Hoshifuri Iku

Iku Hoshifuri is a female English Virtual YouTuber and a member of the English Vtuber group PRISM Project. She joined PRISM as part of the 1st generation, along with Aoi Tokimori and Meno Ibuki.

Iku's first and main language is English, but she also speaks Japanese at a communicative level and she is currently studying Bahasa.

Her streaming content is diverse, which includes playing games, singing, drawing and tarot card reading.

Character Background
''In a galaxy, many light years away. There once was a lonely girl on a lonely planet. The lonely girl would look upon a tiny blue planet from afar. This planet was called Earth. A planet brimming with dreams. But one day, the people of Earth had given up on their love and passions. The girl was heartbroken. She thought about how she could help the blue planet restore its sparkle and came up with an idea. In that moment, the girl realized the warm feeling she felt in her chest was a little dream of her own...''

Personality
Being a visitor from outer space in the future, Iku is very curious about the culture of people from Earth. She is kind to her audience and often interacts with them. She likes calm games because she likes to relax with them.

Iku likes to sing and streams singing broadcasts very often. Sometimes, however, she fails to keep up the pressure, causing her to burst out laughing.

Iku's catchphrase is Furifuri~. She likes to use it to greet/farewell her audience at the start/end of the stream and whenever she is happy.

Appearance
Her appearance is of a Pink Space Princess who wears a big pink-black-white skirt with star accents. The skirt is tied up with a bow above her chest. She also wears pink-black-white boots.

Iku has purple-pink eyes. She has long bright pink hair which ends at the hip area. She has two bows on her head, one for each side.

Background
Iku has tweeted her first tweet on the 12th of January 2021. She unveiled her 2D model the following day. On the 14th of January, she posted her first post or Reddit, on the r/VirtualYoutubers subreddit, in which she has done her voice reveal. She debuted on the 30th of January on YouTube.

2021
On the 4th of February, Iku has streamed her first tarot cards reading stream. In the stream, the viewers could ask Iku about their problems via their Marshmallow questions.

On February 7th, Iku streamed her first collaboration stream on her channel, which was also the first stream in which she played a game. Her guests were her genmates, Aoi Tokimori and Meno Ibuki, and the game was Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.

On the 8th of February, Iku has done her first karaoke stream.

On February 10th, Iku has started her sleepy drawing streams.

On the 15th of February, Iku has started her adventures in Minecraft, being the first member of PRISM Project to do so.

On February 21st, Iku has done her first collab outside her vtuber group. She was a guest over at Uten Hiyori channel, another vtuber designed by Niyori.

On February 27th, Iku has streamed her first Bahasa language stream. This stream remains the most popular on her channel.

On the 8th of March, Iku has celebrated her monetization, which allowed her viewers to send superchats to her.

Fans
Iku calls her fans Ikumin. It's a reference to the Pikmin, a plant-animal life-form from Pikmin game series.

Trivia

 * Iku unofficially belongs to what the vtuber fans have dubbed The Niyori Familly. It is a group of vtubers that contains characters designed by Niyori. The members of the group are all friends to each other, they frequently collab with other members and they can be seen interacting with each other on Twitter. The other Niyori Familly members include: Moona Hoshinova, Uten Hiyori, Amau Meiko, Nato Tsukinami, Yukine Miiya, Yo Agata and Chlori Sano.
 * Iku is second vtuber who posted in the r/VirtualYoutubers subreddit, which shares the same character designer with another Hololive vtuber (the first being Hourei Tenten).
 * Iku hates mushrooms. This is because from the planet of her origin, mushrooms are sentient and they can crawl on walls. Due to this, Iku refuses to eat mushrooms.
 * Despite the information being classified, Iku has shared some minor information about her home planet. The planet has a purple-pink ring and has humans that live longer and age slower.
 * Iku grows an Earth plant which she calls Furiberry . From time to time, she posts on her Twitter Furiberry growing progress.
 * Despite being older than Earth people, she wants to be called imouto.
 * Iku has formed a rivalry with Nini Yuuna . They can be often seen competing for the Aoi Tokimori's hand.

Media

 * Iku Hoshifuri / 星降いく 【PRISM Project】 - YouTube channel
 * @IkuHoshifuri - Twitter account
 * u/IkuHoshifuri - Reddit account
 * @ikuhoshifuri - TikTok account
 * @ikuhoshifuri - Marshmallow account

Twitter hashtags

 * #IKUZONElive #LIVEいくぞーん - Stream talk
 * #furifuriart #ふりふりあーと - Fan art
 * #ikuMEME - Memes
 * #IkuHoshifuri #星降いく - General