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Yamin is the voice actress who was casted in in the original Cookie☆. Her main role in the drama is Suika(SIK), of which character she is most closely associated with. She also voiced minor characters including Cirno (who was later developed as an original character Curan), and Patchouli (known as PCLY).
Yamin is usually referred by the community by her TDN name YMN-aneki. Like Hinase, however, the early Cookie☆ tended to directly call her character SIK due to her decent voice acting performance. This SIK is also known as “Yajuu’s Sister(
After Cookie☆'s boom as a meme subculture, Yamin had been one of the voice actresses who most actively interacted with the community. She remains active today as a online personality and Youtuber.
In the Voice Drama
Most of Yamin’s appearances in voice dramas are brief. In the OG Cookie☆, her first appearance in the video was as SIK, who came out of the shrine to ask who was over. Her second appearance was as CRN, whose screen time was even shorter, with merely two lines. Her third appearance was as Patchouli, who takes up the most screen time of these three roles. She scolds Marisa for breaking into the library, and reads there with Alice.
In terms of Touhou related voice drama, the last role she has played was as Youmu in Birthday☆, which has basically not been acknowledged at all in fan works, even though it had caused a stir when it was revealed she’d voice act for a voice drama again.
Real Life Activities
Yamin, whose real name is Nana Hiyama, was already a very famous NicoNico live broadcaster before participating in Cookie☆. The reason someone as famous as her participated in the drama was because of an invitation from Udzuki. At the time of recording, her home was far away from the studio used by Hazuna Rio, so she had to sent her home-recorded audio to Hazuna. Thus, she had not interacted enough with the organiser in person to be exposed to his harassments, and was not the subject of much discussions at the early stage of the Cookie☆ controversy.
Yamin's mentioning of the voice drama during a livestream in 2013 brought her some attention, but it did not grow into a huge topic until the recorded video was uploaded on to Niconico in December that year. This boosted the already growing demand of her audio materials during the Cookie☆ BB theatre boom. Henceforward, she was considered one of the voice actors most actively involved in the subculture alongside Reu and Taisa.
Yamin disappeared briefly from the internet in 2015 and returned in 2016, due to apparently having tried to become a professional voice actor and failing. Since then, vowing to become a great entertainer, her popularity seems to be expanding even outside of Cookie☆, appearing on the official NicoNico channel. The JP wiki considers her an internet celebrity of some kind.
Since 2020, Yamin began posting pornographic pictures of herself on Twitter and on PixivFANBOX, which has also garnered her attention from other sources.
Fictional Portrayals
Appearance and Character
Yamin is always portrayed as her Suika Ibuki role in terms of appearance. Sometimes, pictures and video of her from live streams are used, but that's not entirely common. By default, however, she has long orange hair, a red ribbon on the back of her head, horns, a purple skirt, and shoes with bows.
As a legacy of the early Cookie☆ that was not fully segregated from Touhou, “SIK” in Cookie☆ is a single character that merged references from her, Nana Takahashi (the Suika from music video Shuwa Super Daisakusen☆) and Fujiwara Marina (the Suika from Club Ibuki in Break All). Because SIK is seen trying to drug Reimu's drinks in Shuwa Super Daisakusen☆, she is also known as “Yajuu’s Sister(
Typically, Yamin is a mischievous or childish character in BB theatres, but rarely if ever portrayed in a villainous sense. Despite her childish appearance, she also has been portrayed as a fighter with a sense of justice.
In battle theatres, Yamin's most common weapon is a sword named "Inmu no Hitotachi (淫夢之一太刀, the One Tachi of Inmu)". The name came from the homophones of a quote from Yamin in her live stream, “people of Inmu (淫夢の人たち).” The appearance of this sword came from Monster Hunter.
Relationships
In BB theatres, Yamin is often portrayed as a mother figure for Yamin and are usually close like family. In the real world, Kanna and Yamin are good friends and often collaborate with each other, especially as Kanna started her own Vtuber activity.
Yamin's brother (usually) in BB theater, because of her close associations with Inmu and Suika having a similar meaning to the name of Yajuu. Their relationship varies. In the real world, Yamin seems to respect him.
Yamin's fellow VAs in the first scene of Cookie☆OG. Reu is Yamin's sister as part of the RIM family, while the other two are her friends.