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.

Appearance & Personality

 * Korone has a friendly, loud and energetic personality.
 * She Is a dog living in a bakery somewhere in virtual Japan, likes to kill time by playing games while guarding the bakery. She also likes to watch movies, especially action and grotesque movies.
 * Wears a white buttoned dress, and a yellow coat dress. The left side of the coat is always slid off, while her brown dog ears are also not apparent, being concealed by her same brown hair. She has a bone clip accessory on the left side of her hair, and a collar that signifies her identity as a dog.
 * Does not conform to what one would perceive in a dog (loyal, quiet, honest), her behaviors are more willful, clumsy, and natural, and hence sometimes commented to be a "cat born as a dog".
 * However still shares some similarities with dogs, such as getting lonely easily and whimpers whenever a collaboration livestream is ending; and appearing excited whenever other VTubers come to collaborate with her (especially if it is Nekomata Okayu), acting like a dog when it sees its master.
 * Is a part of Hololive Gamers, usually streams herself playing games, and is on friendly terms with other Gamers members.

History
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 Nekomata Okayu will 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 has appeared on the streams of other members of Hololive before her debut, the first being on Subaru's channel on 7 April.

On 14 September she debuts her 3D version.

Personal-related

 * The word "Inu" in "Inugami" has the same pronunciation as the word "dog" in Japanese, which also corresponds to the "dog" in the Chinese zodiac.
 * Since "Inugami" can also be pronounced as "Inugami", meaning "Dog god", a Japanese traditional monster. Another Hololive Gamer Nekomata Okayu also has a name related to Japanese monsters, this leads to them teaming up as "Yokai (monster) group".
 * Her given name "Korone（ころね）" shares a pronunciation with a type of bread コロネ（cornet bread），which fits her background as a dog guarding a bakery.
 * Her birthday 1 October is a pun to the sound when dogs bark（わんおーわん）. Her height of 156（いちころ）also constitutes part of the pun.
 * To clarify her with other dog-like Hololive VTubers (as well as Nakiri Ayame who is often nicknamed as Doggy), is sometimes nicknamed as "Bread dog"
 * After she is first announced by Hololive on Twitter, she started interacting with others on Twitter. Due to her funny tweets, people started typing "kusa" (「草」, which has two meanings: "laughing sound" and "grass") After noticing this trend, Korone added "grass cutter 🌿（芝刈り機🌿）” behind her twitter name.
 * She made the decision to use "finger" as her theme for greetings even before her debut video, which she posted a tweet on the matter until her debut video.
 * She greets everyone by saying "Thank you for waiting", while viewers would reply by saying "we will wait for you, finger finger", which leads to the saying of cutting off your finger while you are waiting for her to stream. (so she can collect them more easily)
 * Ends her video by saying "Everyone, thank you for borrowing your fingers to me. I made sure they are frozen properly, please take them back."
 * Her decision to use "finger" as her theme was due to one of her tweets mentioning how she was exhausted by replying and liking all the tweets sent by her fans, and that "it would be nice to have 100 fingers". During her debut video, a viewer commented that she sounded like a triad member (because she "collects" fingers from her viewers), and since there were viewers that said "thank you for returning my fingers to me, it is at last decided that Korone would use the before mentioned line to end her streams.
 * Was later questioned by Ookami Mio "is this fingers hostage? If you don't finish the whole stream your fingers will not be returned." Korone gladly accepted this add-on to her background.

Livestream-related

 * Her first debut was filled with all sorts of bloopers due to her clumsy nature.
 * At first, her face was enlarged too much into what would be called “Gachi love distance”(it means a distance that would make you fall in love with) and took her a long time to fix the problem.
 * At the same time, her voice is fluctuating between too loud and too soft.
 * After her voice has been fixed, decided to introduce herself with Yu-Gi-Oh! BGM.
 * A window saying Discord has stopped working popped up.
 * Her height was written as 156m instead of cm.
 * Attempted to read all the viewers' names that have come to watch her stream, only to give up just as quickly after realizing it to be impossible.
 * She wanted to end the stream because she has run out of topic only after the stream has started for 15 minutes. (Normal debut videos for Hololive VTubers are around 1 hour)
 * Because of the chaos she made many of her senior Hololive Vtubers joined in her stream to help her out.
 * After her call for Nekomata Okayu was responded a spooky BGM started to ring.
 * Managed to call in Nekomata Okayu, Shirakami Fubuki and Ookami Mio (all Hololive Gamers) to help, they then all started playing Splatoon 2 together. This is a rare occurrence for VTubers to start streaming games during their debut video.
 * Attempted to hide her body and only showing her head during her livestream, which led to Shirakami Fubuki responding "This is your debut stream, how can it be that we cannot see you?"
 * After her debut stream has ended and most viewers have left, suddenly reappeared and conversed with the remaining viewers for a while.
 * Shows her yandere side when streaming games, such as making small jokes and laughing while at the same time killing small animals. Has also been requested by the audience to imitate yandere anime characters.
 * On 14 August at night, she started streaming 60 Seconds! to celebrate her channel for reaching 50k subscribers, and attempted to replay until a rare random daughter mutation event occurs, which took her 6 hours and 28 minutes, in the meantime she banged her desk and yelled repeatedly in an attempt to wake her viewers up and telling them not to sleep until the event finally occurred. She then tried to beat the game, and it took her another 4 hours. She ended up streaming for a total of 10 hours 45 minutes without beating the game.  (Where is the Korone that wanted to end 15 minutes into the stream?)
 * Her 3D debut was on 14 September 2019.
 * She was cool to Sakura Miko who has been invited as a guest, but becomes excited when she sees Nekomata Okayu. (Miko and Korone are rivals in taking Okayu's heart since Okayu has been flirting around all the time)
 * The 3D collaboration featuring all four Hololive Gamers (Nekomata Okayu, Shirakami Fubuki, Inugami Korone and Ookami Mio) on 18 October, Korone was indefatigable, was able to jump around after playing nine hours of motion-sensing games, while her three colleagues were exhausted and unable to move. (All the more reasons to believe that she is a giantess)


 * Viewers have noted an interesting 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.
 * Korone has rather good English skills as seen in one of her tweets.

Video clips

 * 【Inugami Korone】Learn about Korone in 2 minutes（ゆびゆび!~)


 * 【MMD Vtuber】Inugami Korone"Ohlametaohlayo" (Turn down your volume)
 * 【Learn about Korone in one minute】Dog that is good at mathematics
 * 【Learn about Korone in one minute】Dog that can't figure out between even and odd number
 * 【Learn about Korone in one minute】Dog making a speech against viewers who slept during her stream