Kanata Amane

Kanata Amane, also known as Kanatan, PP Tenshi, Kanataso, Kana-kana, Kabaya, Gorilla and PP TenshiP, is a Japanese Virtual YouTuber endorsed by hololive.
== Charactah Account ==
Kanata Amane is an angel from the Angelic-Realm Institution. She is now studying how to heal people. To hide her shyness, she pretends to be cool.
Kanata is extremely sweet, polite, friendly and demure. She is somewhat more quiet and reserved when compared to her contemporaries in hololive's fourth generation, and her sense of humor generally tends to be less crass or vulgar.
However, Kanata admits she has a playfully "sadistic" streak to her, which usually manifests in her teasing her audience or playing pranks on her fellow hololive members. She has also admitted that she is markedly shy and that she sometimes tries to conceal this with a "cool facade" when around other people. Kanata has also been noted by viewers as genuinely somewhat innocent and even a little naive, leading to viewers becoming (jokingly) concerned that she may be "corrupted" by other hololive members such as Kiryu Coco or Natsuiro Matsuri. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Betsu Sekai
* Holo no Graffiti
* Hololive Alternative
* Hololive Summer 2022
* Tenshi no Agape
== Trivia ==
* Kanata's nickname of "PP Tenshi" ("PowerPoint Angel") originates from her use of Microsoft PowerPoint in her debut stream. Her fans have also given joking alternate meanings for the abbreviation in different situations ("Perfect Pitch Tenshi" when she's singing, "Perpetually Panicked Tenshi" when she's playing horror-games, "Proficient Producer Tenshi" when she's composing music, among others.)
* During Kanata's debut stream, she included a vocal performance of the traditional Japanese sea shanty Souran Bushi, complete with the backing music being entirely composed of her singing a cappella. Kanata has since become intrinsically linked with Souran Bushi, with it becoming somewhat of her de facto theme-song. A remixed version of her performance frequently serves as the stand-by music on her streams.
* During Kanata's debut stream she specified that her training at Heaven Academy is in the specialization for Curative/Healing angelic abilities.
* Kanata uses rather masculine personal pronoun "boku:" this trait is shared with Roboco-san and Nekomata Okayu.
* The yellow arm-band on Kanata's school uniform reads "Student Council" in Japanese, implying that she is active in extracurricular activities at Heaven Academy.
* Kanata owns two pet rabbits.
* Kanata's blood type is B, just like every other gorilla.
* Kanata has the rare distinction of earning a perfect score of 20 points on Yuzuki Choco's Trivia Quiz. This indicates that she has an excellent memory, and has earned her the alternate nickname "BB Tenshi" (Big-Brained Angel) among English-speaking fans.
* At one of the streams hosted by Akai Haato, the latter (who is already very prone for English mistypings) accidentally mistyped Kanata's name in English as "Kabaya" and noticed it only after the chat started calling her out at the same time. Both the viewers and Haato herself found it funny, and from that time, Kanata is sometimes referred by this nickname, and sometimes even by a combined nickname "PP Kabaya".
* Kanata is a noted fan of the anime/manga series Pop Team Epic, Hunter × Hunter and especially Detective Conan, with references to them frequently cropping up in her streams. Fanart also frequently depicts Kanata as an analogue to the character Popuko from Pop Team Epic.
* Kanata and Inugami Korone are avid baseball fans and have attended games together.
* Kanata has a notably wide vocal-range, even compared to other hololive members with established singing talent. Kanata has demonstrated on stream an impressive ability to simulate a wide range of voices (usually to voice an NPC in a game, for example) including convincing child-like voices, deeper-sounding male voices and exaggerated cartoon voices, all to the surprise of her audience. She has also routinely been able to successfully make prank-calls to other hololive members via Discord, impersonating another girl in a totally convincing manner and only revealing herself at the end of the call before hanging up. The idea that Kanata is secretly the only member of hololive and is simply providing voice acting for all of the group's various streamers has become a running joke among English speaking fans.
* Kanata has a grip strength of 56 kg and is very proud of it, to the point it reinforced the use of her "Gorilla" nickname.
** Kanata's grip strength is such that she has become afraid of accidentally destroying things and even people, among which Houshou Marine's hand was almost a victim. She even started breaking her peripherals, and doctors are unable to explain her strength despite her below average size.
** Coco gave Kanata the nickname "Kana-Gorilla" for her ability to flawlessly open tight jar lids, due to her aforementioned grip strength. Kanata is apparently so physically strong that she has, on multiple occasions, shattered the jars she is attempting to open.
** For reference, the average grip strength for an 18-year-old female is between 19 and 30 kg, and 50 kg still exceeds the male adult average of 40-45 kg.
* Kanata is the third member of hololive after Kiryu Coco and Artia to join the official hololive Subreddit as a moderator.
* Due to the aforementioned sadistic streak (and her grip strength), Kanata is sometimes considered to be the opposite of Tokoyami Towa, that is, an angel who acts like a devil, while Towa is a devil who acts like an angel.
* Kanata is almost deaf in one ear and may possibly be going deaf in another due to an unnamed and incurable ear disease which she previously mentioned on stream. Despite this, she's expressed a strong desire to continue on her passion in singing and music.
* From mid-2020 to mid-2022, Kanata lived with her fellow hololive idol Kiryu Coco. After Coco's graduation, they continued to live together for a year, with Coco made a guest appearance on Kanata's stream to test out her cooking.
** Since July 2022, Kanata had moved out and begins to live alone, citing that this decision was made by herself and is a form of precaution from future events that might occur should the two continue to live together.
* Kanata shares the same illustrator with Sorahoshi Kirame from Nijisanji.
* Kanata is the second hololive member after Ouro Kronii to have a customized URL for her YouTube channel; as well as the first member to have translated channel name option enabled, displayed as "Kanata Ch. Kanata Amane" when YouTube's system language is set to English.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Amane Kanata at Virtual YouTuber Wiki
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