Luca Kaneshiro

Luca Kaneshiro (ルカ・カネシロ) is a male English Virtual YouTuber affiliated with NIJISANJI EN's fourth wave "Luxiem," alongside Shu Yamino, Ike Eveland, Mysta Rias, and Vox Akuma.

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Profile
A Mafia boss from the past with a slight temper. Always down for a fight, whether it’s to show-off his own strength or to protect the weak.

Personality
Despite claiming to be an "evil and mean" mafia boss, Luca is a sweet and energetic person who is sometimes compared to a golden retriever. Although he has a mischievous streak that often leads to him teasing others or causing mayhem in games, Luca's trollish antics are noted by his peers to be completely devoid of malice.

He is known for his love of using the word "POG" and frequent use of the phrase "deez nuts". He can also be surprisingly innocent and dense from time to time; notably, he often parrots things without thinking too much about them, sometimes even saying innuendos or double entendres without realizing their meaning.

He has said on one of his streams that he has no problems making friends with people, and can immediately walk up to a stranger and start small talk. According to Nina Kosaka, Luca is the most extroverted member of NIJISANJI EN.

Background
On 18 June 2021, NIJISANJI EN opened two sets of auditions, one of which was specifically for male Livers. The male-specific auditions lasted until 1 August.

On 17 December 2021, NIJISANJI EN announced the upcoming debut of its fourth wave "Luxiem", accompanied by a teaser featuring the new Livers' designs and voices.

Luca's YouTube channel was created on 1 December 2021, and his Twitter account also created in the same month. His first tweet was made on 17 December 2021.

Debut
Luxiem made their debuts on 20 December 2021 (JST) as part of a special debut program hosted on the NIJISANJI EN channel, with commentary provided by Elira Pendora and Oliver Evans. Luca was the first of the group to debut. Afterwards, all five members of Luxiem appeared on the main channel.

Luxiem's first original song, "Hope in the dark", was released shortly after the program. This song was written and produced by ChibaNyan, who previously wrote and produced Ethyria's debut song "God sees all".

2021
On 23 December, Luca reached 50,000 followers on his Twitter account.

2022
On 4 January, Luca reached 100,000 followers on his Twitter account.

On 8 January, Luca reached 100,000 subscribers on his Youtube channel.

On 28 January, he opened memberships on his Youtube channel.

On 3 February, Luca reached 200,000 followers on Twitter.

On 8 February, he reached 200,000 subscribers on his Youtube channel.

On 20 February, he premiered his first cover, "Mafia".

On 25 February, Luca appeared on Ironmouse's talk show, Speak of the Devil.

On 26 February, Luca's "Mafia" cover reached 1 million views in 6 days.

On 27 February, Luxiem's debut celebration voice packs went up for sale.

On 6 March, he reached 300,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

On 15 March, Luca's White Day 2022 voice pack and goods went up for sale.

On 22 March, Luca's "Mafia" cover reached 2 million views.

On 5 April, Luca reached 400,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

On 10 April, Luca's birthday goods and voice went up for sale.

On 22 April, Luca's Sakura Bloom 2022 voice pack and goods went up for sale.

On 1 May, each Luxiem member received an official bilibili account.

On 13 May, Luca reached 500,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

On 1 June, Luca reached 600,000 followers on his Twitter account.

On 9 June, Luxiem's Luxiem Channel【NIJISANJI EN】YouTube channel was created.

On 22 June, Luca reached 600,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel while running on a treadmill.

On 3 July, Luca reached 700,000 followers on his Twitter account.

On 16 July, Luca had his first bilibili-exclusive stream. He also reached 100 captains on bilibili the same day.

On 20 July, Luca reached 700,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

On 23 July, Luca reached 800,000 followers on his Twitter account.

On 21 August, Luca reached 900,000 followers on his Twitter account. He later thanked everyone for helping him reach this milestone on 24 August.

On 23 August, Luca reached 800,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel during a planking endurance stream.

On 28 October, Luca reached 1 million followers on his Twitter account.

2022

 * On 14 February, Luca participated in the "NIJIAnswer" game show on the official NIJISANJI EN channel alongside Pomu Rainpuff and Millie Parfait as "MLP."
 * On 15 April, Sweets Paradise announced a collaboration with Luxiem, running from 24 April to May 31. Participating locations offered food and drinks themed off of individual Luxiem members. Customers were also able to buy limited-edition goods which included acrylic stands, a file folder, badges, print icon cookies, stickers, a canvas pouch, a mug, and t-shirts.
 * On 25 April, AnimeFest announced that Luxiem will hold a Q&A panel on July 30.
 * On 22 May, Luca was part of the merchandise collaboration with Otaku Culture Lab alongside Elira Pendora, Selen Tatsuki, Petra Gurin, Shu Yamino, and Vox Akuma. Limited-time goods included fans, wooden sake boxes, senjafuda stickers, wooden name tags, noren curtains, tenugui towels, and temperature-sensitive cups.
 * On 13 July, Luca was announced at part of a collaboration with Animate Cafe running from 3 August to 30 August alongside Pomu Rainpuff, Selen Tatsuki, Reimu Endou, Ike Eveland, and Shu Yamino.
 * On 15 July, ANIME Impulse announced Luxiem as guests for a meet and greet on 4 September. Later on 11 August, ANIME Impulse announced that Luxiem would hold a panel on the main stage. Also available at the event were drinks themed off of the individual members of Luxiem.
 * On 1 September, Curtain Damashii announced limited-time original goods. These limited goods included canvas art, a jigsaw puzzle, wireless phone chargers, acrylic memo stands, and hashtag keychains. An original art piece was drawn by Takebayashi, while mini character art was drawn by Uchikoshi. Pre-order is available from 1 September to 21 September with items shipped between 16 November and 15 December.
 * On 28 September, KIRABASE announced a café collaboration with Luxiem running from 10 October to 30 November. This collaboration featured new artwork of Luxiem members in Halloween costumes drawn by Ajijifeizhai and chibi variants drawn by Chahuanxiong. Participating locations offered food and drink themed off of each member, as well as limited acrylic stands and badges. Customers that bought certain food items and/or posted on social media received random coasters, photo cards, and transparent photo frames.

2023

 * On 10 January, COCO's announced a collaboration with the members of Luxiem and ROF-MAO from 18 January until 14 March. The campaign is divided into four quarters which determine what exclusive menu items are available as well as what clear files customers are able to obtain by ordering from the target menu. Luca's exclusive item set is pork hamburger steak covered in cheese sauce accompanied by salmon carpaccio and cheese flavored chips dripped in tartar sauce, available in the second quarter (1 February to 14 February).

Quotes

 * "It's showtime!" - Debut trailer
 * "Why are there so many nuts? I thought there was only a peanut."
 * "I love NTR! ...Wait what does that mean again?"
 * "I just screamed without the S! ...Wait what? ...creamed... POG! I creamed!"

Relationships

 * "Luxiem" - Luca, Shu Yamino, Ike Eveland, Mysta Rias, and Vox Akuma. These five debuted together.
 * Media: YouTube
 * Twitter hashtags: #Luxiem
 * "MLP" - Luca, Millie Parfait, and Pomu Rainpuff. Formed from the first letters of their names: Millie, Luca, and Pomu. They are often represented in chats with the "🤰" emoji.
 * "PNGs" - Luca, Millie Parfait, Pomu Rainpuff, Elira Pendora, and Shu Yamino.
 * "NIJI AU" - Luca, Sonny Brisko, Ban Hada, and Nina Kosaka. An off-collab group which Luca participated in during May 2022.
 * "NIJI EU" - Luca, Vox Akuma, Mysta Rias, Ike Eveland, Nina Kosaka, Mika Melatika, and Oliver Evans. An off-collab group which Luca participated in during May 2022.
 * "'NIJIAU" - Luca, Sonny Brisko, Ren Zotto, Maria Marionette, Ban Hada.

Mascot and Fans

 * Luca's lion companion is named "Augustus", who, according to Luca, bites him.
 * Augustus seems to be growing bigger and bigger every stream, however, he shrinks from time to time too.
 * Luca's fans are called "Lucubs".

Identity

 * Color: #D4AF37
 * Race: Human
 * Occupation: Mafia Boss in the past
 * He is able to speak in Tagalog (a little), Japanese (learning), and Grill.
 * When speaking Japanese, he calls himself "ore".
 * Luca has an Australian accent.
 * His is ESTP.

Lore

 * Luca was transported to the present when he saw a guy beating someone up, and he decided to intervene. After Luca beat the guy up, he noticed that the victim had departed and left his bag. Luca wanted to give him his bag back, but it turned out that the man had actually stolen the bag. Mysta Rias was a detective who was chasing the man down, and when he saw Luca with the bag, he accused him of being a thief, and chased him instead. Mysta then was taken away by a mysterious force, and immediately after, Luca was too, transporting both of them to the present day.

Likes and dislikes

 * Likes: jewellery, fancy things, gambling, tattoos, food, athletics, horror games, NIJISANJI.
 * Games: Super Mario Galaxy, Pokemon Gold, Getting Over It, Monster Hunter, Outlast, Sekiro, Among Us.
 * Anime: Mushoku Tensei, My Hero Academia, Danmachi, Darling in the Franxx, Vinland Saga, Gurren Lagann, Berserk, Bungo Stray Dogs.
 * Food: ice cream cake, smoked BBQ ribs, lechon, anything BBQ, Kit-Kat, KFC's Cookies and Cream Krushers (which has sadly been discontinued), Cheddar Cheese Pringles, mangoes.
 * Favourite Ice Cream flavour: Cookies and cream
 * Favourite animal: Lion
 * Favourite genre of music: Jazz
 * Favourite flower: Roses (but also likes tulips)
 * Favourite Gemstone/s: Sapphire, Onyx
 * Dislikes: bugs, flying bugs, vegetables, seafood, puzzle games, reading.
 * His dislike of vegetables has lessened as of late, though he still seems to prefer meat.
 * Hobbies: running, voice acting, singing, playing games, playing guitar.

Miscellaneous

 * Luca shares his character designer with fellow NIJISANJI EN member Alban Knox from Noctyx and Umise Yotsuha from the main NIJISANJI branch.
 * He has asthma but it is seasonal, usually acting up every 6 months or so.
 * A running gag between Luca and his fans is his "booba", referring to his pectorals. This was first pointed by Reimu Endou, where she commented "BOOBA" on one of his tweets, in which Luca replied, "THEY ARE NOT THAT BIG". Protesting that he does not have big "booba", he claimed he will prove it on debut. By the time Luca's held his debut stream, he "proved it" by removing his coat and jacket, though it only enforced the joke further, as his bust is arguably large in size.
 * Luca's female persona is named Lucy, which is often what fans refer to him when he uses his girl voice. He sometimes treats Lucy as a separate person who sometimes visits his stream, rather than as a female version of himself and he can easily switch between two voices on the fly.
 * Has an older and younger brother.
 * He runs about 4 km every 2 days.
 * He trolls the chat by saying a "deez nuts" joke before ending every stream.
 * He says "I love __" to anything even when he doesn't mean it.
 * Is afraid/hates needles and syringes.
 * He used to surf.
 * He doesn't drink soda or coffee.
 * He does 9 minute planks to Diamond City Lights, Black Out, and God sees all.
 * He plays the Happy Birthday Song on the recorder on his viewers' birthdays.
 * He owns a recorder, and an acoustic and electric guitar.
 * He calls his stomach "stummy".
 * He is a picky eater and will inspect the food before eating.
 * He used to think hashbrowns were made of fish.
 * He learned the piano for four months.
 * He played Ring Fit Adventure on stream for 2 hours on Extreme difficulty, while singing along to Hope in the Dark and Diamond City Lights.
 * He can do the splits.
 * His shoe size is a US 10.5/UK 9.5/EU 44.
 * During the first round of NIJISANJI EN auditions, Luca received advice from a fellow auditionee who he later learned was Finana Ryugu.
 * He is ambidextrous.
 * He can cry on cue, and has attempted to teach the trick he uses to Nina, Enna, Pomu, and Selen.
 * He has ADHD.
 * Luca was told that he was the leader of Luxiem during pre-debut, but eventually forgot.
 * He was a STEM major in college.

Media

 * Luca Kaneshiro's corporate profile on NIJISANJI website
 * Luca Kaneshiro【NIJISANJI EN】 - YouTube channel
 * LucaKaneshiro - Twitch channel
 * Luca_EN_Official - bilibili channel
 * @luca_kaneshiro - Twitter account
 * @luca_kaneshiro - Marshmallow account
 * @lucakaneshiro - TikTok account
 * u/Luca_Kaneshiro - Reddit account

Twitter hashtags

 * #lucakaneshiro - General tag
 * #lucalive - Stream tag
 * #drawluca - Fan art tag
 * #lucadeeznuts - NSFW
 * #kaneshitpost - Memes
 * #pognail - Thumbnails
 * #lucadeezhands - Assets