Shishiro Botan

Shishiro Botan (獅白ぼたん) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, as part of its fifth generation of VTubers alongside Yukihana Lamy, Momosuzu Nene, Mano Aloe, and Omaru Polka.

Personality
Botan's cool, mature appearance belies a cheerful and easygoing nature. She appears as very laid back during streams, even through intense gameplay and abrupt chaos. Botan cares deeply for her fellow Generation 5 hololive members, and sometimes acts as a leader for the group. She also has a bit of a mischievous streak-examples include dragging her friends into playing horror games and attempts to eat Tsunomaki Watame.

Background
She was introduced on hololive’s YouTube channel in a small introductory video along with the rest of the fifth gen on 6 August 2020. Her Twitter account was created in April 2020, she made her first tweet on 6 August. Her YouTube channel was created on 12 April, but she debuted on 14 August 2020 during a stream, also reaching 100,000 subscribers during that day.

2020
On 12 December, she reached 500,000 subscribers, the first member of hololive's 5th generation to do so.

On 29 December, hololive's Twitter accounts announced that eight of their members would get "New year" costumes, Botan being one of them.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called "Bodan" (ぼ団).

Trivia

 * Botan is a white lion girl.
 * Her favorite manga includes Parasyte, Naniwa Kin'yūdō, and Naruto.
 * She likes building PCs as a hobby and assembled the PC she uses for streams.
 * She cannot drink alcohol for health reasons, and unlike Yukihana Lamy, Botan can't eat spicy food.
 * Botan likes videogames of a lot of genres, especially FPS. In particular, her preference lies with modern military-themed shooters like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Rainbow 6: Siege.
 * She is supposedly not very good at fighting games and racing games.
 * Occasionally when throwing grenades in FPS games, she will accompany the throw with a short "poi."
 * She has some video editing skills, as demonstrated by the introduction in her debut stream, which was made by herself.
 * She is the fifteenth hololive member to join the official Hololive Subreddit as a moderator.