Reiyu GuiGui

Reiyu GuiGui is an independent English VTuber who officially debuted 28 November 2020. Members of her community are known as Ghostlings.

Personality
Reiyu is a bubbly, energetic, and witty Poltergeisha VTuber with a joy-filled laugh. She is quick to say whatever joke comes to her mind no matter how lewd and often regrets it. She is a warm-hearted and kind individual, stating that her number one goal in her (after)life is to make her ghostling family laugh. Reiyu streams during late hours because they are the "witching hours" when humans are most lonely and ghosts are most active. She also stated that these were peak busy hours when she used to volunteer as a crisis counselor. Though she no longer volunteers at the crisis line, she still wanted to continue keeping people company as a streamer.

Reiyu is known for bantering back and forth with her chat in her streams, even while playing difficult games. Reiyu has an unusually open backseating policy because she likes going into a game blind and being guided patiently through a game. She hates reading guides because "it feels too much like studying," and prefers learning from viewers since it feels more hands-on. You will often find her thanking viewers by name for making her laugh or for guiding her in a game.

Despite being lackadaisical and laidback at times, Reiyu's maturity and intelligence as an older sister figure often comes through in her streams. She does not hesitate to call out behavior that she finds unacceptable and encourages her viewers to be kind. As she puts it, "Jokes on my channel are not necessarily safe for work, but they're always safe for homies."

Reiyu has a deep love for videogames with "interesting premises or mechanics." Her favorite videogame genres are Rogues and Visual Novels. She is also extremely skilled at videogames and often adds extra insane challenges to already challenging games. This is likely due to her self-proclaimed masochism. For example, she played the following on stream:


 * DOOM Eternal and DLC on UItra-Violence/Nightmare, drunk.
 * Dark Souls 3 and DLC and killed all bosses (including optional ones) blind, drunk, wearing no armor, and only using a club or katana.
 * Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice blind, drunk, and on the Demon Bell difficulty. She has beaten the Shura and Purification ending this way and plans to play the True Ending in the future with no Kuro's Charm and Demon Bell.
 * Sifu, drunk.
 * Elden Ring blind, solo, no item, no summons, no armor, and katana-only. She beat most challenging bosses this way, including Malenia, the Blade of Miquella.
 * Pacifist Undertale run without using items and without taking off the Bandage equip. (All to get a dialogue line of acknowledgement from Sans.) Later, she played Deltarune and beat hidden bosses Spamton and Jevil without healing.
 * Everhood on Expert, having notably beat the Dev Gnomes and Light Being.
 * Yakuza 0 on Hard, notably defeating the two endgame secret bosses you get for 100%ing the substories in the game. Reiyu actually spent 6 miserable hours fighting one of them with a severely underleveled Kiryu after not realizing she had to save prior to the boss fight.
 * Neon White and getting all gifts and Ace Medals.

Profile
Due to hardship endured during her life and her sudden untimely death, Reiyu wants to spend her afterlife playing games with her ghostlings without worries. It is Reiyu's job to escort ghostlings through purgatory and towards their reincarnation, but in return, she asks that the ghostlings guide her in videogames before their time in purgatory arrives.

In Reiyu's Lore Video "The Promise", a still-alive, pink-haired Reiyu is seen performing various activities including dancing, working at a daycare/orphanage, doing lab work, and working as a cashier. While bicycling home in the dark, she is hit by a truck. She awakens in purgatory, her hair now tinged with blue at the ends. Reiyu is seen walking through purgatory and amassing ghostlings along the way, and though she is lost herself, she points forward and leads them onwards towards reincarnation.

Design
Reiyu's main outfit is a colorful kimono whose sleeves falls into the shape of a butterfly's wings. The outfit contains several motifs revolving around death and reincarnation.


 * Her kimono is tucked in right over left, which is only done so on corpses during a funeral. The correct way to tuck in a kimono when you're alive is left over right.
 * On top of having butterflies sprinkled throughout her design, her kimono sleeves drape down into the shape of a butterflies wings. Butterflies symbolize transformation, metamorphosis, rebirth, resurrection, and triumph of the spirit and soul over the material world.
 * In her hair ornament, Reiyu has red spider lily flowers. In Japanese culture, these flowers represent death and the afterlife.
 * Reiyu hides a mole under a sakura blossom sticker and she also has sakura flowers throughout her design. Due to their transient blooming cycle, sakura symbolize the cycle of life, death, and reincarnation.
 * Reiyu's two-tone hair fades from pink to light blue. As soon in Reiyu's lore video, the light blue of Reiyu's hair only appeared after death and glows in the dark. The two colors are intentionally inverted colors of one another, meant to symbolize a purgatorial intersection between life and death.

Background
Reiyu created her YouTube channel on 15 October, 2020 and her Twitch channel on 19 November, 2020. She then made her YouTube and Twitch debut on 28 November, 2020.

2021
On 5 January, she announced a new design as well as updates to her Live2D model drawn by Hinaki0102 and rigged by kumi0002cm.

On 25 February, Reiyu became a Twitch partner.

On 24 March, Reiyu was raided while she was playing Dark Souls 3 by famous streamer and YouTuber, MoistCr1TiKaL. Reiyu stated on stream that she was incredibly honored because he was a content creator that she watched eagerly in her childhood and stated that she had once emailed him asking if she could subtitle his videos for her hard of hearing siblings. He raided her again on 14 April and 19 June.

On 5 April, Reiyu reached 10,000 Twitch followers.

On 28 November, Reiyu redebuted with two new outfits: a causal outfit and a lingerie outfit. These were drawn by MYwhat_ and rigged by qryosityy.

On 3 December, Reiyu reached 20,000 Twitch followers.

2022
On 14 February, Reiyu celebrated her 22nd birthday and debuted a kimono outfit. She also reached 30,000 Twitch followers on that day.

Sometime in May, Reiyu graduated with a Master's in Biology. Funnily enough, Reiyu received two diplomas in the mail.

On 5 June, Reiyu left the now disbanded Lumilive group.

Fans

 * Reiyu refers to her fans primarily as "ghostlings" but she will also frequently call them "homies" or "brohs" as well.

Trivia

 * According to her, she died when getting hit by a truck. This event is inspired by her real life after she got hit by a car while biking to class.
 * Her favorite color is red, specifically the hex color #b00b1e.
 * Her first name is Japanese and her last name is Chinese.
 * Her first name, "Reiyu," is a rearrangement for the the kanji in the Japanese word for ghost, "yurei" or "幽霊."
 * Her last name, "GuiGui," involves the Chinese character for ghost, "gui" or "鬼."
 * She likes: cats, games, food, tutoring and stalking . He favorite game in her childhood is Hotel Dusk for the Nintendo DS.
 * She dislikes: the texture of socks, bullies, old dishes, green bell peppers, her own clumsiness and too-high expectations.
 * She thinks home-cooked meals are the best.
 * Reiyu's favorite fictional character is Katsuki Bakugo from My Hero Academia. She enjoys his rivalry with Deku and ships them (in the sense of wanting them to be by each other's side forever).
 * She also ships Goro Majima and Kazuma Kiryu from Yakuza, even having drawn emotes on her channel of them kissing.
 * Due to her ghostly nature, Reiyu can reshape her body to whatever she or her partner wants.
 * She is a self proclaimed masochist.
 * Reiyu has stated on numerous occasions that she loves samurai and yakuza. The blue jacket to her first Live2D is inspired by the Shinsengumi, a historic samurai group.
 * According to Reiyu, all ghosts are naturally attracted to Luigi, hence the Luigi's Mansion series.
 * Reiyu has stated that the ghostlings are only allowed to call her "mommy" and derivative thereof when she turns 25 in 2025.

Media

 * Reiyu's Twitch - Twitch channel
 * Reiyu's Twitter - Twitter account
 * Reiyu's Tamaya - Discord
 * Reiyu's Patreon - 18+ Patreon for "Lewd Club"
 * Main YouTube
 * Shorts YouTube
 * VODs YouTube