Who's this blonde girl with the green bow?
Nanahira (ななひら) is a utaite (someone who covers songs) and VTuber known for her sweet and sassy voice. She started her career back in 2008 on Nico Nico, and is still active to this day!
She’s mostly known for singing in denpa and Touhou songs, and her covers, such as Stupendously Crazy Flan-chan is Stupendous Song, Can I Friend You on BassBook? and Ten Ten Tengoku Jigoku Kuni.
Outside of that, she also had appearances such as singing in POKÉDANCE and an advert for a kinda famous fast-food chain. She's also the voice of Qtie in Yunyun Syndrome!? Rhythm Psychosis.
She also has her own label named Confetto.
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Some favorite songs
There are many amazing songs of her to pick, but I tried to pick a few ones here.
(yes I had to include this one)
Artist she often collabs with
There are many artists she has worked with, but I'd say there are two notable ones:
- Camellia: A Japanese music producer who's best known for electronic songs in the rhythm game scene. He played a big role in her international popularity, through songs such as Can I Friend You on BassBook?. They have a few albums together that are all great!!
- Pochi Korone: A mousegirl utaite that she very often collabs with. Their fan name is NanaPomi. (Pochi Korone is also great, go check her out!)
VTuber activities
In 2020 she started being a VTuber on her YouTube channel, though she only occasionally streams there.
But she's also the voice of Zonko, a VTuber from a energy drink brand, to promote that brand, and on their channel there are also great covers and original songs with her great voice!!
Besides that, she was also active as the VTuber Nijino Mahoro, but has discontinued that identity for a while now. (It was a project by KAI-YOU, but it didn't meet expectations, so after that concluded, she tried that character independently for a while, but since retired it)
Nanahira at home
In 2009 Nanahira voiced her own UTAU named Haruka Nana. Not much of her personality is known, except that she's a silly little girl and that she like Salami, warabi-mochi (reference?) and "anything that smells good".
She's free to download from her official website.
According to VocaDB there are over 1000 songs and covers that use her, including ones made by Nanahira herself (yes she also used her own utau).
Why I love Nanahira
I discovered her through Muse Dash (that game has many Nanahira songs in it), and immediately fell in love with her. Her voice is just so cute, but she can also sing in a sassy voice. She can sing in so many ways, which amazes me.
She also got me into denpa music (something she's also very famous for), and I also can't explain why I like denpa, but I just like it?
Not to mention that she also always makes me happy when I listen to her singing, so she's kinda special to me.
Credits
- Nanahira left or above: From the PICO-Pico-TRANSLATION MV (Illust. by 九鳥ぱんや(Kutori Pan-ya)
- Character sheet illustrated by Wasabi (W.label)
- Bebe image: From character sheet
- Mite & Omochi images: From the Shuwa*Shuwa Parafait MV (Illust. by Nekotori)
- Haruka Nana: illustrated by Nagimiso
- Background pattern: Made by me :3 (inspired by Nanahira's outfit)
