Takanashi Kiara

Takanashi Kiara is an English Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, as part of its English (EN) branch first generation of Vtubers alongside Ninomae Ina'nis, Watson Amelia, Mori Calliope, and Gawr Gura.

Personality
Kiara is enthusiastic and friendly, and is open with her feelings. She cares strongly for her friends and family, and misses them a great deal while she is abroad. Although energetic and sometimes chaotic in nature, and eager to collab with other members, she is secretly quite shy. She is sometimes bird-brained, being forgetful or having a short attention span. She prefers video games with fixed goals, such as RPGs, rather than open-world games like Minecraft.

On a graph ranking members in purity and intelligence, Kiara was rated "bottom left"&mdash;maximum lewd and foolish, much to her bemusement. However, she often surprises viewers with moments of gentleness, compassion, and insightful wisdom.

Watson Amelia, in her debut stream, described Kiara as having a "positive attitude and lovely voice". Mori Calliope described her as a hard worker and an incredible singer with a great personality, and praised her fluency with Japanese.

Kiara has a particular fondness for Mori Calliope. Kiara, a phoenix who has been continuously reborn, always meets Calliope each time she dies. However, it is not within Calliope's power to keep a phoenix in the Underworld.

Background
Kiara was introduced simultaneously on both hololive's and hololive's English Twitter accounts and on hololive English's YouTube channel in a small video with the rest of the first generation on 8 September 2020. Her Twitter account was created on July, but only made her first tweet on her official introduction on 8 September. Her YouTube channel was created on 16 July but she debuted on 12 September.

2020
On 11 October, one month after her debut, Kiara celebrated 300,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 16 October, Kiara held her first collaboration with Japanese hololive, playing Untitled Goose Game with Oozora Subaru, this was the first collaboration ever between hololive EN and main hololive.

On 24 October, Kiara held her second collaboration with a Japanese hololive member, Momosuzu Nene. They did a special concert live stream where they sang karaoke songs together.

On 18 November, Kiara announced her new talk show, "HOLOTALK with Takanashi Kiara", which includes work from her sound designer and an introduction video being made by Watson Amelia. She also announced the release of her first original single "Hinotori", with cover art by her illustrator Hike and an upcoming music video by Mori Calliope. She also announced a voice pack. Both the voice pack and single were due for release on 26 November.

On 20 November, she held the first episode of her show "HOLOTALK with Takanashi Kiara" with Houshou Marine as her first guest.

On 22 November, Kiara received a model update during a Minecraft with improvements on her chest, apparently she was not aware of all the improvements made to her model as she noticed her new facial expression nearing the end of the stream, for example she noticed that her model can now do a surprised expression.

On 23 November, she reached 500,000 YouTube subscribers during a "karaoke til 500k subs" stream. She hit 500k before finishing her second song. Murasaki Shion coincidentally hit 500,000 subs on the same day.

On 26 November, she released her first original song, HINOTORI.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called the "Kiara Fan Club". She requested to write the name without abbreviation so she can actually find things related to her.
 * Members are referred to as "employees". They refer to Kiara as "Tenchou" (manager). Many assign themselves positions within the company. When angry at her employees, Kiara is known to threaten to fire them.

Trivia

 * In Japanese, her name is written 「小鳥遊キアラ」.
 * Her surname, "Takanashi", is written with the kanji for 小鳥, "kotori", meaning "little bird", and "遊", the root of "asobu", meaning "to play"; together meaning "little bird at play". It is read "takanashi", literally meaning "no hawks", a pun meaning that there must be no hawks for the little bird to play. It is an example of nanori, or idiosyncratic readings of kanji which only appear in names.
 * This kanji spelling of Takanashi is uncommon, ranked the 50,808th most popular Japanese surname in 2013. It is shared with Rikka Takanashi, protagonist of he animated series "Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai".
 * Her first name, "Kiara", is written in katakana, normally used for foreign words or names.
 * She gives her surname-first, Japanese style, even when speaking in English. Ninomae Ina'nis and Gawr Gura also do this, while Calliope Mori and Amelia Watson use the English name order when speaking in English.
 * She likes fast food, adventures and hats. Kiara insists that fast food is healthy, and chicken in particular is very healthy. She claims to eat 53 pieces of chicken per day.
 * Her hobbies include singing, drawing, eating and fighting.
 * She dislikes scary stuff and one-sided feelings.
 * Her birthday, 6 July, is National Fried Chicken Day in the United States.
 * Her loading screen, introduction video and narration were made by Mori Calliope, while Kiara made the art. An alternate version of the intro video was later released with narration by Kiara.
 * She is left handed.
 * Kiara is multilingual, speaking English, Japanese, German (native speaker), and "Bird". She has stated that her English is not perfect, and has corrected Mori Calliope's Japanese. She has also promised to do some Japanese only streams. She shares languages with the Evangelion character Asuka Langley Soryu, a Japanese-American who also speaks English, Japanese and German.
 * Kiara revealed that "bird" language is actually a pun that only works in Japanese. The Japanese for "trilingual", 「トリリンガル」, begins with "tori", meaning "bird".
 * Her favorite senior member is Usada Pekora, Pekora noticed Kiara on her introduction stream, leaving her speechless. Kiara has watched every one of Pekora's archived streams. One of Kiara's objectives is to collab with the Japanese members, but especially Pekora. Her collab with Pekora was finally scheduled for 27 November 2020 at 12:00 JST.
 * Kiara's favorite games include the Tales of series, Atelier series, Arknights, Super Mario games and The Legend of Zelda.
 * As revealed during her "Karaoke till 500k subs!!!" stream her favorite anime is Bakemonogatari. Her second is A Certain Scientific Railgun, and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is in her top five.
 * Her other favorite anime include A Certain Magical Index, Nichijou, Working!!, Minami-ke, Steins;Gate, Kannagi and Re:Zero.
 * Kiara's goals are to open a fast food restaurant, release original music, for people to make fanart or cosplay of her, collaborations with games, anime or conventions among others.
 * Her belt can turn her back into her phoenix form, as such it is prohibited to use it.
 * She is the third hololive EN member and ninth hololive member overall to join official Hololive Subreddit as a moderator.
 * Kiara is arguably one of the oldest hololives. According to her introduction video, she was born in a time before humans lived on Earth. This would make her even older than Kiryu Coco (3,501) and Gawr Gura (over 9,000), but not older than Mori Calliope, who is the personification of abstract concept and has no date of birth. However, as Kiara is technically reborn every few centuries, it could be argued that Kiara was only born relatively recently.
 * Her catchphrase is 「キッケリキー!!」 (kikkerikii!). It is the german onomatopoeia for the cry of a rooster, but according to Kiara it is the sound made by a phoenix. Mori Calliope drew Kiara as a chicken saying "kicky ricky or whatever".
 * Her ending catchphrase is "Auf wiedersehen", a German farewell phrase.
 * When thanking donators, she says "danke schön", German for "thank you very much". She also uses "vielen dank", German for "many thanks", which viewers misheard as "feelin' dank". In bird language, "thank you" is translated as "pipipi".
 * On 17 September 2020, Kiara announced the menu for her her fried chicken branch, Kiara Fried Phoenix. It included the Phoenix Burger (chicken meat, salad, pineapple, BBQ sauce, onions, tomato, bacon, and mozarella cheese); and the Yagoo Burger (two beef patties, salad, pickles, egg, cheddar cheese, secret seiso sauce, and onion rings). Fans subsequently actually made both burgers.
 * Kiara's blue feather "earrings" are in fact not earrings, but feathers which come from behind her ears. However, she also has a small blue stud piercing in her left ear.
 * During Mori Calliope's second live stream, Kiara expressed that she has a crush on Calli, much to Calli's dismay. This has to do with the fact that Kiara is immortal (unless she's eaten), so no matter how many times Calli would kill her, she'd always revive. This resulted in a ship later coined by Kiara as "TakaMori".
 * She noted that she has asthma.

Media

 * Takanashi Kiara Ch. hololive-EN - YouTube channel
 * Takanashi Kiara's corporate profile on hololive.tv (EN)
 * Takanashi Kiara's corporate profile on hololive.tv (JP)
 * @takanashikiara - Takanashi Kiara's official Twitter account
 * @takanashikiara - Takanashi Kiara's Marshmallow account

Twitter hashtags

 * #kfp - Stream tag (English)
 * #キアライブ - Stream tag (Japanese)
 * #artsofashes - Fan art (English)
 * #絵ニックス - Fan art (Japanese)
 * #takamori - Kiara x Calliope Fan art