Kurono Kureha

Kurono Kureha (黒乃くれは) is an independent female Japanese virtual YouTuber.

Appearance
She is a devil with purple hair, green eyes, and often wears Gothic Lolita dress wearing a small "Kurehat". She also has black demonic wings growing on her back. On her new Live2D, the tattoo on her left side bosom changed into Blackwing Mascot tattoo. Prior to her model update, she has hexagram tattoo instead.

Personality
Kureha uses her natural voice, and has a gentle and kind personality. But she also sometimes reveals a devilish, yandere personality. She is passionate about singing and music, and listens to Japanese, Korean, Chinese and English songs. She also enjoys relaxing games, and is especially fond of Animal Crossing. Other than that, she's also very competitive, she also plays Apex, Valorant and DotA 2. She does not deal well with horror.

2018
On 30 December, she created her KUREHA MUSIC YouTube channel.

2019
On 15 November, she made a 1k sub special.

2020
On 8 February, she reached 2000 subs and did a special stream.

On 22 March, she made a 3k sub special.

On 27 March, Kureha opened a new channel exclusively for gaming. The channel has since been deactivated and all gaming activities are done in main channel.

2021
On 10 January, she celebrated a 15k subs in her stream.

On 11 April, she introduced Dea Violetia from Indonesia as her manager whom has experience as an Idol producer before.

On 25 April, she revealed a brand new model with Live2D and re-debuts into Live2D Kureha.

On 14 July, she reached 30k subscribers after she did an endurance stream of Dea's singing and guitar skills (as playback) for 11 hours. After she reached 30k, Dea finally revealed her voice by speaking on stream.

2022
On 4 April, she released Kuroi Tsubasa, a visual novel based upon her.

Stream/Video types
As a music virtual YouTuber, Kureha has a weekly singing stream, usually on Saturdays or Sundays, where she sings songs from the 90s, early 2000s, TV shows, and anime.

Aside from her singing streams and cover songs, she also uploads remixes and original music, which she and her friends use as their BGM in videos and streams.

Kureha also streams every Friday evening. Her weekly Friday evening streams, called "Bankureha", (a portmanteau of "konbanwa" and "Kureha") is where she just chats and chills with her subscribers and viewers. Occasionally, she might sing a song requested by a viewer in the chat. Lastly, towards the end of the video, she features fanart drawn by her fans on that week.

Her other activities are language study stream, from Indonesian, Spanish and even Sundanese language. She also did Meme Review stream, she will review memes that posted on her Discord Server.

She has also mentioned that she wanted to do candy and snack reviews. While not available on her gaming channel, Kureha plays other games such as Apex Legends, Project Winter, and Stardew Valley on her friends' streams, most notably on Onizuka Takeshi's channel.

After her got dragged into DotA 2 (Defense of the Ancient 2) by Dea, her manager, she got addicted into DotA 2 and thus she adds DotA 2 into her activities. During stream, she often plays with her viewers. She also did several collaboration with some of professional DotA 2 players and casters around the world.

Phrases

 * Ohakureha! (ohayou + Kureha)
 * Konkureha! (konnichiwa + Kureha)
 * Bankureha! (konbanwa + Kureha)
 * Otsukureha! (otsukare + Kureha)
 * "Ara ara~."
 * "Okaeri! Ofuru ni suru? Gohan ni suru? Soretomo~... akuma ni suru?"

Trivia

 * She calls her fanbase "Blackwings".
 * She also founded "Blackwing Esports", a DotA 2 guild that competes in Japanese DotA 2 online tourneys.
 * She likes playing percussion instrument and was in a percussion band in middle school.
 * She made her own soundproof studio DIY, the progress can be seen on her Twitter.
 * From her introduction video, it's known that she is quite technically skilled with computer and tech stuff, as she can make her own 3D model, video editing and producing music by using Vocaloid Hatsune Miku all by herself.

Media

 * Kureha Kurono 黒乃くれは - YouTube channel
 * KurehaKurono - Twitch Channel
 * @KurehaKurono - Twitter account
 * Kureha Kurono - Facebook page
 * @kurehakurono - Instagram account
 * kurehakurono.com - Official website
 * kurehakurono.bandcamp.com - Music and Album Store

Twitter hashtags

 * #KureLive - Stream talk
 * #kurehart - Fan art

Further readings

 * 黒乃くれは - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * 黒乃くれは - vtubers.love