Lumi Ch.【Phase Connect】

Lumi Kaneko (金子瑠美) (birthday: November 17) is an American VTuber who streams video games and sings.https://youtu.be/RYLHxMlDf84?t=611 Though she was originally an indie VTuber, she later became affiliated with CyberLive and debuted as part of its first generation with Pandora Utano, Hylo Ayane, Seina Momozora and Yuri Amaris. In 2022, she would leave CyberLive and alongside Yuri, join Phase-Connect.
==Content==
Lumi's first video was a song cover of Nicki Minaj's Super Bass. On July 16, 2021, Lumi streamed her debut video. She would also upload shorts, and the first game she streamed was Kerbal Space Program, followed by Dark Souls III. She has also streamed Minecraft, Untitled Goose Game, Frostpunk, Aragami, Path of Exile, One Hand Clapping, Factorio and HUNT: Showdown. 
Lumi would also host karaoke streams. She is a classically trained pianist and can play the ukulele, violin, drums, the guitar.https://marshmallow-qa.com/messages/c71da0f7-4d00-4151-8a41-cb151a0b1c28?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=answerhttps://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1412172182629752832 On August 8, 2021, she released WANDER, her first original song. She has covered Creep by Radiohead - Radiohead, Gurenge - LiSA, Chiisana Boukensha - Darkness, Aqua, Megumin, Love Story (minor key) - Sarah Coultman, Itte - Yorushika, Tsuki ga Kirei - Iwami Takuma, La Llorona - Angela Anguilar, Yoidore Shirazu - Kanaria, KING x Envy Baby - Kanaria, Winter Wonderland - The Sweeplings, Kiss Me More - Doja Cat, dark hour - DEMONDICE and Glimpse Of Us - Joji. Sometimes Lumi even covers crude songs like POMF POMF KIMOCHII - Nyanners and White Girls Fuck Dogs - Rusty Cage.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri64I3VHCA0&t=107shttps://youtu.be/g8y6N29Dn14?t=403
Her other content includes insult reviews and book clubs.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1440580803692425222/photo/1
==Collaborations==
Prior to joining Phase-connect she streamed with several of their talents before. She has also streamed with indie VTubers like Ninaninin.
She has played Phasmophobia with Mew Horizon and Yuri Amarishttps://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1521711457771175937/photo/1. She has also played Escape from Tarkov with Whiskey Project.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1609973463401234434/photo/1
On February 16, 2023, filian hosted a game show where Nekrolina, Neuro-sama, Lumi Kaneko, Bao The Whale, Miilkywayz, Elly, Hinabobina, LaynaLazar, Aroma Great and Saruei competed for Shylily's heart.https://twitter.com/filianIsLost/status/1625990809211310080/photo/1
Lumi voice acted Ashley Graham in Max0r's video An Incorrect Summary of Resident Evil 4 | Fun Times in Europe which premierd on 23 May 2023.
==Design==
Lumi was designed by Xiho.
Xiho is also the character designer of Maria Paradisia and Shiroai Satsuha. She was modelled by Kerri.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1411128809550647300/photo/1https://youtu.be/RYLHxMlDf84?t=955
She is 162cm.https://youtu.be/RYLHxMlDf84?t=613
On December 27, 2022, she debuted a new model illustrated by NeonBeat and 삐돌. It was rigged by 2wintails.https://i.postimg.cc/jqzfycYF/lumi.png
==Lore==
The star known as Gliese 6667C and space's greatest thief, Kaneko Lumi, is here! After traveling the universe for millennia, a shining blue planet caught her eye. Curious about the Earth and the creatures that inhabit it, this young, mischievious star is here to cause mischief and bring light to all that look upon her. 
===Other===
She is also around 2 billion years old, which for a star is young.https://youtu.be/RYLHxMlDf84?t=614
==Discography==
Songs 	Release Date
WANDER 	August 7, 2021
U Make My Heart Flutter (ft. Lone Alpha)	February 11, 2022
Feeling 	January 9, 2023
==Hashtags==
*#KanekoLumi - General
*#lumicast - Live
*#Lumillust/#Lewdmi - Art/Lewd
*#LuMemes - Meme
*#LumiTunes - Music
*#luminewmi - second design
==Channel names==
During her affiliation with CyberLive, her channel was named Kaneko Lumi Ch. [CyberLive]. After she left the agency it was renamed Lumi Ch. 金子瑠美. It was once again renamed to Lumi Ch.【Phase Connect】 when she joined Phase-Connect.
== Partnerships ==
She is a Twitch partner.https://i.postimg.cc/BQh3JtWw/tw.png
On May 1, 2022, she and Yuri appeared at Offkai Expo.https://mobile.twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1520481571320610818/photo/1
==Quotes==
*"family guy VTuber when"https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1433648832005476352
*"I'm prime kidnapping material"
*"Oh God what the fuck? Why is this one so much harder than the other one?"https://clips.twitch.tv/GoodLuckySalsifyNotLikeThis-5oQmz91sNvy3H95T
*"Why are you guys like this?"
*"PLEASE EDIT MY WIKI WITH PROPER SPELLING AND GRAMMAR IDIOTS"https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1644892478313582592?s=20
*"I just want you guys to think that I'm cool, I don't want you guys to think that I'm mean. No, no, I didn't mean it! I'm actually not mean. I'm not mean I promise."https://clips.twitch.tv/SolidBitterPeanutM4xHeh-GXvIWxrbRPncCf-O
*"I think the mob is cool because I love crime."https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxuxTISqg4x9RTtPeR370cEZwAilE53hAD
*"I'm a friendly cute vtuber UwU, and I never do anything bad, I'm completely seiso"https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxEHnSgrF4BmNv85wYTdoJOijCCdyI89r8
*"Shiina is cool, I'm Lumi." https://clips.twitch.tv/ObeseMoistInternSquadGoals-wSYURFc3EPw-siDX 
*"Hey it's me Lumi, your favourite tard"
*"I love this Phase family that I've found so much. Thank you again for taking me in and becoming a home for me, and all the fans and viewers that are rooting for us from afar." https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1670951334571393027?s=20
*"Don't make fun of me chat it's not nice (I'm) just a little dopey, I promise I have a brain though."https://clips.twitch.tv/EphemeralSpineyPepperoniResidentSleeper-qBVf0KpdvKwXTeq6
== Fandom ==
Her fans are called the LumiGumis, or just Gumis.
=== In-jokes/memes ===
* Lumi's nicknames are: 
**Gliese 667C
**Princess (of Phase-Connect)
* Calling Lumi a simp for Sseth as she is a huge fan of him, inspired by this tweet.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1556855651350900736
== Personal life ==
*Lumi has a brother.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1562648666686779396
*Kaneko Lumi is engaged to Rinkou Ashelia.
**On 23 May 2023 Lumi proposed to Lia Ch. 鈴香アシェリア 【Phase Connect】 https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1661082233577566208?s=20 Lia accepted Lumi's proposal https://twitter.com/rinkouashelia/status/1661086702138720256?s=20
==History==
===Background===
*Her YouTube channel was created on 1 June, 2021. Lumi debuted on 16 July, 2021 (PDT).
===2021===
*On August 7, Lumi released her first original song "Wander".
*On August 28, Lumi opened her YouTube channel membership.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1431388087918096389
*On 11 October (GMT+8), Lumi's YouTube channel reached 10,000 subscribers. Also her Twitch channel reached 2,000 followers.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1447564279390027781
*On 22 October, Lumi released her first ever official cover song "Lend Me Your Voice".https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1450229341892325378
*On 2 November, CyberLive Twitter account announced Lumi will have a new outfit.https://twitter.com/cyberlivecorp/status/1455247617646948353
*On 10 November, Lumi revealed her new outfit.
*On 17 November, Lumi celebrated her birthday on Twitch. She also revealed her other model name Gremlumi.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1461193520199389186
*On 14 December, Lumi became a Twitch partner.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1470652223667515396
===2022===
*On 15 to 16 January, Lumi celebrated her 6 months anniversary, Twitch Partner, and did her first Subathon in about 24 hours.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1481303961026154506https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1482382065798565894
*On 14 February, CyberLive Twitter account announced that Lumi would be debuting her 3D model on 18 February.https://twitter.com/cyberlivecorp/status/1493101741373485059
*On 18 February, Lumi debuted her 3D model on Twitch channel.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1494839521321574401
====Leaving CyberLive====
*On 6 March, CyberLive Twitter account announced that Lumi and Amaris Yuri would both be graduating from CyberLive and become independent VTubers on 31 March.https://twitter.com/cyberlivecorp/status/1500608187732402176 Both also decided to take a spin on this by calling it an elopement.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1500577207697170433
*On 31 March, Lumi and Amaris Yuri both made their graduation streams on both Twitch channels, officially becoming independent VTubers.
====Joining Phase-Connect====
*On 13 April, Phase-Connect's Twitter account uploaded a video teaser introducing their new members consisting of Lumi and Amaris Yuri.https://twitter.com/PhaseConnect/status/1514272290489307136 She would also make her own announcement confirming the move.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1514277591980597261
*On 15 April, Lumi redebuted as a member of Phase-Connect.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1515145533983272962
*On 21 May, she reached 10,000 followers on Twitch channel.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1528052322420461574
*On 27 July, she reached 20,000 subscribers on YouTube channel.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1552176759545552897
*On 11 August, she reached 30,000 subscribers on YouTube channel.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1557947829334654977
*On 17 August, Lumi featured SO87's new original song "LOVE SPEC."https://twitter.com/SO87SOUND/status/1558666857703358464
*On 3 November, she reached 40,000 subscribers on YouTube channel.
*On 26 December, Lumi made a redebut stream with a new 2D model.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1607215934355251203
===2023===
*On 8 January, Lumi released her second original song "Feeling."
==Trivia ==
*Her favorite color is blue.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1411153694482067456/photo/1
*Her favourite flowers are star jasmines and peonies.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1465127945853632517
* Her favorite philosopher is Nietschzehttps://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1432474229388152832/photo/1 
*Lumi's favorite foods are: salad and soup.
*She made a bread tier list, where she put all of them is S tierhttps://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1430079949491212300/photo/1
*She also really likes pancakes.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1494329373813444616
*She reads a lot of books.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1411188490440560643/photo/1
**She is a fan of Brandon Sanderson.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1432746015916920832
**She prefers Tolstoy to Dostoyevskyhttps://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1449295082566270977
*She can speak four languages, English, Spanish, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese, though her fluency in each of them varies.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1411901272031064068
*Her favorite composer is Lizst.
*Lumi's dream voice acting role is Jabami Yumeko from the Kakegurui series.
*She is a fan of the anime Dorehedoro, Attack on Titan, Berserk, Made in Abyss, Wonder Egg Priority, Jujutsu Kaizen, Chainsaw Man, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt and Carole and Tuesday. She likes the manga One Piece and Demon Slayer.https://youtu.be/RYLHxMlDf84?t=1882
*She likes the webtoons Your Throne and Lore Olympus.https://youtu.be/RYLHxMlDf84?t=1883
*Lumi's favorite games are Action RPG, satisfactory games, the Souls/Borne series, Monster Hunter: WorlD, ARK, Nioh, Stellaris, Frostpunk, Crusader Kings III, Humankind, anything by Larian studios, MMOs, Katamri, maths/physics games, any game in alpha/beta, roguelikes, anything well rated on Steam and Grand Strategy.https://youtu.be/RYLHxMlDf84?t=1526
*She likes the bands/musicians Heilung, The Hu, Clann An Drumma, Ye Banished Privateers, The Clan, Eurielle, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Coltrane, Dr. John, Myrkur, Egg, Son Lux, Apex Twin, MIKA, Satica, Grimes, Purity Ring, CHANMINA, Ado, Takayan, YOASABI, TWICE, MAMMAMOO, LOONA, Red Velvet, Street Sects and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.https://youtu.be/RYLHxMlDf84?t=1948
*She received a copyright strike over her own original song.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1489678153610059781/photo/1
*The first game she ever played was Age of Empires 2.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1430308516166717441
*Lumi claims that she doesn't gamble. This has been proven false because she's a Genshin player.
*Lumi is fond of reptiles and considers them cute.
*Lumi doesn't like senpai culture as it can put her automatically above someone and that could give someone else a reason not to like her.
*Lumi is a classically trained pianist, and can also play ukelele, violin, drums, and guitar.
*Lumi's grandmother is an actress.
*Lumi is somewhat allergic to cats, but still wants to own a cat.
*Lumi used to draw a lot but fell out of the passion when she mismanaged commissions such as offering free revisions.
*Lumi's favourite Sailor Moon Episode is "The one where Tuxedo Mask turns evil."
*Lumi's favorite Sailor scouts are Venus and Mars.
*Lumi loves cooking and sharing food she makes.
*Lumi doesn't like playing video games that involve a lot of reading, like JRPGs.
*Lumi doesn't like darkness, she has a USB light plugged in all the time.
*Lumi doesn't like to talk about girly things on stream because she's afraid her chat would perceive her as "stacy": "Look I like genocide in games too, but I also really like fashion, ok."https://youtu.be/BujHmQHEfGo
*Lumi refers to her real life father as "daddy" which tends to cause confusion among newer fans.
*Lumi has been trying to encourage other Phase-Connect members to share photos / videos of their feet in roundabout and indirect way. -"hello miss @\tenmamaemi congratulations on 100k however i was promised some toes" despite this she claims she does not have a feet fetish.https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1641524956495491072?s=20
*Lumi has a bad habit of skipping meals for more than 16 hours.
*According to herself Lumi has "above average hand endurance". https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxKulpkcNwQXnt8xcEARqcX34gOiDHhADg
*Lumi claims she hates NTR; This has been proven false after Lumi retweeted multiple artworks depicting her NTRing Pipkin Pippa https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1653558108243755011?s=20
*Lumi's favorite tags are Corruption and Vanilla.
*Lumi believes that her wiki page is written by people who are on 4chan who think they know more stuff than they actually do: "They pretend to know things about my life, they'll be like yeah yeah it's me guys, for real, for real!" "If you're reading my wiki I don't know why they put that there, but it's stupid and I'm confused."
*Lumi frequently shares stories from her friend and former roommate Sugar-Baby Roommate with great gusto and enthusiasm.
*Lumi loves airplanes, with exception of Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey which she doesn't like because "it looks so weird".
*Lumi gets uncomfortable when people are "too nice" to her, both on stream and in real life https://clips.twitch.tv/TallPlayfulChimpanzeePrimeMe-GAFGSObTfE5aGYuK
*Lumi used to work as a waitress.
*Lumi's mother is accomplished scientist and gifted painter, Lumi has shared a few of her mother's paintings on stream: "my mom is a true genius", despite this her mother has poor social skills.
*Lumi drives an hand me down used and neglected BMW gifted to her by her parents: "I wanted a Honda or Toyota but they gave me that stupid car because it drives well. It needs premium gas, spare parts are expensive, and stupid sky roof thing is stuck open so I'm cold all the time, I hate it!"
*Lumi's family is from the north and they were well off, "but then communism happened".
*One of the most cursed Lumi streams happened on 2 April 2023 titled "narude sandstorm", Lumi spent almost two hours of the 2nd half of her stream (which was sponsored by Mihoyo), discussing acidity and and ph values of various lower body orifices and related topics, while playing Genshin Impact, as the stream continued it devolved into Lumi researching more adult and explicit topics while giggling maniacally, at some point chat started telling her to stop googling things (she didn't), as stream went on viewers stared getting genuinely concerned for Lumi's well being and mental state: "Lumi are you ok, for real?" "yeah, I'm just feeling really funny today chat". After warping up the stream Lumi raided Kirsche with usual raid message which includes "Lumi Lick" emote, however chat decided to compose their own raid message using "Kirsche Feet" emote followed by "Lumi Lick" emote, Kirsche was visibly shaken after witnessing this and learning what transpired on Lumi's stream. https://youtu.be/DqiwilevdpE
*Earlier in Lumi's streaming career one of the mods (Smugdoka) noticed that her prebuilt PC isn't performing to spec, after an short diagnostic session live on stream he found that memory was misconfigured and xmp was disabled which had significant impact on system's cpu performance. Smugdoka helped Lumi configure bios settings correctly off stream. Shortly after Lumi was forced to go on a break, after attempting and failing to install additional M.2 SSD and upgrading her RAM after which Lumi's streaming PC needed to be sent back to system integrator for repairs. Despite this Lumi claims to have built PCs from scratch before.
*Lumi received cursed and lewd tts donation during the stream titled "We Have Stray At Home" which aired on August 2022. She demonstrated her wit by turning it into a joke, as soon as she managed to stop laughing that is.https://youtu.be/pyuY8RV6T7A
*Lumi doesn't believe Einstein was real: "Einstein isn't real." "Einstein was an lizard person, eat shit Einstein!"
*Lumi debates with her mods on stream form time to time, those debates usually have old married couple vibe, and Lumi very rarely wins them.
*Lumi competed in dating show hosted by Filian, where she tried to win the affection of Shylily. She was outrizzed by Neuro-sama, a VTuber which was at the time powered by fairly primitive A.I.https://youtu.be/ZIAPuigsk-8
*Lumi originally wanted her model to have white hair and purple eyes.
*From all the members of Phase-Connect Lumi is the closest to Pipkin Pippa, they bounce incredibly well of each other and their colabs have a tendency to "derail" into multi hour "therapy sessions", where they discuss and sometimes debate various topics.
*Lumi is very fond of fellow Phase-Connect vtuber Pipkin Pippa, to the point were fans have speculated if Lumi harbours romantic feelings towards Pippa. Lumi strongly denies that her feelings towards Pippa are anything but friendly and platonic.
*Despite showing strong affection towards other women Lumi denies that she's gay or bisexual, at this point not even her friends believe this to be true.https://twitter.com/Grxit/status/1643872435362578433
**Lumi has been known to look up skirt of characters during her streams https://clips.twitch.tv/ColdTangentialJaguarRuleFive-mvdx_WHiMQ9hxsQQ
**"Sometimes she flips up my skirt and touches my stummy" -Dizzy Dokuro Ch. 【Phase Connect】 https://twitter.com/dizzydokuro/status/1660695040199643138?s=20
*Fans have speculated that Lumi was "anonymous source" featured in attempted smear campaign YouTube video Pippa Pipkin - Your Oshi? produced by Bagstard and targeting Pipkin Pippa.
*Lumi couldn't wear her grandma's heirloom earrings because the pin was too thick to fit into her ear holes.https://clips.twitch.tv/InexpensiveSassySpiderGingerPower-qsDRMHtNPKn1_dhL
*Lumi is "people pleaser" who loves taking care of others.
*Lumi doesn't watch other streamer's VODs, with exemption of streamers that she stalks.https://clips.twitch.tv/WittyHonorableTurtleBibleThump-zdueKdGBuWSYk5Fl
*Lumi "may, or may not have accidentally crashed into an airplane while driving".https://youtu.be/RwyUY81CzCE?t=2973
*On 7 April 2023. Lumi was trolled and than trolled again for falling for the 1st troll after which she ended the stream abruptly and without raiding anyone, https://clips.twitch.tv/InnocentAnnoyingMushroomShadyLulu-8NToxS6p4o8qZ9nO Lumi claims she "did not rage quit" https://twitter.com/lumikaneko/status/1644465315147857920?s=20
*Lumi occasionally talks about her father on stream, he loves cars, motorcycles, and bodybuilding, among other things. Recently Lumi's father has given up alcohol in his righteous quest for glorious abs. Over time Lumi's father has garnered more respect and admiration from her chat than Lumi herself, according to Lumi's chat her father is considered to be a "true chad".
*On 8 April 2023. Twitter user Darkshadowderp threw an lemon at Lumi, the said lemon exploded shortly after impact with Lumi's face. Lumi was (physically) unhurt during the ordeal. https://twitter.com/Darkshadowderp/status/1644816959618293763?s=20
*Lumi's meme "shitpost" review of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum got featured in PC Gamer article The Lord of the Rings: Gollum studio says sorry for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum game 
**"After a brutal reaction from reviewers and players alike—"Misery! Misery! Curse Daedalic. Curse it and crush it! We hates it! We hates it forever!" one Steam user (Lumi) wrote in an appropriately in-character review—Daedalic Entertainment has apologized for the sorry state of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum and says it will continue working on the game to ensure that it meets "its fullest potential."" -PC Gamer https://youtu.be/wGvazh7IWPc https://twitter.com/smugdoka/status/1662649880555188225?s=20 https://twitter.com/Xyznchro/status/1662650992028942336?s=20
*Lumi's favourite books are Fifty Shades of Grey, and Animal Farm.https://clips.twitch.tv/GoodLovelyChipmunkDatBoi-RtZ7Mttu2AA6efEg
*Lumi is a fan of streaming tv show D.P. (Deserter Pursuit) despite the unfortunate acronym Lumi claims that D.P. was so good that it made her cryhttps://clips.twitch.tv/TardyPhilanthropicOrangeTooSpicy-Uwy6HO-pDR3MXNj3
*The sex bgm (background music) incident
**Lumi commissioned remake of her "sex bgm", artist took it quite literally and delivered multiple versions of the song one of which was titled "sus". After listening to the sus version for 10 seconds Lumi determined it ~safe for stream and proceeded to play it, she did not notice prominent moaning sounds in the song until chat pointed it out https://youtu.be/e5j8SKuVNzA
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