Yozora Mel

Yozora Mel (夜空メル) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, debuting as part of its first generation of VTubers alongside Aki Rosenthal, Natsuiro Matsuri, Shirakami Fubuki and Akai Haato.

Profile
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Personality
Yozora Mel is known for her sweet, calm and caring personality, giving a contrast to what people might expect from her design. She commonly puts others before herself if it means they will benefit from it. She speaks politely and gives a comfy vibe, but also speaks quietly, which can make it difficult to hear her sometimes. She can be questionable at times though, in major part seen when she's with Yuzuki Choco.

Appearance
Mel has a blonde bob style haircut with an ahoge decorated with bat shaped hairpin complemented with a red jewel with amber eyes.

She has a black choker with a golden star. Mel wears a shoulderless white and black corset top with an ample cleavage and ruffled edges, decorated with a tiny orange bow and a jewel. Her sleeves are yellow and decorated with bat wings. Mel has a two layered, plank mini skirt with white and golden outlines, complemented with a diagonal orange belt and multicolored bows. The back layer of her skirt is black and slighly see through with a white dot pattern, resembling a starry sky which is a play on her surname "Yozora" that means "night sky." Mel uses black high socks with a golden outline and low black boots with golden lines, orange bows and a bat wing on each one.

Background
Yozora Mel opened her Twitter account on 16 April 2018 while her YouTube channel was created on 25 April. She make her first tweet on 3 May 2018.

She debuted on 13 May 2018.

2019
On 27 March, she announced in a live-stream that she would be getting a 3D model.

On 29 March, a sneak peek of her new 3D model was shown and the debut date was revealed to be on 2 April. Shirakami Fubuki noted on her stream later that night that the 3D model outfit would be different compared to the original 2D illustration. was revealed in a stream on 2 April.

On 1 June, she reached 50,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 23 August, she debuted her swimsuit 3D costume during a stream.

On 6 November, she published in Twitter that her channel was demonetized, explaining that a song she performed was the cause, however like the rest of hololive girls afflicted by this issue, she erased or made private most of her ASMR videos.

On 29 December, she announced on her Twitter account, that she would get a new year 2D costume.

2020
On 1 January, she debuted her new year costume during a stream, being her second 2D costume overall.

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

On 29 January, she reached 100,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 31 January, she announced on her Twitter account the remonetization of her channel.

On 16 May, she revealed that she has been victim of harassment in a public statement on her Twitter account, explaining why she had been on semihiatus since October 2019, as she felt unsafe because the perpetrator was someone she knew in real life.

She stated that after taking things to the authorities and court the harassment has stopped since March. In the statement she thanked her fans and hoped to be able to continue her activities at some point. She also stated that she decided to made this issue public wishing that this doesn't happen to other people including other hololive members.

On 24 May, Cover Corp, hololive's parent company also released an statement about the issue. They apologized for their mistakes into handling the situation, announcing changes within the company to prevent this for ever happening again and paying for any fees Mel went through into handling with this issue.

After been on full hiatus since early April, Mel announced on 23 June that she would continue with her activities.

On 24 June, after two attempts being prematurely ended by YouTube's algorithm, she returned to her activities with a stream, where she was warmly received by fellow VTubers and fans.

On 7 July, she reached 200,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 31 July, she announced on her Twitter account that her original 2D model would be get an update. She debuted her updated model the next day on 1 August during a stream, featuring more facial expressions, her hair and bat ornament have much better movement, she received improved jiggle physics and she can turn freely in more directions.

On 27 August, she announced on her Twitter account that she would get her third 2D costume. She debuted this costume the next day on 28 August during a stream. Just like her New Year costume, Mel has long hair but this time she uses twintails, with bat wings accessories on both sides. Her previous hair ornament, that used to be shaped like a bat, is now an inverted heart, probably in response to Mel's constant struggle with YouTube's algorithm bot taking down her streams in the past. This costume doesn't show any cleavage, instead using a white blouse with a black corset, and also includes a black and white miniskirt maintained in place with orange suspenders, also decorated with inverted hearts. Finally, she uses asymmetrical tights with shoes decorated with hearts.

On 27 October, she reached 300,000 YouTube subscribers.

2021
On 21 January, she reached 400,000 subscribers on YouTube during an endurance singing stream.

On 4 May, Mel reached 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, making her the 37th hololive member to reach this milestone.

On 9 July, Mel's Twitter account was verified.

On 26 July, Mel renewed her channel's membership feature.

On 6 September, Mel reached 600,000 subscribers on YouTube.

On 8 October, her streaming ability was shut off by Youtube as a one-two punch: Mel was beginning to watch an anime when suddenly the "Stream suspended for policy violations" message appeared. Then the rights to stream was shut off. This was the second channel to be done that, besides Kiryu Coco.

On 16 October, Mel's channel was able to stream again, and she started over the watching.

On 24 October, Mel debuted her first original song, "Chew the Night Sky."

On 24 December, Mel, along with Choco, released the MV for their first collaborative original song, "Choco♡Melty."

2022
On 4 January, Mel's new year costume was updated to the 2.0 version.

On 12 January, Mel announced on her Twitter account that she would get fourth 2D costume.

On 15 January, Mel debuted her fourth 2D costume. In this costume Mel got a new hairstyle using long curly twintails decorated with small bat wings as accessories, like with her loose hair in her third 2D costume the tips of Mel's hair turn orange, in the front to the left she uses a star shaped accessory in pink, yellow and blue. Unlike other outfits, Mel's ears are pierced in multiple zones, the biggest are red heart shaped earrings. Similar to her original costume she uses a black choker with a silver heart instead of the usual golden star. Mel wears a magenta knitted sweater with partially detached sleeves leaving her shoulders exposed, the neck is laced and is decorated by a black ribbon with a diamond shaped red jewel, the sleeves have crossed laces with black bows near the end. Her skirt is black and is supported by black suspenders and a decorative black belt with silver hearts, the skirt has a second layer consisting of black see through cloth. Mel uses a black leg belt around her right thigh, white short socks with big black bows in the back and black shoes. She also has the option to use cat ears, the left cat ear is pierced.

On 26 March, Mel reached 700,000 YouTube subscribers during a endurance singing stream.

On 7 July, hololive's Japanese Twitter account announced that the members of the first generation would get their models updated to the 3.0 version.

On 9 July, the members of the first generation debuted their 3.0 models. The update includes various new facial expressions including the ability to have teary eyes or stick out the tongue. They also received new visual cues to emphasize other emotions. They can also wave their hand, hold a videogame controler and use a keyboard and mouse without external assets.

On 18 August, as part of the "hololive Summer 2022" event, Mel debuted her second 3D swimsuit in a stream held on hololive's official fanclub page in a segment featuring Kazama Iroha, Nekomata Okayu and Tokoyami Towa. Unlike the original swimsuits from 2019 that had individual designs, these swimsuits are meant to be matching outfits similar to the 3D idol costumes. The swimsuits come in two types one with thin straps for the top and a diagonal cut mini skirt and the other one has ruffled straps in the top and an even mini skirt. Both version are white with various patterns including hololive's and Holoearth's logos, hearts and sparks. The swimsuits are personalized by including different colors to match each talent. Additionally they have the option to wear a hoodie.

On 20 August, hololive's Japanese account announced that Mel had been tested positive for COVID-19. Due to this, her activities would be temporarily suspended and other talents who have been in close contact with her would also be tested.

On 4 September, Mel returned to her activities.

On 17 October, her third 2D model was updated to the 2.0 version.

2023
On 2 February, Mel reached 800,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On 18 March, Mel debuted her new 3D idol costume during hololive 4th fes. "Our Bright Parade" DAY 1.

On 23 March, hololive's Twitter account announced that Mel would get her fifth 2D costume.

On 27 March, Mel debuted her fifth 2D costume. Mel received two new hairstyles, a long thick wavy ponytail and long loose hair. Both complemented by accessories such red, yellow, and blue star-shaped hair clips on the left side of her head, as well as matching hair pins on her right bang. Mel wears a black leather choker. This costume consists of a white crop tank top with a heart-shaped cleavage cutout, firmly supported by a belt below the cups. The tank top is worn underneath a black jacket with yellow and orange accents and it is decorated with a gold star outline jewel on the right pocket and a gold heart outline jewel on the left. The jacket's right collar is decorated with a silver star outline jewel dangling on the collar. An orange star is present inside its right collar, while the left collar has a small gold star. The jacket's chest pocket has a bat wing motif on it, to the left is decorated with a silver heart outline jewel with a Kapu-min accessory. Mel wears a black pleated skirt with a yellow cloth in one section. The skirt is decorated with three heart outline jewels connected together by a silver ball cord. Her legwear consists of a fishnet stocking tied to a garter belt with a silver star outline jewel on the left and a black thigh-high sock on the right. Both are paired with black, white, and yellow sneakers with black laces. Mel can wear black earrings on her left ear lobe. She can also wear a black cat-eared cap with star decorations on the left and a red ribbon decoration on the right. The brim of the cap is adorned with two silver jewels. The letters on the cap read "YZR." She can also wear the car ears from her fourth 2D costume, but with the addition of a tail. The tail is tied with a black ribbon with a black heart jewel at the end.

On 27 August, as part of the "hololive Summer 2023" event, Mel debuted her 3D swimsuit during "hololive Summer 2023 Splash Party!" DAY 1 Sunshine stream on hololive's YouTube channel. The 2023 swimsuits are inspired in a sailor uniform. Members wear a two layered swimsuit, the first layer is blue from the straps going down diagonally to the center where each member has a mostly blue bow but one of the sides and the brooch are in one color representative of each member. The rest of the top is white. The edge has a semi circular cut. The lower piece of the first layer has two variants, one is a two layered blue skirt decorated with a white belt, a golden chain with some decorations hanging from it and a bow to the left and planks to the right. The second version is mostly the same but they wear blue shorts instead of a mini skirt. Mel uses the mini skirt. The second layer of the outfit is a matching striped bikini in white and another color depending on the member.

Discography

 * ''Main page: Yozora Mel/Discography

Events

 * On 7 October 2021, Don Quijote's Twitter account announced that Mel and Noel were selected as "Don Quijote" and would appear in life sized stand-by panels across stores. In addition to Noel and Mel, Marine and Shion were also announced to appear in special merchandize (acrylic stands and badges) with new artwork and special in-store broadcast. Other hololive members were also announced to appear in te collaboration as plushies known as "Mochiduru." The collaboration was available from 23 October, the same day that Noel, Mel, Marine and Shion debuted a cover of Don Quijote's theme song "Miracle Shopping" on hololive's channel.
 * On 17 December 2021, hololive's Twitter account announced a collaboration with TOKYO SKYTREE Town (R) featuring Yukihana Lamy, Oozora Subaru, Yozora Mel, Tokino Sora, Hoshimachi Suisei, Yuzuki Choco, Tsunomaki Watame, Himemori Luna, Amane Kanata, and Tokoyami Towa in limited eddition merchandise, cafe, games, and other activities. The event was held from 17 December 2021 to 31 January 2022.

Mascot and Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called "Kapu-min"「かぷ民」. "Kapu" is the onomatopoeia for nibbling, while the suffix "-min" means "group of people."
 * On 27 March 2023, Mel introduced her new cat mascot with the temporal name of "Nukopaia." A dynamic was introduced to her viewers to put a permanent name to the mascot.

Relationships

 * Notable units and groups Mel is a part of:
 * "Melty Kiss," along with Yuzuki Choco.
 * "HoshiStar," alongside Hoshimachi Suisei (Comet), Moona Hoshinova (Moon) and Tsukumo Sana (Space).
 * "KoboMel," alongside Kobo Kanaeru.
 * "NeneMel NelNe," alongside Momosuzu Nene.
 * "Momosuzu Family," alongside Momosuzu Nene and Sakura Miko.

Quotes

 * "We are pervert!" - Mel, trying to swear at the viewers after learning the word "pervert" from Kiryu Coco.

Name

 * Her surname Yozora「夜空」means "night sky."

Miscellaneous

 * She is the first hololive member to be part of a generation to debut, debuting half a month earlier than the other first gen members.
 * She is also the third hololive member to debut ever, after Tokino Sora and Roboco-san.
 * This also makes Mel the first member to debut with a 2D model.
 * She was the first hololive member to debut her 3D model with a different design from her original 2D appearance.
 * Her favorite clothing type is a hoodie.
 * Mel's birthday is on October the 31st as it coincides with Halloween Day.
 * Her favorite video game series is Resident Evil.
 * She is the sixteenth hololive member to join the official Hololive Subreddit as a moderator.
 * Mel along with Takane Lui, Momosuzu Nene, and Yuzuki Choco appeared on cover of the special edition of S Cawaii!'s November issue, which was released on 16 September 2022. The special edition includes an image of four of them in A4 size.

Media

 * Mel Channel 夜空メルチャンネル - YouTube channel
 * Yozora Mel's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
 * @yozoramel - Twitter account
 * 夜空梅露Official - bilibili channel
 * /u/Yozora_Mel - Reddit account

Twitter Hashtags

 * #夜空メル - General
 * #メル生放送 - Stream
 * #メルArt - Fan art
 * #かぷかぷ動画 - Video clips

Further readings

 * 夜空メル - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
 * 夜空メル - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * 夜空メル - Japanese Wikipedia (deleted, archive)
 * 夜空メル - unofficial hololive Seesaawiki
 * 夜空梅露 - Moegirl Encyclopedia
 * 요조라 멜 - Namu Wiki
 * Yozora Mel - Hololive Fan Wiki