Juufuutei Raden

Juufuutei Raden (儒烏風亭らでん) is a Japanese-speaking Virtual YouTuber affiliated with hololive DEV_IS, a branch of hololive production. She debuted in 2023 as part of ReGLOSS alongside Hiodoshi Ao, Otonose Kanade, Ichijou Ririka, and Todoroki Hajime.

Profile
A grandma's girl who covers herself in both tradition and revolution, and sees big dreams in the rakugo world. She loves arts and culture of all kinds—new and old, Eastern and Western. She visits museums so often that she is left penny-pinching the rest of the time. It is most certainly not due to her frequent purchases of alcohol. Through her encounter with rakugo, she has come to enjoy public speaking more than ever, and she is fervishly writing up her own skits.

Appearance
She has long, dark purple hair in twintails with some light brown streaks/highlights throughout and light blue eyes. She wears a ruffly black and dark greenish gothic lolita style dress with ruffles and a large black bow.

Background
hololive DEV_IS was initially teased during the conclusion of hololive's '''SPLASH PARTY! Night''' concert with a short video on 27 August 2023. The teaser was also shared later that day on both hololive's Twitter account and hololive DEV_IS YouTube channel on 27 August 2023. The channel itself was created on 21 August.

On 29 August 2023, following the YouTube channel released short videos of the members in a countdown leading to the project's reveal, Raden's teaser was the fourth featuring a solo member of the group. Her teaser was released on 31 August.

On 4 September, after finishing the countdown, hololive DEV_IS YouTube channel introduced the group ReGLOSS along with the music video "Shunkan Heartbeat", revealing the identities of all its members as well as their channels and social media accounts. Raden also made her first tweet on this date. Raden's teaser video from hololive DEV_IS channel was also uploaded to her personal channel, now fully displaying her face.

Raden's YouTube channel was created on 21 July 2023, and her Twitter account was also created on this month.

On 7 September, hololive DEV_IS's YouTube channel uploaded another video this time showing ReGLOSS' members actual models and appearances outside of their unified group clothes.

She debuted on 10 September 2023 and was the fourth member to debut. After the stream, she released her first solo cover song "Sumire, September Love" by Ippu-Do.

2023
On 10 September, Raden reached 100,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On 19 September, Raden reached 200,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during a talking stream.

On 26 September, Raden celebrated her YouTube channel monetization and enabled Super Chat feature.

On 10 October, Raden had her first collaboration cover along with ReGLOSS, the song "REALiZE" by LiSA.

On 13 October, Raden enabled her YouTube membership feature.

On 31 October, she reached 300,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

Discography

 * Main: Juufuutei Raden/Discography

Events

 * On 12 November 2023, Raden posted a limited-time collaboration video with the treasure house, co-sponsored by the Nara National Museum and the  Shosoin Office, where she presented some of the house's various relics and treasures. The video would only be up for a 24-hour period, and would be removed on 13 November 2023 at 18:00 JST.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is called "Dendoshi"「でん同士」.
 * Her members are called "Choudendoshi"「超でん同士」.

Name

 * The word "Raden" refers to a of inserting cut-out parts of a a shellfish's  into the carved surface of lacquer or wood.

Lore

 * "ChoVeryBad"「超VeryBad」(also known as "choberiba"), the live house where the members of ReGLOSS gather. This place used to be very vibrant and crowded, where performances took place almost every day.
 * She is an apprentice.
 * She often dons a "", a type of mask used in Noh, a form of classical Japanese dance theater performed since the 14th century. Noh masks signify the characters' gender, age, and social ranking.
 * Her emoji is a shellfish, whose inner layer is the main crafting material for raden.

Likes and dislikes

 * She likes visiting museums, traveling, reading, watching shows, sweet drinks, alcohol (usually Japanese sake)/smoking (favorite brand is Winston)/slot machines, and taking photos.
 * Her favorite foods are mentaiko (pollock roe) and ramen.
 * Her strength is acting and singing is her weakness but she still likes it.

Miscellaneous

 * She claims that she is good at memorizing but not so good if it is about names or faces.
 * Her plan is to release short videos related to art.
 * Her laugh sounds quite similar to Usada Pekora.
 * Raden shared that she applied for hololive once and was accepted. When she received hololive's email response, she thought it was a scam.
 * Raiden has about 50 plushies, her favorite is Pompompurin plushie. Ririka revealed that Raden usually brings a plushie with her everytime she goes to the studio.
 * Raden shares that she doesn't read kanji very well. She memorizes them as symbols and kind of knows what they mean but not how to read it.

Media

 * Raden Ch. 儒烏風亭らでん ‐ ReGLOSS - YouTube channel
 * Juufuutei Raden's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
 * @juufuuteiraden - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #らでん記 - Stream
 * #らでん似絵 - Fan art
 * #AIらでん似絵 - AI fan art
 * #教えてらでんちゃん - Question