Satomi Hinatsu

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Satomi Hinatsu
Gender	Female
Pronouns	She/Her, G/Gr
Date of birth	April 23, 1998
Age	27
Ethnic group	Japanese-American
Occupation	Current: Drawing, voice acting Formerly: Animator, writer
Social media
YouTube	Satomi from real life from fake life satokey
Twitter	@pixequil (was private, deactivated in February 2025)
Reddit	HazelCricket

Satomi Hinatsu (Japanese: 日夏 理美 [hi-natsu sa-tomi]) formerly known by the pseudonym Hazel Cricket and later pixequil, is a Japanese-American voice actress and former producer, animator, and audio engineer of Battle for BFDI, and the showrunner of Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two for the episodes "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?" and "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life". She is also a voice actress for Battle for Dream Island Again. Satomi is also a close friend of Cary Huang.

History at Jacknjellify

Before she joined jacknjellify, she had been a fan of BFDI since Season 2. She joined jacknjellify sometime in July of 2017 and helped make the jacknjellify Patreon, as well as the RedBubble merchandise.^{[citation needed]} Satomi was heavily involved in the production of the Firey plush. She is one of the authors of Battle for Dream Island: Official Character Guide. She would additionally join the staff in preparation for Battle for BFDI and would design assets for many characters and objects including Stapy, Saw's updated asset, Nickel's updated asset, and Liy.

Satomi would also serve as a writer and storyboard artist for the first four episodes, including a scrapped storyboard for what would be BFB 3. Satomi would then take a break from writing the show from "Fortunate Ben" to "Questions Answered" until the production of BFB 9 where she would be promoted to showrunner and manage production of all further episodes of BFB until "The Escape from Four", where Satomi would instead produce the then upcoming fifth season Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two.

Satomi would show-run the first two episodes of TPOT, but would later be laid off from Jacknjellify on July 2, 2022 due to "creative differences and efficiency problems", and would later elaborate that she was responsible for longer episode waits and her creative input causing "conflicts". She also indicated that she was no longer a member of jacknjellify, but would continue voicing characters on TPOT.

Characters voiced by Satomi Hinatsu

Current

Satomi currently voices the following characters:

Balloony (pitched down^{[citation needed]})

Basketball (pitched up 10 semitones^{[citation needed]})

Black Hole (pitched down^{[citation needed]})

Bomby (pitched up and sped up)

Bottle

Clock

Fanny

Firey Jr.

Gaty

Saw

Rocky (pitched up^{[citation needed]})

Former

Ice Cube (BFB 1, BFB 13-TPOT 2, pitched up^{[citation needed]}

Needle (BFB 1, pitched up^{[citation needed]})

Writing credits

BFB

• "Getting Teardrop to Talk"
• "Lick Your Way to Freedom"
• "Today's Very Special Episode"
• "This Episode Is About Basketball"
• "Enter the Exit"
• "Get to the Top in 500 Steps"
• "What Do You Think of Roleplay?"
• "Return of the Rocket Ship"
• "Don't Dig Straight Down"
• "The Four is Lava"
• "The Escape from Four"

TPOT

• "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?"
• "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life"

Animation credits

BFB

• "Getting Teardrop to Talk"
• "Lick Your Way to Freedom"
• "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset"
• "Today's Very Special Episode"
• "Fortunate Ben"
• "Four Goes Too Far"
• "The Liar Ball You Don't Want"
• "Questions Answered"
• "This Episode Is About Basketball"
• "Enter the Exit"
• "Get to the Top in 500 Steps"
• "What Do You Think of Roleplay?"
• "Return of the Rocket Ship"
• "Don't Dig Straight Down"
• "The Four is Lava"
• "The Escape from Four"
• "Chapter Complete"

TPOT

• "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?"
• "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life"

Other

• "BFDI and II Finally Cross Over"
• "Happy Birthday, Battle for BFDI!"
• "How to Fold your Foldy"
• "You're A Loser, But..."

Layout credits

• "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?"
• "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life"

Audio credits

• "This Episode Is About Basketball"
• "What Do You Think of Roleplay?"
• "Return of the Rocket Ship"
• "Don't Dig Straight Down"
• "The Four is Lava"
• "The Escape from Four"
• "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?"

Editing credits

BFB

• "This Episode Is About Basketball"
• "Enter the Exit"
• "Get to the Top in 500 Steps"
• "What Do You Think of Roleplay?"
• "Return of the Rocket Ship"
• "Don't Dig Straight Down"
• "The Four is Lava"
• "The Escape from Four"

TPOT

• "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life"

Other

• "How to Fold your Foldy"
• "You're A Loser, But..."

Miscellaneous credits

BFB

• "Today's Very Special Episode" (thumbnail)
• "Questions Answered" (thumbnail)
• "This Episode Is About Basketball" (thumbnail)
• "Enter the Exit" (thumbnail)
• "Get to the Top in 500 Steps" (thumbnail)
• "What Do You Think of Roleplay?" (thumbnail)

TPOT

• "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?" (thumbnail)
• "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life" (character body art, thumbnail, closed captions)

Other

• "How to Fold your Foldy" (live-action acting)

Trivia

• She and Kenzie Bryant are dating.
• She is a member of the LGBTQ+ community, specifically being a lesbian.
• She was the first animator who is not a member of the Huang family.
• In the official .flas for "Today's Very Special Episode", she was jokingly up for elimination even though she wasn't on the losing team in that episode or any team for that matter.
• Saw is her favorite character. Nickel was her favorite character after TPOT 1, however, Saw went back to being her favorite character again afterwards.
• She was also a TWOW contestant but got eliminated in episode 7.
• She has a secondary YouTube account under the username from fake life (formerly Shelly Steel), where she uploads miscellaneous videos, mostly consisting of various BFDI episodes with different video effects.
• She voices Anvil in Battle For Caution's McRib (Extra Pickles).
  • Amusingly, Anvil's voice is very similar to Fanny's.
• Her favorite episode of BFB is "The Four is Lava".
• Fanny is the hardest character for her to voice.
  • Balloony is a close second.
• She animated a portion of TWOW 23B and is the first and only guest animator for TWOW as of TWOW 24A.
• She used to have a DeviantArt account before she deleted it for an unknown reason. Likely it was because she quit either DeviantArt or the Jacknjellify crew. As of today, all of her work but one remain lost media.

  • 

    The II cast in IDFB style

    She started the IDFB-style trend in December 5, 2016 by submitting a picture showcasing what the characters from Inanimate Insanity would look like in IDFB style.
  • The "Gridding" folder in BFB's RC .fla files might likely mean that she made a picture of BFDI characters in skin of another character (example: Blocky enhanced with Pen's skin). It is unknown if it will ever be found.
• As of today, Satomi's current projects are Battle for Rice, a show where the prize, which is a grain of rice, duplicates every episode in the series and Protagonist Object Show (ProtOS), a webcomic object show focusing on the perspective of one character, Lampy.
  • BFR is on hiatus and ProtOS has an ongoing Kickstarter.
  • One of the characters in BFR is Nori, Satomi also competed as her in CTC 8, but quit when the second results due to her user having outside issues. As a result, she was replaced by Peanut Butter Cup.
    • More so, Nori was submitted as a character to compete in FusionAnimations’ show, The Daily Object Show: Daily Dash.
  • Her current project was originally going to be Recommended Character Totally Impromptu, featuring characters recommended by viewers in the comments as contestants, but since episode 0 was released, no new videos regarding the project were uploaded, presumably rendering the show scrapped. This is the only video relating to RCTI so far.

Gallery

Satomi's current YT profile picture (2025-)

Satomi's current second YT profile picture (2024-)

Satomi's previous YT profile picture

Satomi's previous second YT profile picture

Satomi with Robot Flower in a carykh video

Another photo from the video, with Satomi staring at the screen

Another photo from the video, with Satomi looking down confused

A photo of Satomi running as seen on a video of Cary (Parking Garage Adventures with Cary, Hazel, and twin)

Satomi eating onion rings

Satomi on a subway train

A BFB Easter egg, mentioning to eliminate her

Satomi in "Lick Your Way to Freedom"

Satomi at the Bar in OSO 2

The turquoise Announcer that appeared in RCTI 0: FFS

The turquoise Announcer's side

The heptagon Announcer that also appeared in RCTI 0: FFS

The heptagon Announcer's side

Satomi's symbol, hidden in various BFB FLAs as a signature for scenes that she animated

A few of Satomi's assets she made except for Fries^{[citation needed]}

Satomi with Pokey

Satomi in September 2019

Satomi Symbol in BFB 14