Crunchyroll-Hime

Crunchyroll-Hime is a female corporate bilingual (English and Japanese) Virtual YouTuber. She is the official mascot for anime streaming service Crunchyroll.

Personality
Hime is a kitsune in human form, who discovered and fell in love with anime after stumbling across a couple watching Astro Boy on television.

Her younger sister, Sudachi, plays a prominent role on her channel as her moderator and often shows up in written text on her channel, usually sounding more monotone and less excited than Hime. Hime also owns a black cat named Yuzu, who she calls her "best friend" and loves dearly.

She's multilingual but primarily streams in English and Japanese. While not fluent, she knows some Korean, German, Russian, Chinese, and Spanish.

She's considered the "voice" of Crunchyroll on the site's social media channels and the manager of the Crunchyroll website itself. Her VTuber activities are an extension of her role on the website and social media. She's also featured, along with Sudachi and Yuzu, in her webcomic, The Daily Life of Crunchyroll-Hime in the manga section of Crunchyroll.

Pre-debut
Crunchyroll-Hime has been Crunchyroll's official mascot since 2013. Her original design was made by illustrator Euinice Dahae Baik for the "Anime Industry-tans Contest", an online fanart competition held by Crunchyroll, Funimation, Aniplex of America, and NIS America in 2013. The contest involved fans making anthropomorphic "gijinka" mascots of each company in exchange for prizes from each participating company. Baik's design won and drew the attention of then-social media manager for Crunchyroll, Victoria Holden, who made her the official Crunchyroll mascot. Baik worked with illustrator Shiori Abe to refine the design to its current look. Holden created Crunchyroll-Hime's backstory, which is still in use today, and served as her original voice actress.

Crunchyroll announced that Hime would become a VTuber on 8 October 2021. A teaser video for her debut was posted the same day. while the channel itself was created on 23 September.

2021
Hime had her debut stream on 12 October 2021. Her Live2D model was technically revealed before her stream had officially started in a video promoting the stream sent at 1pm PT.

Mascots and Fans
Hime has a pet cat, Yuzu. Her fans are called "kits".

Trivia

 * Her favorite food is old-fashioned style glazed donuts, Puchi-Purin, melon pan, and many more. Her favorite drinks are iced coffee, boba, strawberry milk, cola, green tea.
 * Her age is the age of Crunchyroll + 100.
 * Her favorite color is teal, specifically #2AEEE, as it's a complementary color to orange.
 * She used to play a lot of League of Legends.
 * Her favorite anime is in the shonen and seinen genre, she prefers manga in the "cheap shojo romance" genre.
 * Her favorite animal is cats.
 * Her favorite types of music are anime, VOCALOID, electronic, K-pop, and K-hiphop.
 * Her favorite sports are kyudo and track.
 * Her biggest fear is being late due to fear of missing out. She's also scared of cockroachs due to an incident where one ended up on her leg.
 * The holster on her leg is actually a phone holder.
 * Going from kitsune to human form means Hime had to consolidate her nine tails into one.
 * Crunchyroll-Hime is a huge fan of Hatsune Miku and has a crush on her. She's made multiple attempts to impress and date her in The Daily Life of Crunchyroll-Hime webcomic and owns a Miku bodypillow, shown on the floor of her room during her streams.

Hashtags

 * #HimeLive - Live
 * #DrawHime - Fanart
 * #Kits - Fans