Oozora Subaru

Oozora Subaru (大空スバル) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, debuting as part of its second generation of VTubers alongside Minato Aqua, Murasaki Shion, Nakiri Ayame and Yuzuki Choco.

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Personality
Subaru is extroverted and tomboyish in nature. She is confident, hardworking, and always optimistic, even in situations that would discourage most people. This is in part because she is likely the one holoIdol who has gone through the most trouble in her early life, as she was born with a hole in her heart (a Ventricular Septal Defect or VSD, which means the wall that separated the left and right side of the heart didn't close correctly and created a hole) that threatened to kill her by the time she was 14, got ran over by car and even had her house burned down, which was the final straw that pushed her desperately into joining hololive, going so far to pretend to be an otaku to get accepted, which was successful yet ineffective due to its fakeness.

Because of her overwhelming life experience, she usually acts like a tsukkomi (straight man), pointing out the ridiculousness of whatever other members are saying or doing, and in doing so makes her the butt of many jokes. But that doesn't mean she is incapable of smiling, as she always finds a way to smile and joke herself.

She has a silly habit of saying "shuba shuba shuba" to express excitement or contentment.

Appearance
Subaru has a stereotypical tomboyish appearance, accentuated by her short hair, and her baseball fan attires, with a red with white cap turned backwards, a white and yellow-striped jersey, accompanied by a blue pea whistle, white and red shorts, a pair of thigh high socks, one white and the other red, and a pair of white tennis shoes with yellow laces. she has tied to her left hip a yellow hollow plastic megaphone (used in chants during baseball games) with a yellow piece of fabric.

Background
Her Twitter account was opened on 10 August 2018 while her YouTube channel was created on 22 August although she did not start her activities on her channel until her introduction stream which was live on 17 September.

2019
At the end of a stream on 1 May, she announced that she would be getting a 3D model. She debuted her 3D model on 5 May.

On 30 July, she debuted her second 2D costume.

On 6 September, she announced on Twitter, that she would get her 3D costume swimsuit, the costume was revealed on 17 September during a stream in YouTube.

2020
On 1 January, she published on her Twitter account, that she would get a third 2D costume, a kimono to celebrate the new year, the costume was later revealed the same day, during a stream.

On 24 January, along with the other hololive girls up to the third generation, she debuted her 3D idol outfit at hololive's 1st fes. Nonstop Story.

On 5 November, she announced on her Twitter account that her 2D model would be updated to the 2.0 version. Next day on 6 November, she debuted her updated model during a stream, Subaru has more expressions, her face can turn in more directions, her hair especially her longer bang has movement added, also her previously still whistle and stopwatch now move as she turns around.

On 15 December, she reached 600,000 YouTube subscribers.

2021
On 26 January, she reached 700,000 YouTube subscribers during a Minecraft stream.

On 21 March, she reached 800,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 20 May, she reached 900,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 26 May, hololive's official Twitter account announced that Subaru would get her fourth 2D costume. Later that day Subaru debuted her new costume during a stream, according to concept illustration by her illustrator, this costume comes in two main variants, "Short Style" where Subaru retains her short hairstyle and "Long Style" where Subaru has three different variants of hairstyle two loose hairstyles and one consisting of twintails. Regardless of the variants Subaru can wear a blue beret decorated with two stars, a long sleeve white blouse decorated with a red ribbon and a bellow the chest blue plaid skirt, she can also wear a pink sweater. At the peak of her stream, she had an audience of 126.000 viewers.

On 2 July, her birthday, Subaru reached 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers, making her the 19th hololive member, as well as the 14th member of hololive JP, to reach this milestone. She is also the second member of the 2nd generation to reach it. As a part of the celebration, she announced the debut of her own original song, "Taiyou Shoujyo."

On 3 July, Subaru's first single, "Taiyou Shoujyo," was released on various digital platforms.

On 7 October, during her third anniversary celebration, Subaru announced the release of her first EP "Pleiades!"

2022
On 21 October, Subaru debuted her hololive ERROR-themed costume for her 3D model during a hololive ERROR stream. Said costume is the summer variant of the Aogami High School uniform, alluding to her role as Ukai Kaoru.

On 13 August, as part of the "hololive Summer 2022" event, Subaru debuted her second 3D swimsuit. Unlike the original swimsuits from 2019 that had individual designs, these swimsuits are meant to be matching outfits similar to the 3D idol costumes. The swimsuits come in two types one with thin straps for the top and a diagonal cut mini skirt and the other one has ruffled straps in the top and an even mini skirt. Both version are white with various patterns including hololive's and Holoearth's logos, hearts and sparks. The swimsuits are personalized by including different colors to match each talent. Additionally they have the option to wear a hoodie.

On 16 September, Subaru released a music video for her original song "Pleiades."

On 18 August, continuing the "hololive Summer 2022" event, Subaru debuted her 3D yukata in a stream on hololive's Japanese channel alongside Himemori Luna, Tokoyami Towa and Tsunomaki Watame. Like other 3D costumes the yukatas have a variety of styles that hololive members can choose from. The yukatas come in various colors and patterns including fireworks, flowers and goldfish.

On 20 November, during her fourth anniversary live, Subaru debuted a new 3D idol costume. This costume is an updated version of her second 2D costume using warmer colors and with additional ornaments to match an idol outfit. In this costume Subaru can use short and long hairstyles. She uses a white beret with a sunflower decoration. Subaru wears a white top with a light green corset decorated with double bows on top of it she can wear a short stripped yellow jacket. She uses dark shorts, around them Subaru uses a ruffled stripped yellow and white skirt decorated with light blue ribbons. Subaru has long white socks and black, yellow and white shoes.

2023
On 18 March, Subaru debuted her new 3D idol costume during hololive 4th fes. "Our Bright Parade" DAY 1.

On 23 May, Subaru debuted her fifth 2D costume. Subaru uses really short twintails. Subaru uses chicken themed loungewear. She wears a short and loose yellow t-shirt with a chick print on it. Underneath, Subaru uses an orange bra. Her shorts are white with an orange dot pattern and ruffled edges. Subaru uses striped, loose white and blue socks. Her slippers are chick shaped. On top Subaru can wear a white and yellow hoodie with orange and blue elements, the hoodie has various decorations including a chick and the word "PIYO" prints.

On 8 June, Subaru reached 1,500,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, making her the 16th member in hololive to reach the milestone.

On 22 July during a Morning Suba stream, Subaru received new options for her fifth 2D costume. Subarudo can now sit on top of her head, and she also gains various eye expressions such as sparkling eyes, spiral eyes, and empty eyes. She can also use the "Long Style" hair from her fourth 2D costume.

On 30 July, as part of the "hololive Summer 2023" event, during a karaoke relay, Subaru debuted her third 3D swimsuit. The 2023 swimsuits are inspired in a sailor uniform. Members wear a two layered swimsuit, the first layer is blue from the straps going down diagonally to the center where each member has a mostly blue bow but one of the sides and the brooch are in one color representative of each member. The rest of the top is white. The edge has a semi circular cut. The lower piece of the first layer has two variants, one is a two layered blue skirt decorated with a white belt, a golden chain with some decorations hanging from it and a bow to the left and planks to the right. The second version is mostly the same but they wear blue shorts instead of a mini skirt. Subaru uses the shorts. The second layer of the outfit is a matching striped bikini in white and another color depending on the member.

On 13 November, as part of the "Hoshimatic Project," she debuted new 3D lesson wear. She uses a white short shirt with black wide lines at the shoulders and lower edge with her name in it and a black top underneat, the shirt is decorated with a small triangle representing the hololive brand and its color is different among the members. The outfit has variants, some members wear black pants while others wear shorts. She uses the shorts variant.

Discography

 * Main page: Oozora Subaru/Discography

Events

 * On 4 April 2019, she made an appearance (as Subaru Duck) in hololive's collaboration with Dawn of the Breakers as one of the characters alongisde Roboco, Aki Rosenthal, Natsuiro Matsuri, Shirakami Fubuki, Minato Aqua, Yuzuki Choco and Ookami Mio. She later appears in her real body alongside Sakura Miko, Akai Haato, and Nakiri Ayame on 4 September.
 * On 10 October 2020, Nissin's character Curry Meshi-kun's Twitter account announced a collaboration between hololive and the Curry Meshi brand named "Curry Meshi WEEK" where she, Minato Aqua and Usada Pekora would appear as the central characters of the collaboration (with other members also appearing) forming the unit name "Spice Love." debuting an original song on hololive's YouTube channel called "Curry Meshi Is a Miracle" (カレーメシ・イン・ミラクル) and a special stream held on 11 October.
 * On 13 June 2021, hololive's Japanese Twitter account announced that Subaru, Minato Aqua and Momosuzu Nene would sing the The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! ending theme, forming the unit name "NEGI☆U." The unit name is an abbreviation for "never give up," which is associated with "Kujikenai" in a part of the anime title, and the reading is "Negiyu."
 * On 13 August 2021, hololive's Twitter account announced that 12 members including Subaru (representing the Chiba Lotte Marines) would participate in a collaboration with the six professional Japanese baseball teams from the Pacific League, each team represented by two hololive members. The collaboration include promotional merchandise that could be brought, including hats, posters, keychains, among others, also a promotional match between ORIX Buffaloes vs SoftHawk HAWKS scheduled for 3 October 2021 at the Kyocera Dome Osaka stadium called "hololive day."
 * On 17 December 2021, hololive's Twitter account announced a collaboration with TOKYO SKYTREE Town (R) featuring Yukihana Lamy, Oozora Subaru, Yozora Mel, Tokino Sora, Hoshimachi Suisei, Yuzuki Choco, Tsunomaki Watame, Himemori Luna, Amane Kanata, and Tokoyami Towa in limited eddition merchandise, cafe, games, and other activities. The event was held from 17 December 2021 to 31 January 2022.
 * On 9 June 2022, hololive's Twitter account announced that she and Himemori Luna would appear in merchandize that could be won in the crane game MOLLY ONLINE with original designs. The merchandize include cushions, tapestries, acrylic stands and keychains The items would be available from 10 June to 30 June 2022.
 * On 20 October 2022, the amusement park Fuji-Q Highland announced the second collaboration "hololive in Fuji-Q Highland ~SNOW*WORLD~" with Shirakami Fubuki, Nakiri Ayame, Oozora Subaru, and Ookami Mio. The event would be held from 19 November to 30 December 2022.
 * On 28 April 2023, hololive's Twitter account announced a collaboration with the Japanese professional baseball team "Yomiuri Giants" in a match on 1 August 2023 at Tokyo Dome, featuring Subaru and another eight members participating in various promotionals: announcements, posters, signage in the halls, as well as tickets and merch.

Relationships

 * Notable units and groups Subaru is part of:
 * "AyaSuba," alongside Nakiri Ayame.
 * "SubaMoon," alongside Moona Hoshinova.
 * "HOLOTORI," alongside Takanashi Kiara (phoenix), Pavolia Reine (peacock), Nanashi Mumei (owl), and Takane Lui (hawk).
 * "SMOK," alongside Ookami Mio, Nekomata Okayu, and Inugami Korone.
 * "FAMS," alongside Shirakami Fubuki, Nakiri Ayame, and Ookami Mio.
 * "To-MOS," [常MOS], alongside Tokoyami Towa, Ookami Mio, and Nekomata Okayu.
 * "STAR ANIMAL," alongside Tokino Sora, Hoshimachi Suisei, Omaru Polka, Sakamata Chloe, and Hakui Koyori.
 * "SubaChocoLuna," alongside Himemori Luna and Yuzuki Choco.
 * "SubaChocoLunaTan," alongside Himemori Luna, Yuzuki Choco and Shishiro Botan.
 * "Dodequartet"「ドデカルテット」, alongside Nekomata Okayu, Sakura Miko, and Usada Pekora.
 * A unit in a collaboration advertising campaign between Dodecamine and hololive. DODEKAMBITIOUS is their original song to celebrate 4 million copies sold during the campaign.
 * "Hoshimatic Project," alongside Hoshimachi Suisei, Tokino Sora, Natsuiro Matsuri, Aki Rosenthal, Tokoyami Towa, Momosuzu Nene, Hakui Koyori, Sakamata Chloe and Kazama Iroha. The project was conceived by Suisei as she wished to make activities proper of a big idol group including activities such as pratice routines. The unit was revealed on 6 November 2023 and their first practice stream was on 13 November.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called "Suba-tomo"「スバ友」, which mean "Subaru's friend."
 * More hardcore fans are nicknamed "Ahijo"「アヒージョ」; fellow hololive member Shirogane Noel is often said to be one.

Name

 * Her kanji readings for her familial name "Oozora" literally means "Big Sky" or "Great Heavens."
 * Although without kanji it may be unclear as to what her personal name means, the official kanji for Subaru「昴」 can be used to mean "to unify" or "gather together." "Subaru" is also the Japanese name of Pleiades star cluster.

Miscellaneous

 * Subaru is responsible for giving the nickname "YAGOO" to Motoaki Tanigo (the CEO of COVER Corporation) as a result of accidentally misreading his name.
 * Her character designer is Shigure Ui who is also a VTuber. She originally did not make video contents herself and only appeared in other (mostly hololive) VTubers' videos before officially debuting on 18 May 2019.
 * One of her most infamous in-jokes is her impersonations of Donald Duck during her ASMR streams stream. The joke was even taken further away during her collaboration live-stream with Roboco on 31 January 2019. The stream was intended to be the debut of her 3D model, but instead Subaru appeared as a 3D render of a little white duck wearing her signature baseball cap. Since then she has been associated with a duck but she found it embarrassing at first until much later when she embraced being associated with a duck being used as her mascot.
 * Subaru is quite open to her viewers about unfortunate events that happened to her in the past, one of the examples is on Subaru's collaboration stream with Ookami Mio, Subaru stated that one of her reasons for joining hololive is because her house burned down and she needed money for a new place to live, she also used to take multiple part time jobs before becoming a full time VTuber.
 * She is likely the worst in hololive at horror games, screaming at even the tiniest things.
 * In her early days Subaru invited Maimoto Keisuke from Nijisanji to do a collaboration stream, which was later revealed to be the turning point for Maimoto who almost quit his VTuber career and sparked his joy to keep striving as a VTuber, and also firmly set up the friendly rivalry between hololive and Nijisanji, with talents from both companies beginning to collaborate more often.
 * Like Usada Pekora and Minato Aqua, Subaru established her own construction company in the Minecraft hololive JP server named Oozora Kensetsu, her notable building is Shubangelion, a towering muscular duck building wearing Subaru's famous hat holding Sakura Miko's pixelated head on its right hand and Usada Pekora's pixelated head on its left. However, Subaru stated that Oozora Kensetsu is no longer a company, it's more like a group where anyone can join and leave anytime.
 * Current Oozora Kensetsu member consist of Himemori Luna and Natsuiro Matsuri.
 * Subaru came up with an original wrestling move (though she thought it already existed) called the "Oozora Subaru-style neck & back breaker" in holo Grafiti, also known as "Oozora Subaru-style Sheepcide" due to her using it on Tsunomaki Watame. The move has since been adopted a real pro wrestler, Great-Oh-Khan.
 * She's known to be very fond of western movies, particularly action-adventure movies as seen from her referencing them a lot during her streams and even doing short movie reviews for them. Some movies she's mentioned being a big fan of is the Mission: Impossible series and the Avengers movies.
 * She normally speaks in Kansai dialect but tries to keep it suppressed when streaming. Hearing it spoken in games such as Yakuza 0 does have a tendency to make it come out however.

Media

 * Subaru Ch. 大空スバル - YouTube channel
 * Oozora Subaru's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
 * @oozorasubaru - Twitter account
 * 大空昴Official - bilibili channel
 * @oozorasubaru - Marshmallow account

Twitter hashtags

 * #大空スバル - General
 * #生スバル - Stream talk
 * #スバ友 - Fans
 * #プロテインザスバル - Fan art
 * #きりぬきスバル - Video clips

Further readings

 * 大空スバル - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
 * 大空スバル - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * 大空スバル - Japanese Wikipedia
 * 大空スバル - unofficial hololive Seesaawiki
 * 大空昴 - Moegirl Encyclopedia
 * 오오조라 스바루 - Namu Wiki
 * Oozara Subaru - Hololive Fan Wiki