ZonBko

ZonBko (ゾンB子) is an independent Japanese Virtual YouTuber who debuted on the 1st of July 2020. Her main language is Japanese, but she can speak a limited amount of English. She streams a wide variety of content including games, ASMR, drawing, singing, or playing the harmonica and ukulele.

Personality
ZonBko is soft spoken, but very considerate, funny and entertaining. She enjoys joking around while streaming, and often likes to make funny noises and voices, such as doing an impression of a more realistic zombie. She even tends to make unchi (poop) jokes from time to time. However, she enjoys playing games alongside her fans, such as Apex Legends, Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, Minecraft, and Animal Crossing New Horizons. While her English is limited, she tries her best to try to talk with everyone to make them feel included. She makes a considerate effort to stream at least once a day. She is very appreciative of donations, and will often respond to each of them with "pero-pero" or "hamama-hamama" noises, as if licking and chewing on each donator affectionately.

Appearance
ZonBko, appears to be an undead young woman, who evidently died at 18 years of age. She has messy, shoulder-length dark hair and her skin has a sickly gray-green complexion. Her right leg seems to be stitched on, and is of a more bluish complexion, unlike the rest of her body. She has big and round red eyes with dark swirls in them, and most notably, one of her eyes is slightly lazy and lags behind the other. Her skin is littered with scars; one on her face, around her neck, her stomach, and her legs. ZonBko's face seems to be in a permanent smile, with drool often dripping from her mouth. She has three gold piercings on her right ear, and a piercing on her tongue. She wears a brown hooded sweater that is torn up, with the English letters "ZoN" on it, with the katakana "ゾンビ", meaning "zombie", written under it. The left sleeve is completely torn off, and there is a large tear on the bottom, exposing the scar on her stomach. She wears dark blue shorts with suspenders hanging off of them. The suspenders have an intestine-like look to them. ZonBko doesn't wear shoes, but she does wear one large white and brown striped sock on her left leg.

The parasite that is in her body is plainly visible, protruding from her back and wrapping around her left arm. They appear as thin, yellow tentacles that are capable of holding objects or piercing things.

Profile
ZonBko is a zombie who has an unknown parasite in her body, which keeps her "alive" somehow. However, she doesn't remember her life as a human. She claims to be 18 years old, though it's unknown how long she's been dead.

Background
Her Twitter account was created in June 2020 and made her first tweet on the 30th of the same month. Her YouTube channel was created on 23rd of June, but didn't debut until the 1st of July of that year.

2021
On the 5th of March, ZonBko started doing endurance streams until she reaches her goal of 10k subscribers.

After 5 weeks of endurance streams, ZonBko reached her goal of 10k subscribers on YouTube during her 62nd stream on the 13th of April.

On the 30th of June, ZonBko debuted her second 2D costume, a brand new, summer-themed 2D model she had teased in the weeks prior. This outfit is a simple white summer dress, complete with a straw-hat. She is barefoot, save for the gauze wrapped around her left leg just below her knee. Her hair is styled with two braided pigtails. She describes this as an alternate version of herself from a different world, named Zonbko (ゾンb子), as opposed to ZonBko (ゾンB子), with a more soft spoken personality, but becomes yandere-like when the former version of herself is mentioned. She further explains that this version of herself would be mostly present during the summer season. The summer outfit was illustrated by Noruka Soruka and rigged by Momosora Shina.On the 30th of October, ZonBko debuted her third 2D costume and model, a Halloween themed 2D model. The outfit is a purple monster kigurumi with claws and wings, with a red bow on the top of the head. She wears a red spiked collar with a broken chain attached to it. She also sports a wolf-like tail and ears. The Halloween outfit was illustrated by Nihao Sanpei, and the concept was designed by ZonBko herself. Prior to this outfit debut, she held a challenge on Twitter to see if viewers could guess what the new costume would look like based on the silhouette.

On the 5th of November, ZonBko made a 3D model of herself in VRoid Studio, and began using this model on stream starting on the 22nd of November.

2022
On the 2nd of May, ZonBko debuted her fourth 2D costume and model. This costume is a red and black striped punk style outfit, complete with spiked cuffs, collar, and headband. She wears a black eyepatch, with a red and white "X" printed on it, though she can opt to take it off when she pleases. She wears a black thigh-high stocking on her left leg, and a calf-high fishnet sock on her right. She wears black boots. She has her hair up in two small twintails, with eyeball-styled hairclips. This outfit is accompanied by a small plush rabbit mascot character. The punk outfit was illustrated by Nihao Sanpei, and the concept design was by fan-artist Ethan, with input and minor changes by ZonBko herself.

On the 26th of May, ZonBko reached 20k subscribers on YouTube.

On the 1st of July, her 2nd anniversary of streaming, ZonBko achieved one of her dreams when she did a collaboration stream playing Apex Legends with Hololive Indonesia's Kureiji Ollie.

2023
On the 17th of June, ZonBko debuted her fifth 2D costume and model. This costume is a Japanese-styled, long-sleeved, black schoolgirl uniform with an oversized lab coat loosely draped over it with the sleeves completely covering her hands, though she can remove the coat as she pleases. She wears a black beret with cat ears on it, with the right ear having two piercings. The hat is decorated with buttons. She wears a bandage over the scar on her cheek. She carries around the plush rabbit mascot character from the punk outfit, attached to an intestine-like strap across her torso. Her hair is styled in two small pigtails, with small eyeball-styled hairclips. She wears one black sock on her left leg, while remaining barefoot on the right. She can also wear two styles of glasses, one with rectangular red frames, and the other with circular gold frames. This model is noticeably dynamic, featuring a wide array of facial expressions and various other options. This outfit was illustrated by Noruka Soruka and rigged by Momosora Shina.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called "ZONBVIP." They are depicted as white, simple, and cute chibi people, with what appears to be white "unchi" on their heads.

Trivia

 * Her favorite anime are Girls Und Panzer and Ojamajo Doremi!
 * Her favorite things are games, drawing, chatting, sweet foods, and spicy foods. She especially likes chocolate, ramen, and of course, brains.
 * Her dislikes are puzzle games, vegetables, and bugs.
 * She hates broccoli, carrots, bell peppers, tomatoes, onions and black tea.
 * She had a pet cat named Aibo (相棒), meaning "partner" in Japanese. He sadly passed away from old age in June 2022.
 * Due to her constant use of limited English, and attempts at trying to speak various other languages, she and her fans call her "World Wide ZonB", or WWZ for short.
 * She has stated she wasn't a loli, but is still "pettan", or flat chested. However, she has also said she was "boing boing", or well endowed, thus leaving the true size of her chest a mystery.
 * She loves Hololive, two of her favorite members being Gawr Gura and Kureiji Ollie. She has drawn fanart for both of them.
 * She loves to play horror games such as Dead by Daylight, Five Nights at Freddy's, and Little Nightmares.
 * She often jokes about unchi (poop). This gives her a very childlike sense of humor. She will often draw "cute" unchi, and use the images as props for her stream. She has even drawn unique unchi for many fans. Sometimes, fans will send the poop emoji in a Superchat description, leading her to say "No pero-pero unchi..." in response.
 * She has expressed a large interest in Western media, ranging from cartoons on Cartoon Network like Adventure Time, to films from Marvel.
 * While streaming the game "Master of Pottery", she made designed an in-game vase in the shape of something seemingly like a person. She then claims he is her son, and she has named him "Tubo-kun."
 * On 12 February 2021, she held a stream where she had to sing the Japanese children's song Tenohira wo Taiyou ni (手のひらを太陽に) 100 times. In random intervals she would sing a different song, and in the end, she ended up singing the song 101 times instead by accident.
 * She had a growing interest in playing Tetris 99 with fans, many of whom now believe she has an addiction due to her frequency in playing it, and repeatedly saying "One more!" after losing a round and refusing to go to bed until she wins.
 * During one of her drawing and ASMR streams, ZonBko drew Kureiji Ollie a second time. In the middle of this stream, Ollie herself had appeared in the stream chat, causing ZonBko to become so star-struck and flustered, she became speechless. Ollie went on to express her great fondness of ZonBko on Twitter, and had even drawn fanart for her. This marked the first moment of their friendship.
 * During Ollie's Birthday Totsumachi/Call-in Stream on the 13th of October 2021, ZonBko was one of many friends called-in during the livestream. ZonBko played the Happy Birthday song on her harmonica for Ollie, and Ollie offered to collaborate with her one day, to which they did on the 1st of July 2022.
 * Ollie invited ZonBko to her Birthday Call-in/Karaoke stream in 2022, the two singing ZonBko's favorite children's song Tenohira wo Taiyou ni (手のひらを太陽に) together.

Media

 * ゾンB子【ZonBko】 - YouTube channel
 * @ZonBko - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #ゾンB子見つけたよ - Fan art
 * #ゾンB子観察中 - Stream clips
 * #ZONBVIP - Fans