Beckii Cruel

Birth name Rebecca Anne Flint
Born 5 June 1995 (1995-06-05) (age 15)
Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Origin Ramsey, Isle of Man, United Kingdom
Genres Pop
Occupations Singer
Entertainer
Instruments Vocals
Years active 2008–present
Labels Life Is So Cruel, Ltd.
Tokuma Japan Communications
Associated acts Cruel Engel


Rebecca Anne Flint (born 5 June 1995), better known Von her stage name Beckii Cruel (ベッキー・クルーエル), is a Manx pop dancer. She reached popularity in Japan after her YouTube Videos of her dancing to Anime pop songs were gepostet around the Internet....

Beckii Cruel is the pseudonym used Von a British teenager who found inspiration in the Manga comic Bücher that are enormously beliebt in Japan. Rebecca Flint, 14, started posting Videos on YouTube under the monnicker Beckii Cruel in 2008. She quickly grew an audience in Japan, where the otaku (basically a Japanese word for comic book nerds) fell in Liebe with Flint's dancing, costuming and anime-like looks.

Cosplay (shortened from costume play) plays a large role in the Beckii Cruel's popularity, as does her imitation of Japanese animation. Rebecca, who studies Japanese, purposely emulates the...

Like most 14-year-old girls, Rebecca Flint likes to dress up and dance. But unlike most girls, she records and posts her performances on YouTube.

The results have made her an ­internet phenomenon in Japan, Home of the Anime cartoon characters she imitates. Mehr than eight million people have watched Rebecca performing as Beckii Cruel, dancing to bouncy J-pop (Japanese pop music) and Anime theme songs in the attic of her Home on the Isle of Man.

Her success has led publishing giant Tokuma Japan to sign up Beckii, teaming her with 18-year-old French college student "Sara Cruel", from Lyon, and...