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Inugami Korone [JP: 戌神ころね; CN: 戌神沁音]

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"Yubi yubi!"

Debut date: April 13th, 2019
Birthday: October 1st
Height: 156 cm
Fanbase name: Koronesuki
Illustrator: Fukahire

Channel: Youtube

Social Media: Twitter

Alias: Ko’one, Koro-san (by Okayu), God Dog
Age (at debut): 90

(Initially converted human years, non-proportional afterwards); 18-19 [Dog years, presumably former(?) actual age]
Species: Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

/ Inugami

Affiliation: OKFAMS, SMOK, OKBR, Thief Construction
Occupation (bar idol): Bakery Assistant

, Member of Thief Construction (in Minecraft)

Reaching across the screen
To the tip of your pinky finger
If you break our pinky promise
Off it goes! Off it goes! Off it goes!
It's gonna start soon!
Tardiness is strictly prohibited!
So! Is everyone ready to go?
(Hey Guys! Are you ready!?)
Yubi yubi~!
It's Showtime!!!!

— Saikyo Tensai ★ Wonderful ♥ World of Korone

The dog from a random bakery. She likes to play games when she has free time while watchdogging.

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100% Completion: She's done it for Yoshi's Crafted World, obtaining all 317 flowers.
Absurd Phobia: Korone finds red superchats that come without messages to be terrifying because they feel, to her, like passing police cars with their sirens on.
Accidental Murder: She accidentally kills The Merchant playing Biohazard 4 whom she affectionately calls "Oji-san", and started freaking out in the process.
Animal Motifs: Dogs.
Ambiguously Human: Played for Laughs in "RIP Gamers". Marine mistakenly gives Korone Valentine's Day chocolate, thinking she'd be fine since she's more human than dog. When she brings this topic up, a pie chart regarding Korone's biological makeup appears. Korone is apparently 75% human, 15% dog and 10% something that's Censored for Comedy. ^note However, given the comedic skit nature of the series, the description of "Valentine" (the prequel of "RIP Gamers") stating "This is a joke. Korone is still alive." long before "RIP Gamers" even came out, and that Marine herself mentions "playing fast-and-loose with character profile" when Korone turns out to be fine, the pie chart of Korone's biological makeup is most likely non-canon and made up for the sake of comedy.
Ascended Fangirl:
- Out of all of the hololive talent, Korone is noticed much more often by developers of the games she plays, especially western developers. It's become common for her channel to get a lot more attention after they start talking to her on various social media.
- When Doom Eternal received its first Downloadable Content, the game was patched to have an Easter Egg that briefly changes the title to DOOG Eternal and plays a chainsaw noise as a shout out to how she names her playthroughs of the previous games in the series as well as her love for the chainsaw.
- After being a Sonic fan for less than a year, Sega featured her as a guest during both franchise's 30th anniversary event and Sonic Colors Ultimate's release conference. And in a different stream to commemorate the franchise's 31st anniversary, Sonic Team gave her another costume while naming her an official "Sonic Ambassador", as well as announcing that she would do voice work for the Japanese dub of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022).
- Korone is a fan of Yo-kai Watch; she has a Jibanyan alarm clock that once went off in the middle of one of her streams. She eventually appeared as a collectible Yokai in Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble, along with some other hololivers. She also appeared in an episode as a girl (essentially Korone herself without her dog features) whose ramen gets snatched away. Korone even voiced the girl in question in the Japanese dub!
Berserk Button: Telling her "Good night" or some varation thereof will immediately cause Korone to order the person not to sleep, albeit this is Played for Laughs.
Beware the Nice Ones: Nightmare fetishism aside, she's generally a nice girl and rarely gets angry. When she does, though, oh boy does she ever get angry. This gets milked for what it's worth in a Hologra episode where Polka accidentally drops a handheld that she thought belonged to Okayu; Okayu is surprisingly chill about Polka's predicament, but once Korone shows up and is revealed to be the handheld's owner, Polka promptly gets flung out of the window.
Big Bad: Of Evil God Korone, her own official episode of the Tsugu No Hi series, where she takes the spot of the Monster of the Week as an Eldritch Abomination that haunts the protagonist, before forcefully inducting him into her fandom, which is depicted there as a cult where the Koronesuki are innocent people being subliminally indoctrinated into becoming her servants.
Blatant Lies: Claimed several times that her Assassin's Creed Syndicate wasn't going to be a marathon or endurance stream and wouldn't last too long when she was already quite a few hours in. She later revealed that she had spoken with her manager beforehand and revealed that if she liked the game after playing for a while, she had been given permission to either beat the game or end the stream in 30 hours. She beat the game in 24. After the stream was over, she revealed she was off to take care of her mother for a week and had wanted to create a marathon so her fans would have archives during that time.
Breakout Character: Korone enjoyed a massive burst of popularity throughout 2020 thanks to streaming popular games such as Doom (2016) and Banjo-Kazooie, as well as the resulting memes from it. This in turn prompted gaming companies to either reference her in their game (the famous, but short-lived DOOG Easter Egg in Doom Eternal, for example), or even outright reach out to her (Ubisoft sponsoring Korone in late March 2021 for the Ostara Festival event in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla). On July 3rd, 2020, Korone was featured in her own collab with Toreba. On Nov 7, 2021, Korone was featured in her own game Evil God Korone, a spinoff episode of Tsugu No Hi a series she has played before, with Korone being delighted to play her own game. When Sega prepared for the release of the Sonic Origins game compilation on June 23, 2022, they went all out for her as they held a stream where they gave her an exclusive costume, designated her as an ambassador for the franchise, have her as a voice cameo in the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022), and announce a surprise concert that features both her and the Sonic Sound Team (something that catches her off-guard as she didn't know about it as it wasn't part of the script that was given to her).
The Cameo: Korone makes a cameo in Yo-kai Watch as a girl (essentially Korone herself without her dog features) whose ramen gets whisked away, upsetting her.
Can't Hold Her Liquor: A Running Gag with Korone is how her body is not suited to breaking down alcohol. In almost every instance she's been seen drinking, she inevitably passes out and won't wake up until someone calls out to her.
Cat Scare:
- When she plays horror games (though curiously, not horror movies), everything scares her, even things that aren't supposed to be scary. If anything, it's an unintentional Running Gag that Korone is so high-strung that she's usually more frightened of inanimate objects than the actual scary parts of video games, freaking out at things like toilets, kitchen appliances, and in one instance during the game Infliction, an ordinary bar of soap she picked up herself.
- Her playthrough of the Flash indie horror game The House has her get scared multiple times by items that appear on screen for the player to inspect.
- A lot of minor things in the indie horror game J.B... manage to make her scream, like the "New Game" button's sound effect and the jarring camera movements (justified by its Room Escape Game nature). Sometimes, she'll even start laughing as if she can't believe she got scared by something so minor. After she finishes playing it, her grandma manages to scare her simply by quietly entering her room.
- Despite Pico Park's cutesy pixelated art style, Korone still manages to get spooked by a level involving a pink ghost that charges at players it sees moving when it's not dozing off. Okayu, Lamy, and Botan are taking the level in stride when Korone screams her lungs out after thinking she got caught, getting Okayu and Botan to laugh at her reaction.
Chainsaw Good: Her favorite weapon in any game where they are available.
Character Catchphrase:
- "yubi yubi" ("finger finger"; frequently translated in HoloGra episodes as "Gimme the fingers!"). In one of her earliest streams, Fubuki asked Korone what she thinks her opening catchphrase will be. She nervously blurts this out randomly (with Fubuki promptly asking if she's some sort of Yakuza), and it's stuck with her since. Now, it's used to describe the viewers figuratively cutting off a finger to give to Korone so they can't click away (Don't worry, she'll return them at the end of the stream), but it's also used for her in-game violence, where she collects the enemy's fingers.
- Expect to hear "Hora yo!" (roughly "Hey!") a lot in her videos as she tends to shout it as a Kiai.
- She addresses her English-speaking viewers with "Hey guys!" (in English), since it almost always results in a huge flood of excited English comments in her stream chat, much to her amusement.
Christmas Songs: She commonly uses an upbeat instrumental of "Jingle Bells" and "Silent Night" as her background music, even in the middle of summer. She has explained this by saying that Christmas music cheers her up and gets her motivated to stream each day.
Clingy Jealous Girl: One of her most common Running Gags is speculating that a Koronesuki prefers other streamers over her (or even just watching another girl), which quickly results in No-Holds-Barred Beatdown or Cold-Blooded Torture by Korone.
Colour-Coded Emotions: In some of her game streams, Korone has a traffic light-styled indicator that indicates her mood towards the viewers: green light means chat is praising her and adoring her, leaving her happy; yellow light means chat is starting to get nitpicky about her mistakes, annoying her; and red light means chat has started backseating, and it's time to Talk to the Fist.
Comedic Sociopathy: Just like Suisei, she enjoys committing acts of violence in some of the games she plays. And her acts of violence are anything but subtle and are very prone to Murder Is the Best Solution.
Cool Car: Spends most of her Gran Turismo 2 stream admiring the collection of cars that the game have. While there are some cars that she takes a liking more than the rest (such as the Toyota GT-One, Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak, and the Nissan Skyline R32 GTS-t Type M that she eventually purchased as her first car), she likes the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI GSR so much that she minimizes her Live2D avatar to take a screenshot of her posing with the Evo on the East City dealership.
Crazy Enough to Work: Many of her fellow hololivers weren't expecting her to sing "Airman Ga Taosenai" in the hololive 3rd fes but conceeded that it's essentially something Korone would do. Equally as crazy is her doing a front walkover.
Cuckoosnarker: She is generally an excitable friendly Nice Girl, but she can be cutting with her words when she wants to be.
Cuddle Bug: Her tendencies came out during the 2022 New Year's Eve off collab where Kiara was back in Japan for the first time since her return to Austria. Korone was absolutely enamored with her kouhai and couldn't help but hug her multiple times.
Cute But Psycho: Korone's streams have started making a slow but noticeable shift to this trope to the point where she clearly derives pleasure from gory in-game acts such as mutilation and dismemberment.
Cute Little Fangs: Not normally, but her 3D model has two prominent fangs that can be seen whenever she opens her mouth.
The Cutie: With having a very endearing appearance, an adorable voice, a bubbly personality, and a friendly, optimistic nature, Korone stands out as one of the cutest VTubers in the Hololive community.
Deadpan Snarker: Has her moments, best shown when she played Papers, Please.
Sergei: It was a typographical error.
Korone: Yeah well, your existence is an error.
Determinator:
- She streamed herself attempting to beat the infamously difficult Famicom version of Dragon's Lair for nearly 20 hours non-stop, taking more than 80 retries and 1,114 deaths in the process. She later admitted to using a cheat code that granted her thirty lives and, having felt bad about it, she played the game again and beat it.
- After her playthrough of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, she and Marine challenged each other in a race to clear the Boss Rush with Marine taking a No-Damage Run handicap. After the competition concluded though, Korone found out that there was an alternative clear screen for not taking damage and immediately jumped back into it for another 6 1/2 hours before clearing it again just before the 12 hour mark.
- She played Atlantis no Nazo, a game known for its incredible difficulty and poor quality, for nearly 12 hours. She did eventually switch to a speedrunning zone route that got her to the end faster after realizing how long it would take to restart and play casually every time she died, but she did this while refusing to use a strategy to beat the infamously hard final stage with an invincibility item, a route which according to her chat only two or three speedrunners have done. She eventually succeeded. Then she mentioned on twitter the next day she had been trying to do it again without losing a life off-stream.
Disproportionate Retribution: At the end of one of her chat-and-chill streams, she punished the viewers by blowing them up, putting them under 24/7 surveillance, and haunting their room with spirits, among many other things. The crime they committed? Simply insinuating the possibility of a lewd mousepad...
The Dreaded: Her passive-aggressive behaviour when angered means that no one, absolutely no one, wants to be on the receiving end of her retaliation, and it gets milked to its utmost in the Hologra shorts: Polka freezes in terror when Okayu points out the handheld she broke belongs to Korone, Pekora and Towa are horrified when they inadvertently bop her, and she completely destroyed the office once because she was disturbed while taking a nap, with Pekora practically soiling herself in terror immediately before..
Dual Wielding: During Mio's birthday stream, she triple wields with the third stick in her mouth while trying to smash a watermelon in a game of Suikawari. Chat immediately compares her to Roronoa Zoro.
Korone: Is it okay if I get serious?
Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: In addition to her July 2021 costume, Korone's Live2D model has been updated to include more facial expressions, namely one with empty eyes. Coupled with her perpetual smile, said expression decidedly makes her out to be a crazy yandere.
Early-Installment Weirdness: In her channel's infancy, Korone was a shier person. While she still had her Genki Girl moments, she wasn't like that all the time and didn't talk much in collab streams. Okayu once noted in a free talk stream that she was the only person Korone was comfortable with talking to back then, since they knew each other before joining hololive. Even in Korone's old solo streams, where social anxiety wouldn't be a problem, she was prone to apologizing a lot to her audience, especially when technical issues happen (e.g. the screen layout is wrong or her mic volume is too low).
Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Sometimes, she'll intentionally slur some words to play up her cuteness, like saying "oayo" instead of "ohayo" ("good morning") for her stream opening, "nahone" for "naruhodone" ("I see"), or pronouncing her own name as "Ko'one".
Engrish: She's learning English, but she's got quite a ways to go.
Epic Fail:
- She once tried a tongue twister challenge on stream, with the condition she would end her stream when she messed up. She barely lasted a minute.
- During her race against Pekora in Super Mario Bros. to see how far they can go in one hour, while she had a considerable lead with her getting to World 8-1 using the hidden warp zone at World 4-2, she ended up messing up way too many times that by the time the challenge was over, Korone only got up to World 1-2. For comparison, Pekora manages to get up to World 8-2.
Expressive Ears: Her dog ears are capable of moving, usually in reaction to extreme emotions like surprise.
Face Death with Dignity: During one of her streams of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes with Calliope Mori, when she realized there was no way she was going to defuse the bomb in time.
Korone: Oh, I'm die. Thank you forever.
Fangirl:
- For Michael Jackson. She's played games like Escape the Ayuwoki and Space Channel 5 Part 2 solely for the fact that they involve the King of Pop. She's absolutely ecstatic when seeing Space Michael for the first time in the latter game and can barely contain herself when he first appears in person.
  A Stranger in Moscow-like drum beat starts playing; Korone's dog ears perk up in response
  Korone: M... M—
  Space Michael: Get out of here, Ulala! This is a trap!
  Korone: Ah— AH, MICHAEL! Michael...!
- Her Ao Oni stream reveals that she's a fan of a lot of Western media in general. Among other things, she's a big fan of South Park and Happy Tree Friends.
- She once streamed a viewing of Jurassic Park; from her gleeful analysis of the various scenes, it's obvious she had already watched the movie several times before. (Not to mention she named one of her dinosaur pets in ARK: Survival Evolved "Spielberg").
- She's also a fan of Kamen Rider, often singing the themes of the various series and once streaming the Kamen Rider PS1 game.
- She's shown to be a fan of classic mecha as she has sung various 70's mecha openings like Mazinger Z, Getter, Grendizer, Combattler. etc. She was also shown getting excited over Combattler V and Mazinger in Super Robot Wars 30.
- Her reaction to the Yo-Yo path in Infiltrating the Airship revealed her to be one for the Mother series, and more specifically for EarthBound. This eventually culminated in Korone doing a cover of "Pollyanna", with her revealing that she took English lessons for 4 years just so she could sing it.
Fingore: Her catchphrase "yubi yubi" is explained as the viewers cutting off their fingers and giving them to her so that they cannot click away from her stream. She preserves the fingers and returns them to the viewers afters she's done. Sometimes.
Furry Reminder:
- During her playthrough of The House, she makes whimpering noises that sound pretty close to a scared dog.
- In an attempt to fluster Okayu by telling her "I love you" to throw her off her game, Korone instead is flustered after Okayu replies "I love you too", which leaves her panting like a dog.
- Overlapping with Character Tics, Korone is unable to keep her mouth closed no matter what. Even if this is pointed out to her she'll subconsciously open them again. Those familiar with dogs know that dogs generally keep their mouth open and pant to regulate their body temperature.
- In the animated short "RIP Gamers", the audience is shown the aftermath of now-panicked Marine giving Korone Valentine's Day chocolate, accompanied by an on-screen warning about the dangers of dogs eating chocolate.
The Gambling Addict: Several hours of her Dragon Quest III streams were just her playing in the casino.
Gamer Chick: Like the rest of GAMERS and indeed most of Hololive, but Korone stands out for her highly unique and versatile game choices; she plays anything from retro to modern, eastern to western, AAA to indie, popular to obscure, critically acclaimed to famously bad. She'll also play the original releases of older games on actual hardware whenever possible. For example, when most of Hololive started playing the Like a Dragon series, Korone alone chose the original PS2 game as her starting point rather than Yakuza Kiwami, its far more popular modern remake, or Yakuza 0, the prequel. She also played the original Sonic Adventure 2 on a Dreamcast over the numerous Sonic Adventure 2: Battle Updated Rereleases on newer consoles.
Genki Girl: Almost perpetually happy and seemingly never runs out of energy. This is more obvious in her 3D streams, where she's often seen skipping across the screen when she isn't the one playing and generally can't hold still. When she's attending live events, management has often refrained from giving her scripts like they do for other idols due to them knowing full well that she's probably going to end up doing her own thing, not that that's a problem for anyone.
Genre Savvy: She's fairly good at hanging lampshades on things due on her vast knowledge of Western media and horror movies.
Korone: Own paintings like this and you're asking to get haunted.
Korone: This game is more like Rambo Creed than Assassins' Creed.
Goroawase Number: Her Superchat donations are often in ¥563 (ko-ro-san) due to how it spells out her nickname.
Girl with Psycho Weapon: Despite being cute as a button, she is a big fan of brutal weapons such like the chainsaw and BFG in Doom. One of her outfits comes with a massive, nasty-looking baseball bat riddled with nails.
Gratuitous English:
- Part of her outreach to her Western fans. She is doing her best to learn enough English to engage with them, and is not afraid to demonstrate what she's learned even if she leans on Google Translate for longer exchanges. Especially notable with her "Japanese Language Time" end-stream segments where she tries to translate specific Japanese words to English. Her skill has improved so quickly even while working hard on her streaming career and other things that most of her fans believe she has a natural aptitude towards learning speech and communication.
- She eventually took this to the point of deciding to do a stream of her playing Super Mario Bros.. where she set up a challenge to not speak any Japanese, only English (and some other non-Asian languages like Spanish), and stopping the stream as soon as she said a Japanese word. She managed to reach around 42 minutes of streaming before slipping up. To her credit, the other two who attempted the challenge that day, Luna and Fubuki, struggled quite a bit and were a lot harder to understand.
- A little later she did a second English-only Super Mario Bros., and this one really brought the "Gratuitous" part in full effect, since in her efforts to avoid speaking Japanese she basically blurts out every bit of English she knows, grammar or situational appropriateness be damned. This includes referring to all the enemies in bizarre ways, shouting out various brand and movie names, and even sometimes using messed up sentence structure, such as expressing confusion at the firebars present in the underwater section of Bowser's Castle by saying "water in the fire, why?!". She managed to successfully complete the entire game without uttering a single Japanese word, but her English-speaking was still incredibly awkward.
Gratuitous Foreign Language: Like the rest of the Japanese Hololivers, Korone usually makes an effort to mix in some Chinese when hosting BiliBili-exclusive streams. However, while the other Hololivers usually limit themselves to a few token words, one of Korone's stream has her starting to attempt complete Chinese sentences. She's also known to mix in Spanish, which is what attracted her large Spanish-speaking audience.
Heroic BSoD: Suffers one at the end of her first English-only stream, when she accidentally says the Japanese word "kinoko" instead of the English "mushroom", thus forcing her - by the rules she set for herself - to end the stream. The normally upbeat dog is stunned into silence for nearly ten seconds, before finally muttering "thank you for watching today... kinoko..." and cutting the stream without another word.
Hidden Depths:
- Despite her innocent and carefree nature, Korone is a graduate of Tokyo U and holds a degree in Philosophy.
- One of Korone's hobbies off-stream is boxing. Korone described doing boxing as a fun activity to Ayame when Ayame first discovered this.
- She once went into detail of how she can't discuss her like of guro genre Torture Porn movies like Hostel and Saw with family and friends due to social pressure, and gets philosophical on why she enjoys them so much despite not liking real violence by touching on their fictional nature as a way to view things outside of reality. She also admits she has become deeply curious and analytical of how actors approach portrayals of pain that they themselves cannot possibly understand.
- She has stated that her favourite movie is The Green Mile.
- Despite being one of the least "idol-like" members in hololive, she is actually quite acrobatic, pulling off a perfect front walkover during hololive 3rd fes. While sporting a broken finger.
Humanlike Animal Aging: This is implied for her, at least initially. As a dog, she gave her age as 90 years old... in human years. In dog years, she would be about 19 years old, which as a dog girl, seems to be the correct value for her.
The Hyena: She has a tendency to find something laughable in just about every situation. Inherently Funny Words, Amusing Injuries, and Yet Another Stupid Death tend to bring out the most bombastic ones from her.
Hypocrisy Nod: She has lectured her chat for being jealous about her supposedly giving extra attention to new viewers, but then revealed her main gripe with this was that her chat was becoming too similar to her, as she can't deal with people like herself.
"I Am Great!" Song: Her second theme, Doggy God's Street, is mostly this, with a Badass Boast or two in it for good measure; including how she's the toughest dog of all and has the likes of Anubis, Fenrir, Cerberus, Orthros and Cù-sìth^note at her beck and call. Just to give you some idea from the first chorus:
Every wild beast making noise on this street knows who I am,
East side to the West side,
This is my home turf, you know
Look at you dumb, being all cocky
I'll be real nice and send you flyin'
Let you know my rule
Nighty-night Korone
Oh yeah!
Get out of my way
(Yeah! Yeah! Awooo!)
Otherwise, clap your hands!
Oh yeah!
Masterful party
(Yeah! Yeah! Awooo!)
Be good and wag your tail
Bow wow wow
Louder than words, the truth speaks on its own
Woof woof woof, won-won-wonderful lifestyle that I know
If I catch you I won't let you go, now's your one chance to shine
I'm an absolute miracle worker, you know
Doggy God!
I Just Want to Have Friends: Expressed that while she is fine with being a loner for the time being, she might come to regret not having made a lot of meaningful connections with people on her deathbed.
Informed Species: As a dog girl, she's specifically supposed to be a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, but her ears are much smaller than a real King Charles Spaniel's.
Inherently Funny Words:
- The word "bonk" gets her to laugh a lot.
- During her Doom (2016) playthrough, she randomly talks about how she finds the English word "Next!" funny when it's said by convenience store clerks.
- While playing Raft with Marine, Chloe, and Koyori, she got a chuckle out of saying "Beets" while showing the vegetable to her teammates.
In the Blood: According to her, her grandma likes incredibly graphic horror movies as well. They ended up watching The Green Inferno together and had a lot of fun.
Ironic Name: Her given name is a reference to the chocolate cornet, ostensibly due to her occupation as a baker. Chocolate is deadly to dogs when consumed, which is demonstrated in this Valentines's Day short where Korone promptly "died" after being given some by Marine.
Kiai: Korone is known for her "Orayo!" warcry, typically while fighting an opponent. If the fighting became intense, she may even belt it out repeatedly and loudly. Also doubles as her Character Catchphrase.
Language Barrier: Despite her efforts to learn English so that she may engage with her overseas audience, Korone's grasp of English is limited, and thus she still has problems with the language barrier. For example, when playing Chicken Feet, she listens to an audio recording in English, but she wails in despair as she gets overwhelmed attempting to understand the "long long English".
Korone: [despairing] Guys! Guys! English not understand! Noooooo... Long long English! Noo— [the vent Korone enters gives way.] AAAAH!
Last-Second Word Swap: At one point in her second English-only stream, she nearly says "kinoko" again, but she manages to stop herself and swap it out with the English "mushroom".
Korone: [panicking] Secret... secret... [hits block] Oh! Secret kiiiiiiiiiiiiii-mushroom!

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Malaproper: A frequent occurrence when she tries to narrate foreign text, as she's not yet fluent in it and keeps misreading words. That said, she is doing her best to learn pronunciation more and frequently uses Google Translate to at least get a vague idea of how things are read and pronounced. She also takes English lessons from a tutor and, according to her, is the one that introduced the Doom franchise to her (whose games she often treats as a chance to exercise her English skills). Even more evident in her BiliBili-exclusive streams: while the entire Japanese cast already have problems trying to get the Chinese pronunciation and tones correct, Korone's strange accent mangles her speech to an entirely new level where some of her Chinese fans can barely understand what she's saying without reading the subtitles provided by her translators.
Korone: Recapotato purusoso? ...prososon?
Mascot:
- Her streams are accompanied by a drawing of a Koronesuki◊, a bald smiling man. He also goes by Listener-san.
- There's also the "hoso-inu", a simple sketch of a white puppy and "Futo-Inu", a slightly chubbier puppy, both made by Korone.
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In Evil God Korone, where "Koro-san" seems to be a supernatural being capable of bending reality and indoctrinating people into becoming Koronesuki, up to and including painful transformations. That being said, one of the extra endings shows that she is a real, physical person, though the final frames do imply that at least some aspects of her are more magical than they seem.
Meaningful Name: "Inugami" means "dog god" (and the dog kanji 戌 used in her name refers to the Zodiac dog), while "Korone" is a transliteration of "cornet", as in the Japanese chocolate cornet pastry. Ironically, she doesn't look or act anywhere near as divine as her last name would imply, except when she at least dresses the part for a New Year's stream.
Modesty Shorts: It's not seen unless her 3D model is rigged in a certain way, but Korone does wear shorts underneath her dress◊.
Mood Whiplash: Korone expected Too Weak RPG to be another Affectionate Parody of RPG tropes, like KSB Games's other RPG Maker MV titles, Too Fast RPG and RPG That Got Trimmed Too Much. For the most part, Korone's expectations were right, up until the climax, which goes ham on the Cerebus Syndrome and turns into a Deconstructive Parody when the protagonist defeats the Demon Lord with The Power of Friendship and gets the three wish-granting "yikes" crystals, wishing for a world where he's the strongest. This results in the Alternate Universe Too Strong RPG where the hero's an unstoppable cold-blooded killer, which he found no enjoyment either, even when he almost loses to a random goblin using The Power of Friendship against him. The Golden Ending has the hero and the goblin fight God (a blue slime) for a world where the strong and the weak coexist peacefully, resulting in another alternate universe where the hero, his party, and the Demon Lord and his minions are all comically stereotypical chum buddies in some sort of Slice of Life setting. Korone thought the plot twist made the game unexpectedly emotional and enjoyable, although she didn't really know what to make of the Golden Ending.
The Movie Buff: When Korone said her hobby was watching movies in her debut, she wasn't kidding. Korone has incredible knowledge of both Eastern and Western films, and not only has seen hundreds of movies, her memory is fantastic, allowing her to call on them for references or making highly detailed remarks on the unique qualities of what she has seen at the drop of a hat. While her favorite genre is gory Torture Porn slaughter horror films like Hostel and the Saw series, she'll watch damn near anything from any genre and will frequently use movies as a point of reference for all kinds of conversations and situations on her stream.
Mundane Made Awesome: The reason why she even did a front walkover during the hololive 3rd fes was because she felt that because the song is all about Airman, she figured she might as well have some air time by doing the flip.
Must Have Caffeine: Korone is almost always seen accompanied by a cup of coffee... which also has a jalapeño in it.
Neat Freak: Korone is this, according to Mio, with everything from in her house, her room, down to all of her files in all of her folders are properly labelled and ordered. The exception to this are her internet tabs.
The Nicknamer: In her English-only Super Mario Bros. streams, she refers to nearly every enemy with a nickname, presumably because she doesn't know their English names. Koopa Troopas are "turtles", Hammer Bros. are "strong turtles", Paratroopas are "angel turtles", Goombas are "marron glacé" (a French dessert made from candied chestnuts, which is fitting, since Goombas are based on chestnuts), Piranha Plants are "vegetable flowers", Lakitus are "Independence Day", Buzzy Beetles are "olive boy", and so on.
Nightmare Fetishist:
- She discovers a fondness for big, hulking humanoid abominations during her Resident Evil 4 playthrough.
- She was once accidentally caught doing internet research on torture methods in preparation for a torture stream she wanted to pitch to management.
- Her segment in AsaCoco involves educating the viewers about dark and criminal subject matters, such as the "problem removers" used by the yakuza.
- She lets out a big "WOOOOOW!" and laughs heartily while going on a rampage with the double chainsaw in her Doom 64 playthrough.
- When playing Spider-Man (2000), she admits to being a fan of Venom, repeatedly calling him cute.
- Her foray into Doom (2016) ends up with her reveling in the glory kills, admiring the demon designs, and rediscovering her love for chainsaws. Not to mention plenty of time admiring the gothic and hellish architecture.
  Korone: Chainsaw, I LOVE YOU!
- She was also enjoying herself too much when playing as the killer in Dead by Daylight. She also called one of killers as cute.
- Her favorite films steer towards horror movies with extremely graphic violence and sexual content, even once recommending Hostel to her viewers in a members-only stream. She even did a live reaction to Midsommar and thoroughly enjoyed it, and mentioned doing the same with Tusk and The Green Inferno (though she would end up watching the latter with her grandma off stream). In fact, she's stated before that she didn't think the Saw movies were violent enough, and would've liked them to get even more creative with their tortures.
Out-of-Character Moment: Played for Laughs in this video, where she comes back to life after deciding her death makes no sense, and acknowledges she's "playing fast and loose" with her character profile.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: One of Korone's hobbies outside of streaming is boxing; Shion has even commented on this and shown off her collection of muscle supplements she uses to stay in shape. Korone herself has also commented that she's pretty sure she could beat any other (real-life) hololive member in a fistfight.
Platonic Kissing: She apparently kisses Okayu so much that she assumes it can't be anything more than this trope. She also nonchalantly kisses Fubuki and Mio during hololive GAMERS's Ring Fit Adventure stream (with the former flailing her arms around in embarrassment).
Playful Cat Smile: Weirdly, Korone sports one of these despite being a dog. It still fits her energetic and playful personality.
Perpetual Smiler: Downplayed. While she does frown or look sad from time to time, the majority of the time she is either grinning or using a Playful Cat Smile as her resting expression. She does have a neutral expression without the Playful Cat Smile, but she rarely uses it.
Product Placement: As part of her partnership with Sega, she got a Sonic-themed outfit and her background image was changed to have Sega consoles, both of these things happening just shy of the franchise's 31st anniversary. The outfit even dyes her hair blue and gives her green eyes, like Sonic himself.
Pungeon Master: It's never been uncommon for Korone to rapid-fire puns in Japanese, and as her grasp of English has rapidly improved, she sometimes will make puns that combines things from both languages.
Rated M for Manly: She loves these kinds of games. Doom (2016) is one of those instances where she's outright ecstatic when fighting demons with glory kills and More Dakka weapons.
Reference Overdosed: Expect Korone to name-drop various Western media over the course of a playthough, which is another part of her charm to overseas viewers.
Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Korone finds most sound effects in games highly amusing and tends to repeat them.
She Is the King: In an animated short, she decided to be the king for a day while Choco, Noel, and Okayu are her advisors while Mio and Haato look on in confusion. However, Korone ended up guessing that Choco, Okayu, and Noel were her Treacherous Advisor, and had them sent to prison.
Shrinking Violet: By her own admission, Korone is still largely a shy, introverted person despite how energetic she gets with her chat and cites this as a reason she hasn't collabed with the fifth generation when questioned about it.
Signature Laugh: She has a distinctive whistle-like laugh. When she really gets going, it almost sounds like a train whistle, something that's lampshaded by Miko in a collab stream by rendering it as "PII-HYA-HYA!".
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: With Aqua. Due to the two being in a Love Triangle with Okayu, they frequently fight with their words for her affection. When the two get left alone during collabs, she and Aqua end up struggling to come up with things to say to one another due to their mutual animosity.
Sleep Deprivation: Infamous for her marathon streams, and spending hours on social media AFTER doing them. She once did a 28-hour stream of Maka Maka, and even once floated the idea of doing a 67-hour marathon as a Milestone Celebration (her manager reacted with stunned confusion when Korone asked their opinion on that). Her viewers frequently show concern for her sleep schedule, which annoys her to no end. Eventually this made her sick, as she had to go to the hospital after an Apex marathon, followed by a Tetris marathon, followed by a singing stream over the course of three days and was apparently diagnosed with an overworking related illness. Even then, she continued to complain about having to sleep on Twitter during her doctor-recommended resting period. She also ran Assassin's Creed Syndicate marathon that would only end if she cleared the main story or if 30 hours passed with 30-minute breaks every ten hours, which ended in her beating the main story in 24 hours.
The Sleepless: Korone routinely tries to invoke this on her viewers by telling them not to sleep whenever they say "good night". She once threatened to force her listeners to wear a sleeping mask laced with chili peppers and wrap them up with a mix of packing tape, glue, and rope so that they would not be able to take it off.
Squee: While watching the Nintendo Direct 2021, she gets excited when Super Robot Wars 30 shows up and Combattler V is the first one in the trailer, she starts singing the opening while Combattler V is using its Super EM Yo-Yo with her getting giddy and Mazinger Z: Infinity is using its Breast Fire attack.
Stealth Pun: During Coco Kiryu's graduation, Korone showed up wearing a giant bamboo hat on her head. Bamboo is a form of grass. The word "grass" is "Kusa" in Japanese. Korone decided to send off Coco literally as "Big Kusa."
Stunned Silence: In her Final Fantasy IX playthrough, she climbs up to Popos Heights and encounters the Grand Dragon, who proceeds to pull a Total Party Kill by casting a multi-hit Thundaga. She doesn't say anything for an entire minute till the intro music finally plays again. It later happens again when she ends up triggering the Ozma fight, and while she didn't get kill immediately, she had not prepared for it.
Take That!: Despite her love of the game, the lengthy loading times in the PlayStation 4 version of Assassin's Creed Syndicate were so obnoxious that she started acting as if she was loading too, positioning her head just under the game's own loading symbol and pausing her dialogue.
Talk to the Fist: When her audience members gets rowdy or toxic, she points them out to her manager and gets them silenced, illustrated by a Koronesuki taking a fist to the face. She figures that even if she posts her chat rules in the description, nobody's going to bother reading it, so she'd rather deal with the problem as it comes up. That said, she has a traffic light indicator that she brings up from time to time when she notices the chat starting to misbehave, as a warning signal before she figuratively slugs them to shut them up.
Tempting Fate: Hilariously invoked in her English-only stream of Super Mario Bros..
Korone: Have confidence! [runs straight into the pit of lava in front of her, followed by Beat] No confidence!
This Is Gonna Suck: In her Final Fantasy IX playthrough, she explores a little bit of Popos Heights, thinking that it was a safe area (despite being warned in-game not to go there), and enters a Random Encounter, which plays the usual battle theme. Her avatar goes from happy to Oh, Crap! the moment she sees the Grand Dragon, who then annihilates her party.
Troll: She once responded to a fan's marriage proposal by agreeing to marry every single one of her viewers. She then immediately asked her new husbands and wives to buy her a new refrigerator because hers broke. Hilariously enough, many fans took the joke and ran with it, with famous voice actor Yuki Ono later taking her up on the offer and gave her a maxed out superchat to buy one as an apology for cheating on her by watching a male streamer, but by that point she already gotten a new fridge.
Vague Age: At some point after her debut, she revealed her age as 90, explaining that this is how old she is after converting her dog years into human years. However, as birthdays go by, she adds 1 each year to this converted age instead of her dog years, which if taken at face value, means the established proportionality no longer applies.
Verbal Tic:
- Has the tendency to say variations of "wowowowow" when excited or happy about something that's happening in her game. Which, unsurprisingly considering her personality, happens quite a lot.
- Whenever trying to describe something in English, Korone will occasionally emphasize an adjective by saying it twice, like "long long mushroom", "small small turtle house", "yummy yummy fish", or "long long English".
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Miko. The two frequently hold MiKorone collabs together, with Korone even getting a 3D model to match Miko's, and they even make it a yearly tradition to collab during New Year's Eve. Despite how close they are, they love to bicker and argue with each other, trying their absolute best to see what makes each other tick, though they always clarify that it's all in good jest.
Vocal Dissonance: A semi-frequent occurrence on Korone's streams — most often when her mood suddenly changes — is her face not changing to match her current emotion. It's particularly noticeable when she's scared, which often has her still bearing her usual happy cat-like smile while wailing in terror.
Wacky Marriage Proposal: Her segment with Okayu 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.
What the Hell Is That Accent?: She pronounces words in a way that confounds Shion to no end, particularly how her inflection and pitch keep going up and down after each syllable, or her tendency to pause in the middle of specific words (e.g. her pronunciation of "bread", pan, has a very distinctive Beat in between the syllables), giving her a curious enunciation. Fubuki, Suisei and Flare have also poked fun at her accent by imitating it. Korone herself claims that her grandmother's Kansai dialect might have had a hand in this when she was little.
Who Wants to Live Forever?: She's expressed this in a unique way, stating that she dislikes the concept of eternity.
Korone: Nothing lasts forever, right? So, why does the word 'eternity' exist if nothing lasts forever? I don't like it. If eternity doesn't exist, then the word shouldn't exist. If anything, it's lonely. Wishing things lasted forever is a lonely experience.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Korone laughs at gore, mutilation, psychological horror, and death, but the moment mosquitoes, spiders, and creepy crawlies come into the picture, she completely loses it. A couple good examples are:
- In her Doom (2016) stream, she loves the hallways filled with organs and blood, but admits she can't handle the way Spider Mastermind moves.
- Her Metal Slug 3 stream, has a maggot-infested level reduced her to a shrieking mess to the point where she had to pause the game several times to stop hyperventilating.
- She arguably has it the worst in her Resident Evil 7 playthrough, having a panic attack at just about every turn in Marguerite's domain. Insects the size of the main character's head frequently fly close to the camera, making Korone freak out and attempt to knife them while trying to look as far away from the screen as possible.
- Her attempt at playing Earth Defense Force was fraught with panicked screams as she found herself swarmed by Big Creepy-Crawlies.
Yandere: Progressively becoming a defining personality attribute, especially in regards to Okayu. When Subaru told her in Minecraft that Okayu was both kissing her and being cute with Ollie, Korone responded with a foreboding, "Eh?", before proceeding to beat Okayu up. Other members, including Mio, have noted that Korone gets absolutely scary when she goes yandere, and even has empty irises◊ for when she becomes a yandere. Even her viewers aren't safe, as when Korone gets messages from them explaining how much her videos mean to them, she'll accept the compliment, but not before making remarks of how they've probably said things like this to other women, and that if she relaxes them so much, they've probably fallen asleep on her.
Youkai: Shortly after her New Year's outfit reveal in 2020, Korone's artist, Fukahire, posted an art of said outfit with the commentary of "Korone-chan, the inugami" (戌神のころねちゃん). This indicates that although Korone hasn't called herself one, she was intended to be a "dog god" from Japanese mythology.

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Inugami Korone [JP: 戌神ころね; CN: 戌神沁音]

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