Roger DiLuigi III (birthday: March 9), better known online as RogersBase, is a video game enthusiast, anime and manga reviewer, musician and vlogger on YouTube. He mainly shares his thoughts on video games, anime and manga and hosts a podcast called "Japan Time" with fellow YouTuber Shofu.[1]
Early life[]
RogersBase was born in Chicago, Illinois but moved to Los Angeles, California for work in 2014. He has worked as a voice actor and was a product demonstrator for Nintendo of America when he lived in Chicago.[2] He hit 100K subscribers in October of 2016[3] and began doing YouTube full time in 2017.
Gaming[]
Nintendo[]
RogersBase is a Nintendo Brand Ambassador and made multiple guest appareances on "Nintendo Minute" (Nintendo's web series) with Kit & Krysta.[4]
He is primarily known for his livestreamed reactions to Nintendo's quarterly Nintendo Direct video presentations. During these streams, he gives his predictions for what will be announced then shares his commentary live as the presentation is ongoing. Throughout the streams, he will interact with viewers and share his excitement on games that have been announced.
Many of his most popular videos are his reactions to Super Smash Bros. character reveals.[5]
Roger has streamed playthroughs for a number of Nintendo games including Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Triangle Strategy, Pokemon Scarlet, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Super Mario Sunshine, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and more.[6] He occasionally uploads full Members-only playthroughs such as Kirby and the Forgotten Land or his playthrough of Banjo-Kazooie that utlized his Live 2D VTuber.[7]
Roger's first full playthrough was of the game Bomberman Hero in 2014 but has since been lost to time. The earliest full playthrough still available on his channel is for Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, which debuted in October of 2018 as part of a Metal Gear Solid themed week of videos.[8]
Hoyoverse[]
Roger regularly streams his progress in Hoyoverse games such as Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail to his channel.[9] A video detailing his experience playing Genshin Impact for the first time is currently his most popular video of all time with 1.1 million views as of January 2024.[10]
Additionally, Roger uploads his live reactions to the newest trailers and updates for both of the games that he plays. He stated in a video reacting to animations that while enjoys the characters in Honkai Impact 3rd, he has no plans to play that game citing motion sickness.[11]
Twitch Highlights[]
If Roger streams a game on his Twitch channel, he will usually upload videos highlighting his reactions to key gameplay or story moments to his YouTube channel. This trend began with his initial reaction to the end of Final Fantasy VII Remake.[12]
Manga & Anime[]
One Piece[]
Roger hosts weekly readthroughs for each new manga chapter of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece. These streams are hosted at 8 AM PT and comprise of a reaction to the latest chapter, a brief review of the chapter's contents, a reveal of art commissioned for his video's thumbnail and a lengthy theory discussion with his viewers.
He occasionally creates theory videos, share news updates and hosts collaboration discussions with other One Piece YouTubers such as King Of Lightning, Sawyer7mage and Tekking101. Roger was one of the original founders of the popular "Reverie" One Piece collaboration discussion series which debuted on his channel in September of 2017.[13]
Roger and his longtime girlfriend Reagan Kathryn were also the only One Piece content creators allowed to visit the set of Netflix's ONE PIECE in 2023.[14]
Attack on Titan[]
Roger uploaded live reactions and reviews for each new monthly manga chapter of Attack on Titan as they were originally published.
During his "Top 50 Favorite Anime" livestream in 2023, Rgoer revealed that Attack on Titan is his favorite anime of all time.[15]
Readthroughs[]
Roger will occasionally stream himself reading through manga or manwha series for the first time.
His most popular readthrough series to date is for the webtoon Solo Leveling[16] but he has covered a variety of series in a similar fashion including My Hero Academia, The Promised Neverland and The Beginning After the End. Following multiple copyright strikes from KakaoPage towards the end of 2020, Roger put his Solo Leveling streams on hiatus until his strikes were resolved.[17] The streams resumed in mid-2021 and his "RogersBase Reads Solo Leveling" readthrough series eventually concluded alongside the release of the webtoon's final chapter in early 2022.[18]
Currently, his only ongoing readthrough series is for the manga Boruto, which he began in August 2023.[19] He uploads his reactions to the latest chapters for Members on his channel every month alongside the official release of the series on VIZ.
References[]
- ā https://www.youtube.com/@JapanTimePodcast
- ā https://www.linkedin.com/in/rogerdiluigi/
- ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qpax8ddLrM
- ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BDS7vmIRvE
- ā https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjrMkiLyYJCG4YQwhMGkuJFaJ94MAB4pV
- ā https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjrMkiLyYJCGJTb_T3xyclMjDMN-hT76q
- ā https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOwp61vhrXzXdobn5czTFaaw
- ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oKOKBXg2p8
- ā https://www.youtube.com/@RogersBase/streams
- ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68suIZVfqHU
- ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niepCwzl7As
- ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NcAawV2H5E
- ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYdZBamh5EE
- ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYL5ZV1Q7Xw
- ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgFBQ4Irff4
- ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qTLoxHtnCg
- ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V88JJ3FWaQ0
- ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZlB0LS8qQ
- ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oUYZYy_Cc