February 5 is the official birthday of REM Kanashibari from V4Mirai. I first found her in October of 2024 throughout a Halloween karaoke relay, and since then, she’s grow to be one in every of my most watched VTubers, so I need to share why I get pleasure from watching her a lot.
REM’s background lore is that of a sleep paralysis demon who’s “born to nap, pressured to yap.” Nonetheless, her attraction is finest summed up in her personal phrases: “I’m not a consolation streamer, I’m a discomfort streamer.” Utilizing her soothing voice, she banters along with her chat, engages in off-the-cuff function performs, and brings to life a wide range of low-key but weird stream concepts. The outcome is an interesting expertise that’s as enjoyable as it’s head-scratching.
Like many different VTubers, REM does ASMR, and her strategy actually hits an ideal candy spot for me. Some ASMR creators may take a extra intimate strategy, performing as an emotionally therapeutic salve. Others go for one thing emotionally intense, like yandere roleplay. However REM tends in direction of a lot sillier and extra experimental situations which are tinged with an irreverent humorousness. Her ASMR themes have included “the worst airline ever,” “rat dying in a glue entice,” “smoking 500 cigarettes,” “crab giving a haircut,” “surgeon who simply discovered your cost was declined,” and “smothering you along with her official hug pillow merch.” One among my absolute favorites is her “pushy door-to-door ASMR salesman” stream, the place she makes use of one in every of her earpicks to select your entrance lock:
In line with REM herself, she initially didn’t plan on being an ASMR creator, which is humorous as a result of it fits her sleep paralysis demon motif so effectively. Whereas VTubers typically transfer over time in trajectories away from their lore, REM has, in a way, grown nearer to her idea.
As a substitute, her unique motivation for entering into VTubing was truly to sing, and whereas she isn’t releasing new music on a regular basis, she does have quite a few good releases. I like to recommend her 3D live performance efficiency of “Take care of the Satan” (the opening to Kakegurui), REM’s Sleepover (a collab live performance with a number of nice company, together with Roca Rourin), and her first unique tune “Stick with Me ???”:
Oh, and she or he as soon as ate jellied eels due to a donathon objective, and it’s apparently essentially the most vile factor she’s ever tasted. As somebody who’s wished to strive the (in)well-known London dish for years, I appreciated her try and lived vicariously (?) by means of her.
General, REM creates an vitality all her personal, and I’m all the time wanting ahead to seeing what she comes up with subsequent. I believe she’s very welcoming, and the one barrier is what number of jokes about Brazilian butt lifts you possibly can take from her and the chat earlier than tapping out.
PS: REM is having a multi-day birthday celebration. Playlist is beneath!
