Elira Pendora

Elira Pendora (エリーラ ペンドラ) is an English female Virtual YouTuber affiliated with NIJISANJI EN's first wave "LazuLight", alongside Pomu Rainpuff and Finana Ryugu.

Profile
A sky dragon who came from the heavens closest to the sun. She has the kindness and receptiveness that makes the light of a sunny day fall equally on all.

Personality
Elira tends to be relatively calm and composed with a slightly cheeky sense of humor. She is very supportive of her fellow EN Livers and often has something nice to say about them. While she sometimes gets flustered by her genmates' antics, Elira is fairly mischievous herself and enjoys teasing her viewers and turning their jokes back on them.

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. Elira was the second of the group to debut. Her debut stream opened with her rendition of "God Knows..." and was especially memorable due to using the pun "dragon deez nuts."

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.

2021
On 4 June, she reached 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. At the time, this made her the fastest NIJISANJI Liver to do so with a record of 18 days, which would later be broken a month later by Leos Vincent.

On 6 June, her YouTube channel was approved for monetization.

On 25 June, it was announced that Elira would be the vocalist for the English 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.

On 7 July, Elira streamed on Twitch for the very first time due to technical difficulties with YouTube. This stream also marked the first time that a member of NIJISANJI EN streamed on Twitch. However, the archive was lost, as she forgot to activate the appropriate setting.

On 18 July, LazuLight's debut voice packs went on sale, with custom voice packs limited to the first 100 purchases.

On 26 August, she opened memberships on her YouTube channel.

On 24 September, she hosted a sponsored Onmyoji stream on her channel with the other members of LazuLight. This marked NIJISANJI EN's very first sponsored stream.

On 16 October, she celebrated her birthday by premiering a cover of "Goodbye Sengen."

On 18 October, her YouTube channel reached 200,000 subscribers.

On 26 November, her Twitter account received its verification badge. Also on this day, she held a sponsored stream of [https://projectsekai.fandom.com/wiki/Project_SEKAI_COLORFUL_STAGE! Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku] as part of the promotion for its upcoming release.

On 15 December, her duet cover of "Cruel Angel's Thesis" with Seffyna premiered on Seffyna's channel.

On 19 December, Elira's "First Step Goods" merchandise and Christmas 2021 voice pack went up for sale.

2022
On 22 January, LazuLight announced in a collab that on 29 January, they would get new costumes. They made the Twitter hashtag "#LazuDrip" so that fans could send their predictions for the outfits. Elira's hashtag for impressions of her new outfit was #PeepTheFit.

On January 29, she revealed her new outfit, a cloud-themed kimono with a frilly skirt and a fur collar. In this outfit, she sports a bobbed haircut and a tiara.

On 15 March, Elira's White Day 2022 voice pack went up for sale.

On 24 March, Elira reached 300,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On 22 April, Elira's Sakura Bloom 2022 voice pack and goods went up for sale.

On 17 May, LazuLight's 1st Anniversary goods went up for sale, including T-shirts designed by LazuLight.

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" Jackbox game show on the official NIJISANJI EN channel.
 * On 22 November 2021, all members of LazuLight, OBSYDIA, and Ethyria participated in the "Ready! Get Set! Clash!" Mario Kart game show on the official NIJISANJI EN channel, with Elira taking 3rd place overall.
 * On 28 November, all members of LazuLight participated in the "VTubers Have No Borders 2021" music festival hosted by Overidea.
 * On 1 January 2022, OffKai Expo's Twitter account announced that every LazuLight member would appear in "OffKai Expo" as guests.
 * On 14 February 2022, Elira featured as one of the hosts for the "NIJIAnswer" game show on the official NIJISANJI EN channel.
 * On 3 July 2022, she, alongside Shu Yamino and Hana Macchia, will be participating in the NIJISANJI Mahjong Cup team competition, "Kachou Fugetsu Sen", on the official NIJISANJI channel as team BFP of Block B.

Mascot and Fans

 * Elira's companion is named Pikl, who is one of the dragons she trains.
 * Her fanbase is referred to as FamElira, a combination of "family" and "Elira."
 * Her membership is named "Membersheesh."

Quotes

 * "Love at first light." - debut teaser quote
 * "Do you like dragons? Hmm? You guys like dragons? Heh heh. Dragon deez nuts."
 * "Do you think Diamond City Lights is a twerkable song?"

Relationships

 * "LazuLight" - Elira, Pomu Rainpuff, and Finana Ryugu. These three debuted together.
 * "PNGs" - Elira, Millie Parfait, Luca Kaneshiro, Pomu Rainpuff, and Shu Yamino.
 * BFP (Banana Flower Plus) - Shu Yamino, Elira Pendora, and Hana Macchia.

Identity

 * Species: Solar Sky Dragon
 * Color: #95C8D8
 * Elira is the half-sister of Selen Tatsuki, both canonically and due to sharing the same artist.

Lore

 * Elira is a dragon tamer, a dragon who trains other dragons, such as Pikl. She compares her role to human parents using toddler leashes in a shopping mall.
 * Her left eye, hidden under her bangs, has a diamond-shaped pupil similar to Pikl's.
 * She came from the sun, and traveled to Earth at some unspecified point in time.
 * Her true age has not been directly stated, but she is said to be millions of years old, making her canonically the oldest member of NIJISANJI EN.

Likes and Dislikes

 * Likes: Human food, sleeping, seiyuus, reading books
 * Cartoons she likes: Steven Universe, Gravity Falls
 * Anime she likes: Shounen Jump titles such as HUNTER×HUNTER, My Hero Academia, One Piece, The Promised Neverland, and Haikyuu!!; other sports anime such as Ookiku Furikabutte, Diamond no Ace, and SK8 the Infinity; Ikuhara-san's works; harem anime; and anime produced by Madhouse Studio.
 * Games she likes include: Ib, Your Turn To Die, the Professor Layton series, Danganronpa series, Ensemble Stars!, A3!, Animal Crossing, Genshin Impact, Apex Legends, Splatoon 
 * Music she likes: Vocaloid songs (Mostly "boomer" songs, as well as songs by Kikuo, Neru, DECO*27), Utaite (Uratanuki, USSS, After the Rain), Hypnosis Mic (Buster Bros!!!), Arashi, Ikimonogakari
 * Her favorite characters in Ensemble Stars! are Ritsu Sakuma (who is her oshi), Izumi Sena, and Natsume Sakasaki. Her favorite units are 2Wink and Knights.
 * Her favorite characters in Hypnosis Mic are Jiro Yamada and Gentaro Yumeno.
 * Her favorite character in A3! is Kumon Hyodo and she is a Natsugumi fan.
 * She has hemophobia (fear of blood).
 * Her favorite NIJISANJI members are Nishizono Chigusa and Inui Toko.
 * Elira was electrocuted by a jellyfish "a long time ago" and developed a fear of fish as a result.
 * She is a major fan of the Harry Potter series.
 * Elira adores Kagamine Len partly due to a drawing from her "favorite artist of all-time", Tama. Tama later drew the illustration for Elira's "Shoujo Rei" music video.

Miscellaneous

 * Due to being one of the founding members of NIJISANJI EN, her relatively level-headed nature, her close bonds with fellow EN Livers, and strong rapport with other NIJISANJI branches, Elira is often regarded as the face of the EN branch. However, she dislikes being addressed as "daisenpai", as she feels it does a disservice to all of her hardworking senpais in other branches.
 * She has mentioned that her family members watch her streams, and they sometimes text her mid-stream with advice.
 * As a counter to the "F to pay respects" meme, Elira instead tells chat to say "E to believe."
 * She regularly browses TikTok, and is often associated with "zoomer" memes.
 * She is known for endurance streaming, and several of her most popular streams involved pressing a button for 8 hours.
 * Due to one of her eyes being hidden by bangs, a running joke among fans is to claim that she only has one eye.
 * She considers her meme tag, #E1337RA, to be the funniest thing she has ever come up with.
 * During a drunk Halloween collab with Finana, Elira brought up a fan's tweet asking if Diamond City Lights was a twerkable song. Elira considered the chorus to be especially twerkable, and to test this, she and Finana began twerking in-game while singing Diamond City Lights. As the night went on, they raided and were raided by other Livers' Halloween streams. At each opportunity, Elira pressed the other Livers for their opinion on whether Diamond City Lights was twerkable, and forced them to sing while she twerked.
 * According to Tsukino Mito's NIJISANJI personality quiz game, Elira has similar personality traits to Lize Helesta.
 * She is a longtime friend of Enna Alouette and Millie Parfait, and has known them for nearly a decade.

Media

 * Elira Pendora's corporate profile on the official NIJISANJI website
 * Elira Pendora 【NIJISANJI EN】 - YouTube channel
 * EliraPendora - Twitch channel
 * @EliraPendora - Twitter account
 * @3W1W4 - Twitter sub account
 * @elirapendora - Marshmallow account
 * u/Elira_Pendora - Reddit account

Twitter hashtags

 * #EliraPendora - General
 * #PanCast - Live talk
 * #pendorART - Fan art
 * #elilust - Fan art (NSFW)
 * #E1337RA - Memes

Further readings

 * Elira Pendora (エリーラ・ペンドラ) - Unofficial NIJISANJI Wiki
 * EliraPendora - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * Elira Pendora - Moegirl Encyclopedia
 * Elira Pendora 【NIJISANJI EN】 - Wikitubia