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- Alice Allusion: The group's 2023 outfits all have the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland theme with Mio having the queen's outfit, Okayu having the Cheshire Cat outfit, and Korone having the Alice outfit.
- Artifact Title: As its name suggests, GAMERS was intended to be a subgroup of Gamer Chicks within a group of otherwise "idol girls", with only Fubuki considered both an idol and a gamer. As time went on, the line between a gamer and an idol vanished as the idols became game streamers and the designated gamer girls began performing idol activities. GAMERS now stands for an unnumbered mini-generation between the second and third generations.
- Color Failure: All four members undergo it in the two Valentine's Day skits with Marine, when they "die" from eating the Valentine's Day chocolate that they're all deadly-allergic to. Of course, it's all played for (rather dark) laughs.
- Edible Theme Naming: Both Korone and Okayu are named after food, respectively "chocolate cornet" (the food's name is written in katakana [コロネ] while the eponymous dog is in hiragana [ころね]) and "rice porridge", giving the type of food that each one likes.
- Gamer Chick: All four of them love video games and many of their videos are devoted to playing them. It's in the unit's name, after all.
- Little Bit Beastly: All of them are mostly humanoid girls with animal ears and tails.
- Mixed Animal Species Team: The unit consists of: Fubuki (a fox girl), Mio (a wolf girl), Okayu (a cat girl), and Korone (a dog girl).
- One Degree of Separation: They all met because of Fubuki. Mio was an old classmate of Fubuki's, Okayu tried out for Hololive following a chance encounter she and Korone had with Fubuki at an arcade, and Korone was recruited on Okayu's recommendation.
- Sixth Ranger: Ayame and Subaru from Gen 2 are good friends with and often collab with the GAMERS, forming a larger unit informally known as OKFAMS note , which is also an expansion of the previously established grouping known as FAMS (before Okayu and Korone joined hololive). Subaru in particular is often considered an honorary member of GAMERS by fans for how often she collaborates with them, most notably as part of SMOK (a group comprised of Subaru, Mio, Okayu, and Korone).
- Species Surname: All of them but Fubuki (who predates the rest of the unit) have surnames that refer to their species.
- Theme Naming: Religion and Mythology. All of them have surnames that relate, in one way or another, to either religion or mythology, but are not directly named after any specific figures:
- Mio Ookami (大神) - consists of the kanjis for "big/great" and "god", though it can also be read as wolf.
- Okayu Nekomata (猫又) - same kanjis as the mythological creature of the same name.
- Korone Inugami (戌神) - consists of the kanjis for "dog (zodiac)", and once again, "god".
- Fubuki Shirakami (白上) - unlike the others above, the connection is not as obvious. The kanjis, when read literally, means "White" and "Above" respectively. However, this instance of the kanji 上 is pronounced exactly the same as... you guessed it, "kami" (神), meaning her surname can also be read as "White God".
- Weaksauce Weakness: Despite being distinctly more human than animal, all four GAMERS are deathly allergic to even a bite of chocolate. That said, this is played fast and loose if this skit with Marine is to be believed.
Shirakami Fubuki
Originally making her debut under the 1st generation, she was eventually placed under the umbrella of hololive GAMERS for her gaming skill.
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Ookami Mio
Ookami Mio [JP: 大神ミオ; CN: 大神澪]
Debut date: December 7th, 2018
Birthday: August 20th
Height: 165 cm (with heels, excluding ears)
Fanbase name: Mio-fa (Mio’s Family)
Illustrator: Izumi Sai
Channel: Youtube
Social Media: Twitter
Alias: Mion, Miosha, Mio-mama (or just Mama)
Species: Wolfman, Kami (hololive Alternative/Holoearth Chronicles Side:E ~Yamato Phantasia~)
Affiliation: OKFAMS, SMOK, Thief Construction (formerly AKUKIN Construction)
Occupation (bar idol): Thief-in-training at Thief Construction (in Minecraft)
Birthday: August 20th
Height: 165 cm (with heels, excluding ears)
Fanbase name: Mio-fa (Mio’s Family)
Illustrator: Izumi Sai
Channel: Youtube
Social Media: Twitter
Alias: Mion, Miosha, Mio-mama (or just Mama)
Species: Wolfman, Kami (hololive Alternative/Holoearth Chronicles Side:E ~Yamato Phantasia~)
Affiliation: OKFAMS, SMOK, Thief Construction (formerly AKUKIN Construction)
Occupation (bar idol): Thief-in-training at Thief Construction (in Minecraft)
Wailing
The feeling that radiates makes my heart strong
Come and follow me, because you're behind me
I won't stray, to the lighted path
Listen to my howling...
The wolf will never stop
The feeling that radiates makes my heart strong
Come and follow me, because you're behind me
I won't stray, to the lighted path
Listen to my howling...
The wolf will never stop
— Howling
A black-haired wolf girl who appeared out of nowhere. Some say she can frequently be seen at shinto shrines. Oh, and she loves video games.
- Afraid of Needles: As much of a headstrong person she is, Mio is a big chicken when it comes to injections, even making a rap number about her dislikes for them. When she went to the hospital for a blood test, she admits she tried to come up with an excuse to avoid it, but in the end, it wasn't as much of a pain as she expected.
- Animal Motifs: Wolves.
- Be Yourself: She states that she had to learn to do this in her early career as a vtuber, as she had a more aggressive side to her that wanted to do more wild things to find her place. She eventually came to the conclusion it was more important to be herself and mellowed out, though she does like to show a wild side of herself every so often.
- Big Damn Heroes: When Fubuki finds herself in trouble against a stigmatized ayakashi in Holoearth Chronicles Side:E ~Yamato Phantasia~, Mio suddenly comes in and tosses over Fubuki's katana, Murasamemaru, which quickly swings the battle in Fubuki's favor.
- Born Lucky: As Fubuki discovers, Mio has an insane amount of luck when they play Yacht Dice together. Fubuki was even asking if she was cheating.
- Carnivore Confusion: Played for Laughs:
- Her New Year's resolution for 2020 was simply to not eat the then-newly debuted Watame... while telling Watame to wash up before they meet.
- During a loli stream, she reacts with anger and doubt when "Future Mio" says she ate Okayu... until being told that it's okay because Okayu's a cat, not a human. The next words out of Mio's mouth are asking which part was the most delicious.
- Character Catchphrase: Because of her motherly demeanor and caring nature, fans and fellow talents alike have latched on to the notion of Mio as a mother. She regularly responds, "I don't remember giving birth to you!"
- Cats Are Superior: Her pet cat Taiga doesn't respect her at all.
- Childhood Friends: With Fubuki. The two knew one another in school, and Fubuki pulled Mio into hololive.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Mio certainly has her moments, such as during her Spiritual ASMR, where she drops things, sneezes, and is generally bothered by background noise at several points during the stream.
- Elemental Punch: Casts a flaming punch spell in Holoearth Chronicles Side:E ~Yamato Phantasia~.
- Fortune Teller: Performs tarot readings for her colleagues from time to time.
- The Friends Who Never Hang: Discussed with Ayame. For how well they get along, they've only had two 1-on-1 collab streams together before May 2021 and they're not sure why that's the case.
- Going Commando: Goes to sleep without underwear on since her grandmother taught her that not wearing panties is healthier.
- Guardian Entity: Is occasionally seen with Hatotaurus, a minotaur-like creature with a pigeon's head, horns, and a wolf's tail. Originally "created" by Fubuki, Fubuki described it as "the strongest". In its animated debut video, Mio even remarks that "It's like a Stand".
- Guest Fighter: Mio is one of the six members chosen to represent hololive during a 2019 collaboration event with Azur Lane, taking on the role of Aircraft Carrier gameplay-wise.
- The Host: Often takes this role for bigger collab streams with everyone else bouncing off her Straight Man tendencies.
- The Hyena: It's easy to make her laugh in a wheezing fit and she's once laughed so much that she had to cancel a stream from aggravating her cough.
- Insistent Terminology: Insists that she's a wolfman, not a werewolf.
- Language Barrier: As one of the hololivers most affected by the inability to speak English fluently, Mio finds it hard to reach out to the holoEN girls, despite being their senior. During a talking stream commenting on HoloCouncil's debut, she admits that her poor English is part of why she hasn't collaborated with any holoEN member note fearing that her incorrectly piecing up sentences might be insulting, on top of feeling that she might be putting additional stress on the girls due to her seniority.
- Not What I Signed on For: She mentioned on HoloTalk that during her interview, GAMERS came to be because YAGOO misinterpreted her statement of "I like playing games" as some sort of testament to her gaming skill. Until then, Mio thought she was interviewing for a spot in the 2nd generation (which YAGOO said she was too late to join) or a future 3rd generation.
- One Degree of Separation: On the aforementioned HoloTalk stream, she also revealed that she was classmates with Fubuki before her debut in hololive, to the surprise of Kiara and her audience.
- Precision F-Strike: How Mio introduces herself in English, courtesy of Coco's English lesson.Mio: I'm Mio, facking cute wolf!
- Punny Name: Her family name uses the exact same pun as in Ōkami, the game: It can just as well be read as "great god" or as "wolf". However, while Amaterasu was both a great god and a wolf, Mio on the other hand appears to be just a wolf girl without any direct sign of divinity. The pun is a lot more appropriate in hololive Alternative, where she actually is a kami.
- Put on a Bus:
- Went on hiatus from late July to early September 2020 because Capcom copyright-striked her Ghost Trick streams. Due to Youtube's 3-strike rule, another strike would have banned her from the site completely which is what led to the mass privatization of hololive's archive during this time period.
- Mio's Twitter account was restricted from Christmas 2020 onward and then banned for a few days in early January 2021 before ultimately being restored. Her ban was merely a mistake with Twitter's bot detection brought on by Mio posting too often about hololive's Christmas karaoke relay.
- Shout-Out: Her whole design is pretty reminiscent of Ryuko Matoi from Kill La Kill.
- Simplified Spellcasting: In Holoearth Chronicles Side:E ~Yamato Phantasia~ chapter 0, Mio just shouts the first verse of her fire punch spell to get it working.Mio: By the heavenly pillars, the spirits from all corners... Uh... Insert rest of spell! Full Power! FLAMING PUNCH!
- Straight Man: As a result of being the Team Mom, Mio typically has this role, especially in the animated shorts where the others are even crazier.
- Stupid Sexy Flanders:
- When Towa discusses her performance in a stream following her 2021 3D birthday party, she ends up fawning over Mio's provocative pose during their "Suspect" performance and agrees with the chat that it was all sorts of erotic.Towa: Isn't this a crime?
- Okayu was similarly surprised with how sexy she found Mio in that performance as she usually finds Mio cute.
- When Towa discusses her performance in a stream following her 2021 3D birthday party, she ends up fawning over Mio's provocative pose during their "Suspect" performance and agrees with the chat that it was all sorts of erotic.
- Team Mom: She is seen as the most motherly and the "big sister" of all the cast, regardless of seniority and age:
- According to other hololive members, she frequently breaks up fights and is the one keeping the peace during "offline collabs" (IRL meet-ups).
- During a formal vote of who would make the best mother, she was at the top.
- In AsaCoco - April 20th, 2020's faux interview segment, her given title was "Overseeing Mama of hololive" (ホロライブを見守るママ).
- Amusingly, after returning from her two-month hiatus, Mio found that her fanbase has started calling her a grandma because 5th gen has their own Team Mom with Lamy. She doesn't take the news well.
- Miko and Subaru explained that, earlier on in hololive's history before it got big, many members considered quitting but Mio was always there to both encourage them that there was a great future coming and offer firm but kind advice on how they might do better.
- Trauma Button: In Holoearth Chronicles Side:E ~Yamato Phantasia~, Mio possesses an ability known as "tracing", which allows herself to see and follow the spiritual connections between people and objects. Of course, there is the problem that following these connections exposes one's soul to beings that otherwise can't be perceived, and some may just hold malicious intent towards the tracer... In an attempt to help someone, Mio ignored the warnings about not using her tracing ability, which led to an encounter with... something. Said encounter would henceforth flash through her mind every time she would attempt to trace since then, causing her to not be too fond of her power.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Downplayed since you won't exactly see what's happening behind her avatar, but she has her moments.
- During a 2018 Christmas special, Mio swiftly throws up the spoonful of wasabi she took, much to Subaru and Ayame's horrors before Subaru tries to cover it up by singing "Jingle Bells".
- During a February 2020 punishment game, Mio is forced to eat some wasabi after losing a game, before reeling from vomiting the sushi she ate. Subaru tries to help with lemon tea but ends up pouring it over Mio's face, essentially waterboarding the poor Wolf.
- During the second-anniversary stream since her debut, Mio audibly throw up while singing Nana Mizuki's "Shin'ai", and after the song is over, she tries to cut the camera feed, embarrassed by what happened. When Fubuki appears as a guest, the Fox wastes no time attributing Mio's incident to the cake she ate before rehearsing for the song.Fubuki: Don't worry, Mio. The floor is covered with snow and the cake is white, so nobody can tell. [Laughs]
Mio: That makes it even more obvious! Everyone can tell the difference!
- Wolf Man: She mentioned on multiple occasions that she's a wolfman (狼人間, lit. wolf-human). One time during a Animal Crossing: New Horizons stream, after howling at a full moon, she clarified that she is not a werewolf, but can "transform" regardless. What this transformation actually is however is unknown.
- Yoko Oh No: Played for Laughs during her 2nd Anniversary concert, Fubuki asks her why she was hiding behind an illustration of herself (in a Shinto-style wedding). Mio tells her that she is getting married. Fubuki did not take the news well.
Nekomata Okayu
Nekomata Okayu [JP: 猫又おかゆ; CN: 猫又小粥]
Debut date: April 6th, 2019
Birthday: February 22nd
Height: 152 cm
Fanbase name: Onigiryaa
Illustrator: Chihiro Kamioka
Channel: Youtube
Social Media: Twitter
Alias: Okato (male persona)
Age (at debut): About 16 in human years
Species: Nekomata (formerly Cat) Source
Affiliation: OKFAMS, SMOK, OKBR, Thief Construction, Neko Neko Finyance
Occupation (bar idol): President of Thief Construction (in Minecraft)
Birthday: February 22nd
Height: 152 cm
Fanbase name: Onigiryaa
Illustrator: Chihiro Kamioka
Channel: Youtube
Social Media: Twitter
Alias: Okato (male persona)
Age (at debut): About 16 in human years
Species: Nekomata (formerly Cat) Source
Affiliation: OKFAMS, SMOK, OKBR, Thief Construction, Neko Neko Finyance
Occupation (bar idol): President of Thief Construction (in Minecraft)
Mille-feuille sandwich of theoretical armaments (sandwich)
Aurora sauce of anonymous hope (sauce)
It's kinda over-seasoned, but I'll overlook it
As long as it tastes good, that's "ok ok"!
Good things, bad things, I’ll eat lots of them
And wipe my dirtied mouth clean
Onigiris, pizzas, cakes, a high-class full course meal
Questioning if it is a trap, I’ll be careful! Ah~!
A cat raised by an old woman from the onigiri store. She streams just because there is a PC in the old woman’s room.Aurora sauce of anonymous hope (sauce)
It's kinda over-seasoned, but I'll overlook it
As long as it tastes good, that's "ok ok"!
Good things, bad things, I’ll eat lots of them
And wipe my dirtied mouth clean
Onigiris, pizzas, cakes, a high-class full course meal
Questioning if it is a trap, I’ll be careful! Ah~!
Okayu is known for her calm disposition and deeper, relaxing voice. She tends to tease and prank the other members (if she isn't stealing their hearts) and choose rude options in RPGs out of a love of comedy and to satisfy her masochistic desire to be admonished. Mostly, she streams in the evening with gaming, chatting, and the occasional karaoke streams. Since August 2020, she's been on a binge of Nintendo platformers and JRPGs.
Okayu joined hololive together with Korone and the two of them form the OkaKoro duo. Okayu's groups include GAMERS, OKFAMS Members , SMOK Members , and OKBR Members . Besides the people in those groups, she also collabs a lot with Aqua, Shion, and her sister (as in sharing the same artist) Shiina from Nijisanji.
- Animal Motifs: Cats.
- Bakeneko and Nekomata: An unusual example in that despite calling herself a nekomata, she is only ever seen with a single tail note .
- Beware the Nice Ones: She's known for being extremely calm both in and out of hololive, which makes it all the more notable on the rare occasions she isn't.
- She's a big fan of Moustafa in Paper Mario. When she prompts Goombario to say something about Moustafa using his "Tattle" ability, Goombario comments that he "expected someone a lot cooler". Okayu ends up yelling at him in response.
- She gets oddly heated during her stream of Slither.io, using a lot of Kiai, Trrrilling Rrrs, and yelling whenever another player defeats her (or comes close to it). She insists that that's not the real her and pleads with her chat to help save her from herself. One piece of fanart depicted this moment as Okayu physically trying to stop angry Okayu (drawn with a Dark Marik-like face).
- Big Eater: Her own Image Song is an Ode to Food about how she'll stuff her face with all sorts of stuff, like mille-feuille sandwiches, onigiri, pizza, and cake.
- Blinded by the Light: One of the anime shorts show that Okayu can shine bright lights from her eyes.
- Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": She's a domesticated cat girl named after the ancient Japanese cat youkai.
- Casual Kink: In a stream with Shion Okayu very quickly answers she's a masochist, catching the other idol off-guard due to the timely response and thinking she was a sadist.
- Cat/Dog Dichotomy: With Korone, naturally.
- Cat Girl: She has the ears and tail, and many note that her detached, aloof, and cool personality is like an actual cat.
- The Charmer: Relationship with Korone aside, she's got:
- Aqua insisting that Okayu is hers.
- Shion arguing (then negotiating) with Korone over the cat.
- Okayu herself claiming that Subaru's perfect partner is her so nobody else should bother trying.
- Okayu's cover of "Otome Kaibou" even has the former three pop up in reference to Okayu's reputation and some brief Red String of Fate imagery.
- Chick Magnet: She has had quite a few other idols (Korone, Shion, Aqua) voice interest in her.
- Childhood Friends: She's mentioned Devil-chan who teased Okayu and possibly developed her masochism. She only acted that way in front of Okayu so no one believed her about the teasing.
- Covert Pervert: Her appearance on Coco's Shitpost Review shows a rather ecchi side. Happily saying "I'm horny!" after learning what it means, and a discussion on waifus leads to calling herself "Nekomata Okazu" ('okazu' meaning "fap material" in the context of the discussion). She even repeats the joke in one of Subaru's streams.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Okayu's grandmother and home economic classmates didn't really trust her to cook and Commuter Wife asked Okayu to sit back and talk while she constructed Okayu's furniture.
- Cute Little Fangs: Naturally, one shows up when her mouth is fully opened. She's a cat after all.
- Did They or Didn't They?: Okayu mentioned in one stream that she kisses Korone whenever she gets the urge to kiss someone. A follow-up question during a collab stream with her and Korone asked if they had ever gone beyond kissing. Both hinted that they had gone further, but ultimately decided they shouldn't answer and leave it to everyone's imagination.
- Exotic Eye Designs: Sparkling exotic eyes at that.
- Fangirl:
- She revealed during an August 2021 singing stream that she's a Subatomo.
- She also admitted to being a "secret" Gura fan. Having a Gura picture as her computer background. When Gura friended her on Discord in January 2022, Okayu squeed when talking about it.
- Okayu is also a huge fan of the popular YouTuber Hikakin, one of Japan's pioneer content creators. Upon receiving Hikakin's congratulations on her third anniversary, Okayu completely lost control of her emotions and screamed in joy the whole time, which she did again when he left a Superchat in one of her subsequent talk streams.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Typically wears her sweatpants with one leg partially rolled up.
- Filching Food for Fun: Has been known to pilfer snacks. Fubuki still brings up how Okayu steals her rice balls every now and then.
- Fun with Acronyms: She prefers reading off the group name SMOK note as "SM OK" and calls the others traitors for pronouncing it as "smoke".
- Furry Confusion: She's a Cat Girl that keeps a pet cat named Temari. Some members of her chat lampshaded the announcement by declaring Okayu Temari's mother. Amusingly, Temari has proven to be just as mischievous as her owner, even stealing snacks from her at one point.
- The Gadfly: She really likes to tease others to mess around with them in good fun, probably most prominently shown here.
- Going Commando: Her casual outfit clearly doesn't have any pants or underwear on.
- Has a Type: She's confessed that she likes cold, aloof men, citing that she doesn't mind if they're mean to her because she's quite nice to herself. It was later played for laughs when, during a certain playthrough of hers, a chat member assumed her type was "shy, gentle, and with broad shoulders".Okayu: This is about Chunky, isn't it?
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Korone. It helps that the two knew each other before joining hololive.
- Okayu has gone to admitting that she no longer uses Twitter as much due to texting Korone over LINE almost constantly about her daily life, to the point that she refers to the latter as her own personal diary.
- In an effort to be more open about the differences between how she acts off-stream and on-stream, she admits that off-stream between her and Korone, she's actually the more clingy and needy of the two. She also says that in most collabs, Korone acting like the more needy one is something she does for entertainment.
- Hidden Buxom: Okayu's costumes are usually conservative and boyish, hiding her rather sizable bust. Not so much with her July 2021 outfit, which features a simple white shirt and a removable jacket that do little to hide her shapely chest. Her Cheshire Cat outfit averts this, as her sizable bust is clearly visible with such an outfit.
- Hollywood Hacking: Not Okayu herself, but when someone in her chat during a Minecraft stream directs her precisely to a diamond vein, she starts thinking someone's hacking her computer. The more likely explanation is that someone probably reverse-engineered her world's seed (random number generators are, despite the name, never truly random) or probably just jotted it down from the game's debug screen (the most common method of obtaining the player's own coordinates).
- Hypocritical Humor: Okayu once got really mad when her onigiri gets eaten, which is quite rich, given her food-snatching tendencies.
- Incompatible Orientation: Played for Laughs. She tells Aqua that she joined an NSFW call with Marine because she felt the pirate could better draw out the masochistic side of her that Aqua could not due to also being a masochist.note Aqua hurriedly insists she could change out of jealousy and desperation.
- Institutional Apparel: Has a fair amount of fanart of her as a prisoner after being judged guilty of taking snacks and leading on the other girls. This in turn led to her fans being portrayed as imprisoned rice balls wearing prison stripes when Okayu declared that her sins are the Onigiryaa's sins.
- Kryptonite Factor: It's nigh impossible to break her cool and collected demeanor, but if spicy food is in play then even Subaru can get her on the backfoot and keep her there.
- Loan Shark: As the co-owner of Neko Neko Finyance, she and Fubuki made a business out of loaning out diamonds in Minecraft to other hololive members for use in festival gambling and other activities at a 10% interest rate. Failure to repay their debts will result in the debtors being sent to Neko Neko Island for some comical torment at the whims of Okayu and co., which tends to happen rather frequently due to the other members' natural tendency to gamble themselves into destitution, courtesy of the rigged venues and their own bad luck.
- Lost Food Grievance: Uses this to psych her angry face up. Rather hypocritical given her own food-snatching tendencies.Okayu: They ate my onigiri, they ate my onigiri, they ate my onigiri, THEY ATE MY ONIGIRI. This Is Unforgivable!
- Mean Character, Nice Actor: While her prankster nature is well-known, some of the other members have nothing, but kind words about how nice she is behind the scenes:
- Rushia showed up as a witness in Okayu's Christmas 2019 trial to defend her and talk about how much of a caring senpai Okayu is.
- Okayu wants to cultivate a cool, mysterious image, but she's embarrassed to admit the hololive staff know that she's extremely quick and reliable in answering text messages.
- During a meme review, Coco saw two memes about Okayu being the hidden mastermind in a JRPG and leaving everyone else behind as the Sole Survivor in Left 4 Dead 2; she took a moment to say that while she understood, she also felt a little confused over everyone's perception of Okayu because she thought of her as the epitome of Japanese Politeness and hospitality.
- Mio has mentioned how Okayu always knows just the right words to say when giving advice.
- She has a bit of a reputation for being a good host, who's had a number of Hololive and even Nijisanji members hang out in her house at one point or another. According to her, it's because Subaru comes over all the time just to mess around, and Subaru almost always has a friend or two with her.
- Meaningful Name: "Nekomata" for... well, the nekomata, and "Okayu" for "rice porridge", a reference to rice balls being her Trademark Favorite Food.
- Mellow Fellow: Okayu is usually calm and easygoing, even when playing games like Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy or Jump King where she'll just laugh off falling and losing progress.
- Must Have Caffeine: In order to keep herself at least modestly awake, Okayu takes to drinking Red Bull in shot glasses.
- Not So Stoic:
- While typically portrayed as the cool and collected type, at the end of Link's Awakening when she witnesses the island and its inhabitants disappear when Link awakens. She gradually loses it.
- On the rare occasions where she plays horror games, she Screams Like a Little Girl (sometimes at nothing in particular) and even Korone can't help but laugh at how cute she is when she's scared.
- She gets embarrassed during her Coffee Talk stream when the characters casually discuss sex and notes that when lewd topics come up, she's usually either aware in advance and able to prepare herself mentally or she's quick to play off a reaction for comedy's sake.
- During her 3rd anniversary stream, she belts out a surprising ear-piercing scream when she receives a video-message from Hikakin, who's considered one of the biggest YouTubers in Japan. It takes half the duration of Hikakin's video for Okayu to regain her composure, but in the meanwhile, she's repeatedly throwing out high-pitched screams.
- Not What I Signed on For: Long after hololive's first live concert, Okayu revealed that she joined hololive specifically to get into GAMERS and... well, play games. As more and more people joined hololive, she had a brief period of time where she thought she didn't have enough talent as an idol - a completely unnecessary worry, in hindsight, as her singles and concerts afterwards can attest to.
- Older Than They Look: Discussed. During a chat stream, she mentioned that she considers herself 16 years old in human years because she looks 16 appearance-wise. She then mentioned that if she was 16 years old in cat years, she would be mentally an elderly cat, but immediately denied that this is the case as she asserts that she's simply an "adult cat".
- Perpetual Smiler: Her default expression is a Playful Cat Smile. It only ever changes when she plays horror games or someone asks her to change it.
- Playful Cat Smile: Being a Nekomata, she sports one at all times.
- The Prankster: To the point that hololive made a compilation video of her antics. Some of her many, many mischievous misdeeds include:
- Sniping fish from the rest of OKFAMS in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
- Editing Mio's waiting screen to see if anyone could tell the difference.
- Getting into an NSFW call with Marine for Aqua to come across during her stream to make Okayu fall in love with her.
- She's more than once seen through Aqua's traps for her and managed to completely reverse the situation so Aqua becomes the victim.
- Read the Fine Print: The Onigiryaa bear Okayu's sins due to some very fine text in the bottom left corner of the Onigiryaa contract.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Korone's red.
- Round Hippie Shades: One of her avatar's accessories is a black pair of these. To her amusement, said shades give Korone the creeps. Okayu also humorously acts in a manner she thinks someone wearing Cool Shades would behave, often in a suave, laid-back manner (or, on one occasion, talking like a Japanese Delinquent).
- Screams Like a Little Girl: She's capable of some high-pitched screaming uncharacteristic of her tomboy-esque voice and demeanor, especially when a horror game is involved. Korone witnessed this firsthand when they played Escape the Ayuwoki together, and she even quipped that "Okayu's cute when scared" at one point.
- Self-Destruct Mechanism: If someone yanks on her tail, she will go nuclear.
- Sexy Shirt Switch: Her Casual outfit invokes the image with Okayu only wearing a dress shirt, slippers, a jacket if she feels like it, and no pants; the dress shirt is presumably her own, but her slippers are Korone's.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: As part of her "Nekomata Okazu" gag, she at times engages in some fanservice with sometimes shows shades of this.
- In response to a comment apologizing for staring at her cleavage, she encouraged them to look anyways, claiming that she would've button up her cleavage if she didn't approve to begin with.
- Her idea of a "Paris Fashion Week" is a School Swimsuit with a see-through jacket, which (according to Okayu) is the result of her not being bothered to carry anything else to a swimming pool other than the clothes on her back.Okayu: "I wanna go to the swimming pool! But I don't wanna bring a lot of stuff... oh yeah!"
Marine: What do you mean by "Oh Yeah!", huh?! You're going home with wet clothes, huh?!
Lamy: You're not gonna change your clothes?
Okayu: Well, I'll figure it out.
- Significant Birth Date: February 22nd is National Cat Day in Japan.
- Spoiled Brat: She cops to acting spoiled around Korone to get her way.
- Straight Man: Oftentimes acts like this for her zanier companions, but instead of expressing anger and disbelief, just casually stokes the fires for even more comedy.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Onigiri (Japanese rice balls). Her backstory has her living in an onigiri shop, she's talked many times about looking forward to eating onigiri, and her fans are even called the Onigiryaa.
- Troll: With how much she pranks other members, it comes with the territory. Notably, she managed to fool both Pekora and Subaru into firing out of a cannon into the sun in Whomp's Fortress, leading to both of their deaths.
- Vocal Dissonance: Okayu once confessed that her voice when waking up after a long OkaKoro endurance stream can be very husky and far deeper than her usual tomboyish tone, akin to Towa's morning voice during one of Roboco's streams. She also admits that trying to talk like that is very difficult, so she can't reliably replicate that husky voice.
- Voice Changeling: She can't exactly replicate the tone of other members' voices, but she's really good at copying their vocal patterns. When she impersonated Subaru's voice, Subaru felt so embarrassed because the way Okayu did her voice is exactly the way she talks.
- Wacky Marriage Proposal: Her segment with Korone during hololive COUNTDOWN 2024 ends with the two of them both proposing to each other with their own individual rings. ...Complete with the two wearing each other's outfits.
- Yandere: Played for Laughs. She tried. But she ended up sounding and looking cute instead which Korone pointed out.
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