Hololive English is the English-speaking branch of hololive, the group of Virtual YouTubers founded by Cover Corporation.

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A difference of Hololive English from the other branches is that the talents do not debut in numbered generations, but instead in groups centered around a particular theme. However, the groups are often unofficially referred to as numbered generations anyway, so both names are used here for sake of convenience.

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Omegaα

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First Appearance: August 23rd, 2021
Birthday: December 32nd
Height: 175cm
Illustrator: fuzichoko

A mysterious character that made their first appearance in a PV during the Council's first collab event. They seem to have existed before even the first generation of Hololive English. According to A-chan,

Omegaα holds a similar position to her, implying that they serve as a public figure and producer to hololive English-related projects. They eventually revealed

that they are, in fact, the very first staff member of Hololive English.

Their reveal was a big surprise, as it occurred mere hours after the 2nd Generation of Hololive English debuted.

Alternative Calendar: Their birthday is listed as being on December 32nd. Not January 1st, December 32nd.
Omegaα: Dec 32 occurs between the first and the last timezone experiencing the New Year’s Day.
Ambiguously Evil: They're described as a herald of the end, their lore cites them as the origin of an ancient malediction called the Gaze of Omega, and their title of "the exiled of worlds" implies that there may be a good reason for their exile, painting them in a rather intimidating light. Yet their actions could only be described as aloof at worst, as they frequently show support for the rest of the cast while entertaining fan questions.
Ambiguous Gender: Their appearance is notably very gender-neutral, and they are referred to with gender-neutral pronouns. They even specifically said on Twitter that pronouns don't matter. With that being said, some of the talents use different pronouns. For example, Kronii identifies Omega as male because of their androgynous appearance while Ollie identifies them as female.
Question: What are your pronouns?
Omegaα: He/She/It/They anything. It does not matter.
Arc Welding: Their intro video shows a year's worth of Hololive English character introduction videos in reverse, even going back to the original Hololive English announcement trailer. Afterward, the screen goes black and reveals the shadowy figure of Omegaα, indicating they were behind the scenes from the start.
Artificial Limbs: Their left arm is a white prosthetic with ornate gold lotus flower patterns.
Awakening the Sleeping Giant: It's implied that they've existed before hololive Myth; their profile states that they are usually an observer but the reason for their resumed activity is unknown.
Badass Long Robe: Wears a hybrid of this and a Badass Long Coat.
BFS: Has one that is as tall as they are. It's a stylized katana blade with separate serrated parts 2/3rds up the blade.
Call-Back:
- Their first tweet is simply the letter α, which is similar to Gura's first tweet.
- Their announcement trailer starts with rewinding through the then-recent Council Debut PV, IRyS's MV of "Caesura of Despair", and then the Debut PV of Myth.
The Comically Serious: As serious as their portrayed, some of their tweets fall into this. Such as the following:
Omegaα: Why is Twitter's Octopus purple..
Deadpan Snarker: They have a rather sharp tongue. One of their first tweets was a quote retweet of Baelz posting a link to her her first post-debut stream, with Omegaα commenting "Pay a visit to the bottom of the foodchain.".
Early-Bird Cameo: They are credited as the Producer for the MV for IRyS's "Caesura of Despair", which premiered more than a month before their announcement PV. Checks on internet archives shows that this was not an edit.
Gratuitous Greek: Their name is Omega Alpha, the last and first letters of the Greek Alphabet, though it's stylized as Omegaα, with the Omega spelled with English letters and the Alpha being... well, just the Greek letter Alpha.
"It" Is Dehumanizing: Averted Trope, since when asked about their pronouns, "it" was one of the options they mentioned.
Meaningful Name:
- They're supposedly the herald of the End (styled as EN(D)), and were around long before EN was even announced, a fitting theme for a character whose name is made up of the last and first letters of the Greek alphabet.
- Overlaps with Theme Naming if they're the Holo-EN counterpart of A-chan, another character whose name is a letter.
- They have purported themselves to be the Alpha and the Omega. This would give them the same acronym as AO-chan - The Ancient Ones. What significance this has, if any, remains to be seen
Motifs: Triangles, referencing hololive's logo. Triangle ornaments appear throughout Omegaα's hair, their halo is triangular, and there is also a burning triangular hole in the center of their chest. Their sword also has triangles all over the handguard.
Power Floats: They bluntly state they float to get around, meaning their unusual legs aren't a problem.
Put on a Bus: For the longest time, they had been noticeably absent for most of 2022 with their last tweet being the Myth 2nd year anniversary collab and they didn't even tweeted on their birthday. They were even absent when TEMPUS Vanguard was announced in January 2023. And their channel is no longer in the featured tab of the hololive English channel and their introduction PV is privated.
The Stoic: Has so far acted in a very aloof, emotionless manner, bordering on robotic at times. Noticeably, they've responded to Ollie's attempts at flirting with messages like "I do agree that it is important to have free thoughts. and "Keep hoping is the most important spirit, Hope will eventually reach you.", and when Ollie created a Long List of puns involving Omegaα's name, their response was simply "It is good to know that you are having fun."
Wham Shot: Their PV was shown at the end of the first collab of Council, well after everyone thought there wouldn't be teases for new members so soon after Council's debut.

ENMa-chan

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^{ENMa-chan. Click to see full concept art.}

First Appearance: October 29th, 2020
Illustrator: Ina'nis Ninomae

Stream manager of Ina. Thought of by almost everyone as the manager who filled in the open team slot during the fabled Left 4 Dead 2 collaboration stream between Ina

, Gura

, and Amelia

, Ina would later clarify that the manager on that fateful night was actually JEnMa, and the ENMa she designed back then was intended to be a Composite Character who represents the EN managers as a whole. This character design has since then been attributed to Ina's own manager.

Ascended Extra: Initially a faceless stand-in to prevent random players from joining Ame, Gura, and Ina's session of Left 4 Dead 2, she has since gained popularity among fans after displaying her skills, to the point of even getting her own character design. This ended up being subverted later as this character is technically not the same manager from the Left 4 Dead 2 session. See Composite Character below.
Beleaguered Boss: Downplayed. There are a few incidents that occured at ENMa's expense such as dealing with Ina's punny nature and being called "slippery and thicc" during the holoMyth Christmas 2020 stream.
Composite Character: Originally. Ina mentions in the Q&A stream titled "【Q&A】 Takodachi Assemble!!!" her original intent in designing ENMa was to have traits and qualities of all 3 managers in one.
Idiot Hair: Shaped like an E when she's at the office. When The Glasses Come Off, it rotates clockwise into an M.
Ironic Name: As noted under Meaningful Name, she shares her name with a Buddhist God of Hell tasked with looking after the deceased. Despite this, she isn't the manager for the underworld-dwelling Calli or the frequently-deceased Kiara.
Katanas Are Just Better: True to the original ENMa's defining moment, this ENMa is often depicted wielding a katana, or at least lugging around a relatively less-conspicuous carrying case.
Meaningful Name: Considering that English Gen 1 is "Myth", her name draws comparison to the Buddhist God of Hell who was tasked with looking after the deceased.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. For a while, most people thought ENMa was also the manager for Gura and Amelia. However, as revealed by Kiara, JEnMa was always Gura, Ame, and Kiara's manager, it's just that Gura and Ame referred to her as ENMa because that was the only nickname outside of "Manager-san" before Kiara came up with JEnMa, and the two stuck with it out of habit.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Is called "ENMa-chan" (an abbreviation of "English Manager").
The Stoic: Often depicted with a blank, aloof expression.
Tomboyish Ponytail: As a part of her battle concept.
The Voiceless: As of this writing, ENMa-chan has never been heard speaking on stream.

JEnMa-chan (original ENMa)

JEnMa-chan / ENMa-chan (original)

Illustrator: Kiara Takanashi
Alias: ENMa (by Gura and Amelia), Manager-san (Gura)

The original EN manager and very likely the one who filled the fourth slot during a Left 4 Dead 2 collab. For quite sometime she was referred to as "EnMa" by the girls, before the addition of a different EnMa who became Ina's stream manager, leading Kiara to rename her "JEnMa" to differentiate the two. She would remain the stream manager for Kiara, Amelia and Gura, for quite some time, before Ame got her own manager (named HEnMa" by Kiara), leaving her to only manage Gura and Kiara. For a while the other girls would still call her "EnMa" out of habit, though later Ame would switch to calling her "JEnMa" too, while Gura stuck with "Manager-san". Kiara eventually decided to draw a semi-official design for her during a members-only stream.

The Ace: She has shown great skill during her Left 4 Dead 2 appearance, including familiarity with item, weapon, and enemy spawns, and AI Director manipulation strategies.
Beleaguered Boss: Downplayed. As Kiara notes, she has to manage two talents, both of whom are not only in different timezones from each other, but are also in different timezones from her.
Borrowed Catch Phrase: At one point, she decided to use Gura's own "oh nyo" Catchphrase against her in a discord message while Gura was streaming.
Brass Balls: With Gura incapacitated and Ina and Amelia panicked, she charged a Tank with a katana despite a sliver of health remaining, soaking a hunk of concrete in the process, and killing the Tank without becoming incapacitated, much to the admiration of the girls and their chats.
Decomposite Character: Ina revealed that she originally intended for ENMa to represent the EN managers in general, with the name ENMa primarily referring to the then main EN manager. Later, Ina was given a separate stream manager of her own, while the original EN manager (who had been referred to as EnMa) was reassigned to just Kiara, Gura, and Amelia (though Amelia was later assigned another manager). This led Kiara to rename this manager to JEnMa and give her a new design to distinguish the two, while Ina's design and the name EnMa was switched over to her personal manager. All in all this means EnMa was split into two separate characters, with the other girls still referring to her as EnMa out of habit, despite the new name Kiara came up with.
Foil: In terms of design, she serves as one to EnMa. EnMa has black hair with red highlights; JEnMa has blonde hair with purple highlights. EnMa is almost always drawn as stoic bordering on tired; JEnMa is almost always portrayed as smiling. EnMa shares her name with a Buddhist God of Hell; JEnMa is an angel.
Hypercompetent Sidekick: To the girls in their Left 4 Dead 2 stream. She went out of her way to support them and (tried) not to steal the spotlight, always opting to heal them over herself and providing covering fire in addition to her famous moment facing down a Tank with just a sliver of health; the original plan was for her to idle at the spawn point just to fill the slot since they were having difficulties with keeping the fourth slot an NPC bot, but their chats voted to have JEnma join in and she quickly won their collective hearts.
Irony: For a manager depicted as an angel, she's the one who suggested implementing the Darker and Edgier elements for the jacket art of Gura's first original, Reflect.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. As mentioned under ENMa's entry, Gura and Ame both refer to her as ENMa out of habit.
Only Known by Their Nickname: She has only ever been referred to as "The Manager", "Manager-san","my manager", "ENMa", or "JEnMa", an abbreviation of "(an as-of-yet unknown J word) English Manager". Kiara has confirmed that the J doesn't stand for "Japanese".
Our Angels Are Different: This one is a stream manager for a phoenix, a shark girl, and (formerly) a time traveler.
Unseen No More: For a while, JEnMa remained The Ghost who was only mentioned in stories told by Kiara as well as her drawing. She would finally appear on stream (albeit off-camera) during Kiara's chocolate-making stream.

J-chad

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Illustrator: Calliope Mori
Alias: Manager-san (by Calli)

Stream manager of Calliope and the last of the managers to get her semi-official design on March 27, 2021.

Badass Cape: Sports one similar to Calli's.
Cool Shades: Always seen sporting these.
Darker and Edgier: Considering Calli's personal tastes, J-chad's design is edgy compared to EnMa and JEnMa and wouldn't look out of place in Guilty Gear.
Dude Magnet: Oddly enough, Calli has received messages via superchats to pass along to her, normally in the form of marriage proposals that also list credentials for house husbandry. J-Chad's responses tend to be fairly encouraging and appreciative.
Calli, after reading a house husband request: [J-Chad] messaged me, saying "What a G!"
Early-Bird Cameo: Before the Running Gag of giving stream managers their own design started, J-chad was simply known as "Manager-san" and is likely the one who accompanied Calli on her appearance on the Trash Taste podcast.
The Reliable One: Wouldn't be a manager if she wasn't this. More specifically, she's usually available during Calli's karaoke streams, and the latter messages her every time to help with calibrating stream delay.
Too Many Belts: Downplayed. She only has five belts. Two of them support her Badass Cape and one supports her pants but the two at her waist serve no purpose.

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