Okayu Ch. 猫又おかゆ

Okayu Nekomata (born: ) is a Japanese VTuber affiliated with Hololive. She is part of its subgroup Hololive GAMERS along with Korone Inugami, Fubuki Shirakami and Mio Oogami. 
==Content==
She debuted on April 6, 2019. She is known to greet her viewers with "Mugi! Mugi!" the Japanese onomatopeia for chewing food. Okayu's next video after her debut was an ASMR videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asuKvMLljXg&ab_channel=OkayuCh.%E7%8C%AB%E5%8F%88%E3%81%8A%E3%81%8B%E3%82%86 of her whispering. She has streamed the games The Legend of Zelda, Mother 2, APEX Legends, Shadow Corridor, Super Mario Bros. 35, Super Mario Story, 60 Seconds, Rat Simulator, Getting Over It, Donkey Kong 64, Octopath Traveler, Mother 3, Jump King, Untitled Goose Game, Pokemon Unite and Monster Hunter Rise. 
She has covered the songs Umiyuri Kaiteiten - n-buna, Otome Kaibou - DECO*27, Wakusei Loop - Suijin Nayutan, Fuwa fuwa time - Hiroyuki Maezawa, p.h. - SEVENTHLINKS, Nemuru Machi - yama, Moment Plus - Mikito-P, flos - R Sound Design, Cat-eye Make - kanon69, Cute0na Kanojo - syudou and Shitsuraku Petri - Nanahoshi Kangengakudan. To celebrate a year of VTubing, she sang Hyadain no Jyojo Mujohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evq389W-TqE 
==Collaborations==
Her first collaboration was with Subaru, and her next was with Shiina Yuika. Her third collaboration and first chatting stream was with Korone Inugamihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62GgDiuk9O0&ab_channel=OkayuCh.%E7%8C%AB%E5%8F%88%E3%81%8A%E3%81%8B%E3%82%86. Korone and Okayu are quite close and have featured each other in their streams quite frequently, and were close friends prior to joining hololive. Okayu has said that Korone is like a sister to her and she helped her with her grandmother after she was suffering from declining health. She has also admitted that when she gets the urge to kiss someone she kisses Koronehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqdqkWrre5I. 
She has also admited that she likes Towa Tokoyami more than a friend, and expressed attraction/flirted with Aqua, Marine and Shion.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcuo65ueN9khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU2FQkUSxCshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJrfdHCA34U 
Shion and Okayu's first collaboration was a chatting stream but later they played Onryeo together, and she has played Clubhouse 51 games with Pekora. She also collaborated with Mio to sing Otona no Okaite which became Mio's most popular video. Her chatting streams have also featured Kanata and Botan, and she has held a singing stream with Towa. She also made an appearance on Coco's Reddit shitpost review. 
Okayu tends to pull pranks on Aqua and Mio, often feuding with the former over who can pull the bigger prankhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acNUes3ZV_A. Despite this Mio cites Okayu as a good friend who gives the right advice, and Rushia called her caring. 
Okayu is a Subatomo and in January 2022, revealed herself to be a Chumbud and even setting her desktop wallpaper background to an image of Gura. In the same month Gura added her as a friend on Discord, which caused her to squeal excitedly. 
She has also played Among Us with Hololive Gamers, Botan, Kanata, Sakura, Polka, Rushia, Subaru, Luna and Marine, and Garctic Phone with Fubuki, Mio, Aqua, Marine and Shionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5AmUNrqpiYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSc1C06SAzYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpsfTBedTak. 
With the debut of HoloX, Okayu played Garctic Phone with Laplus, Noel, Marine, Towa, Korone and Luihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDxiM1UE4fo 
==Lore==
"Om, nom, Okayu!"
A cat being raised by an old woman that runs an onigiri store. She streams from the computer in her grandma's room. 
=== Other===
*In cat years she is 80+ years old
==Discography==
===Shiny Smily Story===
Release date: 16th September 2019
Songs
"Shiny Smily Story"
"Shiny Smily Story" (instrumental)
== Fandom ==
Her fanbase is officially called "Onigiryaa" (おにぎりゃー).
=== In-jokes/memes ===
* Due to the fact that she has a flirty personality and has great chemistry with other VTubers, she has earned the nickname "harem protagonist". She is also nicknamed "Okayun".
* Despite her lore stating she is a cat, Okayu herself is a cat owner. Her cat, Temari, is a small female American Shorthair, who is named after the Temari Balls of traditional Japanese handcraft culture. This has become a source of confusion for her fans.
* Calling Risu Korone and Okayu's daughter.
== Quotes ==
* "They ate my onigiri, they ate my onigiri, they ate my onigiri, THEY ATE MY ONIGIRI. This Is Unforgivable!"
==Twitter hashtags==
*#猫又おかゆ - General
*#生おかゆ - Stream talk
*#おにぎりゃー - Fans
*#絵かゆ - Fan art
*#エロおにぎり - Fan art (NSFW)
*#おに切り - Video clips
*#みんなのおかゆ - MMD
==Partnerships==
Okayu and Korone appeared in Molly Online Crane Game. On February 17, 2021, Rakugaki Kingdom's Twitter account tweeted that Okayu, by mid March, would be one of the VTubers who would appear in the game.
In January of 2022, Okayu partnered with Ikinari Steak househttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJIM75UagAMNR8E?format=jpg&name=large. This led to masses of customers arriving to the restuarant, and it had to shut down due to not having enough food for all of them. 
== Personal Life ==
She grew up in Aomori, though she revealed this accidentally.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4-ZyD9B9nQ She was childhood friends with Korone. In school, she took home economics classeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvH9UGFT3H8.
She lives with her grandmother, who can be heard snoring in some streams. Okayu mentioned that when she was sick Korone would help care for her.
==Trivia==
*Her character designers are Ceramichttps://www.pixiv.net/en/users/721004 and Kamiyoka Chihiro.https://twitter.com/kami_shun0505
*Okayu is a huge Dragon Ball Z fan.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5OgdMxKXy4
*Okayu and Noel Shirogane reached 700,000 subscribers on the same day.
*Okayu is a lolicon and a masochisthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeIwemqcZhE.
*She shares her illustrator with Shiina Yuika of Nijisanji.
==Subscriber Milestones==
*800,000 subscribers: January 13, 2021
*900,000 subscribers: February 23, 2021
*1 million subscribers: April 17, 2021
==Gallery==
===Headshots===
Nekomata Okayu img.png|Portrait
Okayuch-hololive (5).png|Headshot
Okayuch-hololive (4).png|Headshot
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Okayuch-hololive (2.5).jpg|Headshot
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===Full body===
Nekomata Okayu - Full Illustration 01.png|Full body shot
Okayu3d-01.png|3D Model
Okayu3d-02.png|3D Model
Nekomata Okayu - Full Illustration 02.jpg|Alt outfit
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Okayu-nonstop.png|Alt outfit
===Other===
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Okayu in serafuku by ceramic06.jpg|Drawn by character designer, Ceramic
Okayu Mini Hakama Illustration by ceramic06.png|Drawn by character designer, Ceramic
Hololive 1st fes. 2nd Gen and Gamers Concept Illustration.jpg|Illustration for the Nonstop Story concert
Hololive 2nd fes. Beyond the Stage Illustration concert-3.jpg|hololive 2nd fes. Beyond the Stage Illustrations
Okayuchsignature.png|Signature
Nekomata Okayu - hololive GAMERS Illustration.png|Promo Art for Hololive GAMERS
===Animated Gifs===
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Okayuch7.gif|In the Ochame Kinou music video
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===Partnerships===
Marinechinlawson.jpg|Okayu with Marine, Aqua, & Suisei From LAWSON
Okayuch-hololive (1).png|Okayu in LAWSON
Okayuchandkoronech-hololive (1).jpg|In Molly Online Crane Game, with Korone
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:Japanese YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2019
Category:One million subscribers
Category:Anime YouTubers
Category:ASMR YouTubers