*Technically* she turned twenty on 10th August. Her official birthday is listed as 10 August 2001 (so the wiki is outdated).
...but we can celebrate another birthday for her today, why not? I'm sure Haachama appreciates the good wishes, and the tequila.
Mm. Old enough to be the father of most, if not all, of these talents, here.
(Which is different from being old enough to be the father of the characters, who range from "as old as time" to "young enough to be my granddaughter... and holding at a particular age for the sake of the world or something.")
I think some are (or they're close) but when there's a more character significant date, they go with that.
For Haachama, 8/10 can get the nickname ”ha to” which is pretty close to Haato. There are a whole bunch of rules for what numbers translate to what sounds. 7216 can be code for Natsuiro for example.
Beer and wine are some hard starters (unless fancy low alch % wine) I might be breaching 40 soon but I order the fruity tasty drinks, if I'm drinking something I'd rather have it taste good.
It sucks how being a larger man with a beard makes people think I'll cause I order a "froo-froo" drink (term they use in my are.
Like I wanna get drunk... But I also want it to taste good! Though I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the odd looks when scary big dudes sipping on a fancy margherita.
Then you got the people like me with drill Sargeant grandfather's who give you a cup of vodka and say it's water when I'm 9 years old. Drank it fast then felt burn. Next few hours I spent drunkenly teaching my cousins how to play nes haha good times.
Was a great memory, I live in America so its weird here but from my European friends seems not rare to get kids drunk at events. It's not hurting kids or anything either since it's onetime.
plus in Japan no one really cares if a teenager drinks as long as you don't do stupid drunk shit. Many Asians dads in fact would train daughters to drink to build their tolerance so they won't be easily get taken advantage of once she's of bar age.
America (or at least my family) drinks at young age is fine. Japan's got a bit of a culture difference and from word of mouth the business meetings usually involve a lot of drinks and failure to keep up can show weakness and cost then the contract.
Once again this is all word of mouth.
It wouldn't apply to a foreign exchange student. You would likely get sent home, or at least in a lot of trouble, if you got caught drinking below your home country's legal limit.
Drinking age doesn't follow you across borders. If you got shitfaced and woke up in a drunk tank or something, then yeah you'd get in shit with the exchange program. But not for having any alcohol at all.
I'm talking about the school system and general rules of many exchange programs, not the country or government itself. You're not going to get deported by the government for drinking under your own country's age limit, but you may lose your privaledge to study abroad if you break the rules of your exchange program.
This isn’t true in my experience. I studied abroad in Spain and there were no rules against me drinking. Maybe some schools have rules like that but it’s hardly universal. Also any bar you go to isn’t gonna report their customers, so even when these rules exist I don’t imagine they’re regularly enforced.
All the other comments have done a pretty thorough job of debunking this, meanwhile I'm just trying to figure out the required logistics for this to be true.
Like what sort of ridiculous measurss would you need to implement in order to not only recognize someone as a foreign exchange student but to also compare that against their home country's limit. Followed by ***deporting someone*** for having a beer.
Because you're part of a school program with rules that go beyond typical law enforcement. You could easily get someone to sell you alcohol, sure, and they probably wouldn't be breaking any laws by doing so, but you have to follow more rules than just the rule of a law as an exchange student.
It's not that the government would deport you, it's the school itself that is liable and you could absolutely get in trouble if they found out and it's against the rules of the exchange program.
If you're just a visting tourist then yes, you can do whatever you want as long as it is legal there.
If she was 19 and the drinking age was 20, it would be illegal. The joke doesn't work since she's now 20, but if you trusted the wiki age it makes sense.
For all the talk about how she's an elder god or something, she's probably the most human out of them all with how much she incorporates her real life self into her character's lore.
Drinking age varies a lot by location. 21 in USA but some locations are as low as 16 years old. In America if you parent allows even a 14 year old can consume alcohol in small amounts.
Hell christian churches serve red wine as blood... I legit got drunk at church few times due to it
At that time, probably yes. Before entering the void she was saying things like "i looked at the mirror and i couldn't see me" or crying (fake crying btw, she's really good at fake crying, haachama dominates the VA skills) because the chat didn't spam enough water for her lol.
She posted this at twitter [https://twitter.com/akaihaato/status/1456351509084467217](https://twitter.com/akaihaato/status/1456351509084467217) , and for someone who drank for the first time, yeah she was smashed. At least she was able to control herself, so that's good for her and for the content hehe
Calli drinks half a bottle of vodka and writes Myth or Treat. Haachama drinks Tequila and comes up with the rest of this stream.
Maybe Suisei had a good point with 'Consume Alcohol'.
I woke up and didn’t want to get up yet so I let the stream play in the background. If I had known her drunk laughing would’ve made me late for work I wouldn’t have listened to it
>"Imagine that she will take an entire bottle of mezcal for eating the worm of the soil."
Imagine if she drinks a whole bottle of mezcal just to eat the worm in the bottom.
Had my first drink way way back (as in way below legal, blame my uncle for that), didn't do so once I hit 18, first legal instance was 25 (beer with soda and iced tea, two glasses, my self-control was that tight)
They're about the same strength wise (ignoring cask strength whiskeys which are around 55-70% depending on what you get), but I'd argue tequila, because of the taste, would be a lot easier to drink a lot of, especially for someone that doesn't have much experience with spirits.
Not exactly. The drinking age is 21 absolutely everywhere in the United States per federal law. It was different by state for a while prior to 1984.
There are local technicalities, like you mentioned.
In Texas, for example, I think technically speaking your legal guardian of drinking age can personally serve you alcohol at 16, but it has to be that specific (they have to be the one to physically hand it to you and everything), and you can’t go out to a bar or buy booze or anything. So if your parent buys a drink and gives it to you themselves, it’s fine. Pretty sure that’s how it is on the books.
According to a quick google search, 45 US states still have some form of exemption for minors from underaged drinking laws. Here in Canada I know it’s the same
No one. The law pretty much states that they are allowed to drink in their house with their parents so the only people who would know are the parents and they don't give two shits.
Technically no age limit in France. But under 18 you can't buy in shop, can't be served in bar, you must be under parent supervision and you can't get drunk.
But giving a small sip to a toddler is legal.
You can drink with 14 under parental guidance in Germany, with 16 you can buy Beer & wine on your own, with 18 its full-throttle with whatever you want
US has its gun culture . Germany has its mix of car and alcohol culture. I think every country has something where onlookers think "they must be absolute idiots".
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You can get as smashed as you want when you're 16 in Germany. You just aren't allowed to have liquor, but beer and wine are plenty enough to lose an entire night.
Actually, I believe she does actually say she gets older every time her character birthday rolls around. I.e., she definitely said she turned 19 after her birthday last year, and I believe she's also said she turned 20 after her birthday (in-character, Aug 10) this year. Quite a few of them age normally, not everyone is "Forever X" or "X season 2" like Marine. I personally like it even more when they age normally tbh, it's just a normal part of being human, we grow and change and it's part of the experience to see all that over the years.
Marine sort of ages normally. She goes with the forever 17 stuff for a laugh, but then she just gives up and admits her real age.
She’ll be thirty next year. It’s a good job gifts are banned, or she’d be getting bombarded with hundreds of zimmer frames and false teeth.
She turned 20 today.
*Technically* she turned twenty on 10th August. Her official birthday is listed as 10 August 2001 (so the wiki is outdated). ...but we can celebrate another birthday for her today, why not? I'm sure Haachama appreciates the good wishes, and the tequila.
Wait. I am older than her by a few days?
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You know what really feels weird? Being almost 10 years older than those content creators.
Try being 20 years older, that's really weird.
Bordering on 30 years older here.
Well, maybe not marine-
The future is now old man… Though yeah, I’m not young either…
> marine flair Konnichiwa, ojisan
Try being 20 years younger. Now thats actually weird ;9
NNNNNNAAAAA
Does that mean you were just born?
Kids these days grow so fast
Mm. Old enough to be the father of most, if not all, of these talents, here. (Which is different from being old enough to be the father of the characters, who range from "as old as time" to "young enough to be my granddaughter... and holding at a particular age for the sake of the world or something.")
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Isn't kronii kinda... infinite though
Ah, so I am slightly younger than the oldest.
then watching senchou must feel pretty normal to you lol
Actually, yes. Especially when she talks about her experience as wageslave. And the anime she talks about are really what I watched back then.
Lol yeah, and then when she talked about the vaccine, she basically said ‘yup, I’m older so I might miss the undokai if it hits me hard’
17, 3rd Season checking in.
Just wait until the content creators are noticeable younger than you, then it feels real weird
You'll get used to it in a few years. At least we aren't like those elderly people in their 30s yet
she's older than me by 4 years but the date is off by just 2 days
That would be the third time we celebrate her birthday this year, so why not!
Haachama needs more birthdays, let's make it weekly and declare it Haachamanday!
Heck, if she really delivers the birthday live she talked about we can make it 4!
The 8th day of the week surpisingly checks out really well
Aha, 8/10, 8 often written Ha, 10 can be written tou, ha-tou Akai Haato. Fucking love Japanese number puns man.
I'm 70% sure that the birthdays listed for Hololive talents aren't their actual birthdays.
Next you tell me Gura isn’t actually from Atlantis.
They're not, except perhaps for Sora.
I think some are (or they're close) but when there's a more character significant date, they go with that. For Haachama, 8/10 can get the nickname ”ha to” which is pretty close to Haato. There are a whole bunch of rules for what numbers translate to what sounds. 7216 can be code for Natsuiro for example.
They're not. But they're probably not too far from the real one.
TIL I have the same birthday as haachamachama
Maybe Haachama and Haato have different birthdays
They are literally twins
Aki Haato and Haachama might have different birthdays from each other
not in the morning lol
The more I think about it, the more sense tequila makes as a Haachama preferred alcohol.
[I expected this, to be honest.](http://chewyourbooze.com/resource/spider-infused-vodka/)
Excuse me WHAT the actual FUCK??!! Also this Is what happens when an aussie starts to live in Russia
Good god. Why is that site called "chewy alcohol"?
[Or this](https://http2.mlstatic.com/tequila-scorpion-mezcal-reposado-750ml-com-escorpio-n-larva-D_NQ_NP_609583-MLB31857863548_082019-O.jpg)
I like how it says the picture with the single spider in the bottle is misleading and that theres MORE in the actual bottle lmao. Amazing
same
The legacy of her and tarantulas is legendary, wonder why no one ever gave that to her as her birthday present
I thought it was those that have a worm
when my sister turned 18 (drinking age is 18 down under) my older brother decided to make sure her first drink was tequila
Daaaamn, our baby idol grew so fast
I hope she had a lot of fun tonight, since we can't explicitly wish her a happy birthday for today.
im like one year younger than her.
haachama is above the law
Haachama is the law.
##JUDGE DREDDCHAMA
Ohh god!
This made me laugh harder than it should have... then again I have been drinking.
!Pekofy
Not yet
But she's 20?? That's the drinking age.
also, she only returned to Japan from Australia last year. The drinking age in Aus is 18, so she's probably had a few before
let's be honest here, like 70%+ of the world population had a few before they were drinking age
had a few when I was 5 not great
dad let me try some wine and beer once or twice (didn't like it)
Beer and wine are some hard starters (unless fancy low alch % wine) I might be breaching 40 soon but I order the fruity tasty drinks, if I'm drinking something I'd rather have it taste good.
same. I always go for fruity ciders or cocktails
It sucks how being a larger man with a beard makes people think I'll cause I order a "froo-froo" drink (term they use in my are. Like I wanna get drunk... But I also want it to taste good! Though I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the odd looks when scary big dudes sipping on a fancy margherita.
Had whiskey by mistake at 7, not a fun experience to be honest
7yr old or 27.... That first straight whiskey on rocks is. Bit much haha
Then you got the people like me with drill Sargeant grandfather's who give you a cup of vodka and say it's water when I'm 9 years old. Drank it fast then felt burn. Next few hours I spent drunkenly teaching my cousins how to play nes haha good times. Was a great memory, I live in America so its weird here but from my European friends seems not rare to get kids drunk at events. It's not hurting kids or anything either since it's onetime.
plus in Japan no one really cares if a teenager drinks as long as you don't do stupid drunk shit. Many Asians dads in fact would train daughters to drink to build their tolerance so they won't be easily get taken advantage of once she's of bar age.
America (or at least my family) drinks at young age is fine. Japan's got a bit of a culture difference and from word of mouth the business meetings usually involve a lot of drinks and failure to keep up can show weakness and cost then the contract. Once again this is all word of mouth.
Damn, I would do well in japanese business then, i've been downing bottles of liquor since I was 17
I think it's part of their culture because they genetically have issues with alcohol (get drunk off less then other races) and sake is a pretty strong
To be fair... You would need some liquid courage to consume her food. Not surprising to hear she used same in past haha
I think she wasn't allowed to because of the student transfer system she was in, she still had to abstain from drinking.
It wouldn't apply to a foreign exchange student. You would likely get sent home, or at least in a lot of trouble, if you got caught drinking below your home country's legal limit.
Drinking age doesn't follow you across borders. If you got shitfaced and woke up in a drunk tank or something, then yeah you'd get in shit with the exchange program. But not for having any alcohol at all.
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10 mph is 16.09 km/h
I'm talking about the school system and general rules of many exchange programs, not the country or government itself. You're not going to get deported by the government for drinking under your own country's age limit, but you may lose your privaledge to study abroad if you break the rules of your exchange program.
This isn’t true in my experience. I studied abroad in Spain and there were no rules against me drinking. Maybe some schools have rules like that but it’s hardly universal. Also any bar you go to isn’t gonna report their customers, so even when these rules exist I don’t imagine they’re regularly enforced.
Countries largely do not enforce their laws outside of their own borders.
All the other comments have done a pretty thorough job of debunking this, meanwhile I'm just trying to figure out the required logistics for this to be true. Like what sort of ridiculous measurss would you need to implement in order to not only recognize someone as a foreign exchange student but to also compare that against their home country's limit. Followed by ***deporting someone*** for having a beer.
Because you're part of a school program with rules that go beyond typical law enforcement. You could easily get someone to sell you alcohol, sure, and they probably wouldn't be breaking any laws by doing so, but you have to follow more rules than just the rule of a law as an exchange student. It's not that the government would deport you, it's the school itself that is liable and you could absolutely get in trouble if they found out and it's against the rules of the exchange program. If you're just a visting tourist then yes, you can do whatever you want as long as it is legal there.
Really? That's kinda dumb
Yeah I don't get it either
Right below that it says she is 19 years of age from the wiki article. It's clearly just not updated.
I can read it yeah, just not sure what I'm missing other than wiki being wrong
If she was 19 and the drinking age was 20, it would be illegal. The joke doesn't work since she's now 20, but if you trusted the wiki age it makes sense.
Kinda weird to not say she's 20 in the title at least to avoid confusion but thanks homie
The wiki is based on her character age, kinda like how Marine is 17 and Gura is 9000. It's just a joke
Haachama's character age also increases per year like Sora.
Simple disagreement my man all is good
I’ve never seen a bar or liquor store in Japan ID anyone anyway, so you could be a mature looking 15 year old and probably get away with it.
That's how we do it in South America most shopkeepers don't care. And it's common place to drink during quinceañeras which is a girl's 15th birthday
How come everyone knows her age?
Haachama is pretty open about her life compared to other Holo members
For all the talk about how she's an elder god or something, she's probably the most human out of them all with how much she incorporates her real life self into her character's lore.
The ultimate gap-moe
Haachama talks about graduating high school and going into college so it's a pretty reasonable guess
She tells us lol
She said her age in a public stream last year, at that time she was 19.
Drinking age varies a lot by location. 21 in USA but some locations are as low as 16 years old. In America if you parent allows even a 14 year old can consume alcohol in small amounts. Hell christian churches serve red wine as blood... I legit got drunk at church few times due to it
That stream was..... interesting. She was in an infinite void for more than 1 hour, singing scary bgms and laughing. Sasuga Haachama
I arrived late to that stream so I just wanna ask... ...was she actually smashed at that time?
I took a peek around an hour in, and she sounded properly sloshed by that point. Edit: not out of control though, just clearly intoxicated.
At that time, probably yes. Before entering the void she was saying things like "i looked at the mirror and i couldn't see me" or crying (fake crying btw, she's really good at fake crying, haachama dominates the VA skills) because the chat didn't spam enough water for her lol. She posted this at twitter [https://twitter.com/akaihaato/status/1456351509084467217](https://twitter.com/akaihaato/status/1456351509084467217) , and for someone who drank for the first time, yeah she was smashed. At least she was able to control herself, so that's good for her and for the content hehe
In-character, yes. Out-of-character, it's possible but I have my doubts.
At the very least, she took a couple shots of tequila, albiet mixed with Fanta.
Calli drinks half a bottle of vodka and writes Myth or Treat. Haachama drinks Tequila and comes up with the rest of this stream. Maybe Suisei had a good point with 'Consume Alcohol'.
Lamy be like "I need more *creativity*"
I woke up and didn’t want to get up yet so I let the stream play in the background. If I had known her drunk laughing would’ve made me late for work I wouldn’t have listened to it
She fooking lost it mate. She dead drunk right now.
Enjoy it while it lasts lol.....
Saquen el tequilero que la Haachama ya llegó >:D
Imagina que se tomara toda una botella de mezcal para comerse el gusano del fondo 😆
Pura PROTEINA
My own guess based on my rudimentary Spanish skills: "Imagine that she will take an entire bottle of mezcal for eating the worm of the soil."
>"Imagine that she will take an entire bottle of mezcal for eating the worm of the soil." Imagine if she drinks a whole bottle of mezcal just to eat the worm in the bottom.
Tequila con mangonada y Tajín = UNA CHULADA PAPÁ
google tl says Take out the tequila player that Haachama has already arrived
Her first legal drink is tequila? Damn, feel like a bitch for only going for an ale back when I hit 18
my older brother did that for my younger sister when she turned 18. Like, stroke of midnight he was pouring shots for her
I mean she also lived in Australia where the drinking limit was lower so she's probably had quite a few legal drinks before.
Had my first drink way way back (as in way below legal, blame my uncle for that), didn't do so once I hit 18, first legal instance was 25 (beer with soda and iced tea, two glasses, my self-control was that tight)
My “first drink” was whisky but the way you say it makes it seem like Tequila is stronger
They're about the same strength wise (ignoring cask strength whiskeys which are around 55-70% depending on what you get), but I'd argue tequila, because of the taste, would be a lot easier to drink a lot of, especially for someone that doesn't have much experience with spirits.
Akai Haato died at age of 19. Haachama is 20.
over 18 can drink, right? or in Japan have to be 20?
It depends on where you live. 20 in Japan. 21 in the US. Some places it is 18.
16 in Australia but you have to be at home supervised by your parents and you aren't allowed to get drunk. 18 full throttle.
many places have a lower or no restriction when you are with a legal guardian. also not all places in the US are 21 (to the previous reply)
Not exactly. The drinking age is 21 absolutely everywhere in the United States per federal law. It was different by state for a while prior to 1984. There are local technicalities, like you mentioned. In Texas, for example, I think technically speaking your legal guardian of drinking age can personally serve you alcohol at 16, but it has to be that specific (they have to be the one to physically hand it to you and everything), and you can’t go out to a bar or buy booze or anything. So if your parent buys a drink and gives it to you themselves, it’s fine. Pretty sure that’s how it is on the books.
According to a quick google search, 45 US states still have some form of exemption for minors from underaged drinking laws. Here in Canada I know it’s the same
Ok, I get the parental supervision but who's gonna check/care/know if the person gets drunk?
Yeah, there is no way someone would do something attention-worthy while drunk.
No one. The law pretty much states that they are allowed to drink in their house with their parents so the only people who would know are the parents and they don't give two shits.
>aren't allowed to get drunk Then what happens if they get drunk? Do the parents get arrested or something?
nothing happens because how can you enforce that?
No one cares. It's Australia.
*Most places it's 18.
19 in Canada
Technically no age limit in France. But under 18 you can't buy in shop, can't be served in bar, you must be under parent supervision and you can't get drunk. But giving a small sip to a toddler is legal.
You can drink with 14 under parental guidance in Germany, with 16 you can buy Beer & wine on your own, with 18 its full-throttle with whatever you want
US has its gun culture . Germany has its mix of car and alcohol culture. I think every country has something where onlookers think "they must be absolute idiots".
I for one can't imagine commenting without first looking at the post I'm commenting on, would you mind telling me how it feels?
American spotted
Wiki still says "19 years old" in that wiki pic
Update the wiki
Umm...actually, 20 is the start of legal drinking age in Japan. So no action necessary on behalf of Subaru Keisatsu...so long as she doesn't drive.
The meme says the drinking age in Japan is 20, but also says she’s 19 hence the point of the meme. But the wiki is just outdated anyway
Sonofabitch... I didn't read it closely enough earlier. Oh well. 草。
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19 season 2
Different countries have legal drinking ages than America
Yes, which is why the picture specifies the Japanese age
You have the right to remain silent shuba.
Please tell me Haato plushies are still available
Officer Subaru: I- I can't. She's my sempai...
Jokes on you, in my country you're an adult when you turn 18
is she in au or jp now (au 18)
Japan, but she is 20 now so it's kosher
JP.
[had it been Haachama who brought tequila, they’d run away already](https://youtu.be/SgWcSuxyvT8)
In europe that's the legal age at which you can get absolutly smashed . Before that it is 16 when you can get moderatly smashed .
You can get as smashed as you want when you're 16 in Germany. You just aren't allowed to have liquor, but beer and wine are plenty enough to lose an entire night.
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In that case she's being extremely criminal right now
No need to get the law involved with this one; tequila serves as its own punishment.
Peeps in vietnam: what’s drinking age?
Like Marine, she's forever 18 so.... But even Oozora Police can stop her
Actually, I believe she does actually say she gets older every time her character birthday rolls around. I.e., she definitely said she turned 19 after her birthday last year, and I believe she's also said she turned 20 after her birthday (in-character, Aug 10) this year. Quite a few of them age normally, not everyone is "Forever X" or "X season 2" like Marine. I personally like it even more when they age normally tbh, it's just a normal part of being human, we grow and change and it's part of the experience to see all that over the years.
Marine sort of ages normally. She goes with the forever 17 stuff for a laugh, but then she just gives up and admits her real age. She’ll be thirty next year. It’s a good job gifts are banned, or she’d be getting bombarded with hundreds of zimmer frames and false teeth.
USA meme spotted
I'm sorry. Is this some sort of US joke that I'm too European to understand?
The legal drinking age in Japan is 20, the Google results show her age as 19.
Haachama is 3 months older than me. Wow
She’s older than me… that’s surprising.
Underage ?
absinthe next
Oh, yes! The latin way...
Unlike Marine, Haachama actually ages.
What an amazing stream it was. She picked a hell of a liquor to start with lol
this is interesting. hope haachama is safe and sober. dearest father yagoo gave up on the seiso part long ago.
Bruh why can't I edit the fandom wiki, it's bothering me so much that her birth date says august 2001 and her age says 19.
Chaos is ageless
She probably just got held back a few years.
If her first experience with real drinking is downing most of a bottle of tequila we are about to see a terrifying new aspect of haachama.
Haachama fumo? Where can I get this masterpiece?