Karu

Karu (花留 lit. flower remain/Huā liú) is a female VUP (Virtual UP; bilibili content creators are nicknamed "UP") affiliated with VirtuaReal, NIJISANJI's Chinese Virtual Liver branch, as part of its eighth wave alongside Samael, Mimoi, Shiki and Pax.

Profile
"Sunlight, great seas and warm flowers"

- Karu

If not born to an aristocratic household, a girl so naturally foolish to Karu’s degree would already have been deceived away by strange gentlemen everywhere in just a few words. No, aside from those guys assumed to abduct her, perhaps even inexperienced young men who want to secretly pick some flowers from her flower field could twist Karu in circles. Outside of the tedious aristocratic lessons, Karu would huddle in corners and gently mutter to animals, occasionally holding a gardenia and shouting loudly that she had grown the sturdiest jasmine. This young girl attended by numerous servants knew very little about the surrounding world, so she was completely bewildered by the mockery spoken about her in low voices: "She's ignorant of the ways of the world, and often says weird things." ...The servant is trembling in fear and unwilling to reply. Maybe a friend of equal status can correct her problem? With such a goal in mind, after several months of hard work on how to position the livestream webcam, Karu has officially embarked on her debut journey. 如若不是出生于贵族家庭，天然呆到花留这种程度的女孩早就被随处刷新的怪先生三言两语骗走了，不，抛开那些一心想诱拐她的家伙，或许只是想从少女的花田中偷偷采点花走的青涩少年们都能把花留给骗的团团转. 在冗杂的贵族课程之外，花留时而缩在角落里对着动物轻声低语，时而举着栀子花高呼自己种出了最棒的茉莉，这位被众多仆人簇拥着的少女对外围的世界所知甚少，因而她对于周围对她的低声吐槽十分纳闷. 什么不谙世事，又怎么经常说怪话了…….仆人战战兢兢不愿应答，或许换成地位对等的朋友能够改正自己的问题吧？怀揣着这样的目的，花留在努力学习了如何对准直播摄像头数月后，正式迈上了自己的出道之路.
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Background
On 8 April 2020, Karu was announced as part of VirtuaReal's eighth generation on bilibili, Weibo and Twitter. Karu made her first bilibili dynamic post on the same day.

On 9 April 2020, Karu released her first video, a speedpaint of herself.

Debut
The eighth wave made their debuts in a stream relay split over two days on 25 April and 26 April. At 21:00 jst on 25 April 2020, Karu was the second of the eighth wave to debut on stream.

2022
On 12 July, Karu announced her upcoming 3D debut scheduled for 18 July on her bilibili dynamic. Later on 16 July, Karu announced the postponement of her 3D debut due to pandemic regulations.

Fans

 * Karu's fans and fan medal tag are called "发发民" (Fafamin).

Relationships

 * "Eighth generation"「八期生 」- Karu, Samael, Mimoi, Shiki and Pax. These five debuted together.
 * "873" - Karu, Samael and Shiki
 * VirtuaReal's eighth wave after Mimoi and Pax's retirements.


 * "Public tourist group" 「公费观光团」 - Karu, Chaos and Kiyora. These three were a team for the VirtuaReal-organised custom Apex event on 8 August.

Trivia

 * Color: #75DAFF
 * Species: Human
 * Place of origin: Snow Country, born to a Northern aristocratic household
 * Special skill: Making cuisine, communicating with animals
 * Karu shares her character designer with Honma Himawari, Sasaki Saku, and Hassaku Yuzu (retired) from the main NIJISANJI branch.

Likes and dislikes:

 * Likes: Warm places, flowers and growing them, singing, drawing, playing games, inventing delicious cuisine , sunlight, great seas
 * Favourite games: FPS, relaxing games
 * Dislikes: Garlic chives, snow
 * Fears: Horror games

Miscellaneous

 * Karu made a stargazy pie during a cooking stream. The smell from the ingredients was so bad that a neighbour reported to the police on suspicion of her hiding a corpse. She ended up helping the policeman that arrived at her house to make a bilibili account.
 * Karu's household's estate lands occupies 130,000 square metres.

Media

 * Karu's corporate profile on the official NIJISANJI website
 * Karu's corporate profile on the official VirtuaReal website
 * 花留Karu - bilibili channel
 * 花留Karu - bilibili live room
 * 花留Karu - Weibo account
 * @VirtuarealKaru - Twitter account
 * @virtuarealkaru - Marshmallow account

Unofficial

 * @花留的茉莉花田 - Karu's jasmine flower field bilibili channel (authorised editing group)

Bilibili hashtags

 * #花绘卷# - Fanart tag