Kanade Izuru

Kanade Izuru (奏手イヅル) is a male Japanese Virtual YouTuber endorsed by hololive's branch Holostars. He is a member of its first generation, alongside Hanasaki Miyabi, Kagami Kira, Arurandeisu, Yakushiji Suzaku and Rikka.

Profile
A dude trying to live his life with little money. As he has nothing to do, he treats housework as a hobby. He is kind of strange, but is definitely a good man. Though he is cool, he never forgets to thank people. He loves to sing and clean his guitar.

Background
His Twitter account was created in 27 May 2019; his YouTube channel was created on 3 June 2019, and his debut stream was performed on 22 June 2019.

2019
On 9 September, he released his first cover song, Dramaturgy by Eve. It is the first cover released in Holostars.

2020
On 15 March, he revealed his White Day costume.

On 6 July, he reached 20,000 subscribers.

On 4 August, he revealed his summer costume.

On 1 September, he reached 30,000 subscribers.

On 13 October, he reached 40,000 subscribers.

On 21 November, he reached 50,000 subscribers.

On 25 December, it was announced that all the Holostars members would receive new costumes on 3 January, 2021, commemorating New Year's. On the same day, he reached 60,000 subscribers.

2021
On 3 January, he revealed his new year's costume, which was modelled by 深海潮.

On 19 January, he reached 70,000 subscribers.

On 13 February, he reached 80,000 subscribers.

On 14 March, he reached 90,000 subscribers.

On 8 April, he reached 100,000 subscribers, being the fourth Holostars to reach this milestone.

On 22 June, as part of the celebration of his 2nd anniversary, he opened his channel's membership feature.

On 13 July, hololive's Japanese Twitter account announced that every Holostars member would get 2.0 version of their 2D model.

Discography

 * ''Main page: Kanade Izuru/Discography

2020
On 2 August, Izuru entered Shibuya Hal's VTuber Apex Legends Tournament alongside Kagami Kira and Astel Leda, under their group name, Chibistars, in which they ended up ranking 5th out of 20.

On 26 October, it was announced that Holostars goods would be sold at Animate Girls Festival Aozora Marche, held on November 7-8, 2020, and on 28 October, 2020, it was announced that Holostars would be participating in the event as guests. Izuru is part of the "Virtual Clerk" (バーチャル店員) exhibition, the "Anibako" (アニバコ) program and the "Chatting Fes" (おしゃべりフェス) exhibition in the event.

2021
On 24 January, Izuru entered Shibuya Hal's Vtuber Apex Legends Season2 Tournament as "RAGGGGGU!!!" (ラッッッッグ!!!) alongside Astel Leda and Arurandeisu. The team ranked 5th out of 20, while Izuru came 5th in terms of personal damage dealt.

On 28 January, it was announced that "Net Talking Festival", an Holostars exclusive event, will be held on 14 February where fans can have a one-on-one chat with any of the Holostars members for 3 minutes, talking about their daily feelings of gratitude to an important person. On 23 February, in an invitation to a friendly exhibition called the RAGE PARTY 2021 - Apex Legends Best Trio Championship (powered by SHARP), Izuru participated with fellow Holostars members; Arurandeisu and Astel Leda as "Team Holostars". In the final rankings, Team Holostars ranked 3rd.

From 25 until 27 June, all Holostars members participated in their 2nd anniversary event "Our Rally 2021", the event featured 3 Holostars in each day of the event, Izuru participated on the 1st day. On the final day of the event, an original song Just Follow Stars was released on the official Holostars channel featuring all members singing.

On 24 July, Astel participated on the Apex Legends tournament Cypher Cup Festival as the team "Holostars along Kishido Temma and Astel Leda. In the final rankings, the team ranked 7th place and they did not advance to the Grand Final.

Fans

 * Izuru has said that he didn't intend to name his fanbase due to his fear of them doing something illegal and linking his name on the news. This has led to some fans calling themselves the "Nothing gang".

Relationships

 * Units and groups he is part of are:
 * "RIZnote" along with Rikka.
 * "Chibistars" (ちびすたーず) (officially translated as "Li'l Stars ) along with Kagami Kira and Astel Leda.
 * "AsuIzu" (アスイヅ) along with Astel Leda.
 * "RAGGGGGU!!!" (ラッッッッグ!!!) along with Astel Leda and Arurandeisu. However, on the event "RAGE PARTY 2021", they called themselves "Team Holostars".
 * "MiyaIzu" (MYIZ) along with Hanasaki Miyabi.
 * "Senkou Gumi" (先行組) along with Hanasaki Miyabi and Kagami Kira.

Trivia

 * Izuru is the third debuted member of Holostars and is part of it's early debut generation whom consists of Hanasaki Miyabi and Kagami Kira.
 * Izuru has said in a livestream that he was born on the Tsushima island and was rather surprised that Ghost of Tsushima made a game about it.
 * It has been revealed through multiple streams that he is a university student.
 * Izuru is one of the members of Holostars who understands simple English.
 * As revealed in the second HoloUters stream, Izuru can not only play guitar, but also piano.
 * Izuru has mentioned that his favourite Studio Ghibli movie is Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and his second favourite being Princess Mononoke.
 * Izuru reached Master rank in Apex on the 22nd of March 2021, while accompanied by Astel Leda and Utai Meika. This rank was only achieved by 0,12% of players in season 8.
 * Izuru lives in the countryside and enjoys walking along the beach.
 * Through his twitter, Izuru has showed his cooking skills by posting pictures of his self cooked meals.
 * Sometimes, he'll forage for wild vegetables as he has tweeted saying how he found a certain vegetable and that it would be part of today's meals.
 * He likes fishing and would tweet sometimes when he's going fishing or has gone fishing whether he had any catches or not. He has also stated that he would cook his fishes on a stick sitting on the ground by a firepit. Of course, when he finishes, he cleans up properly before heading home.
 * Izuru has had to addressed chat etiquettes in his streams multiple times due to conflicts which has led him to stating he'll no longer put his chat on screen during live streams unless he really wants to for certain occasions (the following listed should NOT be done in Izuru's chat);
 * No Emoji/Oshi Mark Spam: He prefers genuine feedback and rather have compliments in text but the clapping emoji is allowed after a song is finished.
 * Sniffles: He has pointed out that comments asking about his sniffling and asking about his health is not needed. It's just a part of him and how he sounds.
 * Babying: He's an adult who doesn't need his viewers to be his parents or manager. There's been cases of fights in his chat regarding his health and sleep.
 * Deviating from the stream: This has occurred too often where he has addressed this which includes; viewers chatting amongst each other while ignoring Izuru who talks with his chat, not reading the room when commenting especially when it's something serious or singing an emotional song, spamming off topic comments, personal comments such as; "I don't know Japanese/I can't understand you but I'll stay anyway." or "I have to leave now due to/school/need to finish homework/bye chat/etc." and dropping names of other VTubers when he didn't say them in the first place. These type of actions puts the focus of the stream away from him which leads to stream disruption. Instead of heavy policing the chat, it's best to just drown out those type of comments with on topic comments to help Izuru keep the stream going.
 * English Comments: There seems to be a misconception regarding overseas comments. They are allowed in his live streams as long as they are on topic and do not make demands of him such as bothering him to speak English. By typing in simple English, it allows Izuru to have a possibility to read it, see it and respond to it.
 * Live Translations are Prohibited in Live Streams: During live streams he has asks that translations be put into his "Free Chat" so that it doesn't drown out the chat since he wants to see viewers' comments so he can interact with easier.

Media

 * Izuru Ch. 奏手イヅル - YouTube channel
 * Kanade Izuru's corporate profile on hololive.tv (English)
 * Kanade Izuru's corporate profile on hololive.tv (Japanese)
 * @kanadeizuru - Twitter account
 * 奏手一弦Official - bilibili channel
 * @kanadeizuru - TwitCasting channel

Twitter hashtags

 * #奏手イヅル - General
 * #イヅル描いたぞ - Fan art
 * #イヅル見るなよ - Fan art (NSFW)
 * #RIZnote - RIZnote general tag
 * #RIZ生 - RIZnote stream talk
 * #RIZアート - RIZnote fan art

Further readings

 * 奏手イヅル - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
 * 奏手イヅル - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * 奏手イヅル - Unofficial Holostars seesaawiki
 * 奏手一弦 - Moegirl Encyclopedia
 * Kanade Izuru - Hololive Fan Wiki