Stefanie Joosten was born in Roermond, Limburg, in the southeastern of the Netherlands. She was a fan of Pokemon  from an early age. She attended the Bisschoppelijk College Broekhin in Roermond, where she followed a bilingual (Dutch and English) course. Claiming to have been obsessed with the otaku culture since she was young, Joosten decided to study Japanese language and culture at Leiden University. In 2009, she went to Kyoto for a year as part of an exchange program. It was after thi...