Luzyca

Luzyca (ルチカ) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber and former member of the defunct group Amaryllis. After the dissolution of Amaryllis in September 2018, Luzyca continued individual activities on YouTube.

Profile
A former corporate VTuber turned indie VTuber. I've been through a lot, but one way or another, I hope to have a long and enjoyable life.

An excessively hyped otaku vampire VTuber. I'm filled with curiosity and am easily "swamped" with obsession. A little too easily.

Tokusatsu = life. I dream of appearing in a tokusatsu production. I'm the first VTuber to do live group watches of Super Hero Time!?

Personality
Luzyca is an otaku vampire VTuber with the personal motto "I want to spread everyone's "likes"! I want to be a catalyst for liking!" Her main channel focus is on tokusatsu media and Twisted Wonderland, but her channel also features gameplay videos, voice acting, karaoke streams, and Gunpla builds.

Luzyca does various tokusatsu and anime watchalongs, with her specialty being the Super Hero Time live watchalongs where she comments on the newest episodes of Pretty Cure, Super Sentai, and Kamen Rider as they debut on Japanese television. She also does speculation streams on what might happen next during the ongoing Super Hero Time programming.

She does informational streams, like lecture videos for beginner tokusatsu fans and discussions with her fans about their favorite media.

She occasionally does ASMR, the most common being Gunpla builds, but some of them center around unorthodox "rougher" ASMR sounds, like using sandpaper or operating a shaved ice machine.

When she gets really excited, she makes high pitched noises like a bat. She tends to go "ahh!" when excited and "bababababa" when surprised.

As a vampire, she's fine with sunlight and can eat a little bit of garlic. She likes blood, but these days prefers tomatoes and people's love for their favorite things.

Her backstory is covered in "lullaby~", a doujinshi made by her character designer, Miki Purasu.

2018
On 1 November, Luzyca showed off her second outfit, featuring outdoor clothes.

2019
On 3 May, Luzyca had her first anniversary stream.

On 21 July, she debuted her third outfit, featuring summer clothes.

On 14 September, she gave the 2019 version of her tokusatsu beginners recommendation lecture, with a focus on Heisei era Kamen Rider and Super Sentai works. . She recommended Heisei Riders for fans of movies and dramas, anime and video games, and voice talent and actors. She advised against recommending Den-O and Amazons for beginners. For Den-O, it was because of it being an older work, seeming lighthearted but actually being more heavy storywise, complicated time elements (like Kiva and Zi-O), and that many like that work but don't get into Kamen Rider because of it. For Amazons, the heavier storyline played a part, but also that as a series for adults, it would put an "Amazons Filter" on newbies' perception of the rest of Kamen Rider and tokusatsu, which is aimed towards children. It was seen as worth watching, but to wait until you've seen other Kamen Rider seasons first. She recommended Timeranger and ToQGer as series similar to Kamen Rider Den-O that are more accessible for beginners. Her Heisei Rider recommendations were Agito (as the best of Heisei Phase 1, with 98 points on the recommendation scale) and W (A Heisei Phase 2 work, as the best beginner's recommendation with 10,000,000 points on the recommendation scale).

On 25 September, she had a stream for her birthday the following day. During the stream, she debuted her fourth outfit, featuring autumn clothes.

2020
On 3 May, Luyzca had her second anniversary stream, where she announced and previewed her 3D model.

On 18 May, she celebrated her 15,000 subscribers milestone. .

On 20 May, she did a promotional stream with her 3D model, advertising her collaboration with Webpon. The limited time gacha campaign featured the chance to win prizes like messages from Luyzca, autographed goods, keychains, and more.

On 29 June, she debuted her fifth outfit, featuring casual wear.

On 20 August, she launched a web radio program on her channel, Ruchiraji! (ルチラジ！). Ruchiraji! initially ran for 11 episodes, the last of which aired on 23 January, 2021. As of May 2021, the show is on hiatus.

In October, she had her second Webpon limited time gacha campaign. The second collab featured her full body casual clothes design and a new illustration of her in pajamas.

On 11 December, Luyzca announced order opening for her inclusion in VPhoto, V-MANI's service for custom acrylic room decoration products featuring VTubers.

On 12 December, a collaboration with Fruit Pot Co., Ltd for a Lulu=Luzyca "aroma mist" perfume, "5am Vampire", was announced.

On 25 December, she debuted a new backdrop design of her room.

2021
On 3 May, Luzyca had her third anniversary stream and announced a third limited time gacha collaboration with Webpon. The third collab featured new art of her in an idol outfit and kimono. She also announced the opening of her official Twitch channel, mainly for Watch Parties utilizing Twitch's Amazon Prime/Prime Video implementation. Originally launched under the name "vtuberluzyca", she would later change it to "lull_luzyca".

On 6 May, she did her first Twitch stream as a test. She was originally scheduled to do Fit Boxing 2, but did a talk stream instead due to technical issues with her Switch and OBS. She did her first Watch Party streams from 17 May to the 19th, featuring the Hypnosis Mic anime.

On 28 May, she announced the closure of her Instagram and Hatena blogs.

On 1 June, she announced she was going on break from 7 June to 21 June to avoid burnout and enjoy things for herself outside of watchalong streams. On June 24th, she announced her return stream for the following day.

On 24 June, she announced she would have an interview published in a VTuber special feature in Appli Style (アプリスタイル) magazine, which normally covers mobile games.

On 29 June, she announced her first meet and greet session during Net Talking Festival #6 (ネットおしゃべりフェス #6), with one-minute Zoom sessions. The event also features Hachun, Hibiki Yui, and Asakura Yuki. The event also features a parallel "Kamidana" livestream where fans can buy gifts from the event's Booth store to be presented to the VTubers in real life. Tickets for her meet and greet were sold out.

On 7 July, she gave her 2021 edition of Heisei Kamen Rider series recommendations. She recommended OOO and Drive for first-timers. ZO was recommended as a work that technically wasn't Heisei but serves as a good, accessible introduction to Kamen Rider for beginners. The recommended watch order for 2021 was OOO, then Den-O, then Ryuki. She also gave more specific recommendations based on viewer tastes (like Den-O and Ex-Aid for anime fans), special circumstances (Ryuki for its 20th anniversary in 2022 and Ghost for its crossover special with Saber), and fan experience levels (Ryuki and Zi-O, recommended as "I want you to watch this at the right time" for beginners)

On 17 July, she announced the monetization of her Twitch channel.

On 7 August, she had an unarchived "singing until I reach 18,000 subscribers" endurance stream, meeting the 18k goal as part of her greater goal to reach 20,000 subscribers by her fourth birthday on 26 September.

On 26 September, she had her fourth birthday stream. During her birthday stream, she introduced a new stream intro video, which she edited herself, a new handdrawn logo, and new stand-by & stream end screens featuring her own chibi art. She also revealed the results of a fan vote for the top five favorite Luzyca videos so far. The top five favorite videos were a collab stream talking about favorite secondary Kamen Riders, the 2019 edition of her tokusatsu lecture video, her "if you get too hyped, the stream ends" video about Zi-O's addition to the Kamen Rider official web guide, an April Fool's ad parody, and a talk stream about non-existent fictional works. Luzyca LINE stamps are being made and she hinted at a future collab. She also started activities on Skeb, a Japanese art commission platform from Pixiv that also makes it easier for overseas people to get commissions from Japanese artists. She'll be taking art and voice commissions.

On 29 November, she announced she participated in voice acting auditions for the anime adaptation of Ohiru no Shocker-san, a Kamen Rider spinoff manga.

On 20 December, she participated in VTuber Excavation 2 (VTuberを発掘せよ2), a VTuber discovery/promotion event. She served as the midpoint MC alongside Rurun Rururica from .LIVE, allowing the main MCs (Hira Saiore and Meteo DiscoTei) to take a break. She reached 19,000 subscribers the same day during an after-talk chat with Rurun. Luzyca got 1,000 new subscribers in one day thanks to the event.

2022
On 14 January, Luzyca announced her fourth limited time gacha collab with Webpon. Prizes include a big throw pillow, signed canvas art featuring an illustration from Miki Purasu of Luzyca at an aquarium, signed bromides, acrylic stand keychains, "clear charm" keychains, heart shaped badges and regular can badges. Many of the prizes feature Luzyca's own art. The Webpon campaign runs from 21 January to 31 January.

On 5 March, Luzyca's participation in a VTuber White Day event from Dokodemo Catcher, an online crane game, was announced with a planned promotional stream on 11 March.

On 14 March, Luzyca announced her participation in the VTuber Fes Japan x Net Talking Festival hybrid real life/online meet and greet event, which includes a free talk stream on Nico Nico Douga.

On 22 March, Luzyca announced improvements to her Live2D model, allowing for smoother and and more pronounced movements, including better head turning, more sensitive facial tracking, improved physics, and a hand waving motion. The update was thanks to Miki Purasu.

On 31 March, Luzyca launched her Instagram account.

On 1 April, she had two April Fools jokes: one where she pretended to be a pre-debut VTuber on Twitter and another one where she streamed on YouTube as a male VTuber, "Rutile".

On 4 April, she reached her 20,000 subscriber milestone during a guerilla karaoke "endurance until 20k subscribers" stream. The endurance stream only lasted 40:45, due to an earthquake in Chiba prefecture. She reached her goal around 37 minutes in (at around 22:27 Japan time).

On 3 May, she celebrated her fourth anniversary. She revealed new key art from Miki Purasu, a Luzyl''Chun cover of ClariS' "Connect", a event appearance planned for 18 June, the opening of her Note blog, and featured an anniversary Luzyca quiz. She had unofficially opened her Note account on 23 April but started it officially on 3 May with a Luzyll''Chun history post.

On 6 May, she gave the 2022 version of her Super Sentai recommendation lecture. Her recommendations were Kyoryuger (given five stars for "Sentai-ness" and ten stars for "bravery"), Kiramager (given four stars for Sentai-ness and 10 stars for sparkling), Lupinranger vs Patoranger (given five stars for a "festive atmosphere" and ten stars for "wanting to support both teams"), and Zenkaiger (given five stars for a festive atmosphere and ten stars for a "full-force, full-throttle effort". She was uncertain about recommending Gokaiger (a 40th anniversary season with a lot of history covered), Go-Busters (seen as challenging by Sentai standards), and Donbrothers (written by written by infamous tokusatsu writer Toshiki Inoue) to beginners, but stated that it's best to check out the season you're most interested in first.

It was announced that on 8 May, she would be involved in V's Playground: Fans Gathering! Let's Talk About Our Love For Riders! Volume 2, a collaboration talk event on Nico Nico Douga with fellow Kamen Rider loving VTubers Minase Shia, Suzuna Subaru, and Akatsuki Kinoko.

Mascots and Fans

 * Her fans are called "Kōmori-san" (コウモリさん, "bats")
 * Her mascots are two bats, Lolo (ロロ) and Lala (ララ). Lolo has the facial expression shown on the left shoulder of Luzyca's main outfit and Lala has the facial expression shown on the right side.

Relationships

 * LuzyllQuartChun (ルチルクォーチュン), also known as Luzyll  Chun: The combination name of Luzyca and fellow indie VTuber Hachun. LuzyllQuartChun is derived from "Luzy-", "-chun" and rutiliated quartz, a type of quartz with needle-like inclusions of the mineral rutile. In Japanese gem language, rutile symbolizes "strong luck, take a chance" (強運、チャンスを掴む), while quartz symbolizes "ice that never melts". Their collaborations have included endurance streams, song covers of Crazy Crazy (クレイジークレイジー) from The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls and Connect by ClariS from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, as well as collab merch (acrylic stands, can badges, and clear files) sold on their Booth pages. Luzyll  Chun collabs have their own playlist on Luzyca's channel.

Trivia

 * Her start of stream greeting is "konbanpaia" (こんばんぱいあ), a pun combination of the greeting "konbanwa" (good evening) and "banpaia" (a way of saying "vampire"). Her end of stream goodbye is "bye-bye" with a prolonged a sound at the end (ばいばいあー), making it sound similar to her "konbanpaia" greeting.
 * Luzyca collabed with Shirakami Fubuki from Hololive and indie VTuber Magrona, discussing Kamen Rider OOO.
 * Other past collaborators include Sister Claire of Nijisanji, Masayoshi Atsuki of Tsubaki Seigi, Kotohara Hinari (also previously of Amaryllis), Minase Shia from AVATAR 2.0 Project, Hachun, Kuzuryu Ruru, and Luzyca's illustrator Miki Purasu. When asked about favorite VTubers, the three she listed were Sister Claire, Kuzuryu Ruru, and Hachun.
 * Her favorite tokusatsu series is Super Sentai. She became a Sentai fan through Timeranger.
 * She's a Kamen Rider fan who has made guides for people wanting to get into Heisei era Kamen Rider shows. Her favorite Heisei Riders are 555 and Kiva. She became a Rider fan through Kuuga.
 * She's collected the Kamen Rider collaboration booster packs for the card game Battle Spirits and done pack opening streams.
 * She likes Kamen Rider Kuuga's Titan form and Kamen Rider OOO's Sagohzo Combo.
 * She has done "ultra real 3D" (超リアル3D) streams for booster pack openings and plastic model building, jokingly referring to them showing real life footage of her opening packs and assembling model kits.
 * Her favorite Gundam work is Gundam 00.
 * Some of her favorite anime include Psi Brain, Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun, My Hero Academia, Star-Myu, Revue Starlight, Bleach, Show By Rock!!, and SK8 the Infinity.
 * She likes Pokémon and has a preference for purple Pokémon regardless of their type. She uses Gengar in Pokkén Tournament and has a plushie of it in her room. She also likes Crobat.
 * She enjoys villain and antagonist characters and has an unusual fondness for monsters.
 * Her favorite character in SSSS.Gridman is Akane Shinjo.
 * Her wish is to be a "female executive" (女幹部) villainess character or a red Sentai member. She also wants to do voice acting, either as a narrator or voicing a character. For her subscriber goals, she eventually wants to get a Silver Play Button (known in Japanese as 銀盾, "silver shield"), which YouTube gives to creators at 100,000 subscribers. She re-stated this goal after reaching her 20,000 subscriber goal on 4 April 2022.
 * She's one of the VTubers featured on "Willfully! Vtuber Theme Song Compilation" (勝手に！Vtuberテーマ曲コンピ), an album made up of VTuber theme songs created by fans. Her song is "Whispers To The Night" (夜を告げる囁き) by ればん (@lbannen01) "Whispers To The Night" is featured in her stream opening as of September 2021.
 * During the Net Talking Festival, Luzyca met the gift goal to receive the first sixteen volumes of the Zatch Bell! manga
 * Luzyca is also an artist, primarily drawing chibis. Occasionally she uses art she draws for her stream thumbnails.
 * At one point, she was considering becoming an idol VTuber, but she ultimately decided against it.
 * For her fourth birthday, she was proud of the progress she's made with video editing for her stream intro, saying "When I started VTubing, I was a vampire who couldn't even boot up her PC properly! I've come so far!"

Twitter hashtags

 * #ルルルチカ - General
 * #ルルなま - Live
 * #ルチカアート - Fan art (Art posted in hashtag may be used for streams)
 * #真夜中のルチカアート - 18+ fanart
 * #おいルチカこれを使え - Fan made stream end cards (End cards posted in hashtag may be used for streams, guidelines here)
 * #ルチラジ - Ruchiraji
 * ハッシュタグまとめ | ルル=ルチカ／Lull=Luzyca - Hashtag guide, with stream planning, event, birthday, collab, and other related hashtags