Vox Akuma

Vox Akuma (ヴォックス・アクマ) is a male English Virtual YouTuber affiliated with NIJISANJI EN's fourth wave "Luxiem," alongside Luca Kaneshiro, Shu Yamino, Ike Eveland, and Mysta Rias. He is the first NIJISANJI EN Liver to reach 1 million subscribers on YouTube.

Introduction Video

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Profile
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Personality
Though Vox can be as mysterious and suave as his profile describes, he also has sillier side that likes making crass jokes and doing impressions of characters/people, one of which notably being Gordon Ramsey. He is flirtatious, notably with Mysta and Ike, and is always willing to give his audience a bit of fan service.

Vox is prone to fanboy over things like FNAF, monkeys, and is known for his hatred for the 2012 film, The Lorax. He seems to be quite a good cook, enjoying fancier, gourmet dishes. Despite how silly he often is, however, Vox can be wise and uses the knowledge he's accumulated over the years to give good life advice and support.

Background
On 18 June 2021, NIJISANJI EN opened two sets of auditions, one of which was specifically for male Livers. The male-specific auditions lasted until 1 August.

On 17 December 2021, NIJISANJI EN announced the upcoming debut of its fourth wave "Luxiem," accompanied by a teaser featuring the new Livers' designs and voices.

Vox's YouTube channel was created on 1 December 2021, and his Twitter account also created in the same month. His first tweet was made on 17 December 2021.

Debut
Luxiem made their debuts on 20 December 2021 (JST) as part of a special debut program hosted on the NIJISANJI EN channel, with commentary provided by Elira Pendora and Oliver Evans. Vox was the last of the group to debut. Afterwards, all five members of Luxiem appeared on the main channel.

Luxiem's first original song, "Hope in the dark", was released shortly after the program. This song was written and produced by ChibaNyan, who previously wrote and produced Ethyria's debut song "God sees all".

2021
On 29 December, Vox reached 100,000 followers on his Twitter account.

On 30 December, Vox reached 100,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

2022
On 17 January, Vox reached 200,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel

On 26 January, Vox appeared on Ironmouse's talk show, "Speak of the Devil".

On 10 February, Vox reached 300,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

On 27 February, Luxiem's debut celebration voice packs went up for sale.

On 6 March, Vox reached 400,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

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

On 18 March, Vox reached 400,000 followers on his Twitter account.

On 28 March, Vox reached 500,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

On 1 April, Vox reached 522,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel during a 5 h 22 min stream. This milestone is significant as one of Vox's goals for 2022 and since it pertains to the number 522, the size of Vox's original clan in Sengoku.

On 14 April, Vox reached 500,000 followers on his Twitter account. On the same day, he held his first (unarchived) karaoke stream in celebration of 522,000 subscribers. The stream peaked at around 59,000 concurrent viewers.

On 20 April, Vox reached 600,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

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

On 25 April, Vox's birthday goods and voice went up for sale.

On 1 May, each Luxiem member received an official bilibili account. Vox also reached 100 captains on bilibili the same day. A captain on bilibili is the equivalent of a YouTube channel membership.

On 6 May, Vox had his first bilibili-exclusive stream to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of NIJISANJI EN. During the stream, he reached 425,000 cumulative viewers, first in popularity for the VTuber and overall categories, over 700,000 followers on bilibili, and over 14 million cumulative streamer points. He also reached 1000 captains on bilibili the same day.

On 9 May, Vox held his first sponsored stream for the game "Cookie Run: Kingdom" by Devsisters which focused on the game's new updates and features.

On 11 May, Vox reached 700,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

On 27 May, Vox reached 1,000,000 followers on his bilibili channel.

On 4 June, Vox reached 800,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

On 9 June, Luxiem's YouTube channel was created.

On 21 June, Vox reached 800,000 followers on his Twitter account.

On 1 July, Vox reached 900,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

On 13 July, Vox reached 900,000 followers on his Twitter account.

On 19 July, Vox appeared on Projekt Melody's podcast, "Lewdcast".

On 24 July, Vox reached 1,000,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel. He reached this milestone in 216 days, over 7 months after debut, making him the first NIJISANJI EN member and the 4th NIJISANJI Liver overall to reach this milestone.

On 30 July, Vox reached 1,000,000 followers on his Twitter account.

From 21 November until 22 November, Vox began a series of cryptic tweets that elude to his lore. In these tweets, Vox used the first letter of each tweet to spell "four hundred years," ending the series of tweets with an announcement of his first cover of New Cydonia by Starcadian released on November 25, which is a mix of the original and alternative version of the song featuring backing vocals of fellow Nijisanji EN member Enna Alouette.

2022

 * On 14 February, Vox featured as one of the hosts for the "NIJIAnswer" game show on the official NIJISANJI EN channel: Final Answer?!
 * On 15 April, a Sweets Paradise collaboration involving Luxiem was announced, running from 24 April to May 31. Participating locations offered food and drinks themed off of individual Luxiem members. Customers were also able to buy limited-edition goods which included acrylic stands, a file folder, badges, print icon cookies, stickers, a canvas pouch, a mug, and t-shirts. Additionally, as this collaboration occurred during Vox's and Shu's birthdays, birthday bromide profiles featuring Vox and Shu were available at locations.
 * On 25 April, AnimeFest announced that Luxiem will hold a Q&A panel on July 30.
 * On 22 May, Vox was part of the merchandise collaboration with Otaku Culture Lab alongside Elira Pendora, Selen Tatsuki, Petra Gurin, Shu, and Luca. Limited-time goods included fans, wooden sake boxes, senjafuda stickers, wooden name tags, noren curtains, tenugui towels, and temperature-sensitive cups.
 * On 13 July, Vox participated in Overwatch 2 "Twitch Rivals Overwatch Pride Celebration" hosted by Twitch with Sleepy, Selen, Noonie (replacing rpr), and Surefour. They got 5th place in this tournament. However they finished 1st place in the consolation bracket and won $35000 for charity. a few big names in this tournament they ended up beating are XQC, Mendo, and Muma.
 * On 15 July, ANIME Impulse announced Luxiem as guests for a meet and greet on 4 September. Later on 11 August, ANIME Impulse announced that Luxiem would hold a panel on the main stage. Also available at the event were drinks themed off of the individual members of Luxiem.
 * On 1 September, Curtain Damashii announced limited-time original goods. These limited goods included canvas art, a jigsaw puzzle, wireless phone chargers, acrylic memo stands, and hashtag keychains. An original art piece was drawn by Takebayashi, while mini character art was drawn by Uchikoshi. Pre-order is available from 1 September to 21 September with items shipped between 16 November and 15 December.
 * On 28 September, KIRABASE announced a café collaboration with Luxiem running from 10 October to 30 November. This collaboration featured new artwork of Luxiem members in Halloween costumes drawn by Ajijifeizhai and chibi variants drawn by Chahuanxiong. Participating locations offered food and drink themed off of each member, as well as limited acrylic stands and badges. Customers that bought certain food items and/or posted on social media received random coasters, photo cards, and transparent photo frames.
 * On 11 November, Family Mart announced a collaboration with Vox, Elira, Selen, Ike, Mysta, Reimu Endou, Sonny Brisko, and Alban Knox. Beginning 15 November until 28 November, customers were eligible for clear files featuring Vox, Reimu, Ike, and Sonny if they bought two jelly products. Files features handwritten messages by the members. A clear file featuring all four was also available if customers bought two snack products.

Mascot and Fans

 * The demon that hangs around near Vox is a yokai named Oni Giri. Oni Giri was also a moderator in Vox's chat.
 * Vox's fans are called "Kindred".
 * Vox's YouTube membership is called "Citizenship".
 * Vox has a stuffed plush monkey named Baba originally used as his stand-in for his DnD character by the same name. which he brings around when he was moving to a new house. He also makes an appearance in a comic that Vox wrote and illustrated by Merryweather in which he was chased by the Feds after he was caught stealing a PlayStation 5.

Quotes

 * "Well, speak of the devil." - Debut trailer
 * "That's my girl."
 * "I'm a fat boy."
 * "I love all the members of Luxiem equally... especially Ike."
 * "Vox, you have no interest in video games, you have an interest in MEN."
 * "I wanna be [Ike's] Pokémon plushie, I wanna be his Pokémon plushie so very badly."
 * "He says 'lol'."
 * "Great googly moogly."
 * "You rat bastard."
 * "This is fine / it's fine / I'm fine." (variations of a commonly said phrase to mask game rage)
 * "Maahaaa [...]" (imitation of a drunk Orson Welles in a wine commercial filming)
 * "Punch me all you like. You can't unfuck the Christmas turkey."
 * "Hello, treacle."

Relationships

 * "Luxiem" - Vox, Luca Kaneshiro, Shu Yamino, Ike Eveland, and Mysta Rias. These five debuted together.
 * Media: YouTube
 * Hashtags: #Luxiem
 * "FoxAkuma" - Vox and Mysta Rias.
 * "Horror Husbandos Homies" - Vox and Ike Eveland.
 * "MOMs/Many Ovulating Monkeys of '87" - Vox, Elira Pendora, and Nina Kosaka. They were formed for the NIJIAnswer game show.
 * "LAM Bros" - Vox, Fulgur Ovid, and rpr. These three were designed by LAM. Initially a duo consisting of Vox and Fulgur until rpr made his vtuber debut.
 * "NijiEU" - Vox, Mysta Rias, Ike Eveland, and Nina Kosaka. An off-collab group which Vox participated in.
 * Gen 2 - Luca Kaneshiro, Mika Melatika, and Oliver Evans.
 * "NijiChaos" - Vox, Mysta Rias, Fulgur Ovid and Millie Parfait.
 * "NijiDads/NijiCancelled" - Vox, Fulgur Ovid, Selen Tatsuki, and Enna Alouette during their Trial By Trolley collab.
 * "Voxto" - Vox and Shoto (Shxtou)

Identity

 * Color: #960018
 * Species: Demon
 * His is ENFJ.
 * Vox shares his character designer, LAM, with Fulgur Ovid of NIJISANJI EN, Kureiji Ollie of hololive Indonesia, and independent VTubers Ganba Ruuko, BakenVT, and rpr. LAM also illustrated Kujo Ringo, Kujo Natsume, Kujo Anzu, Kujo Lychee, and VAV AI.

Name

 * "Vox Akuma" is a combination of Latin and Japanese, and is a calque of his species as the "voice demon."
 * "Vox" means "voice" in Latin.
 * "Akuma" (悪魔) means "demon, devil" in Japanese
 * On debut, his name is written as "ボックス悪魔" (Bokkusu Akuma) instead of the official "ヴォックス・アクマ" (Vokkusu Akuma). This was the only time it was spelt as such.
 * The given name uses the katakana for "bo" (ボ) rather than "vo" (ヴォ). "Bo" is how some Japanese may pronounce the kana "vo" as it is not native to Japanese.
 * The surnames uses the Kanji for "akuma," rather than the katakana spelling.

Lore

 * Vox Akuma is the Voice Demon, and has the power to influence or control others with his voice.
 * In 1614, at the close of the Sengoku period, Vox Akuma ruled over the small Akuma clan, which made its territory on Honshu's northernmost peninsula. This clan was formed of refugees that Vox had taken in during Japan's unification wars. When the Tokugawa shogunate tried to consolidate the Akuma clan under its control, Vox refused, causing Tokugawa to declare war. Tokugawa's army overwhelmed Vox's tiny militia and overran Akuma Castle, wiping out the Akuma clan. Secretly, Vox survived the battle thanks to his demonic blood, and lived on in secrecy until the present day.
 * After the fall of the Akuma clan, Vox lived in a self-imposed exile from Japan, living a quiet life of debauchery and avoiding the public eye.
 * In the 1920s, Vox met a Japanese-American bootlegger, a member of the Kaneshiro family. This man was able to identify Vox due to growing up with stories about the battle at Akuma Castle.
 * In 1984, Vox met a group of youkai working for the mob in Miami, some of whom were old acquaintances. The leader of these youkai turned out to be Oni Giri, who had been trying to track down Vox ever since the fall of the Akuma clan.
 * Vox has an attachment to the number 522, which was the size of the original Akuma clan.
 * He claims to not remember his own birthday. Therefore, he considers his birthday to be on 25 April, his clan's foundation.

Likes and Dislikes

 * Likes: Cooking, Voiceovers, Arthouse Film, Peppermint Tea, Hibiscus Tea, Ike Eveland.
 * His favourite cake is Red Velvet cake and Victorian Sponge cake. He's not that much into overly sweet things.
 * He likes sour tastes (toxic waste candy).
 * He likes his kindred as thirsty as they are.
 * His favourite ice cream flavors are salted caramel, mint chocolate chips, and lemon sorbet..
 * He likes eating cereal without milk. However, he does clarify that he is not insane and if he were to eat cereals with milk, he will put in the cereals before the milk.
 * Dislikes: Fishy Food, The Lorax Movie
 * Anime: Hunter x Hunter, Fullmetal Alchemist, Darling In The Franxx
 * Games: From Software, Runescape, Five Nights at Freddy's, RPGMaker Games, Death Stranding, Omori, Super Smash Bros

Miscellaneous

 * His favorite type of ero-doujin are ones with a plot and a happy ending, although it doesn't have to be vanilla.
 * His favorite type of romantic relationship is the "enemies-turned-to-lovers" trope.
 * His nickname Voxic comes from being toxic during games (typically Smash) while Voxanne is used for when he uses a female voice.
 * He has stated that Rosaria from Genshin Impact is his type, and has called La Signora from the same game "his future wife".
 * He once stated his type is a confident, self-assured, powerful, brutal, hardworking woman and that it's similar with men but also in a himbo way.
 * Initially, his Rice Purity Test score was thought to be 28. However, he retook the test and scored 26 after seeing he left out several details.
 * Additionally, under technicality, his score was further brought down to 25 when realizing he was indeed questioned by the police, but clarifies that he was merely a passer-by.
 * He has one of the most down bad chats.
 * His hand size is about 2 PS5 controllers tall (about 213 mm or 8.4 inches). He has yaoi hands.
 * His shoe size is UK 13/EU 48/US 14.
 * Would love to be reborn as an Australian Cattle Dog (specifically Hugh Jackman's dog)
 * His superpower of choice would be super strength.
 * The safeword for his Kindred is 'Lorax'.
 * He loves dogs.
 * He took the Hogwarts House test and he is a Slytherin through and through, and a bit of Ravenclaw.
 * Fans tend to give Vox various one-off nicknames prefixed by Mi- in reference to his nickname Milord and to what happens on streams. For example, Miflat = Milord's ass is flat; see nicknames in an old revision of this page.
 * He had 2 goldfish and a hamster.
 * According to rpr, Vox is the first VTuber designed by LAM to have a references sheet.
 * Contrary to popular belief, rpr claims his so-called "references sheet" is not a formal reference sheet, but rather a collection of collaged sketches; he ask LAM for a proper reference sheet, but the earliest possibility is "next year," 2023.
 * During the 2022 NIJISANJI Koshien Tournament, Vox was chosen by Shiina Yuika to be a part of her team. Desperately wanting Vox on her own team instead, Sasaki Saku customized Yashiro Kizuku to look like him, creating the "Vox Yashiro" meme. The name trended on Twitter Japan on the first day of the tournament.
 * Additionally, when Vox's character made an appearance at the second day of the tournament, he was jokingly referred to by the commentators and fans as "Honmono no Vox" (本物のVox) which translates to "The Real Vox" to avoid confusion with "Vox Yashiro". The term also trended in Twitter Japan.

Media

 * Vox Akuma's corporate profile on NIJISANJI website
 * Vox Akuma【NIJISANJI EN】 - YouTube channel
 * Vox_EN_Official - bilibili channel
 * @Vox_Akuma - Twitter account
 * u/Vox_Akuma - Reddit account

Twitter Hashtags

 * #VoxAkuma - General tag
 * #AkuHours #VoxPopuLive - Stream tag
 * #AkumArt #Akurylic - Fan art tag
 * #VoXxX #Akumasutra - NSFW art tag
 * #VoXD #AkumaMatata - Meme tag
 * #Akulinary - Cooking Tag
 * #AkthumbA - Thumbnail tag