Gawr Gura

This name is officially written using the Japanese name format, the family name is Gawr.

Gawr Gura is an English Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, as part of its English (EN) branch first generation of VTubers alongside Ninomae Ina'nis, Takanashi Kiara, Watson Amelia, and Mori Calliope.

Personality
Gura is friendly and readily likeable, and often amuses her viewers with foolish antics. She has no sense of direction, often misspells and mispronounces words, has trouble remembering her own age, and consistently fails to solve basic math problems, leading viewers to affectionately call her a "dum shark". Memorably, one viewer declared that "Gura has a heart of gold and a head of bone".

She can also be lazy at times. She often forgets about perishable items until they start to rot, and eats baby food "because you don't have to cook it... [or] chew on it".

However, despite her poor math and spelling skills, Gura is quick-witted, clever, and has vast knowledge of Shark Facts. When questioned on why she was not "boing boing", she excused it by claiming that she was "hydrodynamic". Her skill with fast-paced rhythm games is exceptional, and she is highly ambitious. She also occasionally makes lewd jokes, and is familiar with modern meme culture, which she references often.

Profile
Gura is a descendant of the Lost City of Atlantis, who swam to Earth while saying "It's so boring down there LOLOLOL!" She bought her clothes (and her shark hat) in the human world and she really loves them. In her spare time, she enjoys talking to marine life.

Background
Gura was introduced simultaneously on both hololive's and hololive's English Twitter accounts and also on hololive English's YouTube channel in a small video with the rest of the first generation on 8 September 2020. Her Twitter account was created in July, but she only made her first tweet on her official introduction on 8 September. Her YouTube channel was created on 16 July, but she debuted on 13 September.

2020
Gura quickly rose in popularity, becoming the fastest-growing VTuber ever, gaining 100,000 new subscribers every two to five days. On 20 October, just 37 days after her debut, Gura overtook both Shirakami Fubuki and Inugami Korone to become the #1 most subscribed hololive VTuber on YouTube.

On 22 October, Gura became the first hololive member to reach 1,000,000 subscribers, the third VTuber overall after Kizuna Ai and Kaguya Luna, and the first English-speaker ever to do so.

On 30 November, Gura reached 1,500,000 YouTube subscribers.

2021
On 17 January, Gura reached 2,000,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, being the first hololive member to do so and the second VTuber ever to reach that milestone after Kizuna Ai.

On 22 January, Gura celebrated her 2,000,000 subscriber milestone with a karaoke stream.

Mascots & Fans



 * Her mascot is named Bloop, a "long time friend who stays in a bubble 'for the better'." Bloop has an "emergency ration" (非常食) can on his head. According to Gura in a multiple-choice question, Bloop is emergency food.
 * Like the rest of the holoMyth mascots, Bloop was designed by Ninomae Ina'nis.
 * Bloop shares its name with the Bloop, an ultra-low-frequency, high amplitude underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 1997. Previously thought to have been caused by a marine animal, it is now believed to have been caused by movement of glaciers.
 * Her fanbase are officially called "Chumbuds."
 * Her channel members are referred to as MemberShrimp. This is a reference to Gura seeing her chat use the word "simp", to which she replied "I just saw the word 'simp' go by. What is simp? Do you mean shrimp?" Calling monetary supporters of VTubers "shrimps" has spread beyond Gura's fans, particularly after streaming platform Twitch banned the word "simp".

Quotes

 * "See, sometimes, in life, you try and hit life with a 'hoocha!', but then life decides to hit you with a 'hoocha!'. You know what you do, in this predicament? When life hoochas you? You go AGAIN!"
 * "Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. You know what? Not every adventure comes to a happy ending. Sometimes you just gotta retrace, go back, and start over."
 * (On 12 November 2020) "It's officially Christmas!"
 * "I don't know, maybe it's not great progress compared to other people, but I'm happy with my progress. And you know what? Quite frankly, that's all that matters. If you spend too much time worrying about, you know, other people's progress and how it matches up to yours then... I don't know, you might forget what really matters, and that's your progress, you know?"
 * "You can't be mad at me... I'm cute!"

Identity

 * In Japanese, her name is written 「がうる・ぐら」 ("gauru gura").
 * She gives her surname first, Japanese style, even when speaking in English. Takanashi Kiara and Ninomae Ina'nis also do this, while Calliope Mori and Amelia Watson use the English name order when speaking in English.
 * Gura is the only member of holoMyth to write her name entirely in hiragana. This is consistent with her childlike demeanor and academic skills, since hiragana-only writing is usually reserved for children's books.
 * Gura comes from Atlantis. On her first solo stream on 13 September 2020, in which she played the shark simulator game Maneater, she said that Atlantis didn't have French fries, so she's not interested in returning.
 * Her birthday, 20 June, is the same date the 1975 film Jaws was released. Gura says that this is not her actual birthday (which she cannot remember), but rather the anniversary of her arrival on land after she left Atlantis.
 * Gura names her own species as "Gura shark". During one of her Fall Guys streams, she joked that "Gura" was an acronym for "Giant Underwater Rubber Animal".
 * The clapping sound often heard in her streams can be attributed to her tail thrashing around excitedly.
 * Gura attributes the stitches in her tail to an event long ago where her tail was trapped beneath a boulder in an underwater ravine. She cannot remember how she got the bite marks in her tail.
 * At 141 cm, Gura is the second shortest member of hololive as a whole, next to Himemori Luna's 140.

Likes and dislikes

 * She likes food. She also enjoys a hobby known in Atlantis as "PWWIE" (people watching without intent to eat), but she claims humans don't taste good so viewers don't have to worry.
 * When Moona Hoshinova joked during a Minecraft stream that she wanted to turn Gura into shark soup and Watson Amelia commented that "It's a good thing detectives aren't very tasty", Gura replied with "I beg to differ, I beg to differ". Unless she was joking, this implies that detectives taste better than normal humans.
 * Her favorite food is salmon, which she has misspelled as "salman". She enjoys drinking a carton of "salmon milk". She also likes eating pizza, McDonald's hamburgers, mint chocolate chip ice cream, and baby food.
 * Gura's favorite games are Muse Dash, Taiko no Tatsujin, Rhythm Heaven, Borderlands, and Resident Evil. Her favorite video game in her childhood was Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue.
 * She likes Konosuba and even had the pleasure to read the entirety of volume 1 on stream in partnership with Bookwalker. Her audience also took pleasure in knowing the stream doubled as an audiobook as the series has yet to have an English release in the format.
 * Gura dislikes hot sand, and her biggest fear is having people hear her stomach noises (which she wrote in her debut stream as "loud stomak").
 * Her favorite color is blue.
 * Gura's favorite type of shark, other than herself, is the salmon shark.
 * Gura is close friends with Watson Amelia. In one stream, Gura sang You Are My Sunshine but changed the lyrics to be about Amelia. The pair often collab together and are most commonly shipped together under the name #amesame.

Gura's antics

 * Gura is famous for her mathematical miscalculations, once saying: "Numbers, the numbers! I'm bad with the numbers, we know this!" She once calculated that 9+10 equals 11; 2020-2011 equals 10; half of twelve is 5; 9x9 equals 36; and that 5x5 equals 35.
 * She has a poor sense of direction, and has difficulty telling left from right. In their first five-member Minecraft collab, sent the entire hololive EN digging for 20 minutes in the wrong direction because she misread a map. Later, while giving Ina directions, she hit a block with a pickaxe to direct her rather than use the word "left".
 * Gura often misspells or mispronounces words. In her debut stream, she misspelled salmon as "salman" (leading to a fan comic where Gura eats a fast food deliveryman named Salman), stomach as "stomak", Twitter as "Tiwtter", and Twister as "tiwster". She once pronounced "almond milk" as "Ame milk". She spelled "iron" as "arm", "baby pickaxe" as "babie picaxe", and mispronounced "she will die" as "she while dee". She claimed not to recognize the term "simp", which she corrected to "shrimp", although that might have been a joke. In recent streams, her spelling has been much better, though she can still fumble over her words sometimes.
 * She once mistook bread for a potato.
 * She has a habit of jinxing herself: a Crazy Talk effect where she makes a statement, only for it to be immediately proven false. In Among Us, she said "Somebody kill someone! Not me, right?" immediately before being killed by Ame; in the first Minecraft collab, while watching Kiara dangerously build over a ravine, she said "eh, she's got it" right before Kiara fell; and in Left 4 Dead 2 she taunted a zombie by saying "he can't climb", only to be proven wrong a few seconds later.
 * Before her debut, there was an incident known as the "Naked Gura Incident" in which the other HoloEN members saw her without her clothes on. This was almost certainly due to a technical issue, but that hasn't stopped them from teasing her endlessly over it.
 * Affectionately referred to as "Same-chan" (サメちゃん) by Japanese audiences, Gura regularly charms her senior members of hololive with her cuteness and kindness, sometimes making them act unlike their usual selves. For example:
 * Gura sent a private video message to Murasaki Shion in which she sang a special birthday song in Japanese, causing her to abandon her typical bratty attitude to gush about Gura's cuteness.
 * In another instance when her chat was poking fun at Gura's chest, Uruha Rushia, without going yandere, begged her chat to make fun of her chest in place of Gura's, even though she would normally respond to "flat" jokes with death threats.
 * Shirogane Noel, who normally only has eyes for Shiranui Flare, tried to learn english purely to both meet and cuddle with Gura like a body pillow.
 * Fellow holoEN member Ninomae Ina'nis, usually gentle and even-tempered, has gone on the record to say that anyone who makes Gura (or the other holoMyth girls) cry in pain "won't see the light of day."

Gura's age

 * Gura has trouble remembering her own age.
 * In her debut stream, she first gave her age as "somewhere in the 9,000s [...] I'll go with 9,361, yeah, we'll go with that. Once you get around the 5k mark, [...] it starts to blur. But I wouldn't expect humans to understand that." She then immediately forgot the age she just gave, saying "I don't remember what I said, let's pick another number," and eventually settled on 9,927.
 * On 13 October 2020, she gave her age as 4,295, 9,495, and 9,485.
 * In a Ring Fit stream, she entered her age as "99" because it only accepts two digits.

Miscellaneous

 * At debut, she described her goals as playing Twister with the other hololive EN 1st-gen members in a 3D collaboration, playing the scariest horror games with a heart rate monitor, and learning to play the banjo.
 * Gura amazed viewers in her debut by singing "Ride on Time" by Tatsuro Yamashita, impressing them with her singing skill, music taste, and flawless Japanese pronunciation (despite not actually being fluent in Japanese). This is the origin of her nickname "City Pop Shark".
 * Her first tweet was a simple "a" as Gura tested Twitter. During her debut stream, the first thing she said was "a" with reverb. This has since become popular with her fanbase to the point of being her most recognized meme.
 * Gura used to begin streams with a "shark fact" - a random piece of shark-themed trivia. The facts varied from actual trivia about sharks to nonsensical/humorous bits she could come up with on the spot. During a Japanese-language lesson stream, Takanashi Kiara suggested that "shark fact" in Japanese should translate to "same chishiki" (a pun on "mame chishiki", a Japanese idiom literally meaning "a bean of knowledge"). During a German-language lesson stream in March 2021, Kiara complained about the lack of shark facts in recent streams.
 * One particular shark fact of note that Gura slipped in her Dead by Daylight collab with Anya is that shark pups eat each other in the womb. This particularly gruesome fact seems to carry over to shark people as well.
 * She claims that she is not "boing boing" (a synonym for "big-breasted" popularized by Uruha Rushia), because aquatic beings need to be hydrodynamic.
 * While Gura doesn't mind being called flat, or even pretends to be offended for fun, she will eventually become irritated at her audience's lack of originality if they keep repeating the same jokes, causing her to bite back with thick layers of sarcasm.
 * She can get hiccups from laughing too much.

Media

 * Gawr Gura Ch. hololive-EN - YouTube channel
 * Gawr Gura's corporate profile on hololive.tv (EN)
 * Gawr Gura's corporate profile on hololive.tv (JP)
 * @gawrgura - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #gawrgura - General
 * #gawrt - Fan art
 * #chumbuds - Fans