Heartwarming / HoloCure

• A few of the power-up items are actually tributes to former Hololive members who for one reason or another had to graduate early, but were never forgotten by their fanbases, such as the various kinds of AsaCoco, and the Headphones that are a nod to Mano Aloe. Even Uruha Rushia, despite the unfortunate circumstances surrounding her departure, is given a nod via the Cutting Board.
• The Hololive offices has a TV that is flashing random screencaps from various holomems' musical performances or events. Screencaps such as Myth's Smol Halloween, Q, Coco's meme review, Laplus's introduction, etc. One screencap is of Coco and Rushia together.
• Because of Sana eventually graduating on 31st July, aside from her Youtube channel, HoloCure is one way for Holofans (mainly her Sanallites) to remember her by. The 0.4 update added her limiter as an item, reflecting her leaving it as a moment in her graduation video.
• In the 0.5 update, Stage 3 has Rushia's oshi mark at the top of the level to show she hasn't been forgotten even after her sudden termination, with other members hoping she'll be playable in a future update.
• When a user on the HoloCure subreddit pointed out that there wasn't any onion references for Aqua despite there being a garlic one for Shion ^note Both characters are heavily associated with those particular vegetables in various memes due to the way their hair resembles them, Kay Yu personally responded by stating that, initially, he had planned on avoiding making those references altogether due to them being low-hanging fruit with little depth to the characters themselves. However, Shion ended up getting one anyway in the form of her Magic Garlic skill, and it was revealed in this same response that it was initially going to be a cat familiar instead of a floating piece of garlic. However, when Shion broke the news of her real-life cat tragically dying, Kay, not wanting to scrap the skill, decided to have it changed to garlic in order to avoid potentially upsetting Shion, showing that he puts a lot of care and consideration not just into the mechanics of the game itself, but also into the thoughts and feelings of the characters represented in it.
• While playing as herself, Ollie was brought to actual tears after seeing her Special was the last un-changed Charge Rifle, her favorite Apex Legends weapon. This is because all the others were changed so that her favorite aspect of the rifle, the laser charging up then blasting, was no longer a thing, but the old version of the Rifle lives on in Ollie's character.
• Kay Yu confirming that he's planning on putting "Friend R"^note Rushia and "Friend C"^note Coco in a future update featuring Gen 3 and 4, despite the former's termination and the latter's graduation.