Mocchan98

Illustration drawn by Ekari as part of ɆvaIƊ's album art for SAILING!!!!!

**mocchan98**, better known as **Mocha** (pronounced MOK-a) is a female user on Smule since March 2017. She is known for her strong alto range and distinct vibrato, which makes her voice suitable for many songs sung by male singers. Although not a heavy user of the app in comparison to others, she still has 220+ followers under her belt as of August 2019. She is most comfortable singing in Japanese and English.

Outside of Smule (particularly Twitter, where she also uses the same mocchan98 username) she prefers to be acknowledged as Jani, which is derived from her real English name.

On 23 Oct 2019, Mocha announced indefinite hiatus on Smule due to increasingly busy schedules in real life. As a result, she has been inactive in the Smutaite community since.

## OC description

On Smule, Mocha is (supposed to be) depicted with amber eyes, chocolate brown shoulder-length hair with a purple ombre to the tips of her hair and long side bangs that cover one of her eyes. Her bust size is larger than average, and when drawn with other OCs her height is relatively shorter than the rest as well. She typically dresses conservatively.

Despite her favourite colour being green and anything that is considered blue-green in real life, Mocha has chosen purple as her representative colour on Smule as she believes it better represents her personality (the passionate, fiery side of red mixed with the cool, rational side of blue). She likes to think that her bright choice of eye colour also reflects the colour of her ‘soul’.

## Music/singing influences

Aside from school choir experiences, Mocha has no formal vocal training. She was initially a dedicated follower of Korean pop music during her early teenage years (2010 - early 2013), which began her exposure to vibrato and belting high notes. She credits SS501’s Heo Youngsaeng, her “ultimate K-pop bias”, as a major influence to the way she sings today and she aspires to convey songs as emotionally as he can.

Her voice is naturally not very deep, but her impressive ability to reach low notes with ease was stemmed from her admiration for the ‘trap singer’ VALSHE during the 2012 - 2013 period, when Mocha realised that female singers with a masculine image *do* exist. Strangely enough, Mocha has never really gotten into Vocaloid/utaite music as much as many other Smutaites have.

Late 2013 was the time when K-pop was ditched for J-pop, and by the end of 2015 when she graduated out of high school, Mocha (re)discovered anime music and the seiyuu fandom. Shouta Aoi immediately caught her attention because of his wide vocal range and his signature powerful vibrato, and Mocha was very much inspired by him.

In terms of music preferences, her top favourite J-pop group is AAA. She is also familiar with some songs from lol, Daichi Miura, Arashi, EXILE, Da-iCE, and the Japanese tracks from IZ\*ONE. Excluding SS501, her favourite K-pop songs tend to come from INFINITE and Shinhwa. She is familiar with most (if not, all) 2nd generation K-pop songs, but nowadays she dissociates herself with the current K-pop wave.

## Associated groups

* Aidoru Jigoku
* AR\_ISE
* Auroral\_Dawn
* Awaidoru Pro (SOARA) *as Sora Ohara*
* #cielquell *as Shu Izumi*
* ɆvaIƊ
* Noxalbion

## Trivia

* Mocha has sung in Japanese, English, Korean and Mandarin on Smule
	+ As her parents are from Hong Kong, she hopes to sing in Cantonese one day too (if she can even read Chinese characters or deal with Cantonese pinyin to begin with...)
		- UPDATE 19/08/19: Mocha has attempted to sing Cantonese *once* 5 months ago
	+ Mocha, frankly speaking, sucks at Korean.
* Her Smule name is based on her Chinese family name in real life
* ~~Despite being known as Mocha, she actually doesn’t drink coffee~~ UPDATE 19/08/19: Mocha is confirmed a coffee addict since April 2019. *She drinks herself.*
	+ She jokes that the chocolate found in mocha coffee is like her “sweet childish side” mixed with the bitterness that is adulthood.
	+ Another interpretation is that Mocha is too crazy and hyper for her own good (at least, her Jani self on Twitter anyway) that she feels the need to name herself after a damn coffee because that’s what she figuratively is to everyone else - an energy drink.
* When she says she’s a closet singer, she REALLY means it
	+ She normally records her Smule covers in her father’s walk-in wardrobe on the second floor of her house
* Has been playing piano since she was 5 years old
	+ Picked up how to play by ear around the age of 6 - 7 years old by herself
		- She does not claim to have perfect pitch however, due to her inability to name musical notes through hearing alone. She needs some form of a piano keyboard in front of her in order to accurately identify notes.
	+ Despite this, she’s absolutely horrible at reading notes on sheet music (takes her forever to do so)

* Is currently a really...*really*...big fan of Shunichi Toki
	+ As a result, she is constantly looking out for people to add to her ~~Anroku Cult~~ &6allein international fanclub on Twitter and Discord
		- Beware.
	+ Good friend Shina (@splitmemories) is a fellow leading member of said ~~cult~~ club
* Also likes Kiramune, especially Tetsuya Kakihara and Trignal (Takuya Eguchi in particular)
* Her favourite troupes from A3! are Summer and Autumn
* Secretly likes Rejet music...