ちゅーそんちゃんねるChuson Channel

Mercedes "Meru" Brown (メル; born: ) and Shogo Nakamura (しょうご; born: 1994)https://youtu.be/uqwUcW3BC_E?si=1p07cDLHl0JD2cje are a British and Japanese married couple and online duo known as Chuson Channel. Through their bilingual content, they have gained over 600 thousand subscribers on YouTube, and over 700 thousand followers on TikTok.
==Content==
Prior to meeting and creating content with Meru, Shogo used to upload travel vlogs from his backpacking adventures to YouTube. Although these are no longer available to view publicly, Meru and Shogo uploaded a video in March 2021 reacting to these old videos.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25lmg8a8K8k He took a hiatus before returning to the platform with Meru.
Meru and Shogo uploaded their first collaborative video "Let's start an international couple channel! AMWF" to Chuson Channel in September 2020, shortly after moving in together. Their early videos were almost completely focused on their relationship through prank and challenge videos. They would later branch out towards vlog and travel content. Chuson Channel reached 100 thousand subscribers in April 2021.
Most of their videos are bilingual, with Meru speaking in English and Shogo speaking in Japanese, with both English and Japanese subtitles. Their short-form videos on both TikTok and YouTube Shorts, in which they often attempt popular couples' challenges or satirise their cultural differences, regularly go viral.
In September 2022, Meru started a solo side channel under the name Meru Chan. Most of her solo videos are in English, and she documents and shares stories from her experiences as a Brit living in Japan.
==Personal life==
Meru is originally from Maidstone, Kent; she was born to a half-English, half-Austrian father and a Russian-speaking Ukrainian mother. She has two-half brothers. Meru attended the University of Bath to pursue a bachelor's degree in Physics (with Astrophysics) and went on exchange at Yonsei University for a year.https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mercedes-brown-449678175 After graduating, Meru moved to Japan to study at a Japanese language school. She also lived in Korea, and studied German at school and Chinese during university.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwAwbk-pCTU Meru used to be a model.
Shogo is from Tokyo; he grew up in the Suginami ward and attended Jissen Gakuen High School in Nakano. He has three siblings. He has never formally studied English, but learned it through a combination of having English-speaking friends and watching English-language media. He went to a specialist college instead of university. He has worked as a hairdresser.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdLSWcSOig0
Meru and Shogo met on Tinder. Shogo proposed to Mel while on holiday in Okinawa.https://youtu.be/sYQZPatzNEY?si=o7Xk-GzJkbbnW86T They married in Tokyo in October 2023, and livestreamed the event for their viewers.https://youtu.be/J44yuROsOXk?si=cAdCgLM_8RTrIogo
==Trivia==
* Chuson is the onyomi reading of Shogo's surname 中村 (Nakamura).
* They have two cats: Zima, a Siberian forest cat, and Vito.
* Meru is short for Mercedes, but the name Meru in Japanese often translates to Mel in English.
==References==
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