Amanda Lee (born March 13, 1992), also known as AmaLee, is an American singer and voice actress, known for her English covers of various anime and video game songs on her YouTube channel LeeandLie
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In December 11, 2021, she made her debut as a VTuber, going by Multiverse Monarch. In 2022, she would also make her very first original songs album based on the character's lore.
Not to be confused with Amanda Winn-Lee.
Amanda's roles include:
- Ace Academy: Mei Satomi and herself.
- Adachi and Shimamura: Hougetsu Shimamura
- AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative: Kizuna Chieda
- Anonymous Noise: Miou Suguri
- Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest: Shea Haulia
- Blue Exorcist: Additional voices
- Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki: Erika Konno
- Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card: Akiho Shinomoto
- A Certain Magical Index: Itsuwa (replacing Krishna Smitha)
- Charger Girl: Chiiko
- Cookie Run Kingdom: Parfait Cookie
- Crystalline: Leanna Dawn
- Dark Deity: Bianca
- Dawn of the Monsters: Captain Claire Lionne
- DEATH BATTLE!: "Power Rangers vs Voltron": Princess Allura
- Demon Lord, Retry!: Mink
- Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2: Custom female voice #12
- Endro~!: Yulia "Yusha" Chardiet
- Engage Kiss: Asmodeus
- Fire Emblem Heroes: Elimine
- Goddess of Victory: NIKKE: Rupee and Viper
- Gosick: The Orphan
- Grimoire of Zero: Zero (first of two roles shared with Yumiri Hanamori)
- Later reprised in the Crunchyroll dub of the spin-off sequel, The Dawn of the Witch
- Guardian Tales: Erina
- Hakumei & Mikochi: Mikochi
- Hinamatsuri: Anzu
- Hells: Rinne Amagane
- Indivisible: Leilani
- Junji Ito Collection: Midori
- Kageki Shoujo!!: Kaoru Hoshino
- K-On!: Ushio Oota
- Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: Ai Hayasaka (second of two roles shared with Yumiri Hanamori)
- Kemono Friends: Royal Penguin/Princess
- Kemono Michi: Celes
- Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear: Noire Foschurose
- Ladies Versus Butlers!: Sakurako Benikouji
- The Letter: Maria Isabella Grace Cruz Santos
- Lord of Vermilion: Tsubasa Tachikaze
- Love Esquire: Beatrice Du Cae
- Magical Girl Raising Project: Nemurin (Nemu Sanjou)
- Mary Skelter: Pyre and Rachel
- The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar: Siegrun
- My Dress-Up Darling: Marin Kitagawa
- One Piece: Otohime
- One Piece Film: Red: Uta
- Overlord (2012): Crusch Lulu
- A Place Further than the Universe: Yuzuki Shiraishi
- Pokémon Evolutions: Lillie
- Pokémon Masters: Lana
- Rio -Rainbow Gate!-: Elle Adams
- RWBY: Cinder's stepsisters
- RWBY: Arrowfell: Ivy Thickety
- Show by Rock!!: Peipain
- Squid Girl: Noh Mask Rider
- SSSS.DYNɅZENON: Ranka
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: Forest Denizen, Lady Infernum, Yarah, Banshee
- UQ Holder!: Kirie Sakurame
- Victory Belles: Narwhal
- World's End Club: Vanilla
- Yandere Simulator: Megami Saikou
- YU-NO: Sayless
- Zombie Land Saga: Junko Konno
Amanda Lee and her works provide examples of:
- April Fools' Day: Every year, she uploads what appears to be a new cover, only for the video to be something silly and the song rewritten to be about detractor comments that annoy her. She's addressed everything from people who say her translyrics are "wrong" because they're not word-for-word the literal translation of the original song to comments about her moving to live-action videos (even if she still does drawn ones) to complaints about her "selling out" due to having sponsorships and ads.
- Artifact Title: "LeeandLie" was short for "AmaLee and Annalie," but her friend Annalie left the channel early on. The name stuck.
- Author Avatar: Several of her anime covers include a version of herself in the show's artstyle, ranging from herself as one of the Digidestined in her cover of "Butterfly" to showing herself as a magical girl in her cover of "Magia". In 2021, Amanda revealed a Virtual YouTuber persona called the Multiverse Monarch, which the anime covers are avatars of — clones sent to spy on the heroes of those worlds in preparation for the Multiverse Monarch conquering them.
- The Baroness: Her Vtuber avatar, the Multiverse Monarch, fits the Sexpot type to a T. Hardly surprising, considering Amanda's fondness for the "dommy mommy" archetype.
- Berserk Button: Killing her hopes about Kaleido Star. Learning that Ike Eveland watched it once but remembers nothing makes her go ballistic on him.
- Breakthrough Hit: Her cover of "Crossing Field." She's acknowledged this in interviews and went on to make a whole album's worth of covers from the show. SAO seems to have that effect on people.
- Cerebus Retcon: The Multiverse Monarch serves as this to all of the previous AmaLee song covers which feature her Author Avatar in the music videos, with it now being the result of the Monarch projecting clones across the multiverse to "help" the heroes, learn of the universes, and take them over.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Her Hades stream has her dropping f-bomb after f-bomb in the fight against Megaera, who she considers a trifle unfair. (She's still new at the game - Meg is downright nice compared to many of the denizens of Hades.)
- Cuteness Proximity: Her immediate reaction to seeing Cerberus in Hades is to try to pet him. She's over the moon when she figures out how.
- Eating the Eye Candy: In her Hades playthrough, Multiverse Monarch goes completely ga-ga over the many Hot Gods and other denizens of the game, breaking into Luminescent Blushing, squealing, and sitting there with her mouth wide open.
Yes, yes, am interested.
- Fan Girl: She absolutely loves Kaleido Star and talks about it often in the hopes of meeting others who have seen it.
- Genki Girl: When streaming, she's extremely excitable, often bouncing up and down and squealing over cuteness or hotness. Meanwhile, deaths (especially stupid ones) and difficult fights lead to rage and panic.
- Has a Type:
- As she revealed in a Propnight collab with Froot, Vienna, Petra and Nina, she likes himbos who can make her laugh.
- For women, she adores motherly Dominatrix types - or as she puts it, "dommy mommy."
- Informed Attribute: Her kind and dorky personality and goofy sense of humor clashes fiercely with the alleged cunning and cruelty of the Monarch, her vtuber model. This results in many jokes from fans when she says or does something silly.That's the secret. They believe her a mastermind because there was surely no way she's that much of a goof...
- Insistent Terminology: Many fans will hesitate to call her a youtaite (the term for someone who sings anime and game covers on YouTube) in the same sense that Kizuna AI is a "Virtual YouTuber" and not a V-Tuber: because her work predates the term and even people who aren't into the subculture know her.
- Mystical White Hair: Silver hair is a trademark of hers both animated and in real life, as well as a number of the characters she's voiced.
- Mythology Gag: Her cover of "Moonlight Densetsu" goes on for longer than the original, as it's extended to include a verse with the lyrics from the first English dub ("Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight...").
- Named Like My Name: Amanda Winn-Lee (no relation) made some rather controversial comments and AmaLee ended up taking the fall for them because many people conflated them together.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Her V-Tuber persona, Monarch, has her chest only covered by silvery-blue petal-like scales that leave her cleavage and abdomen exposed. The scales continuing over her pants suggests they may be part of a garment.
- Protagonist Journey to Villain: Her album "Rise of the Monarch" tells the backstory of her Vtuber persona, who the songs and music videos reveal was once a noble holy knight who was betrayed by an ally she idolized and embraced being a villain, becoming Drunk on the Dark Side.
- Take That, Critics!: She has a habit of being rather sassy (in good fun) to people criticizing her work, particularly when said criticism is strange or unfounded, see her aforementioned April Fools covers or her facetious response to someone saying "vtubers are cringe" in her chat.
- Virtual Youtuber: Debuted on December 11, 2021 as one on her Twitch channel, as the "Multiverse Monarch".
- Vocal Evolution: It's clear that age has deepened her vocal range. Compare her original 2014 recording of "Ignite", to her 2019 cover.
