Minase Rio

Minase Rio (水無世燐央) is a male Japanese Virtual YouTuber associated with HOLOSTARS, debuting under the unit UPROAR!! alongside Yatogami Fuma, Utsugi Uyu and Hizaki Gamma.

Profile
A ghost who passed away while still determined to be an idol. He spent his early ghost days lazing around until, upon Fuma's invitation, he decided to aim to be an idol once again. He can't deal with ghosts and scary things, himself excluded.

Background
On 26 December 2021, during the HOLOSTARS 1st ACT: JOURNEY to FIND STARS concert, it was announced that new members would be coming to HOLOSTARS in 2022. Rio, along with the rest of UPROAR!!, were introduced on 19 March 2022 (JST), during the hololive SUPER EXPO 2022 event, though their social media accounts were not revealed until 22 March. His YouTube channel has a creation date of 7 February 2022, while his Twitter account was also created in February 2022.

2022
On 29 July, he reached 70,000 subscribers.

On 2 August, it was announced that all 4 members of UPROAR!! will be getting their summer outfits which will be a reveal spreading across 4 days starting on August 5, 2022.

On 30 August, HOLOSTARS revealed an original voice drama titled, "Highschool Holography" to include all of the nine HOLOSTARS members along with featuring all four UPROAR!! members as guests. The drama cd will be released into two parts with the first part to release on November 5, 2022 and the second part to be announced at a later date.

2022

 * On 1 April, it was announced that UPROAR!! will be having a collaboration with Shibuya Marui/Shibuya Modi.
 * On 4 April, it was announced HOLOSTARS and UPROAR!! will be having a meet and talk event on 22 May 2022 held in Ikebukuro harevutai with a time limit of 2 minutes per person and attendance will be determined by lottery.
 * On 18 May, it was revealed that UPROAR!! will be having their own show called, "Jump UPROAR!!" starting on July 22, 2022 at 20:00JST which will be streamed on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month on the official HOLOSTARS YouTube channel.
 * On 1 July, HOLOSTARS announced they will be taking part in "Animate Girls Festival 2022".
 * On 27 July, it was announced that HOLOSTARS and UPROAR!! will be participating as ambassadors in support of the spicy foods event, Gekikara Yabai, to be held in Akihabara starting on August 3rd, 2022. Event merch will also be available but only locally.
 * On 18 August, Molly Online which is a crane game had announced a collaboration with UPROAR!! featuring all 4 members for a limited time. Gamma also contributed artwork for the merch.
 * On 3 October, it was announced that HOLOSTARS members will appear on the Nihon Television Vtuber NEWS program for 10 weeks to report the latest vtuber news. The broadcast will be on the Nihon Television channel program "news every" at 16:00JST on Mondays.

Fans

 * His fanbase name is "RIOFAM."

Relationships

 * "ORB", along with Kureiji Ollie and Hakos Baelz.

Likes and dislikes

 * Rio likes singing, staying up late, cosmetics (he likes looking at the package designs), his cat (told viewers in debut stream he has a cat in real life), looking at art especially fanarts, beautiful and cute things, and tea with Earl Grey being his most favorite.
 * His dislikes include ghosts despite him being one, horror stuff in general and people standing behind him.

Skills

 * Editing videos.
 * Rio did the music videos for UPROAR!!'s first mashup cover song "Envy Baby x KING" and also his first cover song "Kimi no Myaku de Odoritakatta".
 * He's able to sing in a female voice range.
 * He's also able to sing in a lower voice range even if it doesn't sound manly.

Miscellaneous

 * Before debut, Rio and the other UPROAR!! members used machine translated English to communicate with overseas fans on Twitter.
 * Since then Rio has continued to communicate with overseas viewers in English. While he does state clearly that his English isn't very good, he makes continuous attempts to response back to simple English comments when he comes across them in his chat.
 * #A4A8D4 is Rio's color code.

Media

 * Rio Ch. 水無世燐央 - UPROAR!! - - YouTube channel
 * Minase Rio's corporate profile on holostars.hololivepro.com
 * @minaserioch - Twitter account
 * @minaserio_uproar - TikTok account

Twitter hashtags

 * #燐央顕現中 - Live
 * #燐央絵 - Fan art
 * #お試し燐央 - Clip
 * #うちの燐央 - Merch
 * #聞いたよ燐央 - Voice