Kadou Mikaru
Kadou Mikaru is a Japanese NIJISANJI VTuber who debuted in 2025 as guitarist for the band unit Yoi Yume.
Kadou Mikaru (Japanese: 蝸堂みかる) is a Japanese female VTuber affiliated with NIJISANJI, the agency run by ANYCOLOR. She plays guitar in the four-member band unit "Koyoi, Spinel to Yume wo Miru" (Tonight, We Dream with Spinel), usually shortened to Yoi Yume, and is known for her snail character, which she describes as a cheerful snail.
Profile
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Debut | August 15, 2025 (first stream; announced August 14, 2025) |
| Birthday | June 1 |
| Height | 153 cm |
| Agency | NIJISANJI |
| Generation or unit | 2025 debut wave; Yoi Yume (guitar) |
| Fan name | Katatsumuri-gumi |
| Stream tag | #みかる配信中 |
| Fan-art tag | #みかるん絵 |
| Character designer | ICOMOCHI |
Career
Before joining NIJISANJI, Kadou Mikaru was a student in the fifth class of VIRTUAL TALENT ACADEMY (VTA), ANYCOLOR's training program, where she used the name Mikaru. She joined VTA in January 2025.
NIJISANJI announced her on August 14, 2025, together with Togawa Nonoha, Yagyu Shino and Nekoyashiki Miku. The four debuted together as the band unit Yoi Yume. In the band, Kadou Mikaru plays guitar, Yagyu Shino plays bass, Togawa Nonoha plays drums and Nekoyashiki Miku plays keyboard. In her debut announcement she called herself the band's guitarist and a cheerful snail. Her first stream aired the next day, August 15, 2025, at 18:00 Japan time. Yoi Yume has its own YouTube channel and X account alongside the members' personal channels. Her group of debuts is part of NIJISANJI's 2025 wave of new talents.
In November 2025 she announced a stream for November 20 to reveal her new promotional photographs, along with the launch of her official TikTok account. She has also appeared in NIJISANJI merchandise, including acrylic stands and badges in a DMM Scratch lottery campaign.
Activities
Streaming style
Kadou Mikaru streams mainly on her YouTube channel, focusing on casual talk and gaming streams, and also posts on TikTok. She opens her streams with the greeting "Konmikarun." Besides the stream and fan-art hashtags, her fans use separate hashtags for thumbnails, accessories, and comments they want her to see when she searches her own name. Her musical work centres on Yoi Yume, where she represents the guitar, and she has released cover songs on her channel.
Characteristics
Her official profile presents her as a snail who wants to live each day in a relaxed, free and easy way. It adds that despite her free spirit she is very sensitive to other people's feelings and actions, and that she prefers to take things slowly and stay away from anything dangerous. Some sources give her age as 777. Her personal symbols are a musical note and a snail, and her theme colours are pale yellow and light blue.
Foods she likes include eggs, Hokkaido sea urchin, braised flatfish, crab cream croquettes, chili shrimp, mapo eggplant, zunda mochi, kamaboko, chikuwa and cherries. Her favourite anime include Doraemon, Urusei Yatsura, Higurashi When They Cry and Yuki Yuna Is a Hero. She dislikes exercise, katakana, cleaning and washing dishes. Her bandmates call her Mikarun.
Her designer, ICOMOCHI, also designed the hololive English duo Fuwawa Abyssgard and Mococo Abyssgard of hololive, as well as Enya Ignis of ChromaSHIFT and the independent VTuber Sumirezaki Rin.
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