Kishido Temma

Kishido Temma (岸堂天真) is a male Japanese Virtual YouTuber endorsed by hololive's branch Holostars. He is a member of its second generation, also known as "SunTempo" alongside Astel Leda and Yukoku Roberu.

Profile
A cheerful and energetic knight apprentice from the Schools of Knights. He has neverending smiles. Chivalrous spirit has meant everything to him since he was born. After graduation, in order to know more around the world, he managed to challenge lots of different things. He had his first ramen recently and he was amazed by it.

Personality
Temma also can act "psychopathic" and "evil" during games such as Dead By Daylight and Among Us, and will exhibit behaviors such as wanting to kill and blissfully laughing and showing no remorse whenever he successfully kills someone. This has lead fans and fellow Holostars to call him "Dark Knight".

Background
His Twitter account was created on 13 November 2019; his YouTube channel was created on 25 November, and his debut stream was performed on 14 December.

2020
On 29 February, during his 3000 subscriber celebration stream, he introduced his pet, Hiyamaru.

On Holostars' first anniversary, 3 June, 2020, Holostars' cover of Blessing by halyosy was released, making it Temma's first cover song.

On 12 July, he released his first solo cover song, Heroine Ikusei Keikaku (Heroine Development Plan) by HoneyWorks.

On 5 August, he debuted his summer costume.

On 25 December, it was announced that all the Holostars members would receive new costumes on 3 January, 2021, commemorating New Year's.

2021
On January 3, he revealed his new year's costume, which was modelled by vivi.

On February 21, as part of his 50,000-subscriber celebration, he opened his channel's membership feature.

On 26 March, he reached 60,000 subscribers.

On 13 May, he reached 70,000 subscribers.

On 12 June, he reached 80,000 subscribers.

On 2 July, he reached 90,000 subscribers.

On 13 July, hololive's Japanese Twitter account announced that every Holostars member would get 2.0 version of their 2D model.

On 15 August, he reached 100,000 subscribers, being the eighth Holostars to reach this milestone.

Discography

 * ''Main page: Kishido Temma/Discography

2020
On 2 May, Temma, as well as Yukoku Roberu and Astel Leda appeared on on Holocomi (ホロコミ), an online convention/event hosted by Shirakami Fubuki.

On 26 October, it was announced that Holostars goods would be sold at Animate Girls Festival Aozora Marche, held on November 7-8, 2020, and on 28 October, 2020, it was announced that Holostars would be participating in the event as guests. Temma is part of the "Virtual Clerk" (バーチャル店員) exhibition in the event.

2021
On 28 January, it was announced that "Net Talking Festival", an Holostars exclusive event, will be held on 14 February where fans can have a one-on-one chat with any of the Holostars members for 3 minutes, talking about their daily feelings of gratitude to an important person.

From 25 until 27 June, all Holostars members participated in their 2nd anniversary event "Our Rally 2021", the event featured 3 Holostars in each day of the event, Temma participated on the 2nd day. On the final day of the event, an original song Just Follow Stars was released on the official Holostars channel featuring all members singing.

On 24 July, Temma participated on the Apex Legends tournament Cypher Cup Festival as the team "Holostars" along Astel Leda and Kanade Izuru. In the final rankings, the team ranked 7th place and they did not advance to the Grand Final.

Mascot & Fans

 * His mascot is his grey ferret, Hiyamaru (ひや丸). Hiyamaru is a 2-year-old female ferret born on 10 August and likes to stay around his neck.
 * His fanbase is officially called "Kishi-men" (岸メン).
 * When fans are waiting for Temma to start a stream, they say "taikishi" (待騎士), a portmanteau of "taiki" (待機, lit. "waiting") and "kishi" (騎士, lit. "knight").
 * Occasionally, when Temma ends the stream, fans say farewell by saying "otsukishi" (おつきし).

Relationships

 * Units and groups aside from SunTempo he is a part of are:
 * "YuruStar" (ゆるスタ), along with Arurandeisu and Hanasaki Miyabi.
 * "HanaKishi" (花岸), along with Hanasaki Miyabi.
 * "AstMa", along with Astel Leda.
 * "TsukiKageRiTem" (月影律天), along with Tsukishita Kaoru, Kageyama Shien and Rikka.
 * "TemMa" (天魔), along with Aragami Oga.
 * "Entenka" (円天家​) along with Kageyama Shien.

Trivia

 * Most people do not realize this but Temma is actually an isekai (from another world) knight. Landing in Japan, ramen was the first thing he tasted and fell in love with it.
 * His illustrator has done character designs for Tales of Zestiria, Touken Ranbu and the Fate franchise.
 * Temma has stated through multiple streams that he is a forever 20 year old who doesn't age.
 * In a stream, Temma said that he has a white horse which costs a lot to maintain and has yet to reveal the name. In fact, it's actually a bicycle he owns but fans jokingly played along that the bicycle is a horse since it's befitting of his knight image.
 * During a stream he decided that his horse's name is Umazou (ウマ蔵).
 * During a slang stream with Arurandeisu they came up with new nicknames for themselves. Temma's was CGK (Charming Genius Knight).
 * Temma is one of the members of Holostars whose English comprehension skill is on par to be able to read and speak on a simple level as he has shown in his "ENG ONLY" streams as well as answering English comments in chat that he comes across.
 * Temma has showcased his English skills before in his "ENG ONLY" streams for Dead by Daylight and Fall Guys.
 * Since starting a series of "Studying English" streams, Temma has been able to show more of his English skills. He even writes down notes in real time during the stream in which he shares on a twitter post after ending the stream. He keeps it all on one twitter post and makes replies showing future notes he takes to keep it organized.
 * Temma has revealed a few times in his streams that he had practiced the piano for 10 years when he was younger before he stopped playing.
 * The same day that Temma tweeted that he got a piano keyboard, he also did a guerilla stream testing it out.
 * When the 2021 Holosters New Year Costume Acrylic Stand became available to be ordered, Temma's was the first to be sold out domestically and internationally.
 * Temma's three favorites killers in Dead By Daylight are the Nurse, Spirit and Nightmare.
 * The greatsword he wields when wearing his new year's outfit is named Tenken:Yozora (天剣：夜空).
 * Temma was celebrating his 1st anniversary on YouTube when Google's servers crashed worldwide. Despite this, his stream was still live and he continued on with the celebration.
 * Astel makes a joke about the server crash on Twitter, showing his view of Temma's stream.
 * Temma revealed that he practiced karate for 10 years from the age of 5 to 15 and has a black belt. He hopes to be able to show his karate skills in a 3D stream one day.

Media

 * Temma Ch. 岸堂天真 - YouTube channel
 * Kishido Temma's corporate profile on hololive.tv (English)
 * Kishido Temma's corporate profile on hololive.tv (Japanese)
 * @kishidotemma - Twitter account
 * 岸堂天真Official - bilibili channel
 * @kishidotemma - TwitCasting channel

Twitter hashtags

 * #岸堂天真 - General
 * #天真修行中 - Stream talk
 * #岸メン - Fans
 * #騎士絵画 - Fan art
 * #騎士抜き動画 - Video clips
 * #天真聞いたよ - Commentary on released voice dramas

Further readings

 * 岸堂天真 - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
 * 岸堂天真 - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * 岸堂天真 - Unofficial Holostars seesaawiki
 * 岸堂天真 - Moegirl Encylopedia
 * Kishido Temma - Hololive Fan Wiki