Shiori Novella

Shiori Novella (シオリ・ノヴェラ) is an English speaking Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive. She debuted in 2023 as part of hololive -Advent-, the third generation of members of hololive English, alongside Koseki Bijou, Nerissa Ravencroft, Fuwawa Abyssgard and Mococo Abyssgard.

Profile
"Don't you think that's a wonderful story?"

Driven by her thirst for knowledge, Shiori Novella is "The Archiver." She turns her favorite stories and treasured memories into bookmarks and saves them. By misfortune, she was found to have obtained forbidden knowledge within one of her stories and was imprisoned. But to her, that experience itself is but a fascinating story. In order to continue her search for more stories, she planned and executed a prison break.

Background
Following the debut of hololive English second generation -Council-, hololive English announced a permanent English language audition page on 30 December 2021. An update to the audition page on 7 September 2022 sparked speculation of an upcoming English third generation.

Shiori Novella's YouTube and Twitter accounts were originally created on 11 May 2023, although they contained no content at this point.

The third generation of hololive English, -Advent-, was first teased on the hololive English Twitter account with a short video on 22 July 2023. This was followed by another teaser video on 23 July, showing five new characters.

On 25 July, the hololive English YouTube channel posted a video titled Wanted!, revealing the five members of -Advent- and announcing their upcoming debuts. At the same time, Shiori also posted a short teaser video and made her first tweet, consisting of a single image.

Shiori's Twitter and YouTube accounts were accidentally discovered by some fans several hours prior to the official announcement, although they had no profile pictures or content yet. Her YouTube account received over a thousand subscribers before its official launch.

All -Advent- members' YouTube channels reached 100,000 subscribers within twelve hours of the announcement.

Debut
On 30 July JTS, Shiori debuted on YouTube.

Mascots and Fans

 * Her mascot can be seen on her right shoulder in official art is a creature that looks like a black sphere with two long arms and four long spikes on its head. Its face with two eyes and a mouth looks quite sad.

Name

 * Shiori is a Japanese word meaning "bookmark." It is also a Japanese female given name.
 * Novella is an English word of Italian origin, in modern times referring to a short novel. It is also an uncommon surname.
 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Novella was the 39,419th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 558 individuals.
 * She appears to write her name in western name order, with the given name first.
 * In Japanese, her name is written in katakana, typically used for foreign names and words.

Miscellaneous

 * Her emoji, is an eye in a speech bubble. The emoji was released in 2015, originally as part of an anti-bullying campaign.
 * The golden runes which appear in the Wanted! debut PV spell out Shiori's official English profile text. The runes use the, an alphabet used in England from the 5th to 11th centuries.
 * The text in the book at the start of the PV is written in the same runic script, and spells out a section of lore: "In the age of the gods, monsters were sealed in this land after a battle. The impact created by myths, councils and other supernatural beings rocked the seals of [...hen...un] and stirred their souls. Its fetal movement frees them from their bondage. Imprisoned in an empty and empty prison, the monsters pledged rebellion and glory in the new land."
 * Nanashi Mumei from hololive -Council- is also associated with runes, although she mainly uses the more ancient.
 * She shares the same character designer Kayahara with Seto Miyako and Sukoya Kana of Nijisanji and Fukumaki Yuka of Irodori.
 * Her Live2D rigger, FELUCCA, has rigged various other members including Inugami Korone, Mori Calliope and Noir Vesper.

Media

 * Shiori Novella Ch. hololive-EN - YouTube channel
 * Shiori Novella's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
 * @shiorinovella - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #ShiorinOnAir - Stream
 * #ShiorinSketch - Fan art