Pomu Rainpuff

Pomu Rainpuff (ぽむ れいんぱふ) is an English female Virtual YouTuber affiliated with Nijisanji EN's first-wave group 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 tends to be friendly, cheerful, and passionate. She's known for her chaotic antics in stream, such as adding wotagei mix chants during karaoke or playing with her goXLR's voice changer. She's very sweet and kind, always quick to show her appreciation to others. Her more playful side also emerges when bantering with her viewers or interacting with other EN Livers' streams.

Pomu's a very hardworking and diligent person overall. She's willing to try a variety of new things, and always tries to provide her viewers with the best experience that she can offer. However, she also tends to be hard on herself when her plans don't work out. During collabs, she tends to be eager to make herself useful.

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 becomes very passionate when discussing her favorite topics, such as idols, maid cafes, or her cat Pomusuke. She's not hesitant to fawn over cute girls and enjoys flirting with other Livers, particularly Elira.

Background
On 12 May, 2021, Nijisanji announced that their first English group, LazuLight, would debut on 16 May, 2021. Pomu was the first of the group to debut. LazuLight's first original song, Diamond City Lights, was released on the same day. This song was composed by Mafumafu, and the lyrics were written by Nelson Babin-Coy and Hoshikawa Sara.

2021
On 26 June, she reached 100,000 subscribers on YouTube during a Cooking Simulator stream.

On 18 July, voice packs for each member of LazuLight 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 23 July, Pomu announced on her Twitter account announced that she would go on hiatus starting 28 July, 2021 due to undergoing surgery. She resumed streaming on 16 August.

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

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.
 * 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]

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.
 * 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, it's not clear how many petals equate to one flower for age purposes.
 * As a fairy, Pomu is normally only 9 cm tall, but can use magic to enlarge her body to 156 cm. She claims that when changing from her 9 cm fairy form to her 156 cm human-sized form, her brain remains the same size.
 * Pomu has several alternate personas:
 * 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.
 * On 23 August, Pomura went on a date with the chat (personified as "Pomudachi Chad"). Pomura revealed that she was originally have been a separate entity who was assimilated into the Pomu collective, but managed to resist her brainwashing. She and the chat were later captured by the real Pomu and reassimilated.

Likes and dislikes

 * She likes collecting otaku goods, unagi, sunny days, onsens, corn soup, and riding trains.
 * She dislikes litter, spicy foods, and "EE".
 * 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.
 * She likes idols and anisong artists, including BiSH, Perfume, 22/7, Nagakawa Shoko, Suzuki Konomi, ZAQ, Kotoko, Tamura Yukari, Under17, IOSYS, and Ogura Yui.
 * Her favorite types of games include rhythm games, puzzle games, RPGs, horror games, Touhou, and eroge visual novels.
 * At her debut, she also listed first-person shooters as a favorite genre, but clarified that she only meant Apex Legends and was still in training. Since then, she has indicated a lack of interest in Apex outside of collabs, but has streamed the original Doom I and II.
 * 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 is a fan of 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. Mito is her favorite Liver in Nijisanji while Pikamee is her overall favorite among all vtubers.

Miscellaneous

 * During LazuLight's Special Debut Program, the new members were given a piece of the moon from Staff-san. Pomu named hers Area PP1, which she occasionally still references from time to time.
 * 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.
 * She gives her a cat a British accent while talking for him.
 * She went to high school in Japan briefly.
 * She streams in her closet.
 * She often feels tired due to her office job. On 13 July, Pomu revealed that she was planning to go part-time in September, allowing her to devote more time and energy to streaming and participate in more cross-branch collabs.
 * Her character designer, Ichiso, regularly watches Pomu's streams and can often be found in the chat.
 * She once told a story about how she used to do running in her school years, and had a rival who lived next door. This prompted the other members of LazuLight, as well as Pomu's viewers, to joke about Pomu and her rival being "tsundere" toward each other.
 * She once told a story about how her family went on a trip to the desert and her mother touched the sand, and says that her family has been cursed ever since. Since then, a common joke among viewers is to blame Pomu's in-game mistakes and stream mishaps on the "sand curse."
 * 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".
 * She sometimes uses her voice changer to speak in an ikemen (hot male) voice, which she refers to as "Ike-po".
 * She loves maid cafes, and considers Akihabara a second home. On 22 July, she did a "Tour of Akihabara" stream using Google Maps.
 * The Akihabara tour was originally intended to be a sequel to a Microsoft Flight Simulator endurance stream flying from Chicago to Tokyo, but Pomu was unable to secure the permissions in time,
 * Pomu claims to run a company whose name can be abbreviated as S.C.A.M.
 * At Rosemi Lovelock's debut, she claimed to be an intern at S.C.A.M. working directly under Pomu.
 * The company's full name varies depending on Pomu's mood:
 * "Super Cool Amazing Magic"
 * "Stocks Contracts Auction Market"
 * "Spaghetti Comes At Midnight"

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