Amane Kanata

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**Amane Kanata** (天音かなた *Aname Kanata*) is the guilder angel of the Starlightia, partner of Otosaki Atsuka and one of the main characters in the *Shining Bonds a la Mode: 340 Years Later* series.

Kanata is an angelic denizen student of the Heaven Academy, who is currently studying to become a full-fledged angel of Starlightia. Prior to the series start, Kanata meets Atsuka and become friends later on to find the legendary Sword of Harmony and Dazzle Diamond hidden any locations.

## Appearances

Kanata is an 18 year-old with short silver hair with azure blue streaks and eyes with a fade of blue to purple, and small white angel wings on her back that are tipped with baby blue.

In her causal outfit, she typically wears her Heaven Academy school uniform along with a small, shiny, metallic halo over her head that resembles the shape of a star. This same four-pointed star-shape is also seen on her uniform's buttons. The high collar of her school uniform frequently conceals part of her face. Her uniform's ribbon is consistently uneven/lopsided. Gaps in her bangs reveal that she has cobalt-blue highlights. Kanata also has two feathered wings which can be seen over her shoulders, as is typical of angels (in several episodes of *AsaCoco Live News* Kiryu Coco has found innovative uses for the feathers they produce).

## Personality

Kanata is an angelic denizen currently studying at the Heaven Academy to become a full-fledged angel. She is currently 18 years old. (She specifies that this is her "angel age", but has stated in her profile in the SBALM website that this is the same as her human age.)

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, she 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.

## Role in the series

### Meeting Sora and Mizuki

Kanata's first debut was in *The Birth of the Miraclix Heart Heroes!* when she appeared in Yumesora talking to Queen Estrella and her Dream Ankmal partners Breeze, Muse, Pone and Hibanami about the new evil uprising, and was sent to Earth along with her, Sora, and Mizuki to quickly find the legendary warriors, sensing an Angelix Warrior and a Princess Warrior.

## Trivia

* Her 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, etc.).
* During her debut stream Kanata included a vocal performance of the traditional Japanese sea shanty *Sōran Bushi*, complete with the backing music being entirely composed of her singing A cappella. Kanata has since become intrinsically linked with *Sōran 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.
* The yellow arm-band on her school uniform reads "Student Council" in Japanese, implying that she is active in extracurricular activities at Heaven Academy.
* Kanata owns two pet rabbits.
* 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*.
* She 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 50 kg and is very proud of it, to the point it reinforced the use of her "Gorilla" nickname. More recently, her 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.
	+ 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.
* She is almost deaf in one ear.
* Kanata lives with her fellow hololive idol Kiryu Coco. Coco has given her 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.
* Kanata has a Harmony Mark of a white feather.