Shiori Novella

Shiori Novella (シオリ・ノヴェラ) is an English speaking Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive. She is set to debut in 2023 as part of hololive -Advent-, the third generation of members of hololive English, alongside Koseki Bijou, Nerissa Ravencroft, Fuwawa Abyssgard and Mococo Abyssgard.

Profile
Driven by her thirst for knowledge, Shiori Novella is "The Archiver." She turns her favorite stories and treasured memories into bookmarks and saves them. By misfortune, she was found to have obtained forbidden knowledge within one of her stories and was imprisoned. But to her, that experience itself is but a fascinating story. In order to continue her search for more stories, she planned and executed a prison break.

Background
Advent's was first teased on hololive English's Twitter account with a short video on 22 July 2023.

On 23 July, hololive English's Twitter account uploded another teaser video where new characters were shown.

On 25 July, on hololive English's YouTube channel -Advent- was introduced. Shiori also uploaded a short teaser video and made her first tweet on this date. Shiori's YouTube channel was created on 11 May 2023 and her Twitter account was also created in this month.

She is set to debut on 29 July 2023.

Mascots and Fans

 * An inky mascot character appears on her shoulder in official art.

Name

 * Shiori is a Japanese word meaning "bookmark." It is also a Japanese female given name.
 * Novella is an English word of Italian origin, in modern times referring to a short novel. It is also an uncommon surname.
 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Novella was the 39,419th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 558 individuals.
 * She appears to write her name in western name order, with the given name first.
 * In Japanese, her name is written in katakana, typically used for foreign names and words.

Miscellaneous

 * Her emote, 👁‍🗨, is an eye in a speech bubble. The emote was released in 2015, originally as part of an anti-bullying campaign.
 * She shares the same character designer Kayahara with Seto Miyako and Sukoya Kana of Nijisanji and Fukumaki Yuka of Irodori.
 * Her Live2D rigger, FELUCCA, has rigged various other members including Inugami Korone, Mori Calliope and Noir Vesper.

Media

 * Shiori Novella Ch. hololive-EN - YouTube channel
 * @shiorinovella - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #ShiorinOnAir - Stream
 * #ShiorinSketc - Fan art