Nishizono Chigusa

Nishizono Chigusa (西園チグサ) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber and a member of Nijisanji who debuted in August 2020 as part of "Selene Girls' Academy Drama Club" (世怜音女学院演劇同好会), alongside Asahina Akane, Suo Sango, Todo Kohaku, and Kitakoji Hisui.

Profile
A second-year high school student at the prestigious Selene Girls' Academy and a member of the Drama Club. Brimming with curiosity and possessing extraordinary athleticism, Chigusa is very helpful and popular in school.

Personality
Chigusa likes to play First Person Shooter (FPS) games like APEX Legends, PUBG, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. She also enjoys retro games and Tabletop Role-Playing (TRPG) games.

She has a passion for impersonation chats, and during her interview for Nijisanji, she made a full-scale appeal for impersonation chats, saying that she wanted to hold a course on impersonation chats. As a member of the theatre club, she can imitate and sing well, showing off a variety of techniques in her delivery.

She has a unique accent that seems to be a mixture of various regional dialects, and according to her, it is a "hybrid dialect".

Background
Chigusa created her Twitter account on 6 August 2020 and made her YouTube debut on 10 August 2020.

Fans

 * Chigusa calls her fans ちぐにゃー (chigunya).

Trivia

 * Notable units within Nijisanji:
 * "世怜音演劇同好会" (Selene Girls School, often abbreviated from ' Selene Jougakuin ' to  'セレじょ' Selejo) - Asahina Akane, Suo Sango, Todo Kohaku, Kitakoji Hisui, and Chigusa.
 * These five all attend Selene Girls School and are all part of the drama club.
 * "ながおちぐ" (NagaOchigu) - Nagao Kei and Chigusa.
 * Color: #3A8FB7
 * She has been a fan of Nijisanji since 2018 and one of her dreams is to perform "Virtual to LIVE", NIJISANJI's 1st Anniversary Song, someday.
 * She is studying Korean.
 * Chigusa has used Korean on many occasions while participating in Apex Legends competitions (namely Crazy Raccoon Cups), as she has teamed up with Korean players who know limited Japanese.
 * She shares the same character designer with Ookami Mio from hololive.
 * She's a big fan of 紅ズワイガニ (Beni zuwaigani, Aizono Manami, and Saegusa Akina unit name) naming herself after them. She claims that she might be their child from a parallel world.
 * Chigusa loves the mobile game Ensemble Stars. Her favourite character from Ensemble Stars is Shinkai Kanata. She sometimes posts the results of her gacha pulls on Twitter.
 * Chigusa uploads clips of her own streams as well as other short videos onto her channel. A playlist can be found here.
 * Chigusa loves BL (boy's love) manga and anime.

Twitter hashtags

 * #チグサリウム - Stream talk
 * #ニシゾノート - Fan art
 * #絵ッチグサ - Fan art (NSFW)
 * #チグサーチ - Egosurfing
 * #チグサムネ - Thumbnails
 * #チグジュール - Schedule

Further readings

 * 西園チグサ - Unofficial Nijisanji Wiki
 * 西園チグサ - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
 * 西園チグサ - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * 니시조노 치구사 - Namu Wiki