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, mischievous, and cheerful. She is a hardcore otaku who becomes very passionate when discussing her favorite topics, such as maid cafes or her favorite idols. She's not hesitant to fawn (or in some cases, perv out) over cute girls, including her fellow Livers.

Her streams are known for fun, silly antics such as adding wotagei mix chants during karaoke. Pomu enjoys roleplaying, and sometimes gets hyperfocused on the game she's playing. However, she still tries to be considerate of her viewers and puts a lot of importance on showing her appreciation. At the same time, 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 always aims to provide a quality experience for her viewers, and can sometimes be a bit stubborn about following through on her plans. However, she also can be rather harsh on herself when her plans don't work out or she doesn't meet her own standards.

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 enjoys bantering with her fellow EN Livers, whom she regards more of as friends than coworkers. In collabs, she's often eager to contribute and make herself useful, but may also react fiercely when slighted.

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 during a Google Maps stream that she would go on hiatus starting 28 July 2021 due to undergoing surgery.

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 resumed 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 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 18 November, she held her first solo sponsored stream, a pre-release promotion for SEGA's game "Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku." 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.

2022
On 1 January, Pomu's New Year 2022 voice pack went up for sale. She was the only one from LazuLight to release a voice pack for this series.

On 8 January, she reached 200,000 subscribers on her Youtube channel during a VRChat stream.

On 22 January, LazuLight announced in a collab that on 29 January, they would get new costumes. They made the Twitter hashtag "#LazuDrip" so that fans could send their predictions for the outfits.

On 29 January, Pomu revealed her new outfit, a Taisho-style maid outfit with thigh high socks and a checkered obi. Her new hairstyle features braided twintails and trimmed bangs. Part of her hairpins were coverted to earrings, her trademark ribbon was moved to the back of her head, and her wings were replaced by green ribbons on her braids. Shortly after her outfit reveal, Pomu released her cover of "Hacking to the Gate" by Itou Kanako. The mix was done by UTALIVE, the artwork was done by tsuki_nonono, and the video was produced by Petra Gurin. Later, new merchandise went up for sale to celebrate LazuLight's new outfits.

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 2021, all members of LazuLight and OBSYDIA participated in the "Meltdown" Jackbox game show on the official NIJISANJI EN channel.
 * On 16 October 2021, 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 2021, 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.
 * On 28 November 2021, all members of LazuLight participated in the "VTubers Have No Borders 2021" music festival hosted by Overidea.
 * On 1 January 2022, OffKai Expo's Twitter account announced that every LazuLight member would appear in "OffKai Expo" as guests.

Fans



 * Her fanbase is officially called "Pomudachi," a combination of "Pomu" and "tomodachi." They are portrayed as triangular or cone-shaped seeds.
 * Due to "Pomudachi" containing "Pomu," as well as fans imitating Pomu's catchphrase, "I'm Pomu!", there is a recurring 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]
 * "I quit my job for Minecraft. I quit my f***ing job for Minecraft!"
 * "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."

Relationships

 * "LazuLight" - Pomu, Elira Pendora, and Finana Ryugu. These three debuted together.
 * "PufferFeesh" - Pomu and Finana
 * "MLP" - Pomu, Millie Parfait, and Luca Kaneshiro. Formed from the first letters of their names: Millie, Luca, and Pomu.

Identity

 * Species: Forest Fairy
 * In Japanese, her name is spelled in hiragana rather than katakana because she finds it cuter.
 * She can speak a little Japanese, but has gotten a little rusty since her last visit to Japan.
 * 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, who have the power to manipulate the weather.
 * She lives in a tree stump in the forest, and streams in her closet. 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.
 * She can use magic to enlarge her body from 9 cm to 156 cm, but 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.
 * Her arms are capable of bending or wiggling at extreme angles. 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.
 * She has the power to transform her wings, allowing her to fold them up, turn them into something else, or put them away completely. For example, in her second outfit, her wings transformed into green hair ribbons.

About fairies in general

 * When she was a child, Pomu would play nasty tricks on others by making up stories to terrify them, sometimes as revenge for tricks that they played on her. She assures everyone that this is just a normal part of fairy culture.
 * Fairies are born from flowers, so 70% of a fairy's body is made of nectar, just like how 70% of a human's body is made of water.
 * 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 or years equate to one flower for age purposes.
 * Most fairies are 13-14 cm tall, making Pomu short even by fairy standards.
 * As a fairy, Pomu is particularly susceptible to being imprisoned in a glass jar.
 * The native language of fairies is not English, but rather "fairy-go" (as in "fairy語").
 * Fairies are capable of flight due to the size of their wings and their lightweight bones.

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 spun off as the titular character of the Pomura Arc.
 * Ike-po, her male alter ego who speaks in an ikemen voice. Seemingly only speaks Japanese, as Pomu found it embarassing to speak in English with this 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 (which would surpass the actual record of 5 years). Unfortunately, the chat fell into a coma for all 10 years, 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. She was later said to have survived, and is now the CEO of S.C.A.M. with 10 million subscribers on her channel.
 * 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.
 * Cupidmu, an extortionist posing as a love cupid who helped the chat during a speed dating event. After hooking the chat up with a bunnygirl Pomu, she attempted to extort matchmaking fees from the chat, but was gunned down by law enforcement.

Pomura Arc

 * The "Pomura arc" is a series of interactive, CYOA-like 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."

Inside Jokes

 * 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 this company varies depending on her mood, but is often "Stocks Contracts Auction Market" or "Spaghetti Comes at Midnight."
 * Rival-kun: 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. After hearing this story, Finana and Elira, as well as Pomu's own viewers, would joke about Pomu and her rival being "tsundere" toward each other.
 * Sand Curse: 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 cursed with bad luck ever since.
 * Time Glove: 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.

Preferences

 * She likes unagi, sunny days, onsens, corn soup, and riding trains.
 * She loves all types of fruit except durian.
 * Her favorite fruits include pineapple, kiwi, melon, 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 dislikes spicy food, litter, and "EE," in which "EE" refers to moments that make you go "eegh." When asked about her spice tolerance, she said that nachos were the spiciest food that she could handle.
 * She likes carrots and carrot cake. She also likes popcorn, even if it is stale. She gets a headache from eating chicken or eggs, but enjoys eating them anyway.
 * Foods she dislikes include mushroom and avocado.
 * 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, which she watches weekly.
 * 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. Fatal Frame is one of her favorite game series of all time.
 * 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 and Godot from the Ace Attorney series.
 * Her favorite holiday is Halloween.

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 strongly 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.
 * She also considers herself a fan of her fellow EN Livers, and regularly buys their merchandise.

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."
 * Pomusuke has a tendency to sleep in Pomu's bed, and Pomu sometimes wakes up to find him sleeping on top of her.
 * 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 character 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.
 * She is passionate about her skin care routine.
 * She has mispelled "NIJISANJI" on various occasions, the most infamous of which was "Welcome to NINISANI" in a tweet to Rosemi Lovelock prior to the latter's debut. 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.
 * She sometimes jokes about having an identity crisis due to Staff-san accidentally referring to her as an elf on two occasions.
 * Being the first member of Lazulight to debut, she is by extension also the very first member of NIJISANJI EN, and is sometimes playfully referred to as 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 lore 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 lore video, Millie Parfait developed an addiction to a substance called "Pomu Leaf", which led her to become trapped on Earth, crying that she was "scammed."
 * In his lore 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 shared her plans to quit by December, as the past week had been particularly stressful and was the final straw for her. She left her office 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 nine hours.
 * 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!"
 * Due to a weak stomach, she usually doesn'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.
 * According to Tsukino Mito's NIJISANJI personality quiz game, Pomu has similar personality traits to Shizuka Rin.
 * Out of the seven deadly sins, she considers pride to be her greatest flaw.
 * In VRChat and handcam streams, she can perform a hand trick in which she forms a wave with her hands.
 * She was one of the first NIJISANJI EN Livers to try VR, and provided useful advice to Selen Tatsuki during the "NIJISANJI Express" project.
 * She generally has less interest in gacha than her genmates, with Princess Connect being the only gacha game that she plays regularly. On 2 February, she held a sponsored Princess Connect stream as part of its 1st anniversary celebration, featuring Crunchyroll-Hime as a guest.
 * Reiminiscent of a traditional "fair folk" fairy, she occasionally jokes about consuming human meat or eating children.

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
 * PomuRainpuff - Pixiv Encyclopedia