User:Raffina Higashikata

Introduction
Hello, this is Raffina Higashikata, or Raffina for short! I'm a native Japanese speaker, but I often use English on the internet! I've been using FANDOM since circa 2018 and made contributions to the many wikis, with currently contributing most frequently to Logopedia as of writing this page (June 2021).

My first experience with VTuber videos was on early 2021 iirc, when searching for some Super Smash Bros. videos, I stumbled onto this clip from one of Sasaki's streams; then this clip of Marine-Senchou battling the same player from related videos tab; I liked Senchou's design and voice, so I started some searching about her. I also watched some more gameplay footages such as Aqua's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Sui-chan's Tetris 99. Few days later, I found this piece of YTPMV, but at the time I had no idea who is who (though I liked A-chan's design for some reason). Then I discovered Gura through this short animation, which eventually lead to falling into hololive (as well as VTubers in general) rabbit hole.

I was not aware that hololive was basically at both golden and dark ages simultaneously in 2020 until recently (March-April 2021 iirc), so it was bit surprising. Still, I like hololive as well as VTuber community in general, because it gave me some new interest.

29 August 2021: I'm now on Moegirl Encyclopedia! I am still learning Chinese, but I'll do my best!

11 October 2021: You can find me on Reddit from the link on the user profile section! I'm mainly active on r/VirtualYoutubers, so you may find some of my comments there.

Order of hololive members I discovered
Houshou Marine → Minato Aqua → Hoshimachi Suisei → Gawr Gura → Kiryu Coco → Takanashi Kiara → Momosuzu Nene → Moona Hoshinova? → Shirakami Fubuki → Yuzuki Choco → Ookami Mio and Oozora Subaru → Akai Haato → Usada Pekora → Inugami Korone? → Nekomata Okayu? → Yozora Mel? → Uruha Rushia → Mori Calliope / Watson Amelia / Ninomae Ina'nis → pretty much everyone else

Hobbies

 * Games: Super Mario, Super Smash Bros., Puyo Puyo, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Taiko no Tatsujin...
 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
 * Watching/listening OtoMADs (especially ones related to the composers below, or Hirasawa Susumu)
 * Vocaloid song producers: NayutalieN, Kairiki Bear
 * UTAU song producers: ⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎⬛︎ (best known for A Sardine Grows from the Soil), Subete Anata no Sei Desu., x髥莏 (also likes song that is made as a tribute to them)
 * Misc. indie composers: Nigou.

VTubers

 * Hiyoku no Crosspiece (all pages)

Groups

 * PLIVYou

VTuber-related articles I created on Moegirl
Note: I can only understand a few Chinese phrases, so I am using DeepL to translate the sentence from Japanese and/or English

VTubers

 * Various hololive pages (notable units, Twitter hashtags, updated profiles from official hololive website)
 * Various Nijisanji pages (batch group info, twitter hashtags, format standardizations on KR pages)
 * Various further reading links

Agencies and groups

 * hololive (History, mainly group debuts)
 * Nijisanji (debuts and retirements)
 * 774 inc. (subscribers count)
 * AniMare (Hashiba Natsumi retirement)
 * WACTOR (misc. infos on the History section)
 * Virtual eSports Project (Aizawa Ema debut announcement, overview on September 2021 VALORANT controversy)