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rinuhanuki

AKA Rinu
Independent Active Last active 3 days ago on Twitch

About

Rinuhanuki, also called Rinu, is an independent English-speaking VTuber who focuses on ASMR roleplays and trigger videos. She also shares comedic Shorts and animations on a second channel. Her model was rigged by coy_jellyfish.

Rinuhanuki (nicknamed Rinu) is a female English-speaking independent Virtual YouTuber, Twitch streamer and ASMR creator. She mainly uploads ASMR roleplays and trigger videos to YouTube, posts comedic Shorts and animations on a second channel, and made her streaming debut on Twitch on 23 October 2026.

Character Info

Gender Female
Debut 2026/10/23

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Emoji 🍃🪡

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Personality

Rinuhanuki addresses her viewers as "friends". Her bios open with "hi friend!", and her video descriptions often close by telling viewers they are loved and appreciated, or wishing them goodnight. Rinu is quite unhinged compared to other ASMR Vtubers, based on the various weird topics she references during her roleplays.

Appearance

On YouTube, Rinuhanuki appears as a 3D chibi tanuki avatar used in VRChat, created by Hamuketsu and based on the "Pon&Chune" avatar. She has brown hair worn in short pigtails, tanuki ears and a tail, and a green leaf on her head.

In June 2026, she revealed a new model, with art by appawrition and rigging by coy_jellyfish. She continues to use her chibi avatar on YouTube alongside it.

Background

Rinuhanuki's Twitch and X accounts were created on 22 January 2025. Her ASMR YouTube channel followed on 24 April and her main channel on 30 April 2025.

Miscellaneous

  • Her oshi mark is 🍃🪡.
  • Fan art and memes use the hashtag #rinuhanuki.
  • Her most-viewed ASMR Short, "It happens every time...", has around 345,000 views.
  • Her ASMR channel offers YouTube memberships, with members-only playlists called "Friends Only" and "Member Friend Updates".
  • Her stream assets include an animated hamster emote and follow alert by Tilund, a background by nasuaisuru, a logo by PrimaRoxas, panels by Meko and badges by kennolini.
  • Her Twitter banner was drawn by SyutoKyuro.

Contributors

This profile is enriched by VTuber Wiki community editors. Thank you to:

Ninamarie12 ×1 BeardWizard ×1 RogueModron ×1 QuaintAlligator942 ×1

Credits sourced from VTuber Wiki page revision history. Vtubie and Hololist do not expose per-page contributor data, so this list reflects VTWiki editors only.

Art credits

Designers, illustrators, riggers and modelers credited on the official character.

  • Rigger
    coy_jellyfish

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Profile

Rinuhanuki describes herself as a "chibi tanuki here to help you sleep" and, on her official website, as a "debuting Vtuber, ASMRtist and your new best friend". In her lore, she is a tanuki doll that has come to life. Her content is split across Twitch and two YouTube channels: * Rinuhanuki ASMR focuses on ASMR roleplays, plus layered triggers, sound-only, "no talking", tapping, counting and trigger-word videos, and long compilations. Popular roleplays include "Welcome to FriendMart", a dentist roleplay, "Designing Your Dream Suit", a Minecraft roleplay and a plague doctor roleplay. * Rinuhanuki is her main channel for Shorts, animation memes and music. Since her debut, it also hosts her debut trailer, debut theme, lore animation and stream archives.

Rinuhanuki streams on Twitch, where she debuted on 23 October 2026. According to her Twitch page, her streams are mostly aimed at an 18+ audience, unlike her family-friendly YouTube content.

2025

On 26 October, she celebrated 40,000 subscribers with "40K Friends do ASMR". The collab video featured other ASMR creators and VTubers, including JumpeiJerboa, GilbertTheWeird, Xyv3r, EzASMR, GrimmASMR, SaosenSleep, Taehoongie, LodTheSeeker, SinOfSloth, Mochi and HiyoriMokami.

On 14 November, she released "when you were here," a fan mix of "tangled" by tomcbumpz with lyrics written by Rinuhanuki and art by Mochi2.

2026

On 5 April, after a break from uploading, Rinuhanuki posted "Where I've Been (animated video)," thanking her viewers for sticking around and promising to return. The next day, "Looping in the room," an animation meme made by OWOREE404, was uploaded to her main channel.

On 26 June, she revealed her new model. By October, her ASMR channel had passed 56,000 subscribers.

On 12 October, she announced her Twitch debut with a "DEBUT ANNOUNCEMENT!" Short on her ASMR channel and a "Model Debut" Short on her main channel. On 21 October, she uploaded her debut trailer, "Your New Best Friend!", which set the debut for 23 October at 6 PM CST. Ahead of the stream, she collected questions from viewers for a Q&A during the debut.

On 23 October, Rinuhanuki held her debut stream on Twitch, "The best to ever do it! Rinuhanuki's debut stream 🍃", in the Just Chatting category. The stream lasted about 1 hour 45 minutes and peaked at 120 concurrent viewers, averaging around 100. Alongside the debut, she launched merchandise on MOSO and added new member emotes to her YouTube channel.

The next day, she released her debut theme, "Prove Me Wrong" (produced by Shichiro76), and a lore animation, "The Start of a Friend", along with an archive of the debut stream on her main channel. Her Twitch channel grew from about 940 followers on the day of her debut to nearly 1,200 by 26 October. By then, her ASMR channel had about 57,600 subscribers and her main channel almost 3,000.

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