Mano Aloe

Mano Aloe (魔乃アロエ) is a retired female Japanese Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, as part of its fifth generation of VTubers alongside Yukihana Lamy, Momosuzu Nene, Shishiro Botan and Omaru Polka.

Background
She was introduced on hololive’s YouTube channel in a small introductory video along with the rest of the fifth gen on 6 August 2020. Her Twitter account was created in April 2020, she made her first tweet on 6 August. Her YouTube channel was created on 13 April but she debuted until 15 August 2020 during a stream also reaching 100,000 subscribers during that day.

2020
On 17 August, she posted a video apologizing for the unintentional leak of her Live2D model months before her official debut on YouTube in a test of her model on Twitcasting with the approval of her manager, however she forgot to erase the test stream afterwards. she also apologized to her fellow fifth gen members and to the managment team for her lack of foresight.

Since the leak of her model previous to her official debut represented a breach in her contract, she stated that she would go on a two weeks suspension, time that she would use to reflect on these events and better herself. She hoped that even after this unexpected hiatus people would still support her and give her a chance.

While taking full responsability of her actions, mistakes and accepting criticism as long as it remained online, Aloe stated that she was been a victim of doxxing, as her personal information was leaked she started to receive phone calls on her homeline and a person identified as her boyfriend was also contacted by people with her information, Aloe clarified that she no longer had a relationship with this person and that was the case for sometime even before joining hololive, she politely asked to stop doxxing her as that was going too far, Aloe stated to judge her based on facts, not on falsehoods and rumors. Aloe ended her stream hoping for people to wait for her return.

Retirement
However on 30 August hololive's official English account published a statement announcing the retirement of Mano Aloe starting 31 August, based on the fact that she was not physically or mentally prepared to continue with her activities, and that according to her wishes they decided to graduate her from the group, wishing her the best in her future projects. Soon afterwards every video on her channel was made private and her tweets were erased.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called "Ma no tomo" (魔の友) in Japanese which translates to "Devil's friend".

Trivia

 * Aloe is a succubus-in-training.
 * She likes to cook and prepare bento boxes.
 * She likes cleaning, but can't clean her own room
 * As demostrated in her introduction, she loves to sing and she wants to make original songs.
 * Her favorite anime are: Charlotte and Darling in the Franxx.
 * Aloe claims that her horns are asymmetrical because she is still growing, but that eventually both horns would be the same size.
 * She doesn't like insects at all, she doesn't even stand butterflies, but claims she would not kill them.
 * She wanted to join hololive after watching them perform at hololive's 1st fest Nonstop Story.