Reina Suzuki (born August 21, 1988),[2][3] better known by her stage name Reina Scully, is a Japanese-American YouTuber, vlogger, translator, and voice actress.
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| Born | Reina Suzuki August 21, 1988 | ||||||
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| Years active | 2011–present | ||||||
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| Subscribers | 423K[1] | ||||||
| Total views | 29.8 million[1] | ||||||
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Last updated: May 31, 2024 | |||||||
Online, she has gained a following for her hosting on various YouTube channels and series such as SourceFed and its SourceFedNerd spinoff, Crunchyroll, and First We Feast's Gochi Gang.
Early and personal life
editScully was born in a small town in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan,[4] and moved to New Jersey when she was three.[3] She later studied psychology at Rutgers University.[3] She moved back to Japan in 2018.[5]
Online career
editScully adopted her stage name as a reference to X-Files character Dana Scully.[3] She launched her YouTube channel on October 17, 2011. On her channel she discusses Japanese culture and media including anime reviews and travel vlogs.[5][6]
She began to garner popularity on the platform after appearing on SourceFed videos. Her first appearance for SourceFed was in March 2014 on the secondary SourceFedNerd channel; she appeared alongside Meg Turney in an anime club-styled video discussing Tonari no Seki-kun.[7] SourceFed Studios later brought Scully on as permanent host and she primarily appeared on the Nerd channel. In 2015, Discovery Digital Networks (DDN), SourceFed's parent company, launched Super Panic Frenzy (SPF), a gaming YouTube channel.[8] Scully and Steven Suptic were the hosts of SPF,[8][9] until it became defunct in 2016.[10]
Scully appeared with fellow SourceFed hosts at VidCon 2015 and 2016.[11][12] In 2016, Scully left SourceFed; in her announcement of her departure from the channel she specifically thanked SourceFed founder Philip DeFranco, referring to him as a mentor.[13] In 2017, after Discovery Communications sold its DDN portfolio to Group Nine Media, SourceFedNerd was briefly rebranded as NowThis Nerd. Scully voiced staunch criticism of the rebrand.[14]
In 2018, Scully criticized Logan Paul in the wake of his suicide forest video.[15] Following this, Scully received racist messages and cyberbullying from some of Paul's audience.[15]
Later that February, Scully was brought on by digital studio Life Noggin to host Play Noggin Game Night. The series was streamed on Twitch and featured Scully and her guests playing video games and posing trivia questions related to those titles.[16]
In November 2019, the YouTube channel First We Feast launched Gochi Gang, a series hosted by Scully featuring her discuss Japanese culture, with a heavy focus on Japanese cuisine.[6] Guests on the series have included DeFranco, Claire Saffitz, Sean Evans, Denzel Curry, and Asuka.[6][17] Scully appeared on Pizza Wars, another series distributed by First We Feast, in 2021.[18]
Translating career and work in anime
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Scully is also known for her translating career, which she stated began in high school: "I've been translating and interpreting professionally since high school for a myriad of different companies so I was already well trained in that job field and wanted to gear it towards entertainment, which is when I started laser focusing on translating Japanese dramas and anime [for English audiences]."[5] Her translating credits include Akame ga Kill! and Baby Steps.[5]
Her translating skills led her to a career working with Crunchyroll.[5] She appeared on the company's "Anime Academy" panel at Anime Expo 2018.[19] Scully has also been noted for being a personality on Crunchyroll's YouTube channel and podcast.[20]
In addition to her career on YouTube and in translating, Scully has also provided the voices for characters in RWBY and Urahara.[5]
In May 2019, Scully produced Mecha-Ude, a Kickstarter-funded anime series and temporarily released the pilot episode onto her YouTube channel.[21] In September 2022, Pony Canyon announced that an anime television series adaptation has been green-lit.[22]
References
edit- ^ a b "About ReinaScully". YouTube.
- ^ @reinascully (August 21, 2018). "I turned 30 today🌻" (Tweet). Retrieved August 15, 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ a b c d Farrell, Paul (January 12, 2018). "Reina Scully: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Heavy.com. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ 30 Facts About Me (now that I'm 30). Reina Scully. August 31, 2018. Retrieved August 15, 2022 – via YouTube.
- ^ a b c d e f Bogna, John (February 15, 2019). "Nerdy Jobs: The artist who translates anime for an American audience". Syfy. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ a b c Weiss, Geoff (November 13, 2019). "First We Feast Taps YouTuber Reina Scully For Japanese Cuisine Romp 'Gochi Gang'". Tubefilter. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
- ^ Tonari no Seki-kun on Anime Club!. SourceFedNERD. March 20, 2014. Retrieved August 15, 2022 – via YouTube.
- ^ a b Brouwer, Bree (March 16, 2015). "Discovery Debuts Gaming Network Super Panic Frenzy, Hosts Launch Giveaway". Tubefilter. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ Brown, Molly (March 20, 2015). "Amazon's Twitch adding Discovery's 'Super Panic Frenzy' gaming platform Monday". GeekWire. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ "Super Panic Frenzy - Videos sorted by Date added (Newest)". Super Panic Frenzy. Retrieved August 15, 2022 – via YouTube.
- ^ "VidCon schedule: When YouTube stars will appear on stage". Entertainment Weekly. July 16, 2015. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ Stewart, Liz (June 23, 2016). "Seeker & SourceFed Head to Anaheim for VidCon 2016!". Discovery.com. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ Why I Left SourceFed. Reina Scully. August 29, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2022 – via YouTube.
- ^ Gutelle, Sam (May 5, 2017). "SourceFedNerd Becomes NowThis Nerd, And Subscribers Flee En Masse". Tubefilter. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ a b Rearick, Lauren (January 4, 2018). "YouTuber Reina Scully Is Being Attacked for Her Logan Paul Comments". Teen Vogue. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ Gutelle, Sam (February 9, 2018). "Educational Studio Life Noggin Teams With Reina Scully To Pose Gaming Trivia Questions On Twitch". Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ Zak, Brad (December 11, 2019). "Asuka dines on Japanese eel in episode of "Gochi Gang" series". WWE. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ "The Perfect Detroit-Style Pizza with Cliff Skighwalker, Adam Richman, and Reina Scully | Pizza Wars". Complex. July 19, 2021. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ "Crunchyroll at Anime Expo - Panel Schedule". Crunchyroll. June 26, 2018. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ Kenny, Glenn (August 17, 2017). "Crunchyroll Cultivates a Streaming Community With a Novel Idea: Film Screens". The New York Times. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ Thomas, Miles (May 10, 2019). "Kickstarter Anime Darling MECHA-UDE Pilot Premieres on YouTube". Crunchyroll. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ "Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms Project Gets Full-Fledged Anime Series, Manga". Anime News Network. September 14, 2022. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
