Oozora Subaru

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

Personality
Subaru is extroverted and boyish in nature. She is confident, hardworking, and always optimistic, even in situations that would discourage most people. She usually acts as the tsukkomi (straight man) during collaborations, by pointing out the ridiculousness of whatever other members are saying or doing.

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, acompanied 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 subscribers on YouTube.

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 "カレーメシ・イン・ミラクル" translated as Curry Meshi in Miracle and a special stream held on 11 October.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called "Suba-tomo" (スバ友).

Trivia

 * 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. Other illustrators turned VTubers include Note Takehana, the illustrator for Shizuka Rin and Ienaga Mugi, and Kagura Nana, the illustrator for Nakiri Ayame.
 * One of her most infamous in-jokes is her impersonations of Donald the 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
 * Subaru is responsible for giving the nickname "YAGOO" to Motoaki Tanigo (the CEO of COVER Corporation) as a result of accidentally misreading his name.
 * Subaru quite open to her viewers about misfortune event that happen to her in the past, one of the example is on Subaru collaboration stream with Ookami Mio, Subaru state that one of her reason joining hololive is because her house burned down and she need money for new place to live, she also used to take multiple part time job before become a full time virtual youtuber.
 * In her early days Subaru invite Maimoto Keisuke from Nijisanji to do a collaboration stream, which is later reveal to be the turning point for Maimoto that almost quit his VTuber career and also spark his joy to keep striving as a VTuber.
 * Like Usada Pekora and Minato Aqua, Subaru estabilished her own construction company in Minecraft hololive JP server named Oozora Kensetsu, her notable building is Shubangelion, a towering muscular duck building wearing Subaru's famous hat that holding Sakura Miko pixelated head on its right hand and Usada Pekora pixelated head on its left hand.

Media

 * Subaru Ch. 大空スバル - YouTube channel
 * Oozora Subaru's corporate profile on hololive.tv (EN)
 * Oozora Subaru's corporate profile on hololive.tv (JP)
 * @oozorasubaru - Oozora Subaru's official Twitter account
 * 大空昴Official - Oozora Subaru's official bilibili channel
 * @oozorasubaru - Oozora Subaru's 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 - unofficial hololive Seesaawiki
 * 大空昴 - Moegirl Encyclopedia
 * Oozara Subaru - Hololive Fan Wiki