Shizuka Rin

Shizuka Rin (静凛) is a Female Japanese Virtual YouTuber and a member of NIJISANJI's first generation of Livers along with Tsukino Mito, Higuchi Kaede, Elu, Yuki Chihiro, Shibuya Hajime, Suzuya Aki, and Moira. Within the first generation, she also forms the unit "JK-gumi" (JK組, high school girl group) with Tsukino Mito and Higuchi Kaede.

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She is a third-year high school student. She holds the senpai position amongst the school characters. She has a gentle personality and is the big sister who gently guides her juniors and can be relied on by everyone. She is approached by many boys at school, but she avoids them.

Background
On 11 January 2018, Ichikara Inc. announced that it was recruiting "Official Virtual Livers" to serve as representatives for its iPhoneX app, NIJISANJI. Shizuka Rin's YouTube channel was created on 1 February 2018, and her Twitter account was created in January 2018. Her first tweet was made on 1 February 2018.

On 8 February 2018, Rin streamed for the first time on Mirrativ in a relay with the other "NIJISANJI Official Virtual Livers". She later made her YouTube debut on 10 February 2018.

2018
On 7 October, Rin reached 150,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

2019
On 23 March, Rin reached 200,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On 29 December, Rin reached 250,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

2020
On 25 September, Rin reached 300,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

2021
On 25 June, it was announced that Rin, alongside Todo Kohaku, would be the vocalists for the Japanese version of "Trial and Error", produced by banvox and the fourth song in NIJISANJI's music project, "PALETTE", made for NIJISANJI's third anniversary. The song became available on various streaming services on 16 July.

2022
On 18 March, Rin reached 350,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

Events

 * On 12 January 2019, she took part in Higuchi Kaede's first live event Kana-Dero at Zepp Osaka Bayside, along with others.

Relationships

 * "Sepiast" (セピアスト)Sepiast Logo.jpg - Rin (Ren), Higuchi Kaede (Shu), Yuhi Riri (Tobari), Inui Toko (Mio), Nui Sociere (Yui),Fumi (Ten), and Shirayuki Tomoe (Yukari).
 * A unit consisting of seven female Liver starring their male alter ego
 * Media: YouTube | Twitter | Voice Drama
 * Hashtags: #セピアスト | #セピあーと | #セピアストボイス


 * "JK gumi" (JK組) - Rin, Higuchi Kaede, Tsukino Mito
 * "Nijikuji7/Njisanji no Kujijuji" - Rin, Higuchi Kaede, Tsukino Mito, Elu, Ienaga Mugi, Mononobe Alice, and Kenmochi Toya.
 * "Rinkae W" - Rin, and Higuchi Kaede.

Trivia

 * Color: #745399
 * She refers to her fans as "fam", from the word "family".
 * Sometimes cat ears appear on her head. At the Kana-Dero event, she toggled them by swiping at the top front of her head.
 * Some viewers are worried for her health as there have been livestreams going on for a large portion of the day or until the early hours of the morning (~3AM Japan).
 * She had deleted/made private some of her older live videos on YouTube, and seems to sometimes do this for new videos (e.g. most ASMR videos). The reason behind this is unknown; some fans have kept copies, also a 4chan poster on the board /jp/ has kept copies of most on a private mega.nz share.
 * Since Rin streams constantly and at random times, and YouTube's notification system is notoriously bad, one fan created a Twitter notification system for when she streams.
 * After Kizuna AI, Rin is the second Virtual YouTuber to appear on one of PewDiePie's videos after he uploaded a snippet of one of her streams, in which she sang a rendition of the Japanese version of the song Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver (a version originally commissioned for the Studio Ghibli's 1995 movie Whisper of the Heart), in which she mistakenly pronounced it as "Concrete Roads" and confesses that she doesn't know the lyrics.
 * She, alongside Shizuka Rin. They made cameo appearance in the first episode of the second season of the anime "I'm Standing on a Million Lives".

Media

 * Shizuka Rin's corporate profile on NIJISANJI website
 * Shizuka Rin Official - YouTube channel
 * ShizuRinTV - Twitch channel
 * @ShizuRin23 - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #バーチャル凛 - General
 * #凛fam - Fans
 * #凛Art - Fan art

Further readings

 * 静凛 - Unofficial NIJISANJI Wiki
 * 静凛 - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
 * 静凛 - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * 静凜 - Japanese Wikipedia
 * 静凛 - Moegirl Encyclopedia
 * 시즈카 린 - Namu Wiki