Aster Arcadia

Aster Arcadia (アスター アルカディア) is an English male Virtual YouTuber affiliated with NIJISANJI EN's sixth wave "ILUNA", alongside Maria Marionette, Kyo Kaneko, Aia Amare, Scarle Yonaguni, and Ren Zotto.

Profile
ILUNA Institute of the Mystics 2nd Year. A celestial born from a Supernova long ago. His memories are faint, but his wish to spread happiness across the universe remains strong.

Background
On 4 March 2022, ANYCOLOR launched their 4th audition for NIJISANJI EN open to both male and female talents lasting until 31 March.

On 20 July 2022, the NIJISANJI EN twitter account announced the upcoming debut of it's sixth wave "ILUNA", accompanied by a teaser of the Livers' designs and voices as well as an announcement for a debut song produced by MATZ, who also produced the debut song for Noctyx, Stuck in the Abyss.

Aster's YouTube channel was created on 6 July 2022, and his Twitter account was created on the same month. His first tweet and his first YouTube upload were posted on 20 July 2022. Within the first 24 hours after being announced, Kyo reached 100,000 followers on his Twitter account. On July 24, within the 24 hours before the debut stream, Aster reached 100,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

2022
On 28 July, Aster reached 200,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel during a stream.

On 23 August, Aster opened memberships on his YouTube channel.

On 25 September, Aster released his first solo cover song "ANIMA" by ReoNa.

On 9 November, he reached 300,000 subscribers on YouTube channel during an Apex Legend stream.

2023
On 12 March, Aster released a 3.0 update to his model, adding some new expressions.

2023

 * On January 2023, Aster participated in NIJISANJI EN Wrestling Tournament "WrestleSanji 2023" and won the post-championship rumble.

Fans

 * His fanbase is called "Arcadians."
 * Aster's YouTube membership is called ASTEROID.

Relationships

 * "ILUNA" - Aster, Maria Marionette, Kyo Kaneko, Aia Amare, Scarle Yonaguni, and Ren Zotto. They are debut-mates.
 * Twitter hashtags: #ILUNA


 * "Renster" - Aster and Ren Zotto

Identity

 * Color: #6662A4
 * Aster speaks English, is learning Japanese and can speak Grill.
 * "Aster" is the Latin word for "star", while "Arcadia" can refer to a regional location in Greece, but more commonly means "a place of idyllic perfection".

Likes and dislikes

 * Likes: spicy food, boba milk tea, anime, gaming, sleeping, cyute things <3, ASMR, NIJISANJI!!!, thighs.
 * Dislikes: onions, deep water, being chased, having his ahoges flicked, hot weather.
 * He explains his fear of deep water as "you don't know what's down there, it could be Finana for all I know".
 * Music: LiSA, Reona, Aimer, Linked Horizon, BABYMETAL, Camellia.
 * Anime: Bleach, Panty & Stocking w/ Garterbelt, Code Geass, Clannad, Fate/Stay night, Kaguya-sama Love is War, Demon Slayer, Spy × Family, KonoSuba, Kuroko's Basketball, Haikyuu!!, Made in Abyss, Mob Psycho, Jobless Reincarnation, One Punch Man, Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World, Attack on Titan, Steins; Gate, Sword Art Online, Vinland Saga, Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song, Violet Evergarden.
 * Games : APEX, VALORANT, CSGO, League of Legends, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Code Vein, Elden Ring, Enter the Gungeon, Age of Empires 2, Tetris 99, Osu, Shadowverse, Nier Automata, Azur Lane.

Miscellaneous

 * Aster's pronouns are he/him (not, as his fans occasionally joke, he/himbo).
 * He frequently insists that he and his fans are entirely seiso, even when it's clearly untrue.
 * When speaking Japanese, he calls himself "watashi".
 * Aster has worn a skirt at some point in the past. He describes the experience as "windy".
 * He claims to have a pet whale, which seems to actually be a dog.

Media

 * Aster Arcadia 【NIJISANJI EN】 - YouTube channel
 * AsterArcadia - Twitch channel
 * Aster Arcadia's corporate profile on NIJISANJI website
 * @AsterArcadia - Twitter account

Twitter Hashtags

 * #AsterArcadia - General/Live
 * #Arcadiart - Fan art tag
 * #Asterbate - NSFW tag
 * #Arcadeeznutz - Meme tag
 * #Astssets - Assets tag
 * #Asternail - Thumbnail tag