Maria Marionette

Maria Marionette (マリア マリオネット) is an English female Virtual YouTuber affiliated with NIJISANJI EN's sixth wave "ILUNA", alongside Aia Amare, Kyo Kaneko, Aster Arcadia, Scarle Yonaguni, and Ren Zotto.

Profile
ILUNA Institute of the Mystics 1st Year. A doll who was turned human after centuries of loneliness. Easily influenced by her surroundings, her actions are often strange, but she means well.

Personality
Maria is a sweet and somewhat childish person who is kind with all her friends and her chat. She can be eccentric and mischievous at times in spite of her innocence, but her good natured (and relatively wholesome) personality ultimately endears her to her fans and cohorts, who often treat her as an adorable little sister.

She often streams relaxing games.

Background
On 4 March 2022, ANYCOLOR launched their 4th audition for NIJISANJI EN open to both male and female talents lasting until 31 March.

On 20 July 2022, the NIJISANJI EN twitter account announced the upcoming debut of its sixth wave "ILUNA", accompanied by a teaser of the Livers' designs and voices as well as an announcement for a debut song "Let's Get It Started" produced by MATZ, who also produced the debut song for Noctyx, "Stuck in the Abyss".

Maria's YouTube channel was created on 6 July 2022, and her Twitter account was created in the same month. Her first tweet and her first YouTube upload were posted on 20 July 2022. Within the first 12 hours after being announced, Maria reached 100,000 followers on her Twitter account.

Maria debuted on 25 July 2022, she reached 100,000 subscribers on YouTube during her debut stream. On the same day, she released her first solo cover song "God-ish" by PinocchioP.

2022
On 26 July, Maria reached 200,000 subscribers on YouTube channel.

On 27 July, Maria reached 200,000 followers on her Twitter account.

On 29 July, she celebrated her YouTube channel monetization.

On 3 August, she opened her channel membership feature.

On 9 August, she held her first collaboration stream with a VTuber outside ILUNA, Petra Gurin of OBSYDIA, on a drawing stream.

On 4 September, she reached 300,000 followers on her Twitter account. Maria also reached 300,000 subscribers on YouTube channel during a Minecraft endurance stream on the same day.

On 7 December, Maria celebrated her birthday and also released her first original song "C△NDY."

2023
On 24 January, Maria and Zaion LanZa had their first collaboration cover song, the song "Identity" by Kanaria.

On 16 April, she reached 400,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during an endurance karaoke stream.

On 23 July, she released her second original song "Marionette's Stage."

On 25 July, Maria debuted her 3D chibi model.

Events

 * On 1 March 2023, Higan: Eruthyll announced an original song collaboration with NIJISANJI EN to celebrate its global release, featuring vocals from Maria, Elira Pendora, Pomu Rainpuff, and Enna Alouette. The original song, "Cage of Desire," premiered on 3 April.

Mascot and Fans

 * Her friend is a bunny that she always carries with her named "Sir Ventrilo."
 * Her fanbase is called "Marippets," which is a combination of "Maria" and "Puppets". It decided by a poll during her stream. Maria also has self-designed mascots for her Marippets which are bandaged pink and purple bunnies.

Quotes

 * "I'm a real girl now!" - Debut teaser
 * "Mariring~!"
 * "It's-a me! Maria!"

Relationships

 * "ILUNA" - Maria, Aia Amare, Kyo Kaneko, Aster Arcadia, Scarle Yonaguni, and Ren Zotto. They are debut-mates.
 * "PetoMari" - Petra Gurin and Maria.
 * "NIJIAU" - Maria, Luca Kaneshiro, Sonny Brisko, Ren Zotto, and Ban Hada.

Identity

 * Color: #E55A9B
 * Maria can speak English, self-taught in Japanese (not yet able to read kanji), can speak in Mandarin but unable to read.

Likes and Dislikes

 * She likes food, anime, games, and singing.
 * Some of her favorite anime/manga: Mei-chan no Shitsuji, Aikatsu, Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai, How To Keep A Mummy, Made In Abyss, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Lucky star.
 * Some of her favorite bands and musical artists: i✩Ris, HoneyWorks, Yanagi Nagi (especially Maeda Jun X Yanagi Nagi songs), Cy8er, DECO*27, BPM15Q, Yunomi Yunomi, Neko Hacker, Walküre Walkure, IZ*ONE.
 * Some of her favorite games: Story of Seasons games, Stardew Valley, My Time At Portia, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, Tetris, Project Diva, VALORANT, and Apex Legends.
 * She dislikes bugs/insects/arachnowhatever it's called, numbers (when a lot of numbers are bundles up together), horror things, the Sun (Sunburns are painful).
 * She has an interest in history subculture, such as tortures (especially during medival era), to the point of going through museums.

Miscellaneous

 * Her goals are to perform at a concert, have an original song for her lore video, cover many songs, voice over in game or anime, buy ASMR gear and attempt ASMR, buy and eat lots of food, officially sing a HoneyWorks' song, make everyone smile and laugh.
 * Her surname "Marionette" is also name of a type of puppet that is controlled by wires or strings. It could be her true form before turning into a human.
 * Her name is also a nod to the last Queen of France - Marie Antoinette.
 * Maria's inspiration to join NIJISANJI EN and her oshi in the branch is Petra Gurin.
 * Despite being Australian, Maria revealed she rarely swears and pretends having not sworn since many years, which is a very rare phenomenon considering the common Australian stereotype.
 * She mentioned being very adamant in trying new things spanning from sports, musics, to arts lead to calling herself "Jack-of-all-trade."
 * Maria has a surprisingly extensive knowledge about archaic torture techniques and has talked about them on stream with Luca Kaneshiro.
 * Maria can play a total of 14 instruments: clarinet (best), flute, saxaphone, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, piano, oboe, tenahorn, drums, kalimba, otomatone, and baritone. She has not mentioned what the last instrument is.

Media

 * Maria Marionette's corporate profile on NIJISANJI website
 * Maria Marionette【NIJISANJI EN】 - YouTube channel
 * MariaMarionette - Twitch channel
 * Maria_M_Official - bilibili channel
 * @MariaMari0nette - Twitter account
 * u/MariaMarionette - reddit account
 * @mariamarionett5 - Marshmallow account

Twitter Hashtags

 * #MariaMarionette - General
 * #MariOnAir - Live
 * #MariArtte - Fan art
 * #MariLewd - NSFW
 * #Memettes - Meme
 * #Clippetts - Clip
 * #MariAssets - Assets
 * #Thumbnettes - Thumbnails