With the main focus of HoloFunk's lore being the retired succubus Mano Aloe, including her troubled backstory and other elements related to her, it's safe to say it brings with it some somber moments.
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Pre-6.0
- After clearing "LaLion" in Botan's week, the following cutscene has Aloe reveal her Dark and Troubled Past to her gen-mates. While the events deviate from reality, it's certainly no less tragic.
- She was born between a conflict between two other Yakuza organizations, with the Mano Kai being driven out by the Dearest clan due to their increasing influence on the music industry, leaving the remaining members astray and in hiding. Fast forward to Aloe's hololive audition, her attempts to be true to herself for her friends and gen-mates wound up exposing her to Daddy Dearest, leaving her with the choice to risk everything of her friends and associates, or to leave and become MIA once again. In response to Botan's claim of helping her through the situation, Aloe tearfully shares why she wouldn't want her friends lives at stake.Botan: But we could have done something, we could have helped!
Aloe: You don't get it! If I dared defy him, it would've been much like when my dad-!
Botan: Woah, Aloe, I never thought-
Aloe: L-look, I love you guys so much. I didn't want what happened to him to happen to you guys, okay? - It'd be easy to miss if you weren't paying attention, but in the flashback image accompanying Aloe's narration, among Daddy Dearest's group directly to his right is a hooded figure who shares traits of Aloe: demon horns and hair color — being cream blonde with a hint of pink to the other's hot pink with blonde. Supplementary material mentions that Aloe had a twin brother that's gone missing since the Mano Kai was disbanded, with the implications that her brother is now working for the bastard that ruined her life.
- She was born between a conflict between two other Yakuza organizations, with the Mano Kai being driven out by the Dearest clan due to their increasing influence on the music industry, leaving the remaining members astray and in hiding. Fast forward to Aloe's hololive audition, her attempts to be true to herself for her friends and gen-mates wound up exposing her to Daddy Dearest, leaving her with the choice to risk everything of her friends and associates, or to leave and become MIA once again. In response to Botan's claim of helping her through the situation, Aloe tearfully shares why she wouldn't want her friends lives at stake.
- The Kiryu Coco week: Kiryu Clan Forever.
- After ensuring Botan's safety from the Dearest Clan, Coco casually lets it slip that it'll be the last thing she'll do as part of the Kiryu Clan; she's planning on stepping down from her status as chairman, like how she left hololive both in-universe and out, leaving Aloe in emotional disbelief and tears — questioning why she'd give up all that she worked hard for. After calmly standing by her tough decision and reassuring Aloe to stay positive, Coco promises her another song to play before she leaves to become a star in another world. The song in question is "Hands", which similarly served as a send-off to Kiryu Kazuma in Yakuza 6.
- In the last cutscene, a few days after the rap battle, were treated to the formal Kiryu Clan send-off party for Coco. The grunts within minutes of the event starting tearfully begged Kaichou to not leave them, even the officer who tried to keep a straight face and a smile. Kiryu Coco, undeterred, states that while she may not know what lies ahead in the future, she's proud of her clan for everything they've done, promising that the memories made will last a lifetime. To cap off the event, she gives her last command for them to express the strength of their love, with her grunts following suit with "Kiryu Clan Forever!"
- Even the light-hearted Fubuki Side of the week has a poignant moment at the end of the last song, with Fubuki remarking that she and many others missed her dearly after she left hololive, as if she's silently hoping for Coco to reconsider her retirement. Coco responds it was a necessary step in pursuing her dreams, even if leaving was a tough decision.Coco: My time as an idol may have been short lived, but I'll tell you for sure that it was one of the greatest parts of my life. Leaving behind both my idol and yakuza lives behind was one of the hardest decision of my life. However, it was looking at my life from a different angle that gave me a new outlook on things. In the end, it truly allowed me to be free.
