He has short, wavy silvery hair with highlights of pink and mint green with heavy eye makeup and green lipstick and a pink teardrop shaped mark on his cheek.
History[]
Background[]
Joe's channel was created on 7 August, 2018. His first video was uploaded on 4 September 2018.
2018[]
On 13 December, Ichikara Inc. announced that NIJISANJI Gamers and NIJISANJI SEEDs would merge with NIJISANJI by the end of the month.[1] As a result, Joe is now officially affiliated with NIJISANJI.
2019[]
On 9 August, he debuted the 2.0 brushup of his Live2D model.[2]
2020[]
On 13 May, Joe debuted in the new NIJISANJI music unit "Rain Drops," which is signed under the major music record label Virgin Records (Universal Music Group). The other members in this unit are Elu, Warabeda Meiji, Ryushen, Saegusa Akina, and Suzuki Masaru.
On 26 June, he made his official 3D debut on YouTube.[3]
2022[]
On 23 July, Joe reached 400,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.[4]
Events[]
On 8th December 2019, Joe performed at "Virtual to LIVE" at Ryogoku Kokugikan.
On 26 February 2020, he performed at the "NIJISANJI JAPAN TOUR 2020 Shout in the Rainbow!" at Zepp Nagoya
On 20 September 2020, Joe performed on the third day of the "Kyo to Aki no NIJISANJI" live event at the annual Kyoto International Manga Anime Fair, alongside Maimoto Keisuke.
Awards[]
Year
Ceremony
Category
Ref.
2020
VTuber Music Awards
Music Category (16th for “VOLTAGE”) as “Rain Drops”
Musical unit who is signed under the major music record label Virgin Records (Universal Music Group).
They have radio program called Rain Drops Radio "OBS".
Rain Drops first debuted as an indie group in 2019 during the "Virtual to LIVE in 両国国技館 2019" (Virtual to Live in Ryogoku Kokugikan 2019) one-man live event.[9]
They have had a major debut under the label "Virgin Label" of Universal Music. [9]
Up until this day (06/04/2021), they have officially released 3 albums that can be acquired in the official Universal Music Store: シナスタジア (Synesthesia), オンソロジー (Onthology), and リフレインズ (Refrains).
His name is a pun on the word "Joker", as his name (ジョー・力一) can also be seen as ジョーカー (Jōkā). This isn't a reference to the well-known Joker from the Batman franchise, but instead to another character named "Joker" from the anime "Smile PreCure!"
Continuing the clown theme, the name for his fans is a play-on-words of one of "Hiya, Georgie!", a famous quote by Pennywise the Dancing Clown of the "It" horror franchise.
(2) Indonesia and Korea branches merged with main NIJISANJI branch.
(3) Program terminated; members are active but are no longer affiliated with NIJISANJI.
