hololive Japan (Original Gen. [Suisei Ch.] | Gen. 1 [Fubuki Ch. | Haato Ch.] | Gen. 2 | GAMERS [Inugami Korone Ch.] | Gen. 3/Fantasy [Usada Pekora Ch. | Houshou Marine Ch.] | Gen. 4 [Kiryu Coco Ch.] | Gen. 5 | Gen. 6 -holoX-)
DEV_IS | China | Indonesia (Gen. 1 | Gen. 2 [Kureiji Ollie Ch.] | Gen. 3) | English (Gen. 1 -Myth- [Mori Calliope Ch. | Takanashi Kiara Ch. | Ninomae Ina'nis Ch. | Gawr Gura Ch. | Watson Amelia Ch.] | -Promise- & -Council- [IRyS Ch. | Ouro Kronii Ch. | Nanashi Mumei Ch. | Hakos Baelz Ch.] | Gen. 3 -Advent-)
holostars: Japan (Gen. 1 | Gen. 2 | Gen. 3 | UPROAR!!) | English (TEMPUS | ARMIS)
Minor Characters | Mythbreakers | hololive ERROR | holoX MEEting!
1st Generation/hololive -Myth-
For tropes related to their Hunter: The Vigil campaign, click here.
Individual pages
- hololive - Mori Calliope Ch.
- hololive - Takanashi Kiara Ch.
- hololive - Ninomae Ina'nis Ch.
- hololive - Gawr Gura Ch.
- hololive - Watson Amelia Ch.
The group as a whole
Group logo by kato_R2PC
Hololive -Myth- note
- Aerith and Bob: Myth consists of Mori Calliope, Ninomae Inanis, Takanashi Kiara, Gawr Gura,.....and Amelia Watson.
- American Kirby Is Hardcore:
- Downplayed. While the Japanese cast's motifs are usually more straightforwardly cute or beautiful, the first English generation is themed around "edgier" genres like horror, mystery, the supernatural, or some combination of the three. They're still very cute, mind you.
- Where the Japanese branch members generally started their careers by playing up the wholesome idol "seiso" characterization, the HoloEN branch are unsurprisingly more like conventional western streamers and not afraid to frequently be crass.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: With the exception of Ina, all of them admit that they have absolutely microscopic attention spans, which many of their fans find adorable or hilarious.
- Amelia is easily frustrated and angered by tasks that take more than a few minutes' effort, which is why she plays shooter games.
- Gura hates reading, continually forgets what she was supposed to be doing every couple of minutes without a written list, and has No Sense of Direction.
- Kiara is a Motor Mouth who gets easily fired up and goes on long tangents when she has a lot of room to talk while blanking out in the middle of tasks.
- And finally, Calliope is the most easily distracted of the five to the point where while playing games, she tunes out both the other four's voices and the chat, forgets her controls, falls asleep, runs off chasing anything interesting, and spaces out into a world inside her own head, which is magnified by her tendency to stream while exhausted or intoxicated.
- Breaking Old Trends: They are the first non-Japanese generation to debut with five members like the generations of the main Hololive division instead of three.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Ina and Ame would occasionally stream Mario Kart or similar games while wearing Mario-style hats with their own initials replacing the letter M.
- Cast Herd: hololive -Myth- can be split into two distinct groups based on who everyone is likely to collab with (which helped form the most popular ships amongst fans).
- TakaMori: Kiara and Calliope. Early on, Kiara lived in Japan which meant it was the most convenient for Calli to collab with her. Since she moved back to Europe, Kiara has a much easier time collabing with any of the North American members than with Calli, but she is still more likely to collab with the latter regardless.
- InAmeSame: Ina'nis, Amelia, and Gura. Simply because all three of them are based in North America, you are likely to see any combination of the three, or all three together, for collabs. Amelia and Gura's friendship also predates them joining hololive.
- Color-Coded Characters: All five have an associated color from their design that they use as their heart emoticons. Calliope is pink (later red), Kiara is orange, Ina is purple, Gura is blue, and Amelia is yellow.
- Cool Starship: According to Smol Adventures, their usual home base shown in the VRChat collab streams is actually a huge space ship in the shape of a sunfish. It would later make an appearance in Ame's "ChikuTaku" music video, albeit piloted by herself and Bubba this time around.
- Cute Monster Girl: They have this as their theme: a grim reaper, a phoenix, an Atlantean shark, a tentacle monster, and a normal human detective. On a more meta-level with Amelia, she’s jokingly treated by fans as similar to a monster movie monster, with the actual monster girls being innocent victims.
- Don't Call Me "Sir": This seems to be their general stance towards IRyS, with Gura and Kiara preferring to not be addressed as "senpai" because of the generational distance it might create between them.
- Friendly Rivalry: Surprisingly, the fandoms from America and Canada have a friendly rivalry with each other, at times competing to see which country can give the biggest and most donations. Calli was famously caught in the middle of the first Superchat War, but the other girls are not immune either, as Gura discovered.
- Funny Foreigner: Their tastes and senses of humor tend to lean more towards western cultural norms compared to the rest of hololive without really playing it up like Coco does; this is seen more through their Twitter interactions with each other and other members as well as in their group streams. To name just two examples, Kiara Rickrolled Calli during a collab stream, and Mori's first tweet was "Doko the hell am I".
- Generation Xerox: Funnily enough, the "mamas" or character designers of Calliope, Gura, and Amelia—Yukisame, Amashiro Natsuki, and Aoi Nabi respectively—are also good friends of one another, just like their "children".
- Insistent Terminology: The brutish pig monsters in the Nether in Minecraft are called Hoglins. Gura and Ina refer to them all as Pumbaas instead.
- Kayfabe: Downplayed for every member of hololive English except Kiara. When it comes to presenting themselves as fictional characters, the English branch of hololive is noticeably more reserved than the other branches and have no issue with discussing their real life activities.
- Lady Swears-a-Lot: Kiara, Calli, and Amelia are the worst offenders in this regard, but even Gura has been known to drop unsavory language from time to time. Ina, in contrast, tries to keep her language as clean as possible.
- The Leader: Several of them fill this role, depending on the occasion.
- Amelia is considered the leader by the other girls on technical projects involving their models or VR, with her having been responsible for using the Walfie chibi models in VR chat to overcome the 3D limitation for Myth and later all of EN. From a lore perspective, she is also the one responsible for gathering Myth together and leading the investigation of the various strange creatures.
- Kiara tends to take charge involving big collabs (the 2021 EN/ID Mario tournament, the 2022 New Year Karaoke relay being good examples) that take place across different generations or language branches, especially involving JP, due to her being the most fluent and thus being able act as a translator. To solidify this, during the Hololive Sports Festival 2021, she was selected as the team captain of Team White C.
- Finally, Calli often takes up the leadership role in new creative ideas and organizing events. Thus far she has been responsible for the conception of Mythbreakers and other TTRPG streams, along with various tournaments like the 2022 EN/ID Pokemon Tournament, and the Jump King Tournament. The fact that she can also act as the Team Dad and a Cool Big Sis that guides many of her gen mates or kouhais, as well as her experience as an English teacher who has given lessons to many of the JP girls, only further adds merits to her being a leader.
- Multinational Team: Gura and Amelia have both been confirmed to be living in the US, Kiara speaks German as her first language and has confirmed she is Austrian, and Ina is ethnically Korean and resides in Canada, while Calli is ethnically Americannote but lives in Japan.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Their collective reaction when they inadvertently described ENMA-chan as 'slippery and thicc' while playing Madlibs.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Amelia, Calliope, and Ina'nis are far more commonly referred to as simply "Ame", "Calli", and "Ina", at least by the other Holo EN members.
- Otherworldly Technicolour Hair: HoloMyth consists of four Cute Monster Girls one Token Human girl. They are:
- Gura Gawr, a shark girl from Atlantis who has white hair with blue highlights at the tips and fringe.
- Calliope Mori, a shinigami Grim-Reaper-in-training with long pink hair.
- Ina'nis Ninomae, a tentacled Angelic Abomination with purple hair. It has orange tips when it's parted around her face.
- Kiara Takanashi, a phoenix who's died and reincarnated many times. Her hair is bright orange on the top and bright green at the bottom. When she's mad, it literally turns into fire.
- Amelia Watson, a human detective who solves mysteries for a living. Her hair is blonde, making her the only one in the group with a natural hair colour.
- Promoted Fangirl: They are big fans of the existing Hololive vtubers and tend to get very excited when their senpais show up in chat.
- Pun: Each member's fanbase name is based on a pun: Calli has the "Deadbeats" (dead + beats), Kiara initially had the "Kiara Fan Club" (KFC, as in Kentucky Fried Chicken) before it evolved to "KFP employees", Ina has the "Tentacult" (tentacle + cult), Gura has the "Chumbuds" ("chum" can mean either friend or shark food), and Amelia has the "Teamates" (teammates).
- Really 700 Years Old: Every member's official age is listed as being beyond a normal human's, with Calli being The Ageless, Kiara being eternal due to Resurrective Immortality, Gura losing track sometime after five millennia, and Ina'nis having a Vague Age. Amelia initially seemed to be the only member that averted this, but it turns out she is a Time Traveler, so she doesn't age normally either.
- Super-Deformed: All of them have Live2D chibi models that were drawn by Walfie and unveiled on April Fools' Day 2021. They come with Cool Shades too! Amelia officially debuted the "Smol" models in VR chat for all of Holomyth during the 1 year anniversary. In the cases of Amelia, Ina, and Calli, their Smol counterparts eventually evolved into their own supporting characters in said idols' "canons", while Kiara treats hers as an interchangeable stream avatar, and Gura doesn't use her model much outside of 3D group events.
- Tarot Motifs: In the music video for Red, Calli assigned each of the other four an Arcana based on how she views them, and later explained her motivation for each of the choices. She also said that these are just her own personal opinions, and people are free to make their own theories and interpretations.
- Kiara as The Sun, symbolizing joy, success, celebration, and positivity.
- Gura as The Fool, symbolizing innocence, new beginnings, and a free spirit.
- Ina as The Wheel of Fortune, symbolizing changes, cycles, and inevitable fates. Calli also pointed out that Ina's card being Reversed in the music video was a genuine mistake during editing rather than being intentional for the sake of having some symbolic meaning, but also admitted that it could still work, as Reversed Wheel of Fortune can symbolize bad luck, and considering Ina's gacha addiction...
- Ame as The High Priestess, symbolizing intuition, sacred knowledge, divine femininity, the conscious mind, and intelligence. Calli also mentioned that she initially had Ina's and Ame's Arcanas the other way around (Ina as The High Priestess and Ame as The Wheel of Fortune), but the artist whom she commissioned to draw the cards convinced her to swap them.
- While Calli didn't assign any one specific Arcana to herself, she did bring up a few that others had suggested or that she found interesting, such as Death, symbolizing the end of cycles, beginnings, change, metamorphosis, transformation, and transition, The Empress, symbolizing motherhood, beauty, nature, and abundancenote, Reversed Empress, symbolizing creative block and dependence on others, The Tower, symbolizing sudden change, upheaval, chaos, revelation, and awakening, and Reversed Tower, symbolizing personal transformation, fear of change, and averting disasters.
- True Companions:
- It's very common for the members to watch one another, and during their debuts, each member hyped up the others. The group has become remarkably close despite the clear time differences, and have stated wishes on several occasions to do an all-members offline collab and a trip.
- Calli and Kiara exemplify the group's camaraderie, even though they play off their friendship as Vitriolic Best Buds. Since the two used to live close to one another in "the part of the underworld close to Japan", they hung out in the real world and enjoyed each other's company.
- Special mention should go to Gura and Amelia, who have repeatedly mentioned that they've been close friends since before joining hololive.
- Unusual Euphemism: Shared among all of them, they tend to refer to breasts (or in the case of Ina, her tentacles) as 'boing-boings.'
- Vague Age: None of the members has a defined age, with each member's "official" age poking fun at this: Calli's age is listed as "No", Kiara's is "Eternal", Ina's is obscured by an ink stain, Gura's is "Over 9000" with the exact number changing whenever it's brought up, and Ame's is "??"
- Verbal Tic: Kiara, Gura, and Ina will sometimes go "Da-DUN" when placing or revealing props or other visuals on their stream.
- Walking Techbane: It's joked that it isn't really an EN stream without technical difficulties. Problems from the typical to the frankly bizarre have happened to the generation, including things that never happen to other gens (like Ina's avatar suddenly showing up in the middle of Kiara's stream for no reason). Called the "EN Curse" for a long time by both the EN members and the fandom, these tech issues had been well-noted and all-encompassing by the time Council debuted, to the point that Calli eventually canonized the trope as the "EN Law".
