Inugami Korone

Inugami Korone (戌神ころね) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, as part of a group of VTubers inside called as hololive Gamers (ホロライブゲーマーズ) alongside Shirakami Fubuki, Ookami Mio, and Nekomata Okayu.

Personality
Korone has a sweet and goofy personality comparable to that of an actual dog. She often kisses other hololive members for no reason, and has a high-pitched laugh that resembles a train whistle or flute. Like most dogs, Korone is fiercely loyal, specifically to Nekomata Okayu. The two are rarely seen apart, and the pair is known as "OkaKoro".

While her activities are usually wholesome, Korone can also be unintentionally terrifying at times; for example, she accidentally revealed that she had searched for torture/execution methods in her mobile browser history, laughed joyfully while using a chainsaw in Doom, and was completely unfazed by a scene in Heavy Rain where the protagonist (under Korone's control) was forced to cut off his own finger. However, it does not seem that Korone is violent by nature; rather, it seems like she is too innocent to understand the implications of what she is actually doing.

Korone has a fondness for retro games, especially those that are more niche (or even poorly-made). She gets a lot of amusement from the strangeness in these games, often laughing at how absurd they can be.

Korone's greeting her viewers with "Yubi! Yubi!" which originated from her desire to have her own unique greeting. During her first stream with the other members of hololive Gamers Korone noticed that she was the only one out of the group that didn't have her own greeting. She joked about possibly greeting her viewers by asking for their fingers, after which they would reply "Yubi! Yubi!" in return. Her battle cry when playing games is "Horayo!"

Background
She was first announced on 22 March 2019 in Shirakami Fubuki's stream during which Fubuki debuted her new 3D model. Fubuki announced that she alongside with Nekomata Okayu would join hololive Gamers in April This was followed up by an announcement on hololive's Twitter account on 25 March. She was officially introduced on 1 April.

Her Twitter account was opened on 24 March 2019 while her YouTube channel was created on 25 March. She made her debut on 13 April although she had appeared on the streams of other members before her debut, the first being on Oozora Subaru's channel on 7 April.

2019
On 10 September she announced on her Twitter that she would be getting her 3D model, later on 14 September she debuted her 3D model during a stream.

On 26 December she published on Twitter that she would get her second 2D costume. This costume was later revealed that day during a stream, and features a mostly brown dress with a ribbon and a hat.

2020
On 1 January, she debuted her third 2D costume, a kimono in celebration of the new year. The outfit also comes with a ridiculous kadomatsu-shaped hat, with three bamboo stems that can bob up and down.

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.

Events

 * On 28 January 2020, it was announced on Dengekionline that she would made an appearance in the game Neptunia Virtual Stars as one of the VTuber guest characters alongside Tokino Sora, Roboco, Sakura Miko, Shirakami Fubuki, Minato Aqua, Yuzuki Choco, Shirogane Noel and Houshou Marine.
 * On 3 July 2020, Korone announced on her Twitter account that she would appear in a collaboration with CyberStep's online crane game Toreba, where cushions with her image can be obtained, available until units run out.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called "Koronesuki" (ころねすきー).
 * Japanese fans often donate 563 yen. This is goroawase, or a number-based pun, read as "Koro-san".

Trivia

 * "Korone" resembles the Japanese word for "chocolate cornet", a type of sweet bread from Japan, which plays with the fact that she works in a bakery.
 * Korone's last name "Inugami", roughly translated as "Dog God" or "Dog Spirit", is a spiritual possession by the spirit of a dog, widely known about in western Japan.
 * She has cited on several occasions that her specific breed is the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
 * During her introduction, her height was wrongly written as 156 m instead of 156 cm. This has caused her fans to joke about her being a giantess whenever her image is portrayed especially bigger compared to other VTubers in the same video.
 * Korone has some knowledge of English (as seen in one of her tweets). Korone is also noted by fans as one of the Japanese-speaking VTubers who's made the most effort to reach out to their English speaking audience, using Google Translate whenever she's at a loss for vocabulary or pronunciation. She treats these interactions as a fun way to gradually learn more English.
 * Occasionally during Korone's streams, the screen mirroring software she uses to do live streams (named "AirServer") glitches or times out, causing her model to turn into a giant Airserver icon.
 * She has mentioned on stream that her accent comes from a combination of her grandmother's Kansai dialect and an unknown dialect of her parents that has not been revealed. She is working on changing it into a more common one.
 * Her accent seems to differ most notably from the inflections of syllables. For example, she pronounces 皆 as MIIN-na rather than the more typical min-NAA.
 * Fans have noted that Korone's personality has changed noticeably over time. In many of her earlier streams, and especially in collaborations, she was quieter and more reserved. However, as time passed, she developed more of the open, friendly and energetic personality she is now known for. Korone herself has acknowledged this, and credits hololive's helpful and friendly atmosphere, in particular crediting her close friendship with Okayu.
 * According to Kiryu Coco, her daily schedule suggests that she only sleeps about 2-3 hours a day inbetween working at the bakery and streaming. Fans have expressed concern over her health.
 * She shares the same character designer with Civia of hololive China and Shellin Burgundy from Nijisanji.
 * Korone has a notable interest in American popular culture. She is a fan of South Park, Steven Spielberg movies (especially Jurassic Park) and Michael Jackson's music.
 * There is an Easter egg in Doom Eternal that references Korone, and can be activated by pressing the chainsaw button three times.
 * She and Amane Kanata are avid Baseball fans and have attended games together.
 * During the credit-scroll of Korone's stream of Blasphemous, the topic of conversation turned to Expósito; one of the game's most memorable bosses. Wanting to know how to properly pronounce the name using Google Translate, Korone mistakenly pronounced it as "X-Potato". This instance took off and became a widely repeated meme among her fanbase, with the term "X-Potato" sometimes used as a stand-in label for Korone's viewers.
 * Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the YouTube AI began automatically placing the "Get the latest information from the CDC about COVID-19" tab on all of Korone's videos, regardless of their topic or context. This even extended to edited and translated clips from her streams uploaded by other YouTubers. It has been speculated to be due to an error in the YouTube's AI resulting from Korone's name being similar to the spelling of "Corona" in several different languages.
 * Also because of this disease, Youtube began pushing more of its moderation work onto AI instead. The YouTube AI began abruptly ending and deleting streams of many VTubers (even without violation of Youtube's Community Guidelines). Korone began posting many positive comments about her love for YouTube in her stream descriptions in an attempt to prevent this for happening. But unfortunately, after her Plug & Play stream, she stopped doing this.
 * On 28 August 2020, YouTuber 2ManySnacks posted Eekum Bokum, an animation of Korone saying the phrase of the same name, which eventually led to the phrase becoming a meme. She said this phrase in a livestream from 25 August 2020, in which she, seemingly amused by the phrase, would repeat it whenever it played in Banjo-Kazooie, a 1998 video game originally released for the Nintendo 64, which she was playing in the livestream. The sound is played upon collecting a Mumbo Token.
 * On 19 September 2020, 2ManySnacks posted NomNomNom, another animation of Korone, this time featuring various voice clips from her second Banjo-Kazooie livestream. This animation also features the phrase "Eekum Bokum". The animation has also seen a sizable amount of edits, and could be considered a meme in its own right. However, this animation may have resulted in the drop-off of popularity for usage of the original Eekum Bokum animation.
 * She likely has an intense fear of worms, or certain types of bugs, as suggested in a part of her Metal Slug 3 stream.
 * As of 1 November 2020, Inugami Korone is the second hololive VTuber to reach 1 million subscribers, the first being Gawr Gura.