Yoisaki Nadeshiko

Nadeshiko (なでしこ), more commonly known by her nicknames Nade or Nadechama, is a female Japanese Independent VTuber who streams in English. She debuted on Youtube, but is now active mostly on Twitch.

Profile
''I am a Youkai shrine maiden who loves flowers, and i want to bring everyone many blessings! But humans do not really believe in Youkai these days, so i lack the power to do it as a am now... In order not to fade away, i will become a virtual idol and show them proof of my existence! Will you join me on this journey together, my little badgers? I will make you proud!''

Appearance

 * In her earliest content, Nadechama has no consistent model but depicts herself as a white-haired girl with an ahoge, wearing an open yukata with detached sleeves tied over a short dress, along with frilly thigh-high socks, and a flower decoration in her hair.
 * PNG: Nadechama appears as a girl with a gentle expression and pink hair with an ahoge. She wears a purple flower-print yukata with detached sleeves, and maid-style white trim around the shoulders. This is accompanied by frilly white thigh-highs tied with pink ribbon, a matching choker, and zori sandals. A flower is clipped to her hair.
 * Live2D: Nadechama appears as a small girl with shiny eyes, and fluffy pink hair with an ahoge. She wears a sleeveless white sailor dress, an open purple jacket that hangs loose around her shoulders, and mary janes. Both her sailor collar and her shoes are indigo with red ribbons, matching the colors of her eyes. This outfit sometimes includes a white beret with indigo trim. She used a self-drawn PNG version of this design shortly before her model debut.
 * Live2D (alternate outfit): As above, but wearing a dark purple strapless yukata-like outfit with a pleated skirt and detached sleeves, under which she wears a white leotard-style sleeveless top. She wears this outfit with a flower decoration in her hair, white thigh-high socks with frilly trim, and okobo platform sandals.

Background
Her Twitter account was created in May 2021, and her Youtube channel was created on 22 May 2021. In the time building up to her completed streaming setup, she released regular prerecorded "practice videos" - mostly consisting of a simple illustration and voiceover - while interacting with viewers in chat through Youtube Premiere.

Nadechama debuted the first time as a PNG Vtuber on 24 July 2021. This stream, which was "[planned] to be quite long", lasted around 5 hours - a record which would not be broken until December of that year.

On 30 October, Nadechama debuted her Live2D model. Nadechama unlisted all her 100+ previous videos, including her practice content and her debut stream as a PNG Vtuber. These videos would later be privated entirely.

On 3 November, Nadechama's birthday celebration, she also revealed her alternate outfit.

On 11 November, Nadechama began hosting some of her streams on Twitch.

On 4 December, Nadechama held a celebration for reaching Affiliate status on Twitch, which she had achieved the previous week.

Fans

 * Her fan name is "Badgers" (sometimes "Badgerbros" in early streams). They are depicted in art with a mujina-inspired design - small, featureless pillowcase-like creatures, who befriended Nadechama when she drew faces for them on sheets of paper and taped them to their bodies. Early designs also feature a flower decoration similar to Nadechama's.
 * Her oshi mark is a torii.

Trivia

 * Her species is youkai (explicitly a zashiki-warashi in early streams, later unspecified).
 * Her greeting is Konnade (morning)/Konbannade (evening), while sign-off is Otsunade.
 * Her favorite things are Tanabata, spring, breezy weather with a little sun, late night time, pastel pink, omurice with curry, unsweetened cold tea, and rhythm games.
 * Her least favorites are Valentine's/White Day, summer, hot and humid weather, early morning, neon yellow, sugary foods, Starbucks, Apex Legends, and people who talk about feet (though legs are okay).
 * Her goals are to make many friends, improve her English speaking level to native, improve her SNS skills to be cool, make some small merchandise, improve singing skills and make a cover song, do a 24 hrs long stream, open membership, make viewers smile a lot, make unforgettable memories with viewers, and get good at fighting games.
 * Her waifus/oshi are Shirakami Fubuki and Murasaki Shion from hololive, Ars Almal and Pomu Rainpuff from Nijisanji, Cheshire and Yukikaze from Azur Lane, Shirokane Rinko from BanG Dream!, Yazawa Nico and Tsushima Yoshiko from Love Live!, Ibarahime (Sleeping Beauty) from SINoALICE, and Yakumo Yukari and Chen from Touhou.
 * She has given Uruha Rushia from hololive as a role model for the kind of VTuber she wants to be, citing how she has a close relationship with her Fandeads, and manages to be small and adorable without coming across as childish. However, if a hololive member retired and she were asked to take over their character, she thinks it would be easiest on both ends for her to become Gawr Gura.
 * She has a long history of playing card games, MMOs and mobage in both Japanese and English. She notes that when she joins guilds she tends to fall into a tactician and information-collector role, and has praised Log Horizon for being one of the few MMO-based stories to focus on these aspects of play.
 * Speaking on why she shifted her focus from Youtube to Twitch, Nadechama cited the lack of need to create thumbnails, faster access to emotes (at a time when her growth was stalling just before the 1000 subs milestone), more accurate view numbers, and raid culture making it easier to interact with other VTubers.
 * Her Twitch channel once featured an "Insult" redeem, but it was removed after a single use as she felt that regularly insulting her viewers would clash with the laid-back atmosphere she was aiming for.

In-Jokes and Nicknames

 * Nadechama has often referenced losing hair due to stress, leading to nicknames like Hagechama/Baldchama.
 * Nadechama sometimes claims to be the CEO of a company named "NadeshiCo.", of which her viewers are employees. This includes describing some streams as "board meetings". After she began streaming on Twitch, where her channel points are named "Nadeshicoin", she has been accused of rigging the economy: adding redeems like "Love Confession" but increasing their costs to absurdly high numbers when no one is looking.
 * After she once used a microwave to dry a plushie, fans have joked that Nadechama will microwave badgers as punishment for misbehaving.
 * Various jokes have been made about Nadechama's identity in real life, including a ghost, an orc, a child prodigy, a "36-year-old Singaporean man with kids", and Shirokane Rinko from BanG Dream!. She is also sometimes claimed to be a collective hallucination that her fans are having, who will disappear if they take their meds (or conversely, her fans are a hallucination that she is having).
 * When Nadechama streams for a particularly long time, fans who feel obligated to watch will sometimes claim to be "locked in her basement", a yandere gag which appeared occasionally in early streams.
 * Nadechama is in your walls.
 * Due to her love for idols and (mostly) seiso style, her growth from humble beginnings, and notoriously another VTuber freaking out at the thought of swearing in her presence, Nadechama's fans have nicknamed her "the Tokino Sora of EN tubers".

Media

 * nadechama - Twitch channel
 * Nadechama / Nadechama Ch. - YouTube channel
 * @nadechama - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #Badgers - Fans
 * #Nadeshillust / #Nade45 - Fan art/Ero fan art
 * #Warashiko - Clip/Memes