Inugami Korone

Inugami Korone (戌神ころね) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber. She is a part of a unit inside hololive called hololive Gamers (ホロライブゲーマーズ) alongside Shirakami Fubuki, Ookami Mio, and Nekomata Okayu.

Introduction Video
Inugami Korone's introduction.

Personality
Korone has an outwardly sweet and energetic personality that sharply contrasts with her occasional violent and animalistic tendencies while playing games such as Minecraft. She often kisses other hololive members for no reason, and has a high-pitched laugh that resembles a train whistle. Like most dogs, Korone is fiercely loyal, but mostly towards Nekomata Okayu. The two are rarely seen apart, and fans have dubbed the pairing "OkaKoro".

Korone has a fondness for retro games, especially more niche ones. She derives a great amount of amusement from the strangeness that can be found in these games, often laughing at how absurd or weird they can be.

Korone speaks a unique dialect/accent of Japanese. Although she has mentioned working on changing it to the more common accent, it is apparently still very noticeable to many of her fellow VTubers in hololive.

Lately she has taken notice of her English-speaking fans, and has started to go out of her way to interact with them. Most notably, she was able to successfully use Google Translate to relay messages in English to her fans. She has also commented on some English-translated clips and memes made by her fans, using English to express her appreciation.

Korone talks about bread occasionally, likely a reference to her name which denotes a type of sweet bread popular in Japan. Her signature greeting consists of her asking for the fingers of her fans which is where her "Yubi! Yubi!" catchphrase comes from. Her battle cry when playing games is "Oraiyo!"

Background
Korone's surname, Inugami, translates roughly to "Dog God" or "Dog Spirit" although the kanji used in its spelling appears to be slightly different from the usual spelling.

Korone's first name seems to be the Japanese word for "chocolate cornet", which is a type of sweet bread invented in Japan. More specifically, "korone" means "cornet" which is a type of European instrument.

Her backstory is that she apparently works as a mascot at a bakery, although some fans wonder if this is actually the case or if it is just part of her character's lore.

Korone's signature greeting "Yubi! Yubi!" originated from her desire to have her own unique greeting. During her first stream with the other members of hololive Gamers Korone noticed that she was the only one out of the group that didn't have her own greeting. She joked about possibly greeting her viewers by asking for their fingers, after which they would reply "Yubi! Yubi!" in return.

2019
She was first announced on 22 March 2019 in Shirakami Fubuki's stream during which Fubuki debuted her new 3D model. Fubuki announced that she alongside with Nekomata Okayu would join hololive Gamers in April. This was followed up by an announcement on hololive's Twitter account on 25 March. She was officially introduced on 1 April.

Her Twitter account was opened on 24 March 2019 while her YouTube channel was created on 25 March. She made her debut on 13 April although she had appeared on the streams of other members before her debut, the first being on Subaru's channel on 7 April.

On 10 September she announced on her Twitter that she would be getting her 3D model, later on 14 September she debuted her 3D model during a stream.

On 26 December she published in Twitter that she would get her second 2D costume, this costume was later revealed that day during a stream this costume has a mostly brown dress with a ribbon and a hat.

2020
On 1 January, she debuted her third 2D costume, a kimono in celebration of the new year.

On 24 January along with the other hololive girls up to the third generation, she debuted her 3D idol outfit at hololive's 1st fest Nonstop Story.

Events

 * On 28 January 2020, she made an appearance in VVVtunia as one of the Vtuber guest stars alongside Tokino Sora, Shirakami Fubuki, Roboco, Minato Aqua, Yuzuki Choco, Sakura Miko, Shirogane Noel and Houshou Marine.

Trivia

 * Viewers have noted a similarity between her voice and mannerisms to Aya of AyaMina Games, who ceased to be a VTuber a few months before.
 * During her introduction, her height was wrongly written as 156 m instead of 156 cm. This has caused her fans to joke about her being a giantess whenever her image is portrayed especially bigger compared to other VTubers in the same video.
 * While obviously an Inugami/Dog-Girl, Korone has cited on several occasions that her specific breed is the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
 * Korone has a rather good English skill as seen in one of her tweets.
 * Oftentimes when Korone streams the device she is using to do live stream named "AirServer" tend to glitch or timed out causes her model to turned into a giant Airserver icon.
 * She has mentioned on stream that her accent comes from a combination of her grandmother's Kansai dialect and an unknown dialect of her parents that has not been revealed.
 * Her accent seems to differ most notably from the inflections of syllables. (Video)
 * According to Coco, Korone's daily schedule suggests that she only sleeps about 2-3 hours a day in between working at the bakery and streaming. Fans have expressed concern over her health, but at the same time there appears to be confusion over whether this is Korone's actual schedule or just a part of her character's backstory.