Nerissa Ravencroft

Nerissa Ravencroft (ネリッサ・レイヴンクロフト) is an English speaking Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive. She is set to debut in 2023 as part of hololive -Advent-, the third generation of members of hololive English, alongside Shiori Novella, Koseki Bijou, Fuwawa Abyssgard and Mococo Abyssgard.

Profile
"Ah, the beautiful resonance of idol songs..."

With a deep love of song, Nerissa Ravencroft is "The Demon of Sound." Her powerful love turned into a dark power that inhabited her singing, giving her music the potential to drive the entire world mad. The gods, fearful of her beautiful voice, decided to seal her away for eternity, but this did not seal away her desire to sing for others. While she was sealed away, she came across Japanese otaku culture, and is currently fascinated by idol songs and penlights. Maybe her life imprisoned wasn't all that bad.

Background
Following the debut of hololive English second generation -Council-, hololive English announced a permanent English language audition page on 30 December 2021. An update to the audition page on 7 September 2022 sparked speculation of an upcoming English third generation.

Nerissa Ravencroft's YouTube and Twitter accounts were originally created on 11 May 2023, although they contained no content at this point.

The third generation of hololive English, -Advent-, was first teased on the hololive English Twitter account with a short video on 22 July 2023. This was followed by another teaser video on 23 July, showing five new characters.

On 25 July, the hololive English YouTube channel posted a video titled Wanted!, revealing the five members of -Advent- and announcing their upcoming debuts. At the same time, Nerissa also posted a short teaser video on her YouTube channel and made her first tweet, saying "Ope?!"

Nerissa's Twitter and YouTube accounts were accidentally discovered by some fans several hours prior to the official announcement, although they had no profile pictures or content yet. Her YouTube account received over a thousand subscribers before its official launch. Additionally, the mouseover preview on the Wanted! PV on YouTube accidentally revealed Nerissa's name, title, and appearance ahead of time.

All -Advent- members' YouTube channels reached 100,000 subscribers within twelve hours of the announcement. On 30 July, prior to her debut, Nerissa reached 200,000 subscribers.

Debut
Nerissa Ravencroft's debut stream is scheduled to take place on Sunday, 30 July from 8:00 PM to 8:45 PM PDT (Monday, 31 July at 12:00 noon to 12:45PM JST).

Mascots and Fans

 * Nerissa's mascot is a raven named Shadow.

Name

 * Nerissa is a female given name, derived from Ancient Greek etymology, meaning "sea-nymph." It is believed to have been invented by William Shakespeare for his play The Merchant of Venice.
 * Ravencroft is a surname of English origin. The raven is a black bird said to symbolize death. "Croft" is a suffix appearing in surnames that originally meant a plot of land, or an underground crypt.
 * "Croft" could also be a pun on "crow," a black bird similar to a raven; or the Japanese "kuro," meaning "black."
 * She writes her name in western order, with the given name first.
 * She writes her name in katakana, normally used for foreign words.

Likes and dislikes

 * Her favorite soups are chicken with gnocchi, and chicken with wild rice.

Miscellaneous

 * At 175 cm (5'9"), Nerissa is the tallest member of hololive English at her debut, as well as the tallest member of hololive.
 * The previous tallest hololive English member was retired Council member Tsukumo Sana, at 169 cm. However, with her limiter removed, Sana could reach a height of 1,697,840 km tall. Following Sana's retirement, the tallest EN member had been Ouro Kronii, at 168 cm (5'6").
 * Nerissa is two centimeters taller than hololive Indonesia's Kaela Kovalskia, who is 173 cm and who was the previous tallest member of hololive overall.
 * Her emoji, 🎼, is a musical score with a . Her outfit also reflects musical notation; a bass clef appears on her hair clip, her belt buckle, the white wing of her dress, and her staff. Her staff also resembles a tuning fork.
 * In the group debut PV, the end of her title "The Demon of Sound" was covered by her character model, leading fans to nickname her "The Demon of Soup", a name she easily accepted.
 * Nerissa is the only member of -Advent- to have a weapon, her staff. The FUWAMOCO twins also have claw weapons, but it is their natural weapon since they are demon dogs.
 * Her Live2D rigger also rigged a large number of other hololive members, including Ouro Kronii and Takanashi Kiara, as well as such independent VTubers as Veibae and rpr.
 * Despite being bird-themed, Nerissa was not automatically invited into HOLOTORI, a group formed of fellow bird members Takanashi Kiara, Oozora Subaru, Pavolia Reine, Nanashi Mumei and Takane Lui. This may be because HOLOTORI began performing together as a unit in 3D events, and as a new member Nerissa would not gain her 3D model for some time.

Media

 * Nerissa Ravencroft Ch. hololive-EN - YouTube channel
 * Nerissa Ravencroft's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
 * @nerissa_en - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #RissaLIVE - Stream tag
 * #RavenCrafts - Art tag