Houshou Marine

Houshou Marine (宝鐘マリン) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber. She is a part of the third generation of hololive members called Hololive Fantasy (ホロライブファンタジー) alongside Usada Pekora, Uruha Rushia, Shiranui Flare, and Shirogane Noel.

Introduction Video
Marine's introduction.

Personality

 * Because of her love for jewelries, treasures and money, she wanted to become a pirate and sail to the ocean to look for hidden treasures.
 * Has plans to buy a pirate ship, but is so poor she has to earn her living working as a Vtuber on land.
 * (Currently a cosplay pirate, not a real pirate.)
 * Has a mature element, but she also like to make fun of others at times.

History
Her Twitter account and YouTube channel was created on 22 July 2019. She debuted with her introduction stream on 11 August.

On 23 August 2019, she did a Drawing stream drawing Minato Aqua in her swimsuit. She finished her artwork during her next Drawing stream on 28 August and posted her finished work on Twitter.

Trivia

 * Marine is notably good at drawing as so far she drawn Shirakami Fubuki, and Minato Aqua and Natsuiro Matsuri on their swimsuits.
 * Her name "Marine" is an English word (not a Japanese name pronunciation), meaning everything related to the sea or the navy.
 * Uses the term "Captain" or "Captain Marine" whenever she is referring to herself.
 * Greets her viewers with "Ahoy", and ends the stream with "Set out" (in Japanese), in which the viewers would reply "Yosoro" （ヨーソロー）, both are naval terms, with "ahoy" being a greet word used to call ships or boats in the English world; while "yosoro" roughly translates as a command to move ahead or as reply to a command in Japan.
 * Her semi-transparent black "clothing" is a leotard (one-piece garment that covers from crotch to shoulder) According to Marine she wore this because she doesn't like to wear panties. (Other Hololive members claim that she could not afford to buy panties)
 * Knowledgable in everything ACG-related, is an old user in niconico, once sang niconico's suite during live-stream, and likes to discuss about aged ACG products. Is also a fan of Touhou Project/Project Shrine Maiden, sometimes streams herself playing/testing out new Touhou Project-related games.
 * The opening scene 「船长祈祷中……」(Captain praying) is a Neta from Touhou Project's 「少女祈祷中……」(Girl praying) which can be found in the loading screens of games.
 * Originally planned on calling her fans “宝钟海贼团” (Marine Pirate Group), and her members "团员"(group member), but in order to prevent a crash with another Hololive member Shirogane Noel who also calls her fans “白银圣骑士团” (Silver Holy Knight Group) and her fans "团员"(group member), changed her way of calling her members to "一伙" (Band member), which was inspired by the anime 《ONE PIECE》in which the protagonist and his friends call themselves 「草帽一伙（麦わらの一味）」(Band of straw hat). The debut livestream ED was also a neta from a famous quote by Portgas·D· Ace (before he dies) in 《ONE PIECE》"Thank you all of you…for loving me (despite all my flaws)，thank you!!!（愛してくれて、ありがとう！！！）"
 * As above-mentioned, she lives in a slum located deep inside the hills, has no ship (or boat), and is a "pirate" who is only active on land.
 * Because she lacked the elements of a real pirate, is laughed at by her viewers who gave her the nickname "bandit". After fulfilling her viewer's request to take off her pirate hat, her clothings show no indication that she used to be a pirate, and is hence nicknamed by her viewers as "bandit mode" whenever she takes off her hat.
 * Is sometimes called by fans jokingly at as "Cosplay pirate", but Marine seems reluctant towards this nickname. (She is completely fine with people calling her a "bandit".)

Live-streaming

 * Her same batch VTuber Uruha Rushia once mentioned that she sounded like Tony Tony Chopper in 《ONE PIECE》, but Marine thinks she cannot imitate his voice. Then she made an attempt to imitate Monkey D. Luffy also from《ONE PIECE》,which was worse, before making a statement that she would never try that again.
 * Another same batch VTuber Usada Pekora commented that she sounded like Ai Haibara from 《Detective Conan》,but was again laughed at by viewers when she attempted to imitate Haibara, saying she sounded more like Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya (another character in 《Detective Conan》) more than anyone else. It then turned a meme.
 * Attempted to breath (breath=have an affair, the meme originated by Matsuri) Natsuiro Matsuri while she is sleeping during her 24 hour non-stop livestream. Was discovered by MAtsuri (biological mother of Matsuri) and threatened to call the virtual police. Marine then begged her not to and promised not to do so again.
 * Hold high regard by her viewers when she imitate Pikachu in the Pokémon series.
 * Later had a collaboration with Hayase Sou from Nijisanji who is famed for imitating Ash Ketchum in the Pokémon series, since Ash is the male protagonist of the series while Pikachu is his favorite Pokémon, their combination is nicknamed "100% Vtuber Pokémon series", which even led to viewers raising concerns if they would be demonetized for copyright infringement.

Relationship(s)

 * In her debut introduction video, specifically annotated Uruha Rushia as "Captain's fiancée", then she started reading a love confession right in front of Rushia (the template is the same as her predecessor, Matsuri's love confession to Fubuki). Currently you can see Uruha Rushia (and sometimes Usada Pekora) appearing on the screen before a stream start.
 * After being called out as "cosplay pirate" by fans and Hololive Vtuber (her senior) Aki Rosenthal, Marine retaliated by dragging everyone else together, claiming Shirogane Noel is a mercenary cosplaying as a knight, Shiranui Flare's pet is a rip-off of Doraemon, Usada Pekora's questionable clothing, and only spared Uruha Rushia, saying "she has nothing, merely alive and cute". However, the viewers continued to attack her by translating her compliment to Rushia is actually implicating Rushia has "nothing" (no breast)(Rushia is the only flat-chested VTuber among the third batch, and she is easily agitated by topics about her chest). Marine apologized immediately after realizing what she has said.
 * Marine later recounted that she hesitated whether or not she wanted to make a love confession to Rushia, but was encouraged by Natsuiro Matsuri who has done so before her.
 * However, as of right now, she has already flirted with Shirogane Noel, Shirakami Fubuki, Sakura Miko and even Natsuiro Matsuri etc., and expressed her "deep interest" with other members of Hololive. (Interestingly, her fiancée Rushia is known to be a yandere.)
 * Is often joked at as Matsuri the Second, since it was Natsuiro Matsuri in Hololive who first showed signs of homosexuality and has a flirtatious nature. This leads to comments like "Their starting two alphabets are both MA (Matsuri and Marine), it must be hereditary", and "Marine does not disappoint the Ma family" etc. from viewers.