Heartwarming / Nijisanji

• Having spend the better part of two hours playing Pico Park screaming and hurling insults at each other, the members of ILUNA took a moment to express their appreciation and love for their genmates. That they malded so freely was precisely because they felt so comfortable with each other and could express themselves openly in ways they couldn't with their seniors. Granted, they waited till Kyo left so he couldn't hear any of this. And then Kyo immediately insisted he hated them all when he came back and heard them being affectionate.
• Elira's fanbase put together a video wishing her a happy birthday, which Elira watched live on her birthday stream. She becomes very emotional, pointing out that people hear her voice all the time but it's special to hear the voices of her fans for once.
• Luca forgets to mute his microphone at the beginning of his first Dark Deception stream. Him humming along to the background music is cute all on its own, but there's something particularly precious about the moment when Luca starts to cough and worry about his asthma flaring up, and the chat immediately pivots from squeaking over his humming to urging him to take care of himself.
• Ike's kampanaphobia, while certainly not heartwarming in itself, has led to a rather sweet demonstration of the bond the livers and their fans share. After he got spooked twice by a bell in Ghost Hunters Corp, leading him to decide to stay in the van for the rest of the round and later refer to the map as "unplayable" when talking to Nina, the quilldren grew concerned. After a false start during a GRIS stream where the viewers didn't manage to warn Ike in time, stream chat exploded with warnings several minutes in advance of the next run-in with bells in the game, which he made it through fairly rattled but able to go on right away. Ever since then, it's been an unspoken rule that if you know Ike will encounter a bell, you warn him several minutes in advance, and the difference in his reactions is night and day: compare Ike seeing a bell that chat is unable to warn him about in The Witness, fleeing, pausing the game to catch his breath, and sadly telling his viewers "I don't think we can go here" to his Untitled Goose Game stream, where chat warns him in time and he's able to ring the bell himself.
• The outpouring of support for Scarle after her less-than-ideal debut, which suffered from extreme lag; this even included the members of Holostars English who debuted that same weekend. She would host a "redemption" debut stream later that night that went much more smoothly.
• During a Q&A stream, Yugo told a rather sweet story about an experience he had during his auditions for Nijisanji: he'd been so stressed out he couldn't sleep very much, only to finally get a good night's sleep after dreaming that he was cuddling his recently-deceased dog.
• In an early Q&A stream, Kyo discusses how Ironmouse was a major inspiration for him; her ability to entertain others despite her well-documented medical struggles convinced Kyo that his own medical issues shouldn't stop him from pushing for a spot in Nijisanji.
• After Aia's POV of a Super Bunny Man collab was so scuffed that she deemed it "nearly unwatchable", she would host a guerilla stream to make it up to the Aiadmirers, using her fan-favorite "Onee-san" voice (which would officially be christened "Miss Amare") for a large portion of the stream:
  • Aia disclosed that the "Miss Amare" voice was actually born many years ago from insecurity about her natural voice, and stated that she is happy to finally be in a space where her normal voice is appreciated and she can use Miss Amare whenever she wants instead of feeling forced to use it. Multiple members of chat assured her that they love both of her voices.
  • She later performed impromptu keyboard ASMR, staying silent while typing a really sweet message in chat for her fans:
    my dear aiadmirers, I'm so happy to have you in my life
    thank you for being here with me
    I hope to become a better streamer for you
    I have a lot to learn, so thank you for your patience thus far
    I'm doing my best to learn and improve. I want to be able to make you smile.
    I love you, good night.
• During a stream of VR Chat, Luca set up a stage filled with cardboard cutouts of the rest of NijiEN. While Luca is by no means a stranger to affection, the pure happiness in his voice will make you "aww" when he says this in regards to the cutouts:
  Luca: Look, guys! It's my family!
• Nagao reassures a depressed viewer:
  Nagao: I hope you feel better. I know it's hard. In the meantime, hang in there for me, okay?
• After over a year of an unofficial ban on collabs, seeing members of Nijisanji EN and Hololive EN finally collab is one of the greatest and most cathartic experiences for both fans and the VTubers themselves. Such collabs include Alban and Regis, Selen with Zeta and Ollie (both from Holo ID) over Apex Legends, and the long awaited Pomu and Kiara VR collab all come to mind.
• There's an unintentional Freeze-Frame Bonus during Millie's "Most random tierlist ever" stream where the freshly graduated Yugo can be seen in Millie's inventar. Even though he's gone, it's nice to see that Millie still considers him as part of the EN branch.
• The Mahjong Tournament 2023 has Kuzuha and other JP senpais promoting Elira's upcoming 3D debut. Elira herself also wanted to join a Mahjong Tournament since she joined the company.
• Finana's 3D debut ends with a medley remix of the EN's debut songs (except XSOLEIL's, since the recording for this 3D debut was done before XSOLEIL had even been announced). Yugo's part still being in the medley despite him having graduated is still a nice touch. It shows that despite his departure of the company, Yugo's existence wasn't erased from NIJISANJI's history.
  • The end credits of her 3D debut lists the names of all NIJISANJI livers, including recently graduated ones (Miyu Ottayu, Axia Krone and the aforementioned Yugo Asuma). Although XSOLEIL's debut song wasn't part of the medley, the names of the XSOLEIL members are included in the end credits as well.
  • Pomu's 3D debut stream also credits Yugo as part of her "special thank you" list. The video description of her VOD reveals that Yugo did the instrumentals for the two cover songs that Pomu performed (Darling Dance and No. 1) during the debut.
• Nearly one year after his debut, Uki released a sequel song to Deja Vu called "Starlight, Stargazer" as thanks to his fans for supporting him. Not only is the song heartwarming in and of itself (on top of being Awesome Music), but the very first Stargazer seen in the music video has one blue eye and Yugo's signature headphones.
• The Aloupeep Wedding Stream. For background, there had recently been an IRL wedding between two people who had met through Enna's community, which was heartwarming in its own right. But Enna went above and beyond, preparing a stream where she officiated a wedding and reading off love letters collected from her community.
  • On top of that, she intentionally selected letters that weren't in English as well in order to highlight the multilingual nature of Nijisanji EN. Even before the first English letter, she read off a letter in Tagalog, doing a Stylistic Suck impression of Millie before the reading of the letter provided by Millie (prerecorded). She did the same with letters in Korean (Ver), Spanish (Reimu), Chinese (Petra), and Japanese (Meloco). For the first three, she continued with the bit about trying to channel her coworkers (including getting possessed by Reimu), even making fun of the fact that she herself speaks Chinese but still got Petra to help her (Petra is more fluent), but after Meloco's segment, Enna just threw the pretense out the window in order to extend her dearest gratitude to her kouhai, as Meloco had actually recently been hospitalized and yet insisted on recording her segment from the hospital.

Graduations

Nina Kosaka

• On July 8th, 2023, Nina Kosaka became the very first Nijisanji EN liver to have a proper graduation. However, instead of just one stream, she would have a two part graduation stream that started July 7, 2023 and lasted more than 18 hours. Nina became the most superchatted vtuber for that day, with up to 50,000 people coming to spend one last time with the #1 Fox Mom. Despite how bittersweet and filled with tears it was, Nina's graduation was also filled to the brim with heartwarming moments.
  • From the moment the announcement was made, fellow Nijisanji livers, fans from not just Nina's community, but from many other Nijisanji communities, artists, indie vtubers, and many more came out in droves to show their love and appreciation for the fox goddess and how much of an impact she's had on them.
  • In the days leading up to her two-part graduation stream, she had numerous collabs with both old and new coworkers wanting to get a chance to stream with her one last time. Her penultimate collab was with Ethyria, and her final one with Pomu.
  • Her graduation stream saw every liver in Nijisanji EN (with the exception of Finana who could not be there in person, but still made her a video), along with a few livers from the main branch such as Mika, Oliver, and Ban, giving her drawings and games for her to play, reliving some of their favorite moments together, and having fun discussions. Every one of them told Nina just how much her presence and influence has brought them out of their shells and have motivated them to try new things. Additionally, they told her how happy they are to be friends with her and to have been able to work with her. Nina also told each liver how grateful she is for them, and how incredible they are for their own individual strengths.
  • None of the non-Nijisanji vtubers Nina previously worked with and is friends with were present due to Nina wanting to keep the graduation call-ins to Nijisanji members only, however they were still sending Nina messages off screen. Kiara and Ironmouse in particular were either seen in chat or Nina commented them messaging and supporting her over DMs.
  • All the while, chat is firing off with a continuous outpour of love for Nina until the very end. It's made very clear during those 18 hours that she is, in every way, the mom of Nijisanji EN and that her confidence, kindness, and care has been one of the pillars of the branch and can never be replaced.
  • Her last call with Ethyria, which ended up being the biggest Tearjerker of the stream, saw the remaining members each reading letters they had written Nina. In each letter, they talked about how happy they are to have met Nina, work with her, and that they will always love her.
  • Nina finally addressed her chat and community at the very end of the stream, with the chat thanking her for everything, giving her even more love as the stream comes to an end, and wishing her luck on her future endeavors. After some more crying, Nina also thanked her chat for loving her, giving her a chance, and building such an accepting community with her. Nina ended up putting off ending her stream for a few more minutes, wanting to spend her last moments with her Honeybunnies.
    Nina: "It's been such a happy moment and graduation. I'm not crying because I'm sad, I'm happy because its been so amazing. I feel so loved. Thank you, everybody."

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