Akai Haato(Japanese:赤井 はあと/あかい はあとAkai Haato) started activities on YouTube on June 2, 2018VTuber, the industry grouphololive's first generation member.
Introduction
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生意気な後輩。普段はツンツンしているが仲良くなった相手には甘えたりする。赤いリボンとハートが好きで、髪や服によくつけている。
A haughty junior. Usually maintaining a proud attitude, she occasionally acts spoiled towards those she becomes close with. She loves red ribbons and heart shapes, often wearing them as decorations on her clothes and hair.[3]
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A typicalTsunderetsundere, claiming to always be in a "tsun" state and wanting viewers to call her "Haato-sama (はあと様)", but in her daily behavior, she shows her "dere" side more often.
An international student in the virtual world, she studied abroad in Australia and claims to know a little English. At the same time, she is interested in other foreign languages and can introduce herself in simple Chinese.
In reality, she has avery clumsypersonality, often exposing her embarrassing past and making questionable remarks during her streams. Among thehololivefirst generation members who are mainly streaming-focused, she has uploaded many short videos herself.
Appearance
Casual Outfit Full Body Initial; June 2, 2018 YouTube
February 1, channel monetization was restored after 4 months[12]. For details on the process, seeMonetization Recovery Operation. On the same day, computer files were accidentally deleted, the streaming environment was almost completely destroyed, and the monetization restoration stream was postponed.[13]
March 11, Bilibili platform400,000followers milestone reached.
May 6, YouTube platform300,000subscribers reached.
June 24, Bilibili platform500,000followers milestone reached.
July 3, YouTube platformWhile viewing her own lewd art during a stream400,000subscribers reached.
August 8, participated in Bilibili'sBWShanghai Station Vup Stage, MC wasMia Runis。
August 16, YouTube platform500,000subscribers reached.
September 16, Bilibili platform600,000followers milestone reached.
January 11, released her first solo song "RED HEART" full version.
On the same day, changed the channel name on YouTube from "Haachama Ch. 赤井はあと" to "Haachama Ch. はあちゃま".Haachama has completely taken over, Haato has disappeared
January 12, YouTube platform900,000Subscribers reached[15]。
January 31, participated in "Vtuber Fes Japan 2021" concert event, performing on the second day of the event.
February 10, the number of subscribers on YouTube reached1 million, becoming the eighth Vtuber under Hololive to reach the Gold Creator Award[16]。
On the same day, changed the channel name on YouTube from "Haachama Ch. はあちゃま" to "Akaihaato Ch. 赤井はあと".Big Brother didn't lose, Haachama didn't lose!!
February 18, changed the channel name on YouTube from "Akaihaato Ch. 赤井はあと" to "HAACHAMA Ch. 赤井はあと". (Haato and Haachama reconciliation END)
March 3, announced that she would "embark on a journey to find herself" and suspended activities.[17]
March 30, resumed streaming again, with the stream peaking at over 74,000 viewers.[18]
March 28, the "Personality War" video series, a million-subscriber project previously hidden on the channel, was made public again.
April 18, announced that she would suspend activities again due to "mental instability."[19]
April 26, resumed streaming.
April 29, YouTube platform1.1 millionsubscribers reached.
August 22, participated in the "hololive STAGE World Tour '25 -Synchronize!-" concert tour event in New York, USA.
October 31, temporarily suspended streaming activities due to health considerations[36][37]。
2026
April 16, official announcement that streaming activities will gradually resume[38]。
Trivia
Related Terminology
The surname "Akai" is homophonous with the Japanese word for "red". Although her name means "heart", its pronunciation is the Japanese transliteration of the English word "heart";
Her birthday, August 10th, is also derived from the wordplay for "heart";
When the Haato personality greets people, she adds the suffix "ルージュ(rouge)", which originates from French and means red. The opening line for the Haachama personality is "Haachama-chama」(はあちゃまちゃま)。
Although she wanted viewers to call her "Haato-sama (はあと様)", in the spring of 2019 she wanted a new nickname. Through her own self-directed efforts, she gradually became known as "Haato-shama (はあちゃま)", which comes from imitating the slurred speech of infants, leading to all viewersage regressing-ification.[39]
On September 9, 2020, Haachama simply changed the English part of her YouTube channel name from Haato to Haachama. Later, on January 11, 2021, she further changed the Japanese part and her Twitter name from "赤井はあと" to "はあちゃま」。Akai Haato is dead, long live Haachama
Afterwards, her channel name bounced back and forth between Akai Haato and Haachama, finally becoming "HAACHAMA Ch 赤井はあと」。
She usually refers to the viewers as "Senpai (先輩)". The name for her fans is "はあとん]" is the "はあと" of her name and "Buta (とん)" combined, and is usually translated as "Haaton" on her official Bilibili account.
She claims she will subject those who anger her to "Beheading (打ち首)" treatment; in reality, it is mostly a behavior to hide her embarrassment, and she usually repeats the "Behead" line twice;
Personal Information
Her mascot is a small yellow pig wearing a "beheaded" sign, with stitch marks on its neck from being beheaded multiple times.
According to Twitter reports, Akai Haato's father seems to have recently bought a pig farm...[40]
Near the end of a stream, after the ending screen is shown and viewers think it's over, she often doubles back for a second or third "surprise attack" on the audience, or performs a slapstick-style skit.
She is an international student with experience studying in the Philippines and Australia.
AtKiryu CocoBefore the EN group joined, she was the only Hololive member who could speak English, and thus claimed to be "EN Gen 0" after the EN group's debut.
Although she is an international student, her self-conducted academic tests yielded very poor results, and she doesn't seem to be very good at common sense, kanji, or English.
A victim of the "Great Australian Barrier" while studying in Australia; due to transoceanic connection issues, her internet was often unstable, resulting in low video quality, irregular streaming times, and fewer collaborations.
In a stream on December 4, 2020, she announced her graduation from high school and her return to Japan.[41][42]However, because "graduation" in the VTuber world can also mean "retirement," many people were worried before the stream started that day.
Is a scatterbrainCrybaby, her gaming skills aren't very good, and she often gets stuck during gameplay in her game streams, getting so anxious that she starts to sound like she's crying, and broadcast accidents frequently occur during her streams.
She thinks crying during a stream is embarrassing and has resolved many times that "I will absolutely not cry during a stream," but she always...
Despite not being very skilled, she loves challenging masochistic games and has completed a series of them, stating on Twitter that she feels like she can't be satisfied unless it's that kind of game. Then she'll confess her love for masochistic games, only to regret what she just did moments later.[43]。
Currently, she occasionally does cooking streams, well... the appearance of the resulting dishes is always at a level that is better thanLethal Cookingjust a hair's breadth, to the point where she herself says "it's so dark it looks like I'll get banned."[44]
She claims to be interested in foreign languages and has produced and uploaded instructional videos like the "English Conversation" series. In her English self-introduction video, she uses simple phrases from multiple languages to introduce herself.
She confessed to her audience that she has a fetish for smelling her own feet, earning her the nickname "Feet-smelling expert" for a time.[45]
On March 8, 2023, due to unfortunately contracting the flu in February, management decided to cancel her appearance at the March 2023 "Hololive SUPER EXPO 2023" stage event on the second day.[46]
Meme
"Air Streaming"
This happened in the early days when Akai Haato was streaming "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", she started the gameplay but forgot to start the actual stream, meaning the stream hadn't officially begun. On one hand, viewers in the waiting room wondering why the stream hadn't started began sending interactive comments simulating a live VTuber stream to pass the time, known as "Air Commentary" comments. On the other hand, seeing the "Air Commentary," Akai Haato thought her stream was proceeding normally, and as a result, she talked to herself for half an hour of "Air Streaming" before realizing the problem... She started crying while asking the audience when it had actually started... and then the same mistake happened again later.[47]。
「はあとん劇場」
A chat series by Akai Haato, mainly telling various daily stories from her time in the virtual overseas, including some terrible daily occurrences. For example, the story of a dangerous person with a banana gun breaking into her school...[48]
"Chinese Lessons"
Because she talked about Chinese in her streams and taught viewers how to pronounce Chinese with standard pronunciation.Swear words, which accidentally went viral on Chinese websites through fan edits, causing a certain amount of reaction on Weibo and Bilibili. The standard pronunciation is rumored to have come from the teachings of a Chinese roommate.
However, the widely circulated Chinese-speakingSwear wordsvideos led to reputational damage and her image being labeled.
(Note: This is not a publicly acceptable meme; please use it moderately.)
Along with this, another famous Chinese meme is"I am a pig". The cause was that during a Bilibili-exclusive stream on October 19, 2019, Haato usedGoogle Translate-tan()to translate and read along. During this, Google translated "豚たちは私が好き()" into "Pigs like me" (meaning "pigs such as myself"), and even translated "私は豚が下仆だ()" was translated as "I am a pig"[49]., which started a series of bullying incidents.
"Debu-chama"
Since changing to the chikan avatar, she has been exceptionally fond of using a debu voice during collabs. Currently recorded instances include:Murasaki Shionappearing as the first guest in the 150k subscribers celebration Totsu[50]、Natsuiro Matsuribeing the first person called in the 250k subscribers reverse Totsu[51], her own 300k subscribers (hallucination) Totsu skit[52], the "Looking for a Girlfriend" reverse Totsu[53]。
「darknessCooking Expert"
Due to Australia's border closure because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Haachama had no hope of returning to Japan this year. Taking this opportunity, she began posting a series of quitepersonal style()two-minute cooking videos, including but not limited to pancakes, gyoza, somen, and kelp rolls. She has showcased her cooking skills in several livestreams, shocking her colleagues and the Haatons. This series of videos is also known as "HaaToBasic" (Haato andHowToBasiccombination).
Akai Cooking Menu
Deep-fried frozen gyoza
Natto curry with rice
Spaghetti started in cold water
Vegetables cooked without oilAugust's If()
Konnyaku and tofu mixed with Shin Ramyun
Curry pasta
Beef boiled with Mentos
Strawberry Tanghulu
Tanabata Somen
Takoyaki, konnyaku, and kelp rolls
potato()Salad
Instagram "catfish" breakfast
Pizza()
Cthulhu-style flesh pancakes
Tomato Udon
Spider Ramen
……
Dual Personality
Due to Haachama's current performance being a far cry from her early debut days, viewers jokingly say that the original Haato was killed by a woman named Haachama. Later in February 2021, the original Haato reappeared in a Minecraft stream after a long absence, and viewers realized the original Haato hadn't died but coexisted with the Haachama personality. She then used this as a basis for her 1 million subscriber project, staging a fierce battle between Haato and Haachama, successfully causing her YouTube channel's subscriber count to grow rapidly.
Stream-related
The 300,000 subscribers (hallucination) endurance stream held on March 13, 2020[52], where she played multiple Hololive members by herself and had a conversation with her "debu" personality.
On March 13, 2020, she chose to challenge Getting Over It using her feet in an endurance stream. After "returning home" many times, she chose to switch to using her hands to prove herself before ending the stream, but still ended the stream in shame.[54]。
On March 15, 2020, she held a stream drawing with her feet, successfully demonstrating what it means to be a "soul artist"[55]。
Aqua, FBK "Danger"
On March 18, 2020, during a "turning into a pig" stream until reaching 300,000 subscribers (rounded up), she played Getting Over It. During the stream, the pig head expression's motion capture was so exaggerated that it was incredibly hilarious.
Extremely hilarious expression
In early February 2021, she began a mysterious 1 million subscriber sprint project, with the overall story revolving around the struggle for control of the body between the Haachama and Haato personalities.
During this period, Haato suffered various dark antics, kidnappings, imprisonments, and decapitation by Haachama. The audience also became polarized, with the emergence of two factions: FREEHATTO and FREEHACHAMA.
The stream featured various sanity-draining horror short clips, intermittent flashes of Haachama/Haato, and constant Discord calls being cut in by Haachama.
This project was highly effective, successfully accelerating the achievement of the 1 million subscriber goal, and on the day the goal was reached, Haato successfully seized control... leaving behind the suspense of "The END."
In the stream on February 18th, Haachama and Haato finally reconciled and maintained peaceful coexistence, bringing the entire project to a close.
However, due to new regulations from Cover Corp, the "Akai Haato VS Haachama" video series project was forced to terminate on March 3rd, with the series videos set to private, and Akai Haato suspended her activities on the same day.
This video series was restored on March 28, 2020.
On February 8, 2021, she streamed "Ultra-Limit! Lewd Graffiti Championship!" which challenged YouTube's limits; during the stream, she went full throttle without stopping, and the stream successfully survived until the end.[56]
On February 23, 2021, inOokami Miothe "Winter's Most Unique Haiku King Deciding Battle" hosted by, in the selection withOokami Mio、Oozora Subaru、Tokoyami Towa、Momosuzu Neneshe stood out from the selection and successfully won the title of "Haiku King."[57]
On September 1, 2024, she won a Hashimoto Lacquerware gold leaf nail clipper and nail file at the official Summer Bingo Grand Lottery.[58]。
Interpersonal Relationships
the Blonde Group
Akai Haato,Yozora Mel、Aki Rosenthal、Yuzuki Chocoand other blonde-haired members within Hololive are also known as "金髪組".(Note)Because the Blonde Group was formed before the 3rd Generation, members from the 3rd Generation onwards are generally not included.