Belmond Banderas

Belmond Banderas (ベルモンド・バンデラス) is a male Japanese Virtual YouTuber and a member of Nijisanji (formerly of Nijisanji SEEDs).

Although he has a frank personality, he can sometimes become ill-tempered. According to him, he's existed since living things started to see dreams. He is the barkeeper of a store that anyone can come to as long as they are dreaming, and invites guests of various races on a whim. Because he has no family register, he worries about not being able to be identified in the world of reality.

The owner of a bar named "Bar Deras".

Introduction Video
Belmond's introduction.

Personality
Belmond Banderas is a mature and charming individual who is one of the most popular male Livers of Nijisanji.

He has a calm personality and good manners. He rose to popularity because of his welcome greetings towards Sasaki Saku, which she included in her parody song. He is also famous for an incident in which he paid the bill for yakiniku when Yuzuki Roa, Ushimi Ichigo, and Onomachi Haruka, who he had been eating with, went to the toilet. However, after Roa mentioned it in her stream, Belmond responded by saying that he didn't use any of his money and said that it was the hard working girls money from viewers. Another case was when he ordered six portions of the expensive beef tongue for Sasaki Saku, Ange Katrina, Inui Toko, and Lize Helesta when they gave up on eating it and chose the cheaper option. He did so in an attempt to cheer them up because of their canceled collab concert.

He is also a father figure to Yuzuki Roa and Ushimi Ichigo because of the way they interact like father and daughter.

He has a good voice and always streams midnight until morning since he is a barmaster who appeared in the dream. Because of his voice and the jazz background music he plays during streams, fans often use his streams to lull them to sleep. He said he was glad to be able to help them in any way he can.

But he had another persona when he become barbarian or mafia like guy. During this time, overseas fans called him as Anideras because when Roa visited his Belmond Industry in Minecraft, she can't believe what he saw and ask him if he really Belmond. Belmond replied that he is Belmond's older brother. Nijisanji vtubers who come across Belmond Industry always pretend they didn't see anything.

History
Belmond's name comes from the fact that the first cocktail he drank was vermouth. Banderas is the name he had from the time he realized his existence. Belmond's bar, Bar Deras, seems to have an owner (cat) even before he opened the shop.

In the early days, the streaming was carried out in form of a conversation between the bartender and the customer, such as consultation on concerns and reading aloud. The streaming time usually about 1-2 hours but in the rare case may pass more than 10 hours.

Background
Belmond's YouTube channel was created on 19 September, 2018, and his first video was uploaded on 25 September, 2018.

2019
On 19 July, he debuted the 2.0 brushup of his Live2D model.

On 10 August, he unveiled his first alternate costume: a pirate.

On 14 September, he unveiled his summer outfit.

On 23 December, he unveiled his 3D model on YouTube.

2020
On 7 January, he unveiled his official picture for official event.

On 13 January, he unveiled his winter outfit with kimono theme.

On 25 April, he unveiled his fourth alternate outfit: a mafia suit outfit.

Fans

 * His fans are called "Nemumin" (睡民).

Warning
Please don't force Belmondism (Belmond ritual) to other vtubers in diamond mining or gacha activities unless the vtubers themselves talk about it. This is the message from Belmond Banderas himself.

Belmondism
He is fascinated by Redstone (the theory that there is a diamond near Redstone) and when he finds Redstone, he greets them and introduce himself. His motto is "Redstone will guide me". After that he will find ridiculous amount of diamonds. Because of that he also known as Diamond R Banderas (Diamond Redstone Banderas). Due to such luck, the viewers said that when Belmond digs up ore (diamond and emerald) it is time to roll the gacha to get rare items and the new religions "Emerald Banderas" and "Diamond Banderas" born.

He also enthusiastic about it and he called himself Diamond Paradise as a guru. Prayer time (gacha time) is diamond paradise time.


 * More than 200 diamonds mined in 2 hours until Buddy's (main enchantment diamond pickaxe) durability gone in the "Banderas Religion Delivery" that spreads gacha luck to believers on August 6th, 2019 to dig up 10 emeralds.

FGO
In FGO terms, the viewers said that he has a noble phantasm called EX Rank Luck.


 * His most popular FGO stream was when the main goal of the stream to get Merlin. The streaming only lasted 12 minutes and 32 seconds. Merlin come to him in 2 minutes and 30 seconds from the stream started with a free ticket. Because he felt bad ending stream too soon he said he will end the stream when he got Carmilla. After that he got Summer Musashi and Osakabehime in one roll and Carmilla in another roll.

A lot of popular voice actors and VTubers are part of this cult because they often get SSRs or limited items during his streams. One of VTubers part of this cult is Lize Helesta. She got diamond in Minecraft after doing Belmond ritual (introducing yourself to redstone) and getting an SSR after listening to a recording of his voice that he recorded for her during her collab with Otogibara Era. She played it during her collab with Tsukino Mito and Mito got SSR card. Gundou Mirei managed to get Merlin after mentioning his name in her stream. Saegusa Akina also mining for diamonds in the middle of card gacha streaming when he finally got frustrated about it, after finding diamond he went back to rolling and finally got SSR character.

Trivia

 * He was married to Sasaki Saku on April 1st, 2019.
 * Stuck in love triangle between Ange Katrina and Sasaki Saku.
 * Has father-daughter relationship with Yuzuki Roa and Ushimi Ichigo.
 * Has mother-son relationship with Kuroi Shiba because she tidied and organized his chest in Minecraft.
 * He is not good with technology and often caused technical mistakes in his early streaming days.
 * He loves western film, especially from Marvel.
 * He loves cats. His intro, outro, logo, and YouTube membership badge are all cat-related. He personally drew his YouTube 1 month+ membership badge.
 * He has a cat named Owner.
 * It seems he is actually quite athletic in real life. During his 3D debut, he almost able to performed handstand (but failed because of the equipment) and managed to performed two cartwheels. He easily did RingFit Adventure and afraid going to break the controller. In one of his Mario Kart streaming (the video now got privated) the reason he never bang the desk when lost because he know people will get suprised and straight after that he showed the example of him "lightly" banging the table and the glass can be heard clattered loudly. After that he apologized to viewers and Owner for suprising them.
 * He is unexpectedly bad at horror games and needs a drink when he plays it alone.
 * Currently ranked no. 5 male Liver in Nijisanji, 25 th in Nijisanji, and 86th in the world.
 * Considered one of the best Minecraft players along with Sakura Ritsuki in Nijisanji. He currently has at least 2000 diamonds.
 * Sukoya Kana is a fan of his voice. She bought Belmond Banderas voice pack as her first Nijisanji merch. After hearing that, he offered to give it for free but she refused.
 * He has a limited time vomit voice pack which Natsuiro Matsuri bought.
 * During Saegusa Akina debut livestream, he confessed the male vtubers he respect the most is Belmond. He like his voice and personality and before debut he often watch Belmond's stream but more importantly when his debut date decided, the first person to congratulate him was Belmond. After that sometimes during Belmond's stream, Akina will appear on comment section when he isn't streaming.
 * Notable units within Nijisanji:
 * "Kusozako Gaming" (くそざこGaming), along with Uzuki Kou and Takamiya Rion.
 * "Strawbel" (ストロベル), along with Ushimi Ichigo.
 * "Dare Panda" (ダレパンダ), along with Sasaki Saku.
 * "Yumemitsuki" (夢見月), along with Yuzuki Roa.
 * "Sanshamendan" (三者面団), along with Gundo Mirei and Yuzuki Roa.
 * "Nijisanji Movie Club" (にじさんじ映画部), along with Shibuya Hajime, Dola, Debidebi Debiru, Nui Sociere, and Hayase Sou.
 * He has the same illustrator as Gilzaren III.
 * Yuzuki Roa nickname for him is Bangiras, japanese name for pokemon Tyranitar.
 * He called Debidebi Debiru as koala.