Kanata Ch. 天音かなた

Kanata Amane (born: ) is a Japanese VTuber associated with Hololive. She is part of its fourth generation, alongside Coco Kiryu, Watame Tsunomaki, Luna Himemori and Towa Tokoyami. 
==Content==
Debuting on December 27, 2019, Kanata plays games, streams, livechats and illustrates. In her debut stream she demonstrated her vocal abilities by singing Japanese sea shanties, specifically, Sōran Bushi, with the backing music being entirely composed of her singing A-cappella. A remix of Sōran Bushi served as her background music. 
On the January 18 she covered her first songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzwYKoKN_KE&ab_channel=KanataCh.%E5%A4%A9%E9%9F%B3%E3%81%8B%E3%81%AA%E3%81%9F. Three months later, she covered her next songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGXZNHNhI0I&ab_channel=KanataCh.%E5%A4%A9%E9%9F%B3%E3%81%8B%E3%81%AA%E3%81%9F, which became her most viewed video, earning praise from both fans and several fellow VTubers. She has a notably wide vocal range, and can even impersonate others. Other songs she has covered include HatsuneMiku's levan pokkahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c_tlNO5jO4 and when she sings karaoke, she covers various songs from anime, in some cases holding anime-only singing streamshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxzbr5O-RE0. On 19 August 2021 she released her first original song "Tokusya-Seizon Wonder-la-der!!".
The first game she ever played on stream was Tetrishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrFc1ddjLDU&ab_channel=KanataCh.%E5%A4%A9%E9%9F%B3%E3%81%8B%E3%81%AA%E3%81%9F, and she has also played Splatoon 2, 7 Days to Die, Ib, ARK, PAON, Getting Over It, World of Warships, Mother Simulator, Danganronpa, Minecraft, Molly Online, Undertale, Miitopia, APEX Legends, Dark Deception, Papers, please, Grand Theft Auto, Outlast, Fall Guys and Monster Hunter Rise. She is also notably good at memory games, and scored 20 points on Yuzuki Choco's quiz. 
She tested positive for Covid-19 in February 2022. 
== Collaborations ==
Her earliest streams often featured her genmates, Suisei, and Hololive Fantasy, though her first solo collaboration was playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with Watame. Kanata has cited Coco Kiryu has her closest friend. Whenever uploads shitposts against a green screen, it will usually feature her. She lives in the same house as Coco, and even after she announced her departure from Hololive, Kanata clarified that they would still live together.
Kanata and Ui-mama have played Super Bunny Manhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6rT8vFmjZM, and she also played Kirby Super Star with Koronehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpgUDPydIbM. She also played Among Us with Mikoto, Mel, Anya, Suisei, Nene, Shiina, Furen and Kanahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kFPpKbashM.
In Minecraft, she was recruited by Moona as an employee for Pekora's construction form, though later she left and formed her own company. She has notably featured Suisei in a lot of Minecraft streams as well. In one her Animal Crossing: New Horizons stream, Kanata invited Suisei to her island. However, when she tried to sell T-shirts, Suisei ended up horrified and exited as soon as she saw them.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSVm0S0hb-w
Kanata has featured Towa in her music covers. The two have played Getting Over It, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Clubhouse 51 Games together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btYOWro5CAAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx1wmPw4Ftkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNl94WXHXzo.
Kanata appeared in episode 24 of HoloTalk.https://mobile.twitter.com/takanashikiara/status/1603060570885918725/photo/1
==Design==
Her illustrator is oshio and 3D rigging is done by Yatsurugi. She shares her illustrator with Kirame Sorahoshi.
== Lore ==
An angel from the Celestial Academy. She is now studying how to heal people. To hide her shyness, she pretends to be cool.https://hololive.hololivepro.com/en/talents/amane-kanata/
=== Other ===
* The yellow arm-band on her school uniform reads "Student Council" in Japanese, hinting that she is active in extracurricular activities at Heaven Academy, however her specialty is in curing/healing.
*She can use her halo as a shuriken.
==Discography==
===STARDUST SONG===
Release date: 4 February 2021
Songs
"STARDUST SONG" (夢見る空へ)
"STARDUST SONG" (instrumental)
===Bouqet===
 Release date: 7 December 2020 
Songs 	Disc 1
Dreaming Days (Bouquet ver.)" 	
"BLUE CLAPPER (Bouquet ver.)" 	
"Shijosugi Adtruck (Bouquet ver.)" (至上主義アドトラック, Ad Truck of Supremacy) 	
"STARDUST SONG (Bouquet ver.)" 	
"Hya-kka Ryoran Hanafubuki (Bouquet ver.)" (百花繚乱花吹雪, Blooming Blossoms Fill the Air) 	
"Daily Diary (Bouquet ver.)" (でいり～だいあり～！) 	
"Halloween Night, Tonight! (Bouquet ver.)" (今宵はHalloween Night!, Koyoi wa Halloween Night!) 	
"Suspect (Bouquet ver.)" 	
"Candy-Go-Round (Bouquet ver.)" 	
"AsuiroClearSky (Bouquet ver.)" (あすいろClearSky) 	
"Precious Photographs (Bouquet ver.)" (大切フォトグラフ, Taisetsu Fotogurafu) 	
Songs 	Disc 2 (digital bonus)
Dreaming Days (Bouquet ver.)" 	
"Shiny Smily Story (Bouquet ver.)" 	
"Yumemiru Sora He (Bouquet ver.)" (夢見る空へ) 	
"Kirameki Rider☆ (Bouquet ver.)" (キラメキライダー☆) 	
===Kiseki Musubi===
Release date: 25 June 2021
Songs
"Kiseki Musubi" (キセキ結び, Kiseki knot)
"Kiseki Musubi" (instrumental)
===Dreaming Days===
Release date: 10th February 2021
Songs
"Dreaming Days"
"Dreaming Days" (instrumental)
===Tokusya-Seizon Wonder-la-der!!===
Release date: 19 August 2021
Songs
"Tokusya-Seizon Wonder-la-der!!" (特者生存ワンダラダー！！)
"Tokusya-Seizon Wonder-la-der!!" (instrumental)
===Madoromi===
Release date: 14 October 2021
 With Towa Tokoyami
Songs
"madoromi" (マドロミ)
"madoromi" (instrumental)
===Tenshi no Agape===
Release date: 27 December 2021
Songs
"Tenshi no Agape" (天使のagape)
"Tenshi no Agape" (instrumental)
===Non-Fiction===
Release date: March 8, 2023
Songs
"Our Bright Parade"
"Our Bright Parade" (instrumental)
== Partnerships ==
The Kyocera Dome Osaka stadium, on 13 August 2021, scheduled a collaboration between 12 Hololive idols including Kanata, who were to represent the SoftBank HAWKS and collaborate with six professional Japanese baseball teams from the Pacific League, two hololive members per team. They dubbed this day "Hololive day" and released exclusive merchandisehttps://twitter.com/hololivetv/status/1426061242100195329.
On September 9 2021, hololive's Twitter account announced a sponsored stream for the game Deep Insanity ASYLUM, which was presented by Towa and Kanata. Both sang the games' song "Madoromi", and on 14 October, 2021, the official music video of the song was later released on hololive's Japanese channel.
==Quotes==
*"Dokkoisho! Dokkoisho! Sooran! Sooran! Hai! Hai! Ha! Ha!"
*"Hei!"
*"No Gorilla!"
*"Power is power. Gorilla is the angel. Violence is the solution to everything"
*"Oppai is great, oppai is everything, oppai can triumph over all things."
*"キャッチコピーは握力50kg！ぎゅっ！ぎゅっ！握りつぶしちゃうぞ☆ (My catch copy is 50 kg of grip! I'll crush you with my hands☆)"
*"Anyone who has ever said I'm a wall or something, I'll beam out of my mouth and burn you!"
==Twitter hashtags ==
* #天音かなた - General
* #天界学園放送部 - Stream talk
* #へい民 - Fans
* #かなたーと - Fan art
* #天音かなたボイス - Commentary on released voice dramas
* #天音かなた歌ってみた - Singing
* #PPカット - Video clips
== Fandom ==
Kanata's fanbase is officially called "Heimin" (へい民 )
=== In-jokes/memes ===
* Due to the fact that she used PowerPoint in her debut stream, she has been nicknamed PP Tenshi.
*Despite her below average size, she has a grip strength of 50 kg, something her doctors are unable to discern the reason/cause of. According to Coco, who lives with her, Kanata has broken jars easily, and also wrecked her own peripherals. Kanata attributed this to a mix of her own natural power and having to work jobs where she was required to do a lot of heavy lifting. Her strength has earned her the nickname "Gorilla".
*Kanata and Coco being girlfriends, since her own mother used to think Kanata was gay and that Coco was her girlfriend.
**Though Kanata has not stated what her sexuality is, she has admitted that she likes touching big breasts and describes her relationship with Coco as like "an old married couple". Not only that, after witnessing a Hololive staff member wearing a wedding ring, she asked Coco for matching friendship rings, which she obliged to.
**She has also admitted to finding Marine's thumbnails "hot".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiSPAP7Ot2Y
* IRyS being the child of Towa and Kanata, since she is half demon and half angel.
** Some fans have also joked that because of Kanata "cheating" on Coco with Towa, its why Coco left Hololive. However since some fans see Towa as an angel, another joke is that IRyS is the child of Towa and someone else like Choco, Laplus and Ayame.
** IRyS' lack of grip strength makes some think that she can't be the child of Kanata.
* Since she has a wide vocal range, there's a joke that everyone in Hololive has been fired and Kanata voices them all, despite Kanata having a tendency to slip up when being impersonating others.
* Most Hololive members got blue axoltols in Minecraft rather quickly (despite them being rare). Kanata, on the other hand, only got one after 3200 attempts. It's become a sore spot for her, but Heimin found it hilarious and love to bring it up in her Minecraft streams. Kanata was so desperate for axoltols that she set up a black market with absurd prices for one.
* This fanmade videohttps://twitter.com/iglooDUDA/status/1307886449010720773 led to many edits of Kanata and Coco being replaced by others.
*She can understand English, although it is limited. She has also held English-only streams. As her English started to get better, some fans theorized that Coco is the one doing her translating for her, birthing a joke that Kanata uses the app "DeepC" (a pun on the app "DeepL").
*Her nicknames include Kanatan, PP Tenshi, Kabaya and Gorilla. Coco calls her "Kana-Gorilla".
==Personal life==
Kanata mentions growing up poor, and thinks that the the Japanese equivalent to $5 is wealthy. She was surprised to hear how her peers did not struggle with poverty in their childhoods, as she herself had grown up thinking that it was normal to eat grass out of severe hunger as a child.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEKZdHtomMk
Her Blood Type is B.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwTdyZT42ps
She has two rabbits.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f29VjI_Djc4
She was hospitalized in October 2021 after being hit by a car. In early 2022, she contracted covid-19, but returned to streaming later.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVWThWbE9pc
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
*100,000 subscribers: February 7, 2020
*200,000 subscribers: April 26, 2020
*300,000 subscribers: July 5, 2020
*400,000 subscribers: September 2, 2020
*500,000 subscribers: November 24, 2020
*600,000 subscribers: January 15, 2021
*700,000 subscribers: February 22, 2021
*800,000 subscribers: April 28, 2021
*900,000 subscribers: June 19, 2021
*1 million subscribers: July 27, 2021
===Views milestones===
*50 million views: January 30, 2021
*100 million views: June 4, 2021
==Trivia==
*Her favorite anime are series Pop Team Epic, Hunter × Hunter and especially Detective Conan, and one of her earliest videos has a thumbnail of her drawn in the style of a Pop Team Epic character.
*Kanata is almost deaf in one of her ears. This is possibly due to her suffering from , but she knew this when she was signing up for Hololive and it didn't bother her.
*She loves baseball and attends games of it with Korone.
*Kanata refers to her mother as "Sayuri" during streaming because in her opinion, she resembles Japanese actress https://www.reddit.com/r/Hololive/comments/q8p8f7/misconceptions_about_kanatas_mom_sayuri/hgqqvar/. She also does this to avoid confusion with her illustrator, commonly referred to as Oshio-mama. 
*Lamy and Kanata are both huge fans of Yui "Gakki" Aragami. When Kanata learned that she was getting engaged to her co-star, she had a meltdown and needed to take a break. She is also a huge Sora fangirl and acted very shy upon meeting her.
*She likes to prank people by claiming she has a girlfriend, such as telling Laplus she had one (whilst pretending to be drunk), and also introduced Aqua as her girlfriend to Coco. Due to her vocal range, she often impersonates her fellow idols for laughs.
*She started to wear Adidas since she saw Coco wearing them.
*She once tried to take a selfie while flying in Minecraft, and ended up dying.
*Despite Coco using her to handle most housework due to her impressive grip strength, Kanata in real life has a very messy room.
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