Suou Patra

Suou Patra (周防パトラ) is an independent female Japanese Virtual YouTuber. She originally debuted as a member of 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 30 January, Patra announced on her Twitter account that she would get her fourth 2D costume.

On 2 February, Patra debuted her fourth 2D costume. In this costume Patra's hair buns are rounder, the locks in her forehead are combed to the right, the side locks are longer than in her original appearance falling down to her shoulders. In this costume Patra wears a shoulderless white dress, like in her original appearance Patra uses a red tie that enters her cleavage. The upper part of the dress is decorated with a ruffled design that goes from black to red, this design is also present in the dress' collar and wristbands. The chest area has a red section with silver buttons, the section is outlined by two parallel lines with a darker shade of the same color. The sleeves are small only covering a tiny portion of her forearms, the edges have the same pattern as the chest area. Under the chest the outfit has an opening leaving the tip of her tie and her belly button visible, the blouse is joined to the skirt by two diagonal wide straps that show her hips, the left strap has a silver ornament identical in shape to the tip of her tail. Her skirt is fluffy with a red lace edge with a flower pattern. Patra wears laced white socks with a flower pattern, the socks have a wide black edge and a another one around her calfs, the socks are keep in place with red stocking belts. Her shoes are black adjusted with red crossed stripes.

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

On 12 July, Patra announced on her Twitter account that her and the other HoneyStrap members would get new 3D costumes.

On 14 July, she alongside the other HoneyStrap members to celebrate the second anniversary of the group debuted her their 3D costumes on Patra's channel, these costumes are a 3D version of their fourth 2D costume that they debuted in early February.

On this date Patra also recovered the monetization on her channel. And she announced on her Twitter account that HoneyStrap would get their original costumes updated to the 2.0 version.

On 23 July, Patra's original costume was updated to the 2.0 version. With this update Patra can turn her face in more directions, her hair has better movement, the end of her tie as well as her vest, her skirt and tail also have much better movement.

On 14 August, she announced that she would get her fifth 2D costume.

On 15 August, Patra debuted her fifth 2D costume. She got a new hairstyle, using short hair with round buns. In this costume Patra wears a golden heart shaped necklace, a strap mini dress which straps are tied in the front, the dress is white however the shadows of the dress are light pink, with a ruffled neck and sleeves, the chest area has three red buttons with a ribbon tied below her chest in the same color, the skirt has two layers, the first one is transparent but has a red heart pattern and it is longer than the other. The second one is white like the rest of her dress but has a ruffled edge. Patra wears small ruffle socks with brown heels. The outfit is complemented by dark brown sweater falling from her shoulders. Adittionally Patra has the option to wear dark brown glasses.

On 17 August, Patra reached 300,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

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 21 March, Patra reached 400,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On 4 April, she debuted her sixth 2D costume. Patra got a new hairstyle using it just below her shoulders. The most notorious difference is that now she has animal ears instead of her usual buns. She has a pink ribbon in her left horn and two pink heart marks near the tip. Patra wears a white collar decorated with a pink bow with a plaid pattern, white shoulderless blouse with a ruffled cleavage. The sleeves are really short just covering a portion of her forearms, Patra has white wristbands. Under the chest Patra uses a black strap corset with golden buttons and seams. On top of it she also uses a dark brown belt with golden buckle, to the left side Patra carries a heart shaped holster in the same colors. She wears a pink plaid skirt with white ruffles, long white socks with black ribbons and light pink shoes with brown heels, on her left calf, Patra uses a dark pink collar with a golden heart shaped decorative lock. On her tail there are two heart shaped marks similar to the ones present in her horn. The outfit is complemented by dark pink coat.

On 19 August, Patra's Twitter account became verified.

On 26 September, Patra reached 500,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On 21 December, she reached 200,000 followers on Twitter.

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. Patra got a new hairstyle using long wavy twintails with black thin bows and white pom-poms in the tips tied to her horns. She uses black headphones with a pink outline 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 ribbons, 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.

On 24 April, Patra announced that she would get her eighth 2D costume.

On 26 April, Patra debuted her eighth 2D costume. In this costume Patra uses loose hair, with a black beret, unlike most of her other hairstyles, her horns don't go around the buns. She wears a red wine school uniform with a black collar. Patra uses a big black jacket partially falling from her shoulders, black high socks and shoes with little bat like wings.

On 22 May, she debuted her third 3D costume during her concert: "Patra Suou 3rd Live PatLive - AKIBA PaRaDe." Unlike her previous 3D outfits that were identical to some of her 2D ones, this costume is an original design. In this costume Patra got a new hairstyle using a ponytail, and white and light blue headphones. She wears a futuristic white blouse with a thin black outline. A wide pink collar with a big five petal flower on the left side that expands to her cleavage where a light blue top or bra is visible. In a nod to some of her outfits, Patra wears a black and pink "futuristic tie" that falls between her breast. Underneat the chest, the blouse has two big pink and white buttons. The blouse has two big openings to the sides of her hips, this section is covered by a transparent low cape with a pink outline decorated with light blue hexagons and a pink bow on the back. Patra wears black shorts with a white belt and a light blue buckle, long white socks with a black outline and white and pink low boots with floating light blue circles and black heels.

On 24 July, Patra reached 600,000 subscribers on YouTube.

On 4 September, Patra debuted her nineth 2D costume. Patra has long wavy hair and she has braids on top of her buns, decorated with black ribbons with a golden outline and rose shaped hairpins. Patra wears what appears to be a royalty/ballerina inspired costume. The fuchsia collar is separated and is decorated with a jewel and a black handkerchief. Around her shoulders Patra wears golden shoulder pats with black fluff around them. She wears a short sleeve dress with a wide cleavage and windows that show her bellybutton. The dress' cups are white with a golden outline decorated with a fuchsia ribbon tied around her chest and a black one at its center. The midriff has a diamond pattern in variants of purple, white and pink. Patra wears a ruffled fuchsia skirt that is longer on the back, decorated with a golden edge and a four pointed star pattern, the underside is black. Patra uses asymmetric purple socks. She has black and fuchsia heels with golden elements.

2023
On 1 May, Patra announced on her Twitter account that she would get her tenth 2D costume.

On 4 May, Patra debuted her tenth 2D costume. Notable to this costume is that Patra's horn are really small. She has small bat-like wings hovering behind her. Patra has two new hairstyles. One using short hair with small buns. In the other she uses long hair and twintails. Patra uses a choker. She wears a white and gray dress which collar and skirt have a plaid pattern and a frilly edge. Under the chest Patra uses a black belt corset matched with black skirt. She uses a fishnet on her left leg. Her socks are white. Patra has black low boots. Patra can also use a white jacket with a black collar and sleeve's tips. Patra can also move up her hand to hold ear picks.

On 9 May, Patra announced that she would graduate from 774 inc. and continuing her activities as an independent VTuber.

Discography

 * ''Main page: Suou Patra/Discography

Events

 * On 15 July 2021, 774inc C99's Twitter account announced that its talents would appear in the event Nanashiinku bake~shon! in which every member would appear in limited time merchandize including original artwork by studio A-1 Pictures depicting them in swinsuits. The merchandize included, posters, hand fans, cushions, keychains, pins, beach balls and special conmemorative drinks associated with each group. The event was held in the EJ Anime Theater in Shinjuku City from 22 July to 1 August.

Trivia

 * Patra produces a lot of her and the group's songs including: lyrics, music, composition, mixing and even movie videos.
 * 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.
 * She does a weekly ASMR and has a weekend 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.
 * Her measures are: B:99.9cm, W:55.5cm and H:88.8cm.
 * Her cup size is F.
 * Patra can play the electric guitar and she has done streams playing it.
 * Patra has an alternate version of her 3D model with black hair and heterochromia, her right eyes is orange while the left one is blue.
 * Color: #D8346E
 * Her parents found out about her VTuber activities after her mother hired a private detective.

Media

 * Patra Channel / 周防パトラ - YouTube channel
 * Patra's corporate profile on 774.ai
 * @Patra_HNST - Twitter account
 * @patra_hnst - Marshmallow account
 * patrasuou - Soundcloud account

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