Hiodoshi Ao

Hiodoshi Ao (火威青) is a Japanese-speaking Virtual YouTuber affiliated with hololive DEV_IS, a branch of hololive production. She debuted in 2023 as part of the unit ReGLOSS alongside Otonose Kanade, Ichijou Ririka, Juufuutei Raden and Todoroki Hajime.

Profile
A manga artist who loves solitude… or so the people around her think. She tries to play herself off as cool and aloof, but beyond the surface she is quite the otaku. She cares a lot about how she is perceived, which is why she is always dressed immaculately in public. How she is at home, though… is a Pandora’s box.

Appearance
She has short, dark hair that's sort of a mullet with blue-ish streaks/highlights tied back into a small ponytail and blue eyes. She wears a grey pinstripe suit over a black shirt.

Background
hololive DEV_IS was initially teased during the conclusion of hololive's '''SPLASH PARTY! Night''' concert with a short video on 27 August 2023. The teaser was also shared later that day on both hololive's Twitter account and hololive DEV_IS YouTube channel on 27 August 2023. The channel itself was created on 21 August.

On 29 August 2023, following the YouTube channel released short videos of the members in a countdown leading to the project's reveal. Ao's teaser was the first featuring a solo member of the group.

On 4 September, after finishing the coutdown, hololive DEV_IS YouTube channel introduced the group ReGLOSS along with the music video "Shunkan Heartbeat", revealing the identities of all its members as well as their channels and social media accounts. Ao also made her first tweet on this date. Ao's teaser video from hololive DEV_IS channel was also uploaded to her personal channel, now fully displaying her face.

Ao's YouTube channel was created on 21 July 2023, and her Twitter account was also created on this month.

On 7 September, hololive DEV_IS's YouTube channel uploaded another video this time showing ReGLOSS' members actual models and appearances outside of their unified group clothes.

She debuted on 9 September 2023, and was the first member to debut.

2023
On 10 September, Ao reached 100,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On 17 September, she released her first solo cover song "Dokuzu" by NAKISO.

On 29 September, she celebrated her YouTube channel monetization and enabled Super Chat feature.

On 10 October, Ao had her first collaboration cover along with ReGLOSS, the song "REALiZE" by LiSA.

On 20 October, Ao enabled her YouTube membership feature.

On 13 November, she reached 200,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

Discography

 * Main: Hiodoshi Ao/Discography

Fans

 * Her fans are called "Dokusha"「読者」, which means "reader." It was decided during her debut stream.
 * Her members are called "Ao no Hondana"「青の本棚」.

Lore

 * "ChoVeryBad"「超VeryBad」, the live house where the members of ReGLOSS gather. This place used to be very vibrant and crowded, where performances took place almost every day.

Likes and dislikes

 * She likes sea creatures that are not too big, blue and light blue colored things.
 * Her hobbies include drawing, VRChat, collecting stationery, café meguri (café-search), and notebooks.
 * She has a skill that drives girls crazy.
 * She dislikes whale and.

Miscelaneous

 * Ao and other members reached 50,000 subscribers on their YouTube channels on 5 September (after one day of the announcement), but due to the YouTube's anti-bot algorithm on new channels, their subscriber count was removed quite much.
 * Ao shares her character designer with Tsukishita Kaoru of HOLOSTARS.

Media

 * Ao Ch. 火威青 ‐ ReGLOSS - YouTube channel
 * Hiodoshi Ao's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
 * @hiodoshiao - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #青原稿中 - Stream
 * #青ペン - Fan art
 * #clip青 - Clips
 * #青くん聞いたよ - Voice impressions