Amamiya Kokoro (Japanese:天宮こころ / あまみや こころAmamiya Kokoro ) is a VTuber who started activities on YouTube on August 13, 2019VTuber, belonging to the industry groupNIJISANJImember.
Introduction
A shrine maiden of a clan that can talk to "dragons." Because of this, she was raised without ever leaving home, but was recently recognized as being able to stand on her own and was finally allowed to have contact with society.
As a reward for standing on her own, she auditioned for NIJISANJI and successfully debuted as a Liver.
Played byNakane Nata's tearful expression created in a four-panel manga became a trend due to its memetic nature; she has even used it as a stream thumbnail, showing she is aware of it. Combined with the crying cat meme on the Chinese internet and her nickname "A-mya-mya," it is also jokingly called the "Tearful Cat Head." Although she often acts "lame," she rarely actually exhibits "Tearful Cat Head" behavior during streams, but this, along with her generation-mateEli Conifer's expressionless face, has become a fixed scene in fan creations. Due to the rise of the "Tearful Cat Head," there has been a surge in viewers who enjoy seeing Amamiya Kokoro fail, commonly known as "Mya-虐" (みゃ虐)"[1]
On the same day, Amamiya Kokoro's Twitter account became active and postedher first tweet。
On August 13, 2019, she held her debut livestream on the YouTube platform.[3]
On August 21, 2019, monetization was approved on the YouTube platform.[4]
2020
On March 20, 2020, she reached 100,000 subscribers and achieved the Silver Creator Award on the YouTube platform.[5]
Trivia
Although she is a shrine maiden of a clan that can talk to "dragons," she has never actually had a conversation because dragons are rare in modern times. Furthermore, she can only talk to Eastern "dragons," and with Western "Dragon" she cannot talk to.
toGen-matesThe three are known for their debut livestream accidents, and for the "Airheaded(ポンコツ)" they became famous.
A quarter of her debut livestream was spent performing "life-lost-way bits," "mouse volume bits," and so on.
She performed a "save data deletion bit" during her first gaming livestream.
For her birthday prior to her 2019 debut, the gift from her parents was their encouragement to audition for Nijisanji.[6]
When laughing, she often lowers her volume, tending to mix in the sound of exhaling, which gives her the characteristic of sounding like she's giggling secretly.[7]
The "天宮" in her name is often changed to "〇〇宮" as a versatile nickname, and depending on the context, there are usages such as "有能宮」「楽し宮」「すこ宮".
The weakest rookie VTuber in Nijisanji
Always has "Rookie VTuber" in her Twitter bio, calling herself a rookie... and has called herself "Nijisanji's Weakest (にじさんじ最弱)」。
Actually possesses sharp intuition and gaming skills, even in the brutal "Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby (プーさんのホームランダーピー)》、《Monster Hunter" also showed her intuitive reactions.
Her construction performance in "Minecraft" also shows good artistic talent.
Explaining why she calls herself the weakest, it's because she loves all the Nijisanji Livers so much that "things I love = strongest," and after joining Nijisanji, she became the "weakest."[8]
During the "Ring Fit Adventure" craze, she streamed the game and scored 30 and 21 in the push and pull tests, which are the lowest publicly stated values among the streamers in the fitness group Nijisanji, and she is actually the weakest. Proving her own weakness. In subsequent streams, she invited viewers, saying "Don't you want to see the world below 1?" and "I think everyone has seen many values above, why not see the world below 1?", and then set the exercise load (game difficulty) to the minimum. Even so, in the final heart rate test, her heart rate of 151 was classified as "Vigorous Exercise," truly the weakest (in physical strength) in Nijisanji.[9]
Gibberish
She has serious issues with slurring her speech and misreading text, which has caused many streaming accidents and even led to misunderstandings by her peers. It is an extension of the "Airheaded" attribute.[10]
When introducing herself, she is always vague and unclear, which has become one of her characteristics..
To this end, a viewer created a test on the website "ShindanMaker" imitating Amamiya's slurred accent called the "Amamiya Self-Introduction Challenge (#天宮自己紹介チャレンジ)", which prompted her and many Nijisanji members to take the test, using the hashtag "#天宮自己紹介チャレンジ」「天宮こころ" trending on Twitter.[11]
Nicknamed "あまみゃ / Amamya" or called "_あみゃみゃ / Amyamya", originating from her mispronunciation of her surname "Amamiya (あまみや / Amamiya)", which she later accepted.
YouTube has an automatic speech recognition feature for subtitles, but viewers reported on Twitter that it was always a mess of gibberish. Amamiya replied, "Don't rely on subtitles, use your ears to listen 👿."[12]
When editing content after a stream, she realized that even she couldn't understand what she was saying at the time without thinking hard about it...[13]
Amyamya's History of Slips of the Tongue
During a "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy" stream, she misread a viewer's "Vertical JUMP" and read it out loud as "Virgin JUMP," which has become a recurring dark history she can't escape.[10]
When reading words with repeating syllables at the end, such as "ichinichi," she often causes self-inflicted reputation damage, leading to various clips being made.[10][14]
Due to her unique slurred speech, she became a victim of the Kansai Kyoto dialect "かんちこちん"; after slurring her words together, even her genmates were confused and jokingly egged her on while begging her to stop...[15]
Due to the aforementioned slurring, "misreading" words, or other situations, she often gets into arguments with viewers during her streams...[16]
Sealed Dragon Power
She shows excellent singing ability when she sings... but she rarely sings, and one can only catch glimpses of it during her usual streams.
Karaoke streams during broadcasts
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Stream-related
Facing Nijisanji box-pushers[17]To a Marshmallow asking about being "tired of being a box-pusher," she replied, "I can't say pretty words, so please prioritize taking care of yourself and enjoy Nijisanji like you're eating snacks during a break."[18]
Encountering the usualshampoo question, she showed little knowledge of it. After being educated by the audience and doing a brief search herself, she understood it originated fromSenpai's tradition andSenpairecent memes. After learning the facts, she was deeply shocked, and when she tried to learn more, she was stopped and warned by the audience, "You don't have to say it out loud."[19]
Once in a YouTube stream, she was spammed by viewers sending fake "This message has been retracted" messages. She believed it was real and only realized it later, having been teased by the "retraction art" prank.[20]
When taking a bus for the first time, due to shyness and lack of knowledge, she didn't dare press the stop button and ended up riding all the way to the final stop. On the way back, she luckily encountered someone else getting off and successfully completed the "getting off" trial. She described this trial as being on the same level as "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy."[21]
LikePokémon series. Her favorite Pokémon isTorterra, andSuicuneHer favorite types are Pokémon that look large and powerful and can be ridden. She also reads the Pokémon manga series.
During the period of YouTube AI moderation, while discussing with viewers how to deal with the crazy YouTube AI that was causing constant bans in the streaming industry, she was quickly banned less than three minutes after starting the stream.[22]
Despite having debuted 7 years ago, she still often introduces herself during the self-introduction segment of her streams withan iron willreferring to herself as "rookie streamer Amamiya Kokoro”.[23]
Interpersonal Relationships
ポ三家
With her fellow debut matesRatna Petit、Eli Coniferknown as "Posanke (ポ三家)", a play on the three starter Pokémon at the beginning of Pokémon games known as "御三家", derived from the fact that their initials share the same pronunciation. Ratna Petit corresponds to the Fire-type, Amamiya Kokoro to the Water-type, and Eli Conifer to the Grass-type. It also references the "Po" inclumsy (ponkotsu)" meaning.
They have held an offline sleepover stream together (hot pot, binaural audio, early morning cooking).[24]
On the 1st anniversary, released the Takara San-ke 1st anniversary commemorative song "STEP by STEP UP↑↑↑↑》
On the 3rd anniversary, released the Takara San-ke 3rd anniversary commemorative song "Hitorigoto (ClariS)》
On the 4th anniversary, released the Takara San-ke 4th anniversary commemorative song "Virtual to LIVE》
With seniorsMorinaka KazakiMaintains a friendly relationship.
Before her first official Minecraft stream on her own channel, she first appeared on Morinaka Kazaki's channel and assisted in the construction of "NIJISANJI Land".
Under the guidance of Morinaka Kazaki, she learned to sing "Tulip". This later became the catalyst for her to face the audience alone and accidentally make a slip of the tongue after being egged on by them.[25]
Taking the opportunity through Minecraft, she went on an offline date with Morinaka Kazaki; Amamiya even went to a beauty salon before the meeting that day.[26]
In the Minecraft server, she is the heroEx Albio's neighbor; because she lives at the bottom of the slope next to him, she is a victim of the demolition activities at the hero's base.
Because she was nominated by the manager of VR Kansai Academy for the 2020 "Nijisanji Koshien" tournament,Higuchi Kaedeshe became a member of the VR Kansai Academy baseball team.(Note)In reality, only her name was assigned as a member, and she did not actually participate;[27], because of this connection, the dynamic of the strict devil manager and the weakest, timid member was born.Coach duo()。
In the JK-gumi's "Victim Report" stream, she went to the stream to report to the ChairpersonTsukino MitoShe reported Higuchi Kaede, but the result was that the actual mastermind declared Kaede innocent, and instead ordered Kokoro to follow her senior Higuchi Kaede for roof tile-breaking special training.[28]
Later, in the "Roof Tile Breaking" special training stream, she successfully recorded breaking 6 tiles and celebrated reaching 180,000 subscribers, taking another step on the path from the weakest to the strongest.(Note)Special tiles were used in this stream.[29]
Hanaji-gumi
Yuzuki Choco、Kagura Mea、Warabeda Meiji, Amamiya Kokoro,Uruha RushiaTheir group collaboration activities are under the name "Hanaji-gumi". In the initial "Illustrator Forest" collab, everyone drew nosebleeds randomly, and since they couldn't decide on a name, they finally settled on "Hanaji-gumi".[30]