Kiryu Coco

Kiryu Coco (桐生ココ) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, as part of its fourth generation of VTubers alongside Tsunomaki Watame, Tokoyami Towa, Amane Kanata and Himemori Luna.

Introduction Video
Coco's introduction.

Personality
Coco is an outspoken, irreverent individual who often employs crude humor, speech (using "ass" instead of "butt" or "shit" instead of "crap") and swearing, but she isn't as outright lewd as some members like Matsuri. She also enjoys teasing other members and most segments of her morning news show consists of teasing other hololive members over technical difficulties of failings on stream.

She often pushes the boundaries of what Vtubers can do on YouTube by using thumbnails of her flipping the bird or her questionable content. Despite that, Coco is probably one of the biggest hearted members of hololive. During a live stream of The Raft with Aqua, Aqua shared her feelings about how difficult the life of a virtual Idol could be and Coco gave some truly kind words of encouragement that nearly brought Aqua to tears.

She's also playful and fun-loving. She started the hololive "ARK Addiction" because she wanted them all to play the game together (going as far as to buy Roboco her copy of ARK: Aberration when she discovered that she'd purchased ARK: Extinction instead) and usually comes to the aid of the other players when the experience technical problems. This is further showed by the fact that, unlike the Nijisanji ARK server, which is PvP, Coco's is PvE. She proposed the construction of a 'hololive house' for all the hololive streamers to live together and help take care of each other.

Coco loves the Yakuza video game series and streams it often. Her love for Yakuza goes as far that she is called "Kaichou/ 会長" (chairman), which is a title associated with the yakuza and shared by her favorite character, Kazuma Kiryu.

Background
Her Twitter account was created on November 2019, while her first tweet was made on 25 December, her YouTube channel was created on 4 December and her debut stream was on 28 December.

2020
On 7 February after being rejected for monetization from the start, her channel became monetizable.

In less than two months after her debut, on 14 February she published on Twitter that she reached two hundred thousand subscribers.

On 18 April, she lost her ability to stream on YouTube, during this time AsaCoco was not live. Less than a week later, on the 23 April, she regained the ability to stream.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called "Tatsunoko" (たつのこ).

Trivia

 * She is the presenter of a 20-minute-long satirical Morning News Digest called AsaCoco Live News (あさココLIVEニュース). Parodying a news anchor, Coco presents news related to her, her fourth generation colleagues and hololive in a humorous way. AsaCoco Live News is livestreamed in her channel on weekdays at 6:00 AM JST.
 * AsaCoco is also the name of a (fictional) mind-altering drug that Coco sometimes advertises during the her show.
 * Like Akai Haato, she is proficient in English, and she uses American English pronunciation for English words rather than the Japanese pronunciation (e.g. "V-tuber" as opposed to "V-chubah ビ·チュウバー" ), which let some fans to think that she is an English native speaker, with Japanese being her second language.
 * Her Japanese is slightly accented, and she frequently uses the phrase nanto (なんと / somehow) and the jargon expression kusa (草 / the Japanese version of the word LOL). This has evolved to her encouraging English speaking viewers to say 'grass' when something funny happens, as kusa means grass.
 * Coco refers to her senior members of hololive with the "paisen" (パイセン) honorific, a slang term for "senpai" (先輩).
 * She is the tallest among the hololive members.
 * She claims to currently hold the RTA world record in using the bathroom.
 * She doesn't own a Nintendo Switch, and gets many donations during streams to buy her own, but she refuses to do so.
 * She is a moderator in the official Hololive Subreddit, alongside Artia.
 * Her surname "Kiryu" (桐生 ) is written with the exact same kanji as her favorite character from Yakuza, Kiryu Kazuma (桐生 一馬).
 * Coco's growth in popularity after joining hololive has been notably rapid. Within two weeks of her debut she already had more than 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. Less than four months after that, she had more than 300,000 subscribers. Coco's channel has maintained an average of 1,500 to 2,000 new subscribers per day since her debut.


 * Despite only debuting at the end of 2019, she is currently one of the hololive girls with the most subscribers surpassing a lot of veteran members. This growth is speculated by fans to be due a number of factors, including her consistency to produce new episodes of AsaCoco Live News as a short but entertaining program for Vtuber fans, and her ability to appeal to both Japanese and English-speakers even before Asacoco started to get subtitles. Many fans have cited her clever use of the other members, featuring them and giving them special segments on the show to spread their appeal around.


 * Coco proposed the creation of hololive USA on Asacoco and showcased the first "idol", an overweight, middle-age smoker named "Coco Kaine", at first meant to be a joke, became real when her designer drew a young version of Coco Kaine which, ironically, got more likes than Coco's art (something she was quite jealous of). Now there are English viewers asking for the debut of young Coco Kaine ever since the announcement of auditions for hololive EN.