Nintendo Switch cartridges.[14]
Miscellaneous
- The first four Twitter accounts Nimi followed were Isabelle from Animal Crossing, Nintendo of America, and two Hatsune Miku accounts.
- Her cat is named Baby Bean.[3] Sadly, he died on 9 March 2025.[15]
- There was speculation that Nimi would join VShojo, after the group tweeted an envelope emoji the day before her debut. However, it was confirmed that she was debuting as an independent.[16] VShojo's new member instead turned out to be AmaLee.
- She is going to do an ASMR content and roleplays, but they will be posted on the channel under her LemonLeaf persona. Nimi Nightmare will remain her main channel.[3]
- She is 63.2% British & Irish, 33.7% French & German and 0.2% Finnish by ancestry.[14]
- Her full-size model illustrator, Tōsaka Asagi, is also the illustrator of several other VTubers, including NIJISANJI member Shishido Akari, VSPO! member Aizawa Ema, VEE member Kokuyou Lira, Phase-Connect member Wilhelmina Frost, indie VTuber Kurokiri Aria and hololive graduate Ceres Fauna.
- Her chibi model has white spots on the ears, while the fully-grown model doesn't. This is because real life, only baby tapirs have white dots, which they lose in adulthood.[17]
- Before she chose the name Nimi Nightmare, she considered the name Estella Somnium. She came up with the name several years before her debut, and would have represented a purple character rather than her iconic green color. The name Estella was inspired by her love of stars and the character Estella from the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations. Somnium was partly a reference to the 2019 game AI: The Somnium Files and refers to sleep or dreams, a theme which she would ultimately use with Nimi Nightmare.[4]
External links
Media
- Nimi Nightmare - YouTube channel
- @niminightmare - Twitter account
- @niminightmare.bsky.social - Bluesky account
Hashtags
References
- ↑ Nightmare, N. [@niminightmare]. (2025, June 14). Thank you so much to @Yooliesfor making my beautiful 3D model!!... [Tweet]. Twitter.
- ↑ Nightmare, N. [@niminightmare]. (2025, January 19). I forgot to tell you that my birthday is October 10th
Because it's a 10/10 (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧ [Tweet]. Twitter. - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Nightmare, N. [Nimi Nightmare]. (2025, January 18). 【VTUBER DEBUT】 Nurse Nimi is here to devour your nightmares! 💭 [Video]. YouTube.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Nightmare, N. [Nimi Nightmare]. (2025, October 14). 【MINECRAFT SKYBLOCK】 My island is so cottagecore cozycore prisoncore [Video]. YouTube.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Nightmare, N. [@niminightmare]. (2025, January 15). konbakuwa! ⸜( *ˊ ᵕ ˋ* )⸝ [Tweet]. Twitter.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Nightmare, N. [@niminightmare]. (2025, January 16). 💭 Nimi Nightmare Debut*! 💭
I told you it was soon!! Debut this Friday! I can't wait to meet you!!!
📅 Friday, January 17th
⏰3 pm PST | 6 pm EST | 11 pm GMT | 8 am JST (+1)
ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@niminightmare [Tweet]. Twitter. - ↑ Nightmare, N. [@niminightmare]. (2025, March 10). Baby Bean passed away. 💔 I'll be taking some more time off, please take care of yourselves and each other. [Tweet]. Twitter.
- ↑ Nightmare, N. [@niminightmare]. (2025, March 21). BABY BEAN'S CHARITY BASH An 8 hour charity stream supporting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital! Starting today in 3 hours!!!https://www.youtube.com/live/SCJT7-EIT1o [Tweet]. Twitter.
- ↑ Nightmare, N. [Nimi Nightmare]. (2025, April 22). 【NEW MODEL REVEAL】 Your cute nurse is here!!! 💭 [Video]. YouTube.
- ↑ Nightmare, N. [Nimi Nightmare]. (2025, June 14). 【3D Model Reveal】 Nurse Nimi now in 3D!!! 💭 [Video]. YouTube.
- ↑ Nightmare, N. [@niminightmare]. (2025, July 5). Thank you so much for an unforgettable night 🥺💚 Thank you to everyone who cheered us on, thank you OshiSpark for making this happen, and thank you to the amazing girls I got to share a stage with 😭 I could really feel all your energy and I'm just so happy to be here!! [Tweet]. Twitter.
- ↑ Nightmare, N. [@niminightmare]. (2025, July 22). Little lore drop! ✉️ This might be an unexpected thing for me to announce, but… I’m getting married! Alongside streaming, having a family of my own has always been a dream of mine. I don’t usually talk about my personal life, but it’s something that’s important to me and it’ll… [Tweet]. Twitter.
- ↑ Nightmare, N. [Nimi Nightmare]. (2025, August 1). 【3D OUTFIT REVEAL】 Summer isn't over yet! #BeachBaku [Video]. YouTube.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Nightmare, N. [Nimi Nightmare]. (2025, January 19). 【DNA REVEAL】 The test results are in, Nimi is... 100% silly! [Video]. YouTube.
- ↑ Nightmare, N. [@niminightmare]. (2025, March 10). Baby Bean passed away. 💔 I'll be taking some more time off, please take care of yourselves and each other. [Tweet]. Twitter.
- ↑ VShojo [@VShojo]. (2025, January 16). ✉️ [Tweet]. Twitter.
- ↑ Sobbi [@Sobbi11]. (2025, April 23). I like how chibi nimi has baby tapir fur with the white spots, while bigger nimi loses those spots just like real tapir!! baby to beeg tapir https://twitter.com/niminightmare/status/1914868472858992980 [Tweet]. Twitter.