Suou Patra

Suou Patra (周防パトラ) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber, associated with 774 inc. as part of the company's branch group HoneyStrap.

Personality
Patra is a huge otaku, being mainly interested in moe anime and gal games. Her dream has been to produce songs for cute girls, which is why she started learning how to produce music. Due to the above she is sometimes called Pato-oji.

Her everyday life is quite eventful and she often tells stories about it. She stands out as having done relatively risky streams like showing her house and calling her real-life friends on stream.

She is very energetic. She likes to mainly play FPS games, but also plays other games regularly like Dark Souls, Resident Evil, and Minecraft after being introduced to it by Shimamura Charlotte.

She has been very hard working with producing songs, playing games and chatting with other members. This has resulted in the group members and viewers getting worried for her health, wondering if she sleeps enough.

Background
Her YouTube channel was created on 8 July 2018 but she debuted until 14 July 2018.

2018
On 8 December, to celebrate 50,000 subscribers, she offered to send out 100 Christmas cards to the first 100 people who filled out a form.

2020
On 10 July, she announced on her Twitter account the demonetization of her channel without any warming.

Four days later on 14 July, she was able to monetize her videos again.

On 19 November, she announced on her Twitter account that her channel was terminated.

On 20 November, however Patra announced that her channel has been restored.

2021
On 17 October, Patra celebrated reaching 500,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

2022
On 7 January, Patra announced on her Twitter account that she would get her seventh 2D costume.

On 8 January, Patra debuted her seventh 2D costume. In this costume Patra got a new hairstyle using long curly twintails with black thin bows with white pom-poms in the tips tied to her horns. She uses black headphones with pink outlines and hearts and a small necklace with a small pink bone ornament. Patra wears a white, sleeveless, flowy mini dress, the dress has three pink bows, the first two are used to close up the dress still leaving a cleavage window, the last one is merely decorative as is located under the chest area. She also uses a lilac sweater falling from her shoulders, the sleeves are decorated by white ribbons that end in bows, there are another two bows near the edge of the sweater. Patra wears short black shoes with a pink outline just like her headphones.

Discography

 * ''Main page: Suou Patra/Discography

Trivia

 * She does a weekly ASMR and has a week-end radio show "Patoraji" where she reads messages from listeners and interviews guests.
 * She has a running joke where she gets fired every now and then for acting without the manager Haineko Nanashi's permission. Currently she refers to herself as the 10th Suou Patra.
 * Due to producing most of the group's songs she is sometimes called "Akimoto Patra" as a reference to the AKB48's producer Akimoto Yasushi
 * Her parents found out about her virtual YouTuber activities after her mother hired a private detective.

Media

 * Patra Channel / 周防パトラ 【ハニスト】- YouTube channel
 * @Patra_HNST - Twitter account
 * 774inc. - HoneyStrap's members page

Twitter hashtags

 * #パトライブ - Stream
 * #パトラのアトリエ - Fan art
 * #パトラを見て - Clips

Further readings

 * 周防パトラ - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
 * 周防パトラ - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * 周防パトラ - Japanese Wikipedia