Akai Haato

Introduction Video
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Official Bio
"Welcome to your rouge awakening! This is Akai Haato!"

"A sassy kouhai. She is often prickly, however she manages to demand lots of attention from those with whom she has been getting along well. She loves red ribbons and heart shapes and often adds them to her hair and dresses."

Overview
Akai Haato is a member of Hololive 1st Generation.

Her name "Akai" translates to "red" and "Haato" is how Japanese pronounces the word "heart", so she is strongly associated with the color red and hearts.

Haato is a Japanese exchange student currently studying in Australia.

Personality
Haato is weak to horror and jumpscares and will cry easily if she makes a mistake. She started out as a Tsundere but has since become more sociable. Despite the air of superiority she displays (sometimes even teasing/light bullying her fans), she will not hesitate to play the fool to entertain the audience. When she gets all emotional and serious, she really, really opens up to her audience about her feelings and problems.

Haato often does things on a whim and is self-centered. She’s a contrarian that tends to find things bothersome in addition to being very hasty and easily bored. She plays around with this personality with her viewers, but her true nature is that she is very loving with her viewers.

Her actions and choice of words stand out for being childish, but what also stands out is how she sometimes really behaves like a grownup and shows her philosophical thinking.

2018

 * May 20 Twitter account creation date.
 * May 23 YouTube channel creation date.
 * June 02 YouTube debut, and first uploaded video.
 * July 13 Achieved a 10,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Nov. 27 Achieved a 25,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Dec. 26 Revealed a new 2D outfit.

2019

 * Jan. 25 Debuted her 3D model.
 * Mar. 01 Achieved a 100,000 bilibili subscriber milestone.
 * Mar. 16 Achieved a 50,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Apr. 17 Received a 3D model update.
 * June 06 Achieved a 77,777 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * July 09 Debuted her 3D swimsuit outfit.
 * Sep. 01 Achieved a 100,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Dec. 09 Creation date of the YouTube sub-channel as a result of her main channel getting demonetized. Ceased activity on sub-channel as a result of the main channel regaining monetization.

2020

 * Jan. 01 Revealed a New Years outfit.
 * Jan. 24 Participated in Hololive's first live, "Nonstop Story", and debuted her 3D idol outfit.
 * Feb. 01 Main channel regained monetization.
 * Feb. 12 Achieved a 200,000 YouTube subscriber milestone..
 * Mar. 18 Achieved a 250,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Apr. 07 Membership feature opened.
 * May 05 Achieved a 300,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * July 03 Achieved a 400,000 YouTube subscriber milestone during her R18 art review stream.
 * July 30 Main Live2D model was updated to "Ver.2.0".
 * Aug. 08 Participated in Bilibili World.
 * Aug. 16 Achieved a 500,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Sep. 29 Achieved a 600,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Oct. 26 Revealed 6th outfit.
 * Oct. 28 Achieved a 700,000 YouTube subscriber milestone during her cooking stream.

Streaming Information
Her fans are called Haaton. It is a combination words of Haato+Ton/豚 (Pig). Haatons are portrayed as yellow pig characters with a notable beheaded mark around their necks.

Trivia

 * Cooking streams are one of Haachama’s representative streams. There are times when she cooked well, but usually things that resemble industrial waste are created.
 * She’s often mistaken for a Half-Japanese. But actually, she is 1/4th British.
 * Following her family’s plan, she is studying abroad in a virtual foreign country (virtual Australia).
 * As of March 2020, Haato is unable to return to Japan due to immigration restrictions in accordance with the international COVID-19 measures.
 * While Haato is currently studying in Australia and originally lived in Japan, she has also visited Singapore and the Philippines in the past.
 * Haato had many complications in her life as an exchange student. For example, she attended a prison-like school in the Philippines, and in another case, a suspicious gun-wielding person came to her school in Australia.
 * Haato can speak English, however, she only has a few words which she can properly pronounce with confidence. She also often asks her viewers for help with the meaning of words she does not understand.
 * As a result of being far away from Japan for so long and not studying under a Japanese school, Haato's knowledge of literary Japanese and her Kanji are below the par for an ordinary Japanese citizen. When reading complicated texts, she often asks for help with kanji she cannot read from her Japanese viewers.
 * Capitalizing on this weakness, she created a short series in April 2020 where she would read a piece of literature and instantly stop the stream if she does not read the kanji right.
 * In the large-scale collaboration stream “The King of Funny Answers to English Tests!” (ホロライブ珍回答王), Haato ended up being corrected again and again by the native English speaker Kiryuu Coco. Furthermore, despite being the host, Haato was crowned as the first King of Funny Answers competition.
 * She has a very good relationship with her sister as evidenced by them going out and singing the song "Shiny Smily Story" together.
 * Once, she forgot to turn on her stream while playing Getting Over It. Viewers and fans in chat acted and sent messages as if they were watching her play. Thanks to this, Haato “air-streamed” for 30 minutes until she finally realized that she was not actually streaming. She unleashed a great wail of lamentation and regret. However, after the stream has ended, she left the stream in her archive and this stream has turned into a sublime meme that is remembered and occasionally brought up by fans for fun to this day.
 * She had ballet experience in her childhood, and physical training is one of her strong points. In her 3D stream, she showed it off by contorting herself into an amazing Bridge from a standing upright position.
 * In an education level test, Haato did not know that there were 47 prefectures in Japan. Also, some ridiculous aspects of her are revealed on that stream. For instance, she believed that the prefectures of Japan are in other foreign countries and that Level 10 of the Kanken Test is the most difficult level.
 * Shares the same Illustrator with the following VTubers:
 * Utsugi Sawa and Quon Tama.
 * Is one of the Hololive Production VTubers with a verified YouTube channel (on her main channel only). Other verified members can be found here.

Haachama
Haato felt that her initial nickname of Haato-sama was too distant so in one of her streams, she made up a story about her sister calling her "Haachama". Haato had admitted at the end of the stream that the story was made up and apologized for it. During the 2020 Hololive New Year's stream, the Haachama nickname came up again thanks to Okayu and screaming it out loud when Haato does something clumsy was popularized by Marine later on.

Haato Cooking
Haato is known to her fans and other hololive members for her unusual way of cooking and the use of mysterious ingredients. Occasionally Haato does cooking streams where she has a mounted camera to capture the cooking process and takes pictures of the final product. Haato always eats her food, and usually states that it's delicious. The running joke between fans (EN and JP) is that Haato's cooking streams are a form of torture.

Haato mentioned that she cannot eat eggs or derived products due to allergies, perhaps contributing to her unusual taste in food and ingredients.

Image Gallery
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Original Songs
The following are original songs by Haato.

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Cover Songs
The following are a list of songs covered by Haato.

BGM
The following are a list of background music Haato has used in her streams and videos.