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Juufuutei Raden (儒烏風亭らでん) is a Japanese-speaking Virtual YouTuber affiliated with hololive DEV_IS, a branch of hololive production. She debuted in 2023 as part of ReGLOSS alongside Hiodoshi Ao, Otonose Kanade, Ichijou Ririka, and Todoroki Hajime.
She is perhaps best known internationally for her Maitake Dance YouTube short, which became a popular meme in 2024.
Introduction video
【初配信】-らでん初配信 はじめまして、らでんです -hololiveDEV IS -ReGLOSS
Debut stream.
Profile
A grandma's girl who covers herself in both tradition and revolution, and sees big dreams in the rakugo world.
She loves arts and culture of all kinds—new and old, Eastern and Western.
She visits museums so often that she is left penny-pinching the rest of the time. It is most certainly not due to her frequent purchases of alcohol.
Through her encounter with rakugo, she has come to enjoy public speaking more than ever, and she is fervishly writing up her own skits.
Personality
Appearance
She has long, dark purple hair in a 'hime' cut with some blonde streaks/highlights throughout and light blue eyes. She wears a ruffly black and dark greenish gothic lolita style dress with a large black bow and a capelet.
History
Background
Raden was accepted to hololive on her first audition. She was surprised to be selected, and when she received an email inviting her to an interview, she initially mistook it for an impostor. She was surprised to discover that the interview was the real thing.[4] The audition process involved multiple stages, and Raden prepared by watching an Oozora Subaru video on the audition process. Raden was surprised to be informed of a singing section in the audition, which Subaru had not mentioned. Despite considering singing her weakness, Raden ultimately passed the audition process after an interesting discussion about nudity in the context of art history.[5]
Raden's YouTube channel was created on 21 July 2023, and her Twitter account was created in the same month. A YouTube channel for a new branch, hololive DEV_IS, was created on 21 August.
hololive DEV_IS was initially teased during the conclusion of hololive's SPLASH PARTY! Night concert with a short video on 27 August 2023. The teaser was also shared later that day on both hololive's Twitter account and hololive DEV_IS YouTube channel on 27 August 2023.[6]
On 29 August 2023, the YouTube channel released short videos of the members in a countdown leading to the project's reveal. Raden's teaser, released on 31 August, was the fourth featuring a solo member of the group.[7]
On 4 September, after finishing the countdown, hololive DEV_IS YouTube channel introduced the group ReGLOSS along with the music video "Shunkan Heartbeat", revealing the identities of all its members as well as their channels and social media accounts.[8] Raden also made her first tweet on this date.[9] Raden's teaser video from hololive DEV_IS channel was also uploaded to her personal channel, now fully displaying her face.[10]
On 7 September, hololive DEV_IS's YouTube channel uploaded another video this time showing ReGLOSS' members actual models and appearances outside of their unified group clothes.[11]
Raden debuted on 10 September 2023 and was the fourth member to debut. After the stream, she released her first solo cover song "Sumire, September Love" by Ippu-Do.
2023
On 10 September, Raden reached 100,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[12]
On 19 September, Raden reached 200,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during a talking stream.[13][14]
On 26 September, Raden celebrated her YouTube channel monetization and enabled Super Chat feature.[15]
On 10 October, Raden had her first collaboration cover along with ReGLOSS, the song "REALiZE" by LiSA.
On 13 October, Raden enabled her YouTube membership feature.[16]
On 31 October, she reached 300,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[17][18]
2024
On 5 February, Raden reached 400,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[19]
On 1 June, Raden reached 500,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during a karaoke stream, making her the 61st hololive member and also the 1st ReGLOSS member to reach this milestone.[20][21]
On 22 August, she reached 600,000 subscribers on her YouTube.[22]
On 9 September, she reached 700,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during her first anniversary countdown stream.[23][24]
On 10 September, during ReGLOSS first anniversary, they announced their first 3D live "Reach the top", released their first group album "ReGLOSS" and their new original song "feelingradation."[25] hololive DEV_IS also opened membership feature on its YouTube channel.
On 26 September, she reached 800,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[26]
On 28 September, during the "Reach the Top" 3D Live, ReGLOSS debuted their 3D models. Two different costumes were revealed, their group uniforms and later their default outfits.[27]
On 29 October, she reached 900,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during an endurance karaoke stream.[28][29] During stream, she released her first single for her popular meme song "Maitake Dance" made by Bakakun III.
On 24 December, she reached 1,000,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during an endurance karaoke stream. This makes her the 49th member in hololive and also the first Hololive DEV_IS member to reach the milestone.[30][31]
2025
On 10 January, Raden and other members of -ReGLOSS- debuted their 3D black sport tracksuit costumes.[32]
On 13 June, Raden appeared as a guest lecturer for Kyoto University's Media Culture Studies special lecture.
On 13 September, during ReGLOSS second anniversary, they announced their second album "Snapshot," and their first concert "Flashpoint" at Ariake Arena on 16 December 2025.[33][34] They also released their seventh original song "Hour Time Yellow."
On 16 December, ReGLOSS debuted their new 3D group uniforms during their first concert "Flashpoint."[35]
On 30 December, she released her new original song "Japan no bijutsushi oboemasho."
2026
On 2 January, Raden debuted her new year 2D costume. She has a bob hairstyle with a kanzashi. Raden wears a patterned kimono with a white fluffy collar. The right side has a striped green and yellow pattern with cloud prints. The left side is black with a labyrinth-like pattern and and golden branches and leaves with a silver bird prints. Raden uses a red hakama. She wears black shoes.[36]
Discography
| Maitake Dance | 1st single | 30 October 2024 |
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| Japan no bijutsushi oboemasho | 8th single | 31 December 2025 |
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Events
2023
- On 12 November, Raden posted a limited-time collaboration video with the Shōsōin treasure house, co-sponsored by the Nara National Museum and the Imperial Household Agency Shosoin Office, where she presented some of the house's various relics and treasures. The video would only be up for a 24-hour period, and would be removed on 13 November 2023 at 18:00 JST.[37]
2024
- On 1 July, Raden announced a collaboration with the Hakone Venetian Glass Museum (Glass Forest) in Hakone, Japan. An audio guide narrated by Raden would be available for visitors to the museum's special perfume-themed exhibition: "Kaori no Yosōi ~Kōsui Bin o Meguru Kiseki~" (香りの装い～香水瓶をめぐる軌跡～, lit. The Dressing of Fragrance: A Journey Through the History of Perfume Bottles) that could be accessed by scanning a QR code at the place from 19 July 2024 to 13 January 2025.[38]
- On 9 October, the whisky distillery KAVALAN announced a collaboration with Raden on a series of limited edition whisky set menus, available only at selected restaurants in Fukuoka, Japan from 15 October to 14 November 2024. The collaboration includes a promotional stream on Raden's channel, exclusive collaboration merchandise for the first 3,000 visitors, and a social media giveaway for 100 winners when they post a photo of the event ad at a participating restaurant with the hashtag #KavalanXJuufuuteiRaden on Twitter.[39][40]
- On 1 November, Suntory's BOSS Coffee brand announced a collaboration campaign with Raden. Every customer who purchases a cup of unsweetened Italian coffee will receive a refund of points worth 100 Yen. The campaign took place from 1 November to 25 November, limited to the first 2 million customers.[41]
- On 6 December, Jupiter Corporation announced a new pixel puzzle video game titled "Juufuutei Raden's Guide for Pixel Museum" for Switch and PC, featuring Raden's voice guidance.[42][43]
- On 9 December, SWEETS PARADISE announced a collaboration café with -ReGLOSS-, featuring limited menus and merchandise. The collaboration would be available from 4 February 2025 to 16 March 2025 at 3 SWEETS PARADISE stores in Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya.[44][45]
2025
- On 13 September, BEMANI announced a collaboration with ReGLOSS, featuring three types of merchandise and a CD single with four cover songs and an original group song "Shooting Star." The collaboration would be available from 29 September to 25 November 2025.[46][47]
Fans
- Her fanbase is called "Dendoshi"「でん同士」.
- Her members are called "Choudendoshi"「超でん同士」.
Trivia
Name
- "Juufuutei Raden" is a pattern of name used as a stage name for rakugo performers. Canonically, its not her real name, just a stage name.[48]
- The word "Raden" refers to a traditional decorative technique of inserting cut-out parts of a shellfish's nacre into the carved surface of lacquer or wood.
Lore
- "ChoVeryBad"「超VeryBad」(also known as "choberiba"), the live house where the members of ReGLOSS gather. This place used to be very vibrant and crowded, where performances took place almost every day.[49]
- She is an apprentice rakugoka, a performer of traditional Japanese stand-up comedy. She holds the rank of "zenza," the lowest rank, whose role is to assist a rakugo master. Her master is Shuunpuutei Shoya, who is in turn the pupil of popular Japanese rakugoka Shunpuutei Shouta. She can't perform rakugo yet, as she's only an apprentice.[48]
- She often dons a "Noh mask", a type of mask used in Noh, a form of classical Japanese dance theater performed since the 14th century. Noh masks signify the characters' gender, age, and social ranking.
- Her emoji is a shellfish, whose inner layer is the main crafting material for raden.
- The green, orange and black of her dress is a reference to the stage curtains often seen in Rakugo.
Likes and dislikes
- She likes visiting museums, traveling, reading, watching shows, sweet drinks, alcohol (usually Japanese sake)/smoking (favorite brand is Winston)/slot machines, and taking photos.
- Her favorite foods are mentaiko (pollock roe) and ramen.
- Her strength is acting and singing is her weakness but she still likes it.
Miscellaneous
- She claims that she is good at memorizing but not so good if it is about names or faces.
- Her plan is to release short videos related to art.
- Her laugh sounds quite similar to Usada Pekora.
- Raden has about 50 plushies, her favorite is Pompompurin plushie. Ririka revealed that Raden usually brings a plushie with her everytime she goes to the studio.[50]
- Raden shares that she doesn't read kanji very well. She memorizes them as symbols and kind of knows what they mean but not how to read it.[51]
- Raden's phrase "Maitake Maitake Guru Guru Guru" from her meme song "Maitake Dance" ranked 4th among common words among Japanese elementary school students in 2024, according to a survey by livedoor News.[52]
- Raden shares her illustrator Kaoming with Ibuki Kirisaki from Revival Production, Tsukigami China from Vlash, Azuma Johei the official VTuber of MeΦYou and Viora Weissheart of VOLs.
- Raden has stated ever since joining hololive she has since quit smoking and is proud of it.
- Raden's original eyes were a different color before she chose the name Raden. After she chose her name, her designer, Kaoming changed her eye color to the mother of pearl color, based on the mother of pearl inlay technique, like her name.[53]
External links
Media
- Raden Ch. 儒烏風亭らでん ‐ ReGLOSS - YouTube channel
- Juufuutei Raden's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
- @juufuuteiraden - Twitter account
Hashtags
- #らでん記 - Stream
- #らでん似絵 - Fan art
- #AIらでん似絵 - AI fan art
- #教えてらでんちゃん - Question
- #行ったよらでんちゃん - Tour Reports / Places You Visited
- #書庫らでん - Book Club
