Finana Ryugu

Finana Ryugu (フィナーナ 竜宮) is an English female Virtual YouTuber affiliated with Nijisanji EN's first-wave group LazuLight, alongside Pomu Rainpuff and Elira Pendora.

Profile
A mermaid who spends her time with tropical fish in the sea of coral reefs. Has a heart as clear and pure as the calm and beautiful sea.

Personality
Finana is a friendly, soft-spoken girl with a bold and unfiltered personality that often throws off her viewers and other VTubers alike. She often covers topics on stream that most VTubers would save for a membership stream. Her stories of her adventures "as a little fish" range from mischievous to very intimate and despite prefacing them with "maybe I shouldn't say it", she often does so anyways.

However, she is a very kind and caring person to both her fellow Nijisanji EN members and viewers. Finana is a hardworking streamer with long (almost daily) streams and superchat readings. She enjoys collabs and can be often found in the stream chats of other members.

She can draw and sing very proficiently and has solid gaming skills, especially when it comes to rhythm games. Off-stream, she usually spends her time interacting with people on Twitter and regularly raids in her favorite game: Final Fantasy XIV.

Background
On 30 November 2020, Nijisanji opened auditions for their new English branch, with the audition period lasting until 15 December. Youtube channels for Nijisanji EN's first wave of Livers were created on 21 April 2021, and their Twitter accounts were created in May 2021.

On 12 May 2021, Nijisanji announced the upcoming debut of their English branch's first group, LazuLight, revealing a teaser with the new Livers' designs and voices. Their Twitter and Youtube accounts were also made public at this time.

Debut
LazuLight began their activities on 16 May 2021 (JST/GMT) as part of a special debut program on the Nijisanji World channel hosted by Hana Macchia and Bonnivier Pranaja. Finana was scheduled to debut third, but she experienced technical difficulties and was unable to hold her debut stream as planned, which caused the hashtag #FreeFinana to trend in the United States.

Afterwards, all three members of LazuLight appeared on the main channel's special program, where each of them was given a piece of the moon from Staff-san. Immediately after the debut program, LazuLight released their first original song, Diamond City Lights. This song was composed by Mafumafu, and the lyrics were written by Nelson Babin-Coy and Hoshikawa Sara.

FInana later held a proper debut stream on 18 May 2021.

2021
On 21 May, it was announced that Finana would be the vocalist for the English version of "Virtual Strike", produced by TeddyLoid and the third song in Nijisanji's music project, "PALETTE", made for Nijisanji's third anniversary. The song became available on various streaming services on 11 June.

On 15 June, she reached 100,000 subscribers on YouTube.

On 28 June, she participated in a Garry's Mod collab with Zentreya, Haruka Karibu, scarra, Artemis of the Blue, Bao, and Vienna. This marked the EN branch's first collab outside of Nijisanji.

On 18 July, voice packs for each member of LazuLight went on sale, with custom voice packs limited to the first 100 purchases.

On 25 August, she opened her Youtube channel's membership, becoming the first member of Nijisanji EN to do so. By the end of her stream, over 1,000 viewers had joined her membership.

Events

 * On 24 June 2021, Nijisanji's English Twitter account announced that every LazuLight member would appear in "Anime Expo Lite 2021."
 * On 1 July 2021, Otakuthon Twitter account announced that every LazuLight member would appear in "Otakuthon At Home 2021" as guests.
 * On 15 September, all members of LazuLight and OBSYDIA participated in the "Meltdown" game show on the official Nijisanji EN channel.

Fans

 * Her fanbase name is "Ryuguards".
 * During her debut, she jokingly suggested calling the fanbase "seamen."
 * Her fanbase also sometimes refers to themselves as "Financers".

Quotes

 * "Fish and chips, anyone?"

Identity

 * Her species is a tropical mermaid.
 * Color: #79CFB8
 * She can also speak Hmong and a little bit of Japanese.
 * She is bisexual.

Likes and dislikes

 * Likes: Custom keyboards, keycaps, switches, drawing, epic anime battles + OSTs, Doritos & Dr. Pepper, fashion/cosplay
 * Dislikes: Spiders, Minecraft mobs (Creepers, Trumpet Skeleton, etc.), "Finana" autocorrects to "Finance", pineapple on pizza
 * Anime she likes: Shingeki no Kyojin, Steins;Gate & 0, Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, No Game No Life, Toradora!, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Beastars, Promare, Vinland Saga, Kimetsu no Yaiba (+ Mugen Train Movie), Yakusoku no Neverland (not season 2), Jujutsu Kaisen, Hajime no Ippo, Megalobox, Dr. Stone''
 * Music she likes:
 * Sawano Hiroyuki
 * Touhou Project (Traditional/Folk, Eurobeat, Metal, Rock, Electronic, etc.)
 * Anime OSTs: Myth & Roid, MAN WITH A MISSION, ONE OK ROCK, anything with Japanese/German
 * Japanese singers: Nano, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, LiSA, Mizuki Nana, Aimer, Yanagisawa Nana, Yousei Teikoku, ReoNa
 * Utaite/Vocaloid: TeddyLoid, Reol, Mafumafu, Nanahira, Giga-P, DECO*27, Crusher-P, Utsu-P, PinocchioP, Kairiki Bear, Cepheid, HoneyWorks, Kanaria, wowaka, Supercell, Neru, CircusP, Mitchie M
 * Korean Pop
 * 88rising: Lexie Liu, Rich Brian, Joji,Higher Brothers, Keith Ape, Chungha
 * BABYMETAL

Miscellaneous

 * She once had an embarrassing moment where she had ordered an NSFW "egg-shaped object" online and her father opened the package. The egg became a recurring joke in her streams and whenever Finana censors something during streaming, she brings up a doodle of her retelling of the story.
 * Her NSFW tag had to be changed twice (from #OnlyFins to #NSFinW to #Ryugasm) due to people spamming unrelated content in her tags.
 * On phone keyboards, Finana usually autocorrects to "Finance". Whenever she uses her lower-pitched voice on some streams, Ryuguards dubbed this persona to be "Finance Ryugu".
 * Her first avatar is incapable of making a sad face. As a result, even when she is actually sad, her avatar is still smiling.

Media

 * Finana Ryugu 【NIJISANJI EN】 - YouTube channel
 * Finana's corporate profile on the official Nijisanji website
 * @FinanaRyugu - Twitter account
 * @finanaryugu - Marshmallow account
 * u/Finana_Ryugu - Reddit account

Twitter hashtags

 * #FinanaRyugu or #フィナーナ竜宮 - General
 * #FinanaLive - Stream talk
 * #Ryuguards - Fans
 * #Finanart - Fan art
 * #Ryugasm - Fan art (NSFW)
 * #Ryugraphics - Thumbnails/assets
 * #Finameme - Memes

Further readings

 * Finana Ryugu - Unofficial Nijisanji Wiki