About Reina Scully
Born 1988. Reina Scully is a Japanese youTuber and voice actor.
Reina Suzuki (born August 21, 1988), known professionally as Reina Scully, is a Japanese-American YouTuber, vlogger, translator, and voice actress.
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 Scully was born in a small town in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and moved to New Jersey when she was three. They have one daughter.
Online career Scully adopted her stage name as a reference to X-Files character Dana Scully.
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. 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. Scully and Steven Suptic were the hosts of SPF, until it became defunct in 2016.
Scully appeared with fellow SourceFed hosts at VidCon 2015 and 2016. 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. 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.
In 2018, Scully criticized Logan Paul in the wake of his suicide forest video. Following this, Scully received racist messages and cyberbullying from some of Paul's audience.
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. Scully appeared on Pizza Wars, another series distributed by First We Feast, in 2021.
In April 2025, she co-hosted Star Wars Celebration live from Japan.
Translating career and work in anime
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]." Her translating credits include Akame ga Kill! and Baby Steps. Scully has also been noted for being a personality on Crunchyroll's YouTube channel and podcast.
In addition to her career on YouTube and in translating, Scully has also provided the voices for characters in RWBY and Urahara. In September 2022, Pony Canyon announced that an anime television series adaptation has been green-lit.
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Who is Reina Scully?
Japanese-American YouTuber
When was Reina Scully born?
Reina Scully was born on 21 August 1988 in Shizuoka Prefecture.
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Reina Scully is a youTuber and voice actor.
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Reina Scully is Japanese.
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