Reiyu GuiGui

Reiyu GuiGui is an independent English VTuber who officially debuted 28 November 2020. Members of her community are known as Ghostlings.

Personality
Reiyu is a bubbly, energetic, and witty Poltergeisha (Poltergeist x Geisha) VTuber with an unhinged, joy-filled laugh. She is quick to say whatever joke comes to her mind no matter how lewd and often regrets it. She is a warm-hearted and kind individual, stating that her number one goal in her (after)life is to make her ghostling family laugh. You will often find her thanking viewers by name for making her laugh or for guiding her through a game.

Reiyu has a deep love for videogames, especially ones with "interesting premises or mechanics" and "fast-paced challenging games with tight controls." Her favorite videogame genres are Action Roguelikes, Rhythm, Mystery, and Visual Novels. She has admitted that she doesn't enjoy fighting and racing games because she sucks at them, but she will still give them her best shot for the ghostlings. Even while playing difficult games, Reiyu is able to banter back and forth with her chat. Reiyu also has an unusually open backseating policy because she likes going into a game blind and being guided patiently through a game. She dislikes reading guides and wikis because "it feels too much like studying," and prefers learning from viewers since it feels more hands-on.

There are few people as passionate about lewd and "cultured content" as Reiyu is. Reiyu enjoys lewd humor and maintains a 18+ space around her streams. She finds lewd humor peak because it's absurd and inoffensive. As she puts it, "Jokes on my channel are not necessarily safe for work, but they're always safe for homies."

Despite being laidback and chill, Reiyu's maturity and intelligence often comes through in her interactions. She does not hesitate to call out behavior that she finds unacceptable and encourages her viewers to be kind. Reiyu's conversation topics sometimes touch on serious matters, but she continues to offer respectful takes on these subjects.

Reiyu's Videogame Challenge Runs
Reiyu is extremely skilled at videogames and often adds extra insane challenges to already challenging games. This is due to her self-proclaimed sadomasochism. For example, she played the following on stream:


 * DOOM Eternal and DLC on UItra-Violence/Nightmare, drunk.
 * Dark Souls 3 and DLC and killed all bosses (including optional ones) blind, drunk, wearing no armor, and only using a club or katana.
 * Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice blind, drunk, and on the Demon Bell difficulty as soon as she could find it. She has beaten the Shura and Purification ending this way and is currently playing through the True Ending with no Kuro's Charm and Demon Bell.
 * Sifu, drunk.
 * Elden Ring blind, solo, no item, no summons, no armor, and katana-only. She beat most challenging bosses this way, including Malenia, the Blade of Miquella.
 * Pacifist Undertale run without using items and without taking off the Bandage equip. (All to get a dialogue line of acknowledgement from Sans.) Later, she played Deltarune and beat hidden bosses Spamton and Jevil without using items to heal.
 * Everhood on Expert, having notably beat the Dev Gnomes and Light Being.
 * Yakuza 0 on Hard, notably defeating the two endgame secret bosses you get for 100%ing the substories in the game. Reiyu actually spent 6 miserable hours fighting one of them with a severely underleveled Kiryu after not realizing she had to save prior to the boss fight. She subsequently 100%'d the substories of Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2 on hard as well.
 * Neon White and getting all gifts and Ace Medals.
 * Getting a time of 185 seconds in Devil Daggers.
 * Titanfall 2 on Master difficulty. Before starting the game, she spent 6 hours in the tutorial Gauntlet to get the "... Becomes The Master" achievement by placing Top 3 in the in-game scoreboard.
 * Currently, Reiyu is playing through Ghost of Tsushima on Lethal difficulty and with armor that rewards perfect parries.

Profile
Due to hardship endured during her life and her sudden untimely death, Reiyu wants to spend her afterlife playing games with her ghostlings without worries. It is Reiyu's self-assigned job to escort ghostlings through purgatory and towards their reincarnation, but in return, she asks that the ghostlings guide her in videogames before their time in purgatory arrives.

In Reiyu's Lore Video "The Promise", a still-alive, fully pink-haired Reiyu is seen performing various activities including dancing, working at a daycare/orphanage, doing lab work, and working as a cashier. While bicycling home in the dark, she is hit by a truck. She awakens in purgatory, her hair now tinged with bright blue, glowing ends. Reiyu is seen walking through purgatory and amassing ghostlings along the way, and though she is lost herself, she points forward and leads them onwards towards reincarnation.

Appearance and Design
Reiyu has two-tone hair that is pink and teal at the ends. The teal ends of her hair glow in the dark.

Reiyu's Poltergeisha outfit is a colorful kimono whose sleeves falls into the shape of a butterfly's wings. The outfit contains several motifs revolving around death and reincarnation.


 * Her kimono is tucked in right over left, which is only done so on corpses during a funeral. The correct way to tuck in a kimono when you're alive is left over right.
 * On top of having butterflies sprinkled throughout her design, her kimono sleeves drape down into the shape of a butterflies wings. Butterflies symbolize transformation, metamorphosis, rebirth, resurrection, and triumph of the spirit and soul over the material world.
 * In her hair ornament, Reiyu has red spider lily flowers. In Japanese culture, these flowers represent death and the afterlife.
 * Reiyu hides a mole under a sakura blossom sticker and she also has sakura flowers throughout her design. Due to their transient blooming cycle, sakura symbolize the cycle of life, death, and reincarnation.
 * Reiyu's two-tone hair fades from pink to light blue. As shown in Reiyu's lore video, the light blue of Reiyu's hair only appeared after death and glows in the dark. The two colors are intentionally inverted colors of one another, meant to symbolize a purgatorial intersection between life and death.

Background
Reiyu created her YouTube channel on 15 October, 2020 and her Twitch channel on 19 November, 2020. She then made her YouTube and Twitch debut on 28 November, 2020.

2021
On 5 January, she announced a new design as well as updates to her Live2D model drawn by Hinaki0102 and rigged by kumi0002cm.

On 25 February, Reiyu became a Twitch partner.

On 24 March, Reiyu was raided while she was playing Dark Souls 3 by renowned streamer and YouTuber, MoistCr1TiKaL. Reiyu stated on stream that she was incredibly honored because he was a content creator that she watched eagerly in her childhood and stated that she had once emailed him asking if she could subtitle his videos for her hard of hearing siblings. He raided her again on 14 April and 19 June.

On 5 April, Reiyu reached 10,000 Twitch followers.

On 28 November, Reiyu redebuted with two new outfits: a casual outfit and a lingerie outfit. These were drawn by MYwhat_ and rigged by qryosityy.

2022
On 14 February, Reiyu celebrated her 22nd birthday and debuted a kimono outfit. She also reached 30,000 Twitch followers on that day.

Sometime in May, Reiyu graduated with a Master's in Biology. Funnily enough, Reiyu received two diplomas in the mail.

On 7 December, Reiyu announced her sobriety from alcohol.

2023
On 14 February, Reiyu celebrated her 23rd birthday and debuted a 3D model. She reached 50,000 Twitch followers around this time.

On 2 July, Reiyu started a streamathon and announced plans for a Gamer Gyaru model. The Gamer Gyaru model was funded by the ghostlings by the end of the month.

Community

 * Reiyu refers to her community primarily as "ghostlings" but she will also frequently call them "homies" or "brohs" as well.

Community Gags
Here are a few of the recurring gags on Reiyu's channel:


 * Gamer Supps. Reiyu and her chat are both constantly trying to twist anything liquid or stamina related into a sudden, unexpected reference for Gamer Supps. Use code PEGAHOMIE for 10% off.
 * "Five" or "5." This gag started during a Lewd Club stream when Reiyu said she could never do a countdown during certain activities because she would "lose on 5."
 * At any given time, there are only ten homies perceiving a Reiyu stream. This gag started when Reiyu admitted that she got nervous looking at her viewer count, so she pretends that there are only ten people in her streams. Chat plays along.
 * Master Mistress Reiyu GuiGui MS MS. Reiyu has a Master's in Biology and ended up receiving two diplomas by mistake. While Reiyu only has the one Master's, chat likes to joke that she has two.
 * Juicebox, the annihilator. Reiyu has an adorable cat named Juicebox who likes to stick her paws out when sitting. Chat has a gag where they will use the reiyuJuicebox emote followed by a statement from Juicebox, usually revolving around murder and destruction.
 * Rei-SMR. Reiyu ASMR is notoriously cursed. It's too hard to explain, you simply have to attend.

Trivia

 * According to her, she died when getting hit by a truck. This event is derived from her real life after she got hit by a car while biking to class.
 * Her favorite color is red, specifically the hex color #b00b1e.
 * Her first name is Japanese and her last name is Chinese. Both names hint to her existence as a ghost.
 * Her first name, "Reiyu," is a rearrangement for the the kanji in the Japanese word for ghost, "yurei" or "幽霊."
 * Her last name, "GuiGui," involves the Chinese character for ghost, "gui" or "鬼."
 * She likes: cats, games, food, tutoring and stalking . He favorite game in her childhood is Hotel Dusk for the Nintendo DS.
 * She dislikes: the texture of socks, bullies, old dishes, green bell peppers, her own clumsiness and too-high expectations.
 * She thinks home-cooked meals are the best. Reiyu claims to be an "above average" cook.
 * Reiyu's favorite fictional character is Katsuki Bakugo from My Hero Academia. She enjoys his rivalry with Deku, professing it to be the greatest rivalry to come out of a shonen in a long time. She also ships them (in the sense of wanting them to be by each other's side forever).
 * She also ships Goro Majima and Kazuma Kiryu from Yakuza, even having drawn emotes on her channel of them kissing and allowing viewers to use channel points to trigger a cute animation of them kissing.
 * Due to her ghostly nature, Reiyu can reshape her body to whatever she or her partner wants.
 * She is a self proclaimed sadomasochist, having said that "sadism and masochism are twos sides of the same coin."
 * Reiyu has stated on numerous occasions that she loves samurai and yakuza. The blue jacket to her first Live2D model is inspired by the Shinsengumi, a historic samurai group.
 * According to Reiyu, all ghosts are naturally attracted to Luigi, hence the Luigi's Mansion series.
 * Reiyu has stated that the ghostlings are only allowed to call her "mommy" and derivatives thereof when she turns 25 in 2025. Ideally, she says she only wants to be called "mommy" at 36.
 * The word "mommy" is currently banned on her channel.
 * Reiyu has expressed deep love and lust for fictional buff old men. In her own words, she thoroughly enjoys "old men who are at their prime and balding a little bit."
 * Godfrey from Elden Ring
 * Owl and Isshin from Sekiro
 * Soriz from Granblue Fantasy
 * Ballistic from Apex Legends

Media

 * /reiyuguigui - Twitch channel
 * @reiyuguigui - Twitter account
 * Reiyu's Tamaya - Discord
 * Reiyu's Patreon - 18+ Patreon for "Lewd Club"
 * @ReiyuGuiGui - YouTube channel
 * @reiyuclips - Clips/Shorts
 * @reiyuvods - VODs