Shu Yamino

Shu Yamino (闇ノシュウ) is a male English Virtual YouTuber affiliated with NIJISANJI EN's fourth wave "Luxiem," alongside Luca Kaneshiro, Ike Eveland, Mysta Rias, and Vox Akuma.

Profile
A sorcerer from the past with mysterious abilities. Though kind-hearted, he can call down a malediction upon those who wrong him.

Background
On 18 June 2021, NIJISANJI EN opened two sets of auditions, one of which was for an all-male wave Livers. The all-male 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. It was also announced that an original song sang by Luxiem, "Hope in the dark", would be released on the same day of their debut. The song was written and produced by ChibiNyan, who also wrote and produced Ethyria's debut song "God sees all".

Shu'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.

2021
On 26 December, Shu reached 50,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

On 30 December, Shu reached 80,000 followers on his Twitter account.

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

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

On 3 February, Shu got a total of 3 milestones in one stream: Luxiem's "Hope in the Dark" MV reached 3,000,000 views, he reached 180,000 subscribers on YouTube, and he reached 200,000 followers on Twitter.

On 9 February, Shu reached 200,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

Quotes
"eeeeyyyyy"

Identity

 * Color: #A660A7
 * Occupation: Sorcerer
 * He inherited his parents abilities as sorcerer. He uses jujutsu, a type of sorcery related to curses, which relies on natural or other mythical powers to augment and cast spell.
 * Shu shares his character designer with Mysta Rias of NIJISANJI EN and Aragami Oga of holostars.
 * He is fluent in Japanese and able to do a full stream using the language.
 * His fans are called Yaminions.

Preferences

 * Likes: Computers (mechanical keyboards, gaming mice, audio gear), VTubers (especially NIJISANJI), singing, sparkling water, coffee, orange juice with pulp.
 * Anime: Steins;Gate, Arakawa Under the Bridge, Haikyuu!!, SK8, K-On!!, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Nichijou, Great Pretender, Ping Pong.
 * Japanese Music :
 * VOCALOID: Tsumiki (ツミキ), nulut (ぬゆり), MikitoP (みきとP), buzzG, surii (すりぃ).
 * Utaite: Meychan, nqrse, mafumafu, and so on...
 * J-pop: Official Hige Dandism (Official髭男dism), King Gnu, Frederic (フレデリック), ZUTOMAYO (ずっと真夜中でいいのに. ), back number, YOASOBI, and so on...
 * JAM Project
 * Games: Osu!, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Super Auto Pets, Super Smash Bros. Malee, VALORANT, fighting games, Tetris, party games, AmongUs, Project Winter, Crab Game, Eternal Return, kusoges (shitty games), netages, Getting Over It, Pogostuck (which he didn't enjoy but beat it so he uses it for flexing)

Miscellaneous

 * Shu has been following NIJISANJI since mid-2019.
 * Shu pours his milk before adding his cereals
 * Shu is okay with pineapple on pizza.
 * He is capable of holding an "EYYYYY" for 30 seconds.
 * Likes sushi and love seafood, his favorite sushi is unagi.
 * Used to play the violin, can play the recorder
 * Once made a kid cry trying to hum them "love is an open door" from Frozen.
 * Sees Luxiem as brothers. Vox being the oldest with a bigger gap, Ike, Shu, Mysta, Luca
 * Has sisters
 * Drinks his coffee black, but sometimes he adds a little bit of sugar
 * Washes his hands after going to the bathroom!
 * Bilingual, people in his family speaks Japanese at different degrees
 * Knows a little bit of programming/coding.
 * Can recite 70 digits of pi.

Media

 * Shu Yamino【NIJISANJI EN】 - YouTube channel
 * Shu Yamino's corporate profile on the offical NIJISANJI website
 * @shu_yamino - Twitter account
 * u/Shu_Yamino - Reddit account

Twitter hashtags

 * #ShuYamino - General tag
 * #YaminoArt - Fan art tag
 * #ShuClip - Clips tag
 * #ShuClipEN - Clips with English subtitle
 * #ShuClipJP - Clips with Japanese subtitle
 * #Shussy - NSFW tag
 * #ShuggestionBox - Stream Ideas
 * #Thumbneyyl - Thumbnails