Mumei Nanashi

Mumei Nanashi, also known as Guardian of "Civilization", Meimei, Moom, Moomers, Nanashi Muman, Towl and Toxic Owl, is an English Virtual YouTuber endorsed by hololive.
== Charactah Account ==
Mumei is a member of the Council and the Guardian of "Civilization," a concept crafted by mankind. As a living embodiment of the sum of mankind's efforts—the mark that humans have left on the world—she is far removed from her fellow members, as well as other lifeforms. Due to not being created by the Gods, she was free to choose her own appearance, and decided to make herself owl-like, after the bird that symbolizes wisdom.
Mumei is gentle, wise, and an unbelievably hard worker. As a well-traveled vagabond, she is blessed with a wealth of knowledge of the world. She has seen, heard, and experienced so many things that she has forgotten most of them, one of them being her own name.
For some reason, Mumei seems to project a rather pitiable aura. Perhaps this is in part thanks to the loneliness she has often felt in her perennial travels. That is what gave her the idea of making her own friend out of a material that was indispensable to the development of human civilization: paper.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Holo no Graffiti
=== Video Games ===
* Valkyrie Connect
== Trivia ==
* Both "Nanashi" and "Mumei" mean "anonymous." This refers to her canonical inability to remember her original name.
** The name "Nanashi" is written with the kanji meaning "seven" and "poetry."
** The name "Mumei" is written in katakana, often used to write foreign names. The word "mumei" is usually written in Japanese with the kanji.
** Nanashi, meaning "anonymous," is perhaps best known in Japanese internet pop culture as the default username on the popular Japanese forum 2channel. Nanashi is also occasionally used as a Japanese given name, such as the name of the protagonist of the video game Akiba's Trip.
* Mumei reads her name in Eastern order, like Gawr Gura, Ninomae Ina'nis, Takanashi Kiara, and Ceres Fauna.
* Mumei is the only member of the five of her generation who was not created by the gods. Instead, she is the living embodiment of mankind's efforts on the world.
* Mumei's job as the Guardian of Civilization is to collect and record human history so that it isn't forgotten, as well as encourage the success of humankind as a whole. However, she herself is also prone to forgetting things.
* Mumei's current name is merely the one she last remembers receiving. Her original name is unknown.
* Mumei's form was inspired by the owl, a creature which represents wisdom.
** Mumei mentioned that her appearance is based on a barn owl.
* Mumei created her own friend from paper, a material valuable to mankind's development thanks to the value of writing as a store of knowledge.
* Mumei has the ability to take the form of an owl. She claims that switching forms too much in the past turned her brain more bird than human, resulting in her memory problems.
* Mumei's age is unknown, as she has forgotten it. However, going from the trends of her genmates, Mumei is likely as old as human civilization, which would make her the youngest member of the Council, as Civilization is much younger than the ages provided by the council members (the ages Earth, the universe, and infinity). Logically, the existence of Civilization, an artificial creation, is far younger than abstract concepts like Nature, Space, Time, and Chaos.
** If Mumei is assumed to be as old as recorded civilization, it would put her at 5,000-6,000 years old; if she is instead assumed to be as old as humanity (ie. Homo sapiens), this would make her about 200,000-300,000 instead. In her debut stream, she remarked that she has been recording human history for about 6,000 years, making it likely the former.
** Hakos Baelz has the potential to be younger than Mumei, as her age is randomized. However, as the concept of primordial Chaos, she logically far predates humanity or human civilization.
* Mumei likes obtaining knowledge, vegetable broth, drawing stuff, and singing.
* Mumei dislikes forgetting things, mud, printers, and mosquitoes.
* Mumei's favorite anime are Neon Genesis Evangelion, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Steins;Gate, Hunter x Hunter, Bokurano, and Made in Abyss.
* Mumei's favorite manga are Tokyo Ghoul, To Your Eternity, and Promised Neverland.
* Mumei's favorite music genres are folk, JPop, Vocaloid, and "pop punk metal with yelling."
* Mumei's favorite games are simulators (especially Rollercoaster Tycoon 2), world building games, and rhythm games.
* Mumei's goals are to have a song appear in a rhythm game, learn Japanese (again), collab with senpais, improve and learn new skills, write a song on guitar, and perform a 3D live.
* Mumei has a fondness for berries in video games, a quirk that originated from her first time playing in HoloEN's Minecraft server. On a related note, her favorite flavor of yogurt is raspberry.
* Mumei's birthday, 4 August, is International Owl Awareness Day.
* The Egyptian hieroglyphs appear on Mumei's cape, which is a transliteration of "IRA LUXURIA GULA ACEDIA SUPERBIA AVARITIA INVIDIA," the seven deadly sins in Latin. Egyptian hieroglyphs are one of the earliest known writing systems, dating back to around 3,200 BC, while the Latin language dates back to around 600 BC and remained in used as an academic language until the modern era.
* Mumei's golden hair clip is the symbol "ᚱ", the Norse rune equivalent to the modern English letter "R." The significance is unknown, as the letter "R" does not appear in her name, although in Norse rune poems it stands for the word meaning "ride" or "journey".
** Mumei's shirt is fastened at at the top with a brooch in the shape of the symbol "ᛟ", a Norse rune meaning "home" or "inherited estate." It represents the letter "O".
** In her new casual outfit unveiled in April 2023, she wears a necklace with the symbol "ᛜ", representing the sound "ng". According to Mumei, it represents fertility, new beginnings, and isolating oneself to grow.
* Mumei is one of several hololive members who are identified as birds. Previous members include phoenix Takanashi Kiara, peafowl Pavolia Reine, and Oozora Subaru, who is identified by fans as a duck. The next member after her is hawk Takane Lui.
** Like Kiara and Tsukumo Sana, Mumei can also speak Bird language.
* Mumei's original outfit, including a cape, belt, dagger, and lantern, resembles the archetype of an adventurer of the medieval fantasy roleplaying game genre.
* The feather used as Mumei's emoji reflects both her appearance as an owl, and the quill, an animal feather traditionally used as writing instrument.
** A few screenshots show that Mumei initially used the emoji 🦉 (owl) on her Twitter username, but quickly changed it to 🪶 (feather) within hours of the official announcement.
** In English, the sound made by some species of owl is often rendered as "hoo," a homonym for "who" which sometimes appears in jokes (e.g.: "One of us is secretly an owl." "Who?"). This may be an intentional pun on Mumei's theme of anonymity. She used this pun in a tweet shortly before debut: "I wonder hoo will be there.." At debut, she noted that her name could be interpreted to mean "who who," another owl noise.
* Mumei considers theme parks to be one of the peaks of civilization.
* Mumei shares her Live2D modeler with several hololive-affiliated VTubers, including fellow EN members Ninomae Ina'nis, IRyS and Ceres Fauna.
* Mumei is often associated with the I forgor 💀 meme due to her forgetfulness.
** If she is to remember what she forgot, Mumei's chat tends to relay the counterpart phrase "she rember," a reference to the I rember 😁 meme.
** Despite this, she herself tends to refrain from saying it on stream. Mumei says this is because "I forgor" is a meme that existed before her debut, and she prefers to use memes that rise organically from her own content.
* Mumei is also associated with the simple text emoji :D due to her regular use of it in her stream descriptions.
* On 21 April 2022, Mumei replaced her old fan art hashtag "#drawMEI" with a new one "#drawingMEI" when she discovered some accounts were using it to share comics.
* Mumei celebrated her birthday on 4 August 2022.
** Unfortunately, Sana couldn't attend because she had graduated on 31 July 2022. Instead, Mumei prepared a prerecorded message which Mumei played during her birthday celebration stream. Given the timing of Sana's retirement, Mumei was the only member of -Council- and Project: HOPE who did not get to celebrate her birthday while Sana was active.
** That same day, Mumei released a cover of "Dandan Chikaku Naru" by 40mP. The music video, made by Kanauru, featured bright colors and cute characters for the most part, but the content was quite dark, depicting various disasters and atrocities from recent human history. The video was made private within a few hours of uploading, with hololive announcing that they wanted to clarify questions from some viewers before deciding whether to repost it.
** On 3 September, a new version of the song "Dandan Chikaku Naru" was uploaded with some changes to the video content.
* Mumei has a female pet named "Animal."
** Although she is very good at cat and dog impressions, when asked what species Animal is, Mumei simply responds: "Animal is just a normal animal."
** According to Mumei, Animal's long claws and scales make her appearance scary to other people. She also has "half a broken wing", and can breathe fire and ice.
** Although Mumei initially intruded upon and made unwelcome noise in her streams, over time she has come to be regularly welcomed (noises and all). She concedes that Animal is spoiled not only in general, but also by Hoomans who are very loving toward Animal as a whole, with some going as far as sending superchats for her.
** Animal has separation anxiety and will cry, wail and generally make a lot of noise if Mumei has to leave her side for an extended period of time. This makes Mumei not want to leave Animal alone, and is the main reason why she sometimes struggles to run even small errands.
* The runes in the logo for Mumei's music video, A New Start, translate as follows: "The adventure we call life is is never ending, so hold your heart up high and go as far as your spirit can take you."
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Nanashi Mumei at Virtual Youtuber Wiki
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