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 is 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 considerate and kind, and is quick to show her appreciation to others. Her more playful, sassy side tends to emerge when bantering with her chat or interacting with her fellow EN Livers' streams. She enjoys messing with her viewers and finding ways to catch them off guard.

Overall, Pomu's a very hardworking and creative person. She's willing to try a variety of new things, and always aims to give her viewers with the best experience that she can provide. However, she also becomes rather harsh on herself when her plans don't work out. During collabs, she's often eager to contribute and 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 (or in some cases, perv out) over cute girls and enjoys flirting with other Livers, particularly Elira.

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. During this stream, they announced an costume contest on Twitter in which fans would draw the EN Livers in original outfits. Each Liver would pick their top five outfits, and the winners would receive free tickets to Otakuthon.

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 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 other members 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 the winners for her portion of the 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.

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" game show on the official Nijisanji EN channel.

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.
 * 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".
 * 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.
 * 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 specified that she was referring to Apex Legends, and was still in training for the latter. She has since 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 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. Mito is her favorite Liver in Nijisanji, while Pikamee is her favorite VTuber overall.
 * She loves all types of fruit except durian.
 * Her most favorite fruits include pineapple, kiwi, and mango.
 * Her favorite curry recipe includes apples.
 * 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." Pomu later revealed that Nina Kosaka was the one who recommended the durian, though at the time Pomu simply referred to her as "a friend" as Nina's existence had not yet been revealed.
 * She likes carrots and unagi.

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.
 * On at least one occasion, she gave Pomusuke a British accent while talking for him.

Miscellaneous

 * She is great at doing character voice impressions.
 * 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 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.
 * During a LazuLight collab, she told a story about how she used to do running in her school years, and had a rival who lived next door. This prompted Finana, Elira, and 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" - The initial meaning of S.C.A.M., referencing her nature as a fairy.
 * "Stocks Contracts Auction Market" - Used when referencing 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.

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