Hakui Koyori

Hakui Koyori (博衣こより) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, debuting as part of its sixth generation under the name of "Secret Society holoX" alongside La+ Darknesss, Takane Lui, Sakamata Chloe and Kazama Iroha.

Profile
The one in charge of R&D in Secret Society holoX.

As part of her studies into human behavior, she meddles in the other members' affairs and tries to help them out at every turn.

Possessed by an insatiable thirst for knowledge, she may sometimes also deliberately mess with people just to see how they react.

The self-proclaimed "brains of the operation." Her areas of expertise, however, are pretty limited.

Background
Hakui Koyori's YouTube channel was created on 12 September 2021. Her Twitter account was also created in September 2021. She was first revealed as part of holoX, the sixth generation of the Japanese branch of hololive, in an introductory video posted on 26 November 2021 at noon JST. She made her first tweet at the same time, greeting followers with "konkoyo~". Her Twitter account was restricted shortly thereafter.

Her debut stream took place on 28 November 2021 at 9pm JST. Koyori was the third -holoX- member to debut. Over 175,000 peak viewers attended her debut.

2021
On 8 December, 12 days after the announcement of holoX, the restriction on her Twitter account was lifted. Her YouTube channel got approved for monetization on the same day.

On 14 December, Koyori reached 400,000 subscribers on YouTube.

On 24 December, Koyori opened her channel membership feature.

Mascot and fans

 * Her fans are known as "Koyori's assistants," or in Japanese, 「こよりの助手くん」, "Koyori no joshu-kun."
 * Her partner is a coyote robot.

Trivia

 * Hakui Koyori is not a cat or a fox, but a coyote. As described in her debut, she was born on a savannah to coyote parents. Rather than inheriting her parents' traits, her intelligence and "geek" stats were exceptionally high.
 * In the kanji used to write her surname "Hakui," 「博衣」, the first is read "haku" and means "doctor" or "professor," and appears in "hakase," which has the same meaning; while the second kanji, read "i," means "clothing." Her given name "Koyori" is written in hiragana, and is a Japanese female given name, which resembles the word "coyote."
 * Koyori shares her illustrator with Petra Gurin of Nijisanji EN.
 * Her greeting "konkoyo" appears to be a portmanteau of the standard Japanese greeting "konnichiwa" and her name Koyori. Similar greetings include Shirakami Fubuki's "kon kon kitsune" and Ceres Fauna's "konfauna."
 * Her hexagonal hair pin represents a molecular diagram of a benzene ring, a constituent of petrochemicals.
 * Koyori's strengths include skill with tongue-twisters, good memory, skill with numbers and with mental games, detective skill, and typing. She is skilled at voice impersonations.
 * Her weaknesses include horror, insects, arm, poor luck, mornings, spicy food, and FPS games.
 * Her favorite things include singing, planning, MC, human observation, video games, crane games, and theme parks.
 * Her favorite foods are meat, ramen, sake, shirako, udon, mayonnaise, and fugashi.
 * Her favorite anime include Macross F, Higurashi no naku koro ni, Gundam Seed, Detective Conan, Saki, Uma Musume, and Tokyo Revengers. She also likes western-made media including Game of Thrones and Ready Player One.

Media

 * Koyori ch. 博衣こより - holoX - - YouTube channel
 * Hakui Koyori's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
 * Hakui Koyori's corporate profile on hololive.tv
 * @hakuikoyori - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #こより実験中 - Stream talk
 * #こよりすけっち or #KoyoArt - Fan art