Sophia Valentine

Sophia Valentine (ソフィア・ヴァレンタイン) is a Japanese Virtual YouTuber affiliated with NIJISANJI, debuting as part of the unit "Idios" (いでぃおす) alongside Igarashi Rika, Koshimizu Toru, Ishigami Nozomi, Kuramochi Meruto, Kaburaki Roco, and Shishido Akari.

Profile
Sophia is a nerd who loves the mascot character "Colobbit" and always carries around "Colobbit" with various expressions. She is talkative in the text but becomes shy when she speaks.

Lore
Sophia is a rookie spy who graduated from a spy school, in an alternate dimension where many countries has developing new spies in order to become superior in information warfare. During a mission to retrive a "special weapon that would ruin the world", she accidentally activated the weapon, mistaking for a smoke bomb, and sent to this world as a result. Now, she has started streaming to make her life worth living.

Personality
Sophia is a shy and sometimes clumsy in spite of her job as a spy, yet hardworking and cheerful girl, akin to Amamiya Kokoro. While a glimpse of her personality was shown on her pre-debut stream tweets, upon revealing her adorable voice and rather calm personality (compared to most other debut-mates of hers) on the debut stream, she is now regarded by many viewers as the most "seiso" member out of her debut wave.

Via her streams and videos, she has shown many of her creative skills just within a month since her debut, including but not limited to: songwriting, composition, 3d modelling and animating, video editing, and so on.

On the other hand, as she continued to stream Sophia's funny side was also gradually exposed; the most remarkable story of hers being her notorious addiction to noodle dashi: during her first 1-on-1 collab with Shishido Akari, she revealed that she thought noodle dashi and soy source were the same thing, and uses noodle dashi for many dishes in place of soy source; and while talking about her story of making cookies on another stream, it was explained that she made noodle dashi and cheese-flavored cookies, which surprisingly tasted nice for her.

Background
On 16 January, NIJISANJI announced the debut of 7 new female Livers on 19 and 20 January 2023.

Sophia's YouTube channel was created on 24 October 2022, and her Twitter in January 2023. Her first tweet was made on 16 January 2023.

Debut
Sophia made her debut on 19 March 2023 and the fourth of the group to debut.

2023
On 19 January, Sophia reached 40,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On 19 January, Sophia reached 50,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On 2 February, Sophia's YouTube channel became open for monetization and channel membership.

On 9 February, Sophia reached 100,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, being the second one from her debut wave to reach the milestone after Koshimizu Toru.

Mascot and fans

 * Colobbit (ころびっと) is a popular mascot character from Sophia's world, effectively serving as her channel mascot as well. Shortly before her debut, Sophia was shocked that nobody from her debut wave didn't know what Colobbit is, so she decided to promote it through her streaming activities.
 * Sophia has keychains of Colobbit in her bag.
 * Colobbit appears in Sophia's loading screen, stream background, superchat alert, channel membership badges and some of membership emotes.
 * During her debut stream, Sophia presented a self-made 3D animation of Colobbit. She has also made a drawing song for it.
 * Her fanbase is officially called "Sophilings".

Trivia

 * Color: #C8C3DC

Media

 * Sophia Valentine's corporate profile on NIJISANJI website
 * ソフィア・ヴァレンタイン / Sophia Valentine【にじさんじ】 - YouTube Channel
 * @SophiaV214 - Twitter Account

Twitter Hashtags

 * #ソフィア潜入調査 - General egosurfing
 * #ヴァレンタイム - Live tag
 * #いらすたいん - Fan art tag
 * #ヴァレンティブ - NSFW tag
 * #さむねんたいん - Thumbnail art tag
 * #聞きたいん - Voice impressions
 * ＃ころびっと - About Colobbit