Masae Anela

Thank you for coming~!
Streamer, artist, musician, and bird-mom to her pet bird Mipha. It's Masae Anela! Locked in a long-term Ham-Ham War with Jon for who the bigger Hamtaro fan is. Nonetheless, she is a valued member of the TRG friend group that likes to have fun and sometimes do a little trolling. She's also one of the artists of the group, having been commissioned to do some Pokemon bio art for Emile's PKMN Platinum and Black & White (2010/2011) Let's Plays.

Aside from being an early Nintendo LPer on YouTube, she frequently streams on Twitch. While never showing herself on camera outside of update videos and vlogs from Stephen/Tom/NCS, she started streaming with a VTuber avatar in 2023 in two ways. First, she debuted acting as her pet bird Mipha in a fully-rigged Live2D model she drew and rigged herself within a month for April Fools 2023. Later that summer, she began using her avatar (the new one since her revamp and Patreon launch) as a PNGTuber avatar on her own streams and not just as a reactive talk icon for Discord calls on some streams. On September 19, 2023, she upgraded her PNGTuber using PNGTuber+ and added animations for its movement. For her 14th content creation anniversary, Masae revealed a gift Live2D VTuber avatar made by one her viewers, JeremySenapi!

A robot...?
During a previous stream, Jon had tested out a male to female voice changer. Chat made the connection that his voice in this way sounds surprisingly like Masae, especially when saying her catch phrase of "Thank you for coming!".

This had spawned quite a few pieces of art and a few running gags. This was brought up again in the future when Masae was accused of being a robot for their bird Mipha by FamilyJules.