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)
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"Let's go
, to the sky we dream of!"
, to the sky we dream of!"Hololive Japan, officially known as just hololive, is the original group of Japanese-speaking Virtual YouTubers founded by COVER Corporation.
hololive Japan generations/groups
- hololive Japan - Original Talent/Uncategorized
- hololive Japan - Generation One
- hololive Japan - Generation Two
- hololive Japan - GAMERS
- hololive Japan - Generation Three -Fantasy-
- hololive Japan - Generation Four
- hololive Japan - Generation Five
- hololive Japan - Generation Six -holoX-
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YAGOO
Tanigo Motoaki [谷郷元昭]
"Hello everyone. I am Motoaki Tanigo, CEO of COVER Corporation."
Alias: Motoaki "YAGOO" Tanigo, YAGOO
Birthday: December 10th, 1973
The CEO and founder of COVER Corp. and hololive as a whole.
- Alternate Character Reading: How he got his nickname, Subaru once misread the kanji 谷 in his name as "ya" instead of "tani", coining the name "Yagoo".
- Beleaguered Boss: Many jokes made at his expense involve his idols acting in the exact opposite that would normally be expected of them, with only a few exceptions.
- Benevolent Boss: He's portrayed as a pretty lenient and kind hearted boss to his employees, while he can end up recruiting idols due to their massive debt, he's consistently talked about pretty positively by members of Hololive.
- Big Good: He's typically depicted as such in many of his employees' backstories (e.g. Axel, Haachama,...), usually as a kind-hearted benefactor who changed their lives by offering them to work for him when they're down on their luck. As a result, YAGOO is well-beloved as a Benevolent Boss in the idols' respective lore despite their tendency for Biting-the-Hand Humor.
- Bullet Proof Human Shield: See Weirdness Magnet below. During her botched attempt to rescue YAGOO from terrorists, Botan picks up her CEO and uses him to shield her from bullets and grenades, with YAGOO looking no worse for wear.
- Bus Crash: In Sexy Boomer Marine's story of an alternate timeline, her explanation of his fate was this.
Marine: Ah, well, YAGOO... you know how these things are.
- Butt-Monkey:
- Most of the talent has cracked jokes at his expense, often engaging in Biting-the-Hand Humor whenever someone impersonates him to join into a multiplayer game. Haato in particular makes it a habit to build and then destroy replicas of his face in Minecraft. He also has a reputation as this among the fandom, as whenever a hololive idol does something completely against the type of a "pure and innocent" image that traditional idols try to exude, it's common to say that his idol dream is dead or he's currently in intensive care due to all the stress.
- Even in official animated shorts, he isn't spared — the hololive Summer 2022 teaser sees him getting kidnapped and imprisoned by Marine during her quest to steal three crystal MacGuffins in an effort to restore sunny weather around the hololive HQ.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Beleaguered Boss he may be, but he is not someone to be trifled. He has revealed himself to be a Sizeshifter on at least two occasions (although one of them was aided by an enchanted dorayaki) and is able to brutally beat Hakka into submission when he refuses to speak in English.
- A Day in the Limelight: The MV for hololive Ondo features him and some of the holoJP mascots performing traditional Japanese dances and hanging around in a museum. It's as cute and happy as it sounds.
- Non-Standard Character Design: If he isn't depicted as his real-life self, he is almost always depicted as a caricature of his real-life appearance rather than adopting an anime design like the holopro talents, making him stand out. This is especially noticeable in Fuma's 3D debut, where YAGOO appears with his own 3D model, which can be described as a bobble-head doll in motion.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: "YAGOO" is not his name, but rather a misreading of the kanji for his family name "Tanigo". It's so widely used that Coco apparently didn't know it wasn't his actual name until a few months after her debut when Marine mentioned his real name, despite having met him in person.
- Quote Mining: Played for Laughs.
- In the episode of Coco's Reddit Shitpost Review where he was a "guest" (actually just Coco using a soundboard of pre-existing voice clips), she spliced together voice clips to make him "say" "Fuck you" and "Motherfucker".
- In a straighter example, his most notable quotes that fans often use in subversive jokes are taken out of context. "An idol group like AKB48" was not meant to refer to the content of the hololive performers, but rather the organization's structure of "generations" and their audition practices. Similarly, he refers to COVER as "an entertainment company," not specifically hololive, which COVER is the parent of.
- Weirdness Magnet: How he is depicted in the backstories of the talents. Which makes some sense considering that he has kemomimis, magicians, eldritch creatures, gods/goddesses, and beings from alternate dimensions working in his company.
- YAGOO's first encounter with Coco involves her traveling from her home dimension and landing right on top of him, in her dragon form, sending him to the hospital with Coco working at hololive to pay off the bill.
- In Anya's backstory, YAGOO finds her collapsed outside the hololive agency building and takes her inside so she can recover. After learning about Anya's nature as an anthropomorphic sword, he offers her a place to stay in exchange for working as a VTuber.
- During Botan's 3D debut, YAGOO gets kidnapped by terrorists. After some hesitation Botan comes to the rescue, but mishandles and abandons him several times.
- Like Coco, he forces the members of Advent into hololive to pay off the damages caused by them crashing their getaway car into the hololive office. Keep in mind that Advent is a group made up of fugitives, two of whom can induce chaos and insanity from their presence and singing voice.
- YAGOO's first encounter with Coco
- Yes-Man: What the poor man gets reduced to during Coco's Reddit Shitpost Review with him, meekly acquiescing with every single one of Coco's comments and getting interrupted whenever he does his hololive company spiel. In this case it was very obviously Coco using recordings of him speaking and editing them like a soundboard, even piecing swear words together that YAGOO has never said in public.
A-chan
Friend A [友人A]
Birthday: February 28th, 2001
Height: 157.1 cm
Illustrator: ordan (Main), Tokino Sora ("A-bean")
Alias: A-chan
A close friend of Sora, activity director, and the general go-to woman for the technical side of things in hololive. She occasionally gets drawn into the hijinx and japes that take place amongst the talents.
Height: 157.1 cm
Illustrator: ordan (Main), Tokino Sora ("A-bean")
Alias: A-chan
- A-Cup Angst: In FUWAMOCO's introductory video sent to her, Fuwawa subtly tries to imply that Mococo has just as flat a chest as A-chan, with A-chan herself sounding bitter about the implication.
- The Announcer: Often plays this role for hololive's larger collab streams.
- Ascended Extra: Early on, she didn't have much of a presence, only mentioned in passing by Sora. Eventually, hololive made a 3D model for her, as well as her own twitter account, and she started showing up more in Sora's streams, as well as in collabs featuring other hololive members (even if Sora herself is absent) and even doing collabs outside of hololive on her own. She's even gotten a second outfit, which is incredible considering she's still staff. She's still an extra for the most part, though, given that she still doesn't have her own channel; searching for her name (友人A) directs people to the official hololive channel instead.
- Art Evolution: Her second outfit has a more layered outfit, rather than the standard hololive shirt and jeans she was wearing in her first. Her hair is also notably more detailed.
- Beleaguered Assistant: She usually plays this role in the Holo no Graffiti shorts, where she's often stuck as the Only Sane Woman who has to put up with the main talents' shenanigans.
- Breakout Character: Even though she's not an idol, her popularity with the fans led her to becoming the spokesperson for the company on their official YouTube channel and she even got a new outfit reveal, something usually exclusive to the idol talents. It's because of this sudden rise in popularity that Kiara interviewed her on Holotalk.
- Brutal Honesty: When A-chan and Bae were doing a watchalong of Bijou's debut stream and drawing their own pebble personas, Bae's drawing ended up so scuffed that A-chan was left laughing and saying "Ugly! Your pebble is ugly! So ugly!"
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Kind of; her model eschews fancy clothing for a simple black T-shirt bearing the hololive logo. Her first model didn't actually have the branding across her chest; however, that one was added later. Somewhat averted on her second outfit, which is more of a relaxed Office Lady suit.
- Butt-Monkey: Is relegated to this role whenever she appears in the animated shorts, from being severely overworked, to melting in a flood of poison from Aki's hammerspace, to combusting after being reminded that tomorrow is Monday, to having her credit card maxed after the hololive members used it without her permission to buy a new TV.
- Cephalothorax: In the early days of Hololive when she still haven't got her own official character design yet, her appearance as "A-bean" was basically just a doodle of her face with arms and legs sticking out of it.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The really, really early days of Sora's channel had A-chan "appear" as a disembodied voice with no avatar or a crude monochrome sketch of what would eventually become her 3D model.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Despite not being an official idol, A-Chan has demonstrated a snappy sense of humor, nearly fluent conversational English, and a pretty good singing voice when she's in the mood on top of doing a lot of behind-the-scenes work with Hololive.
- Invisibility: According to hololive SUPER EXPO, she apparently has the power to turn invisible. At first, nobody thought she was invisible, believing her to be The Voice, but when Miko was playing around with her squeaky hammer, she accidentally hit A-chan in the head, revealing her to be invisible.
- Must Have Caffeine: Implied in hololive's official lofi remix setlist, which shows her pulling an all-nighter at the office, occasionally sipping from a can of Red Bull, with several empty cans next to her.
- Not So Above It All: She's best known as the Only Sane Woman of hololive, so it's easy to forget she has more than a few moments of her own that are yabai enough to put some of the talents to absolute shame.
Holy shit, A-chan is a freak. This explains it all, Yagoo's dream was poisoned from the moment it began.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Unlike the other staff members, she's only ever known as either "A-chan" or "Friend-A" officially, with no actual name ever been given to her persona to go by. Indicative of this, Nodoka and many of the company's talents would affectionately refer to her as "A-chan-san" where appropriate.
- Only Sane Employee: Due to the seemingly unidol-like behavior of the main performers, she is frequently given this role in the comedy shorts featured on the main channel.
- Plain Jane: Type 2. Compared to every other member across the other branches of hololive, her avatar design is rather plain (even compared to fellow Ascended Extra Anemachi, who isn't even an official member), with no animal features, fantasy stylings or eye-catching colors, but she makes up for it being Sora's technical go-to woman.
- The Reliable One: According to many accounts by JP talents, A-chan is the one behind the scenes working hard to make sure everything is going well and the talents are happy. Sora has mentioned a few times that without A-chan's constant support in the early days she probably would have quit a long time ago. Suisei was really struggling to find her footing at first and didn't like where she was, again she was a talent thinking of quitting, it was A-chan that stepped in and had Suisei transferred from the now defunct music branch to a regular Hololive talent.
Itzutsu-san
Itzutsu-san [井筒さん]
Illustrator: None, but usually associated with a public domain illustration from Irasutoya
Alias: Staff-san
A staff member at COVER and the show assistant and co-star of the Legend of Polka series. Each episode starts off with Itzusu conjuring up various topics and situations for Polka to react to.
Alias: Staff-san
- Ascended Extra: She discusses this trope since being a staff member in a starring role with one of the talents made her nervous, but Polka reassures her she is doing a great job and fans love her appearance in every episode.
- Art Shift: In Itzutsu Face Reveal, she is represented by stock photos of a Caucasian woman in different poses.
- Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: The entire Legend of Polka is based around this routine between her and Polka regarding the subject matter of the video. Funnily enough, Polka is the Tsukkomi more often than not—a far cry from how she's usually the Boke to other hololive talents. Ironically, this makes Itzutsu-san the Boke to a clown.
- Day in the Limelight: While every episode features Polka, some of them are focused on Itzutsu-san's antics specifically; such as the episodes Polka Goes to the Beach or Itzusu Profiling . Fans like to joke that the show should really be called The Legend of Itzutsu as a result.
- The Faceless: You get to see the side of her face in Polka Goes to the Beach but played straight otherwise as the camera is either shooting from behind her or below the neck.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl:
- In Bar Snack Draft: Round One, Itzutsu-san's avatar is given stock wine bottle images but is audibly sloshed by the end of the episode.
- The entire episode of I want to see our staff's video ideas!!! is based around Polka reacting to Itzutsu-san's awful scripts that she and the other writers came up with while they were purposefully intoxicated.
- Inconsistent Spelling: The official youtube subs spell her name as "Itzutsu", however, the Logo Joke of the show spells her name as "Idutsu".
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: The episode Itzusu Profiling is based on this and helping Itzutsu-san recovering her memory.
- Multiple-Choice Past: In the episode where she lost her memories, Polka asked twitter what they know about Itzutsu-san to help her remember. Fans provided an impossibly broad range of details describing her such as "Could be Japanese or non-Japanese", "Could be male or female", "Maybe in their teens to 20s, 30s to 40s, 50s-60s", "Very likely to be unemployed, but could also be a student or working some sort of job", and even "previously Elon Musk's secretary at Tesla before joining hololive."
- Non-Human Sidekick: Inverted. She's the human sidekick to the virtual fennec, Polka.
- Verbal Tic: Ends her sentences with "tsu" (subtitled as "dood") in Itzusu Profiling until she regained her memories.
Nodoka Harusaki
Harusaki Nodoka [春先のどか]
Illustrator: ordan
A junior member of Hololive staff, who works under A-chan. Her first public appearance was on April 1st, 2022.
- April Fools' Plot: Her existence was considered to be this at first, due to her making her debut on April 1st, 2022. Appropriately enough, Nodoka got wrapped up in a rather elaborate prank by A-chan and Sora, who both spun the crew's Holo no Graffiti shenanigans as real occurrences.
- Bait-and-Switch: At the end of her debut episode, she gets a box wrapped with a ribbon from A-chan. She opens it with glee, assuming it's a newcomer present, only to find the first stack of paperwork she needs to process laying inside.
- Early-Bird Cameo: She was revealed on one of A-chan's free talk streams (albeit only as a silhouette) a few weeks before her actual appearance.
- Fangirl: Nodoka is a Pioneer first and foremost, having joined hololive's staff thanks to her first exposure being AZKi's live concert. "Inochi" in particular is a song that moved Nodoka to tears and helped her move forward when she was stuck in job hunting hell.
- Gamer Chick: She's a hardcore Fate/Grand Order player and whale, as Pekora, Flare, and Fubuki have found out, the latter of which even hosted a collab stream with her where the two of them would roll continuously for Morgan, a much-coveted SSR servant.
- I Coulda Been a Contender!: Nodoka mentions to AZKi during their November 2022 karaoke stream that prior to joining hololive, her job hunting was pretty rough, even giving up on a career in acting that she was aiming since forever. It's only when she started listening to AZKi's "Inochi" during the latter's 2021 divergence concert (the one where AZKi announced that she would continue streaming instead of graduating on July 2022) that Nodoka discovered hololive and the world of VTubing, and eventually applied to the company.
- Idiot Hair: She has a small ahoge on the top of her head, which highlights her general naivete.
- Initiation Ceremony: In her first appearance, was on the receiving end of an April Fools' Day prank at the hands of A-chan and Sora.
- Naïve Newcomer: Initially was easily misled by A-chan about what working for Hololive entailed, leading Nodoka to think she needed to be capable of surviving actual explosions and the idols attacking her. She also reveals to AZKi that she had never even heard of hololive and VTubing until she happened to listen to one of AZKi's songs.
Hitomi Chris
Hitomi Chris [JP:人見クリス; CN: 人見克麗絲]
- Bus Crash: Her contract was terminated by Cover Corp. three weeks after her debut, having only streamed once.
- Shrouded in Myth: All of her content was removed from YouTube, and her Twitter was either made private or deleted as well, although her Marshmallow page is still available. The exact reasons for her firing remain unknown other than fan-theories and gossip.
- Time Travel: Was supposed to be a time-travelling schoolgirl from the future, according to her Marshmallow page.
- Un-person: Hasn't been mentioned or referenced by any member of hololive or Cover after her firing.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: She only ever had one stream (that remains untranslated to this day) before being removed entirely. As a result, little is known about her.
