Pomu Rainpuff

Pomu Rainpuff (ぽむ れいんぱふ) is an English female Virtual YouTuber affiliated with NIJISANJI EN's first wave LazuLight, alongside Elira Pendora and Finana Ryugu.

Profile
A fairy who lived in a lush forest. Supple like a flower in the breeze, cheerful and optimistic.

Personality
Pomu is friendly and cheerful. In streams, she's known for fun, silly antics such as adding wotagei mix chants during karaoke. While she sometimes gets hyperfocused when playing a game, she still tries to be considerate of her viewers and puts a lot of importance on showing her appreciation. Her mischievous side tends to emerge when bantering with her chat or her fellow EN Livers, who she regards more of as friends than coworkers. She enjoys messing with her chat and finding ways to catch them off guard.

Overall, Pomu's a very hardworking and creative person who's willing to try a variety of new things. She can sometimes be a bit stubborn about following through on her plans, and always aims to provide a quality experience for her viewers. However, she also can be rather harsh on herself when her plans don't work out or she doesn't meet her own standards. In collabs, she's often eager to contribute and make herself useful, but can also be quick to react when slighted.

Pomu proclaims herself to have the "biggest PP energy," and on her schedules, her days off from streaming are marked as "PP energy restoration" days. She is a hardcore otaku who becomes very passionate when discussing her favorite topics, such as idols, maid cafes, or her cat Pomusuke. She's not hesitant to fawn (or in some cases, perv out) over cute girls and enjoys flirting with other Livers.

In a NIJISANJI personality quiz game, Pomu was labeled as a "Shizuka Rin" type who prefers to go at her own pace, and who can be quite emotional but still views herself in an objective and rational way. Out of the seven deadly sins, Pomu considers pride to be her greatest flaw.

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 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. Pomu's Twitter account was initially suspended, but got restored later that day.

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. Pomu was the first of the group to debut. Her debut stream featured a hand-drawn introductory video, as well as her own rendition of "Hamtaro Tottoko Uta" including wotagei mixes.

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. Pomu would later name her piece of the moon Area PP1. 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, her Youtube channel was approved for monetization.

On 12 June, she and the rest of LazuLight participated in an Among Us collab with various members of other Nijisanji branches. This marked their first collab outside of NIJISANJI EN.

On 23 June, she and the rest of LazuLight celebrated their first month with a Devour collab.

On 26 June, she reached 100,000 subscribers on YouTube during a Cooking Simulator stream.

On 10 July, she and the rest of LazuLight celebrated their 100k milestones together with a spicy noodles challenge. Due to Elira ordering the wrong noodles and Finana turning her noodles into a soup, only Pomu faced the challenge as intended, but she was only able to eat a quarter of her bowl. During this stream, Lazulight also announced an Otakuthon costume contest in which fans would design original outfits for the EN Livers and submit through Twitter. Each Liver would pick their top five outfits, and the winners would receive free tickets to Otakuthon.

On 18 July, LazuLight's debut voice packs went on sale, with custom voice packs limited to the first 100 purchases. Pomu's voice packs sold the fastest of the three members, with all custom voice packs sold out by 23 July.

On 21 July, she held a collab with Projekt Melody. This marked Pomu's first one-on-one collab outside of NIJISANJI.

On 23 July, Pomu announced on her Twitter account announced that she would go on hiatus starting 28 July, 2021 due to undergoing surgery.

On 23 July, she held another one-on-one collab outside NIJISANJI, this time with Amano Pikamee of VOMS.

On 25 July, she and the rest of LazuLight participated in a Garry's Mod collab set up by Zentreya. However, nearly all archives of this collab were immediately privated due to copyright issues.

On 27 July, she announced her winners for the Otakuthon costume contest. This was also her last stream before going on break. However, she continued to make unofficial appearances in other Livers' streams.

On 16 August, she returned to her streaming activities with a Minecraft stream.

On 30 August, she opened memberships on her Youtube channel. By the end of her stream, over 1,600 viewers had joined her membership.

On 4 October, Pomu participated in a LazuLight karaoke collab on Elira's channel. This karaoke collab turned out to actually be a setup by Finana, Elira, and the staff for Pomu to collab with beatmario, a well-known Touhou music artist.

On 12 November, she organized a Crab Game collab with all 10 members of NIJISANJI EN.

On 18 November, 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. Pomu's stream focused on the group [https://projectsekai.fandom.com/wiki/MORE_MORE_JUMP! MORE MORE JUMP!]

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

Events

 * On 24 June 2021, NIJISANJI's English Twitter account announced that every LazuLight member would appear in "Anime Expo Lite 2021." LazuLight held their Anime Expo Lite panel on 4 July.
 * On 1 July 2021, Otakuthon Twitter account announced that every LazuLight member would appear in "Otakuthon At Home 2021" as guests. LazuLight held their Otakuthon panel on 21 August.
 * On 15 September, all members of LazuLight and OBSYDIA participated in the "Meltdown" Jackbox game show on the official NIJISANJI EN channel.
 * On 16 October, Pomu participated in an agency-wide Blazing Sails tournament alongside Elira Pendora, Selen Tatsuki, and Rosemi Lovelock under the team name "2232."
 * On 22 November, 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 Pomu placing 7th overall.

Fans



 * Her fanbase is officially called "Pomudachi," a combination of "Pomu" and "tomodachi." They are portrayed as triangular-shaped seeds.
 * Due to "Pomudachi" containing "Pomu," as well as fans imitating Pomu's catchphrase, "I'm Pomu!", there is a running joke that her fans are also, to a slight extent, Pomu. The process of turning into a Pomu is referred to as "Pomufication."
 * Her membership is named "Pomie Party," as she considers all of her fans to be Pomudachis, regardless of their membership status.

Quotes

 * "Biiig Pomu energy!" - debut teaser
 * "While you played gacha, I studied the oshi."
 * "A lot of people are like, 'How do you follow everyone in NIJISANJI?' You don't! You don't follow everyone in NIJISANJI. You follow who you want to follow."
 * "hey elira i'm begging you i'm on my knees here pleading please play minecraft with me tonight i am seriously begging here I am going to pass away please help minecraft is the only cure please elira"[sic]
 * "And to me, the lyrics, I feel like [Aozora no Rhapsody]'s kinda a song from me to you, you know? You know the part that's just like, 'I've found the courage to become your wings?' And I feel that about you guys too [...] I feel very grateful that I'm here, and I'm with you guys and with NIJISANJI. [...] It's already such a cheery song, but I hope you also think about how I'm rooting for you, and you can do it! Everyone's rooting for you."

Identity

 * Pomu's species is a forest fairy.
 * In Japanese, her name is spelled in hiragana rather than katakana because she finds it cuter.
 * Color: #258E70

Lore

 * According to Pomu's intro video, she comes from Virtual Neverland. Because people don't believe in fairies anymore, she is losing her magic powers and had to become an OL (office lady). Looking for ways to restore belief in fairies, she did a lot of research on the Internet (which also turned her into a "cultured" fairy). After discovering anime and VTubers, she decided to become a VTuber herself, determined to become the world's strongest fairy and achieve world domination.
 * She comes from the Rainpuff clan of fairies.
 * She lives in a tree stump in the forest, and streams in her closet. Since streaming in a closet is cramped, she is considering moving into a mushroom house instead.
 * It's implied that any time she appears to be streaming from somewhere not in the forest, she's actually still in the forest, but using a green screen or a cloth backdrop tied to two trees.
 * According to Pomu, fairies count their age in flowers, with Pomu being "one flower old" at debut and gaining one petal each year. However, she keeps it intentionally vague on many petals equate to one flower for age purposes.
 * Pomu is normally only 9 cm tall, which is short even by fairy standards, but she can use magic to enlarge her body to 156 cm. When changing from her 9 cm fairy form to her 156 cm human-sized form, her brain remains the same size.
 * There is a restaurant in her forest that she likes to go to because it has a heated bidet that she can sit on for warmth.
 * 70% of a fairy's body is made of nectar, just like how 70% of a human's body is made of water. However, she still drinks water, and likes to take a sip from a freshly fallen dewdrop on a leaf.
 * Her arms and hands are very flexible and capable of wavy movements. She also appears to have the ability to summon additional arms at will, though she claims the extra arms are just other Pomus assisting her.
 * Early on, when mistaken for an elf by new viewers, she would cite her wings as proof that she's a fairy, despite the fact that Elu is an elf with wings while Eli Conifer and Seffyna are fairies without wings. Due to Staff-san referring to her as an elf on two occasions, she later became more receptive to being called an elf, reasoning that fairies are just "tiny elves with wings."
 * As a fairy, she is particularly susceptible to being imprisoned in a glass jar.
 * She claims that her native language is "fairy-go" (as in "fairy語").
 * She is capable of flight because fairies have lightweight bones, similarly to birds.

Childhood Stories

 * She once talked about how she used to do long-distance running as a child, and had a rival who lived next door. Her rival would get up early at the same time as her to practice, and she was still mad at him for beating her in their races. This prompted Finana and Elira, and later Pomu's viewers, to joke about Pomu and her rival being "tsundere" toward each other.
 * When she was young, her family went on a trip to the desert, where they were warned not to touch the sacred sand, but her mother did so anyway. Pomu later suffered a severe eye affliction, and only recovered thanks to medicine from one of the local tribes. She claims that that her family has been under the "sand curse" ever since.
 * When she was a child, she would play nasty tricks on others by making up stories to terrify them, sometimes as revenge for tricks that they played on her. As fairies are known for their pranks, this is a normal part of fairy culture.

Alter egos

 * Da Pomky, her artist alter ego. Has a mustache and a beret. Appears during drawing streams.
 * Pomura Inpuff, her "onee-san" alter ego. Speaks in a deeper, more mature voice, and doesn't wear the ribbon or the hairpins. Later became the central character of the Pomura Arc.
 * On one occasion, Pomu claimed that Pomura was her legal name, and that everyone calls her Pomu for short.
 * Ike-po, her male alter ego who speaks in an ikemen (hot male) voice.
 * The record-holder of Minecraft, an otherwise unaliased Pomu from an alternate timeline who played for 10 years in a single Minecraft Hardcore playthrough (breaking the actual record of 5 years). Unfortunately, the chat was hit by a car and spent all 10 years in a coma, during which the alternate Pomu grew a beard and was awarded a medal. Shortly after chat awoke, this Pomu was apparently assassinated by a nurse. This Pomu was later revealed to have survived the assasination and now serves as the CEO of S.C.A.M. with 10 million subscribers.
 * Another Pomu named Prosecutor Pomsky appeared during the "Pomu Goes to Court" stream wearing the Minecraft Hardcore medal. The exact connection between Pomsky and the record-holder Pomu has yet to be revealed.
 * Umop, another fairy from Pomu's forest who performed dances for Pomu's karaoke on one occasion. Her appearance uses the 2A-7-0Q default VRChat avatar rather than Pomu's actual design.

S.C.A.M.

 * Pomu claims to own a company whose name can be abbreviated as S.C.A.M. She insists that the name should be spelled out rather than read as an acronym.
 * The full name of the company varies depending on her mood:
 * "Super Cool Amazing Magic" - The initial meaning of S.C.A.M., referencing her nature as a fairy. This name is rarely used now.
 * "Stocks Contracts Auction Market" - Used as a reference to investing memes such as "Stonks only go up!" and "Buy! Buy! Buy! Sell! Sell! Sell!"
 * "Spaghetti Comes At Midnight" - Spaghetti is one of the few dishes she feels confident making.

Pomura Arc

 * The "Pomura arc" is a series of narrative streams that appears to be set in a world that has undergone complete Pomufication.
 * Pomura Inpuff: On 23 August, Pomura went on a date with the chat (personified as "Pomudachi Chad"). Pomura revealed that she was originally a separate person who was subjected to Pomufication when Pomu took over the world, but managed to resist her brainwashing and joined a resistance movement. She and a de-Pomufied chat tried to rob a bank, but they were both captured by the real Pomu and re-Pomufied. This stream ended with the line, "There will never be a Pomura takeover."
 * Pomu Goes to Court: On 16 December, Pomu was put on trial (by other Pomus) for various antics in the past few months, with the chat serving as Pomu's lawyer in a similar fashion to the Ace Attorney series. Toward the end of the trial, Pomu was questioned about Pomura's whereabouts, but the trial was interrupted by the ground rumbling and the courthouse catching fire. While everyone else evacuated, the defendant Pomu gave chat a photo of Pomura's apartment, revealing that Pomura was still alive, and she herself had been turned into a new Pomura by the anti-Pomufication resistance. The ARG portion of this stream ended with a brief, glitchy transmission from Pomura, followed by a mostly-concealed message concluding with the line, "Pomura will take over."

Likes and dislikes

 * She likes unagi, sunny days, onsens, corn soup, and riding trains.
 * She loves all types of fruit except durian.
 * Her most favorite fruits include pineapple, kiwi, and mango.
 * Her favorite curry recipe includes apples.
 * At Nina Kosaka's suggestion, she infamously tried durian for the first time when using it as an ingredient for pizza, but found it completely disgusting, calling it an "alien disguised as a fruit."
 * She likes carrots and carrot cake. She also likes popcorn, even if it is stale.
 * She dislikes litter and "EE."
 * She strongly dislikes spicy foods, and has said that nachos are the spiciest food that she can handle.
 * She dislikes eating mushrooms.
 * Anime and manga she likes include Re:Zero, Steins;Gate, the When They Cry series, Gakkou Gurashi!, Yuru Camp, THE iDOLM@STER, Aikatsu!, Bunny Girl Senpai, and Detective Conan.
 * Her favorite holiday is Halloween.
 * She is a major fan of Touhou Project. Her three most favorite Touhou soundtracks are Patchouli's theme "Locked Girl ~ the Girl's Secret Room", Kanako's theme "Suwa Foughten Field", and Byakuren's theme "Cosmic Mind".
 * Her favorite types of games include rhythm games, puzzle games, RPGs, horror games, Touhou, and eroge visual novels.
 * She prefers supernatural horror over psychological horror. She loves watching others play horror games, but has trouble playing them by herself and typically gets another Liver (usually Finana) to keep her company when streaming a horror game.
 * Since joining NIJISANJI, Minecraft has become one of Pomu's favorite games. Her addiction became a recurring gag among NIJISANJI EN for a while, as she would frequently play off-stream, even during her break. Pomu often jokes about forcing the other EN Livers to play Minecraft with her, and has expressed interest in doing Minecraft collabs with Livers from other branches.
 * She likes characters with white or blue hair, including Rem and Echidna from Re:Zero.
 * She likes Godot from the Ace Attorney series.

Otaku Interests

 * She loves collecting otaku goods, and regularly browses AmiAmi for figurines and other merchandise.
 * On 1 Oct 2021, Pomu held an otaku collection/room review, with fans submitting pictures of their room or collections on Twitter with the hashtag "#PotakuCollection."
 * Due to her love for maid cafes and idol concerts, she considers Akihabara a second home. On 22 July 2021, she did a "Tour of Akihabara" stream using Google Maps.
 * She enjoys talking about her visits to Japan.
 * She went to high school in Japan briefly.
 * One of her dreams is to go on a trip to Japan with the rest of the NIJISANJI EN branch.
 * While not an idol herself, she is a major fan of idols and anisong artists, including BiSH, Perfume, 22/7, Nagakawa Shoko, Suzuki Konomi, ZAQ, Kotoko, Tamura Yukari, Under17, IOSYS, and Ogura Yui.
 * Among VTuber fans, the kahen 3-ren wotagei mix ("Jinzo faiya! Faibo waipa!") is often associated with Pomu to the point that some fans have taken to calling it the "Pomu mix," much to Pomu's dismay.
 * She is a fan of many other Vtubers, including Tsukino Mito, Higuchi Kaede, Amamiya Kokoro, Hoshikawa Sara, Suzuhara Lulu, Kizuna Ai, Tanaka Hime, Suzuki Hina, Kaguya Luna, Pinky Pop Hepburn, Amano Pikamee, and Takanashi Kiara, among others.
 * Tsukino Mito is her favorite Liver in NIJISANJI, while Pikamee is her favorite VTuber overall.
 * She discovered NIJISANJI through Virtual-san wa Miteru, which she originally watched because of the HimeHina duo.
 * She owns a Kizuna Ai mug.

Pomusuke

 * While not strictly a mascot, Pomu frequently references her pet cat Pomusuke during streams. She usually refers to him as a "stinky boi," which she says has less to do with how he smells and is more due to his "stinky personality."
 * She named her first cat in Minecraft after Pomusuke. At the time, her first house in Minecraft was a boat, and the in-game Pomusuke unfortunately drowned while trying to get aboard.
 * She gives Pomusuke a British accent while talking for him.
 * Her membership emotes include a Pomusuke emote.

Miscellaneous

 * She has a wide vocal range, and is great at voice impressions.
 * She enjoys making cursed image edits.
 * Her character designer, Itiso, regularly watches Pomu's streams and can often be found in the chat.
 * She writes her lowercase a's as double-story 'a's rather than single-story 'ɑ's.
 * Prior to the OBSYDIA debuts, Pomu mistyped "NIJISANJI" as "Ninisani" in a tweet to Rosemi Lovelock. Since then, "Ninisani" or "2232" has become a nickname for the NIJISANJI EN branch.
 * She drew her introductory video herself, as LazuLight was not allowed to commission assets for their debuts to keep the launch of NIJISANJI EN a secret.
 * Being the first member of Lazulight to debut, she is by extension also the very first member of NIJISANJI EN, and can technically be considered the "daisenpai" of the branch.
 * Each subsequent wave of NIJISANJI EN has had at least one new Liver reference Pomu in their debut:
 * In her introductory video, Rosemi Lovelock discovered Vtubers when she saw Pomu flying around and pollinating other flowers. She later became an intern at S.C.A.M. working directly under Pomu.
 * In her introductory video, Millie Parfait became addicted to a substance called "Pomu Leaf", which led her to become trapped on Earth, crying that she was "scammed."
 * In his introductory video, Mysta Rias discovered Vtubers when a bartender showed him a clip of Pomu shouting at Finana during a Crab Game collab.
 * During 2021, she often felt tired and stressed due to her office job, which forced her to maintain a regular sleep schedule and miss out on cross-branch collabs.
 * Starting 6 September, she shifted from full-time to MWF at her office job, allowing her to stream at earlier times on Tuesdays and Thursdays. However, this actually made her busier than before, as she now had less time to complete the same amount of office work while also taking on more Liver duties.
 * On 12 November, Pomu stated her intention to leave her office job by December, as the past week had been particularly stressful and was the final straw for her. She left her job on 10 December, and celebrated the next day by streaming Pokemon for 15 hours.
 * One of the first anime series that got her interested in anime was The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. On 26 June, she sang "God Knows..." 101 times over the course of a nine-hour stream.
 * During Doom streams, she replaces Doom Guy with her own face on the in-game overlay, and refers to herself as the "Poom Guy."
 * During Pokemon streams, she features a Gengar kigurumi over her avatar, and refers to herself as "Pomugar."
 * During NIJISANJI Koushien 2021, Pomu was picked as a member of Kagami Hayato's team lineup. In the final match, the in-game Pomu struck a home run that shifted the game in Hayato's favor, prompting him to shout, "I'm Pomu! You are Pomu! We are Pomu!"
 * She gets a headache from eating chicken or eggs, but enjoys eating them anyway.
 * Due to a weak stomach, she can't drink carbonated soda or alcohol.
 * On Reimu Endou's birthday, Pomu mistakenly told her "Feliz navidad!" instead of "Feliz cumpleaños!" Since then, Livers in NIJISANJI EN have developed a tradition of singing "Feliz Navidad" on each other's birthdays.
 * After running into some confusion with reading time zones, Pomu declared that she would abolish the current system of telling time, and that everyone would instead use their thumb and forefinger to tell the time based on the position of the sun. After realizing this failed to address the reason for time zones existing, she proposed giving everyone a special "time glove" that would tell the exact time regardless of the user's location. Pomu later added a time glove to her membership emotes.

Media

 * Pomu Rainpuff 【NIJISANJI EN】 - YouTube channel
 * @PomuRainpuff - Twitter account
 * Pomu's corporate profile on the official Nijisanji website
 * @pomurainpuff - Marshmallow account
 * u/Pomu_Rainpuff - Reddit account

Twitter hashtags

 * #PomuLive - Stream talk
 * #PomuPaint - Fan art
 * #PomuHub - Fan art (NSFW)
 * #bigppmemes - Memes

Further readings

 * Pomu Rainpuff - Unofficial NIJISANJI Wiki