Tsukishita Kaoru

Tsukishita Kaoru (月下カオル) was a male Japanese Virtual YouTuber endorsed by hololive's branch holostars. He was a member of its third generation, also known as "TriNero" (トライネロ) alongside Kageyama Shien and Aragami Oga.

Profile
An apprentice make up artist with an obsession with cosmetics.

Even as a man, he enjoys adorably cute things.

Strives to be beautiful on the inside and outside.

Worried about being in the wrong hololive audition, was guided by Shinove after confirming gender.

Personality
Kaoru presented himself in a cute and bubbly manner, however, he would be perverted and also made dirty jokes sometimes.

Appearance
He has long pink hair with purple eyes and a black bow headband with a yellow x in the middle of it. He wears a white turtle neck sweater with a black jacket.

Background
His Twitter account was created in 10 April 2020; he made his first tweet on 27 April, while his YouTube channel was created on 8 April, and his debut stream was performed on 29 April 2020.

Retirement
On 28 July 2020, Cover Corp's Twitter account announced the end of their contract with Kaoru due to personal circumstances. All of the videos on Kaoru's channel then unpublicised, and most of his tweets were also removed.

While he didn't have a farewell stream, he left a message in the "About" section of his channel. "It's been a really happy and dreamy time for me over the last three months. Thank you all."

Fans

 * His fanbase is officially called "FUNdation" (FUNデーション).
 * Whenever Kaoru ends the stream, fans say fare well by saying "otsunail" (おつネイル).

Relationships

 * Units and groups other than TriNero he was a part of:
 * Yukoku Gekka" (夕刻月下), along with Yukoku Roberu.
 * "TsukiKageRiTem" (月影律天), along with Kageyama Shien, Rikka and Kishido Temma.
 * "Moon Radar" (ムーンレーダー), along with Astel Leda.

Trivia

 * His Beyblade ASMR stream was trending 1st place on Twitter in Japan after the stream was noticed by Beyblade creator Takara Tomy.
 * During a collaboration with Natsuiro Matsuri, Kaoru revealed that he was a fan of her prior to joining holostars.
 * He once called into Kagami Kira's live stream and had a conversation so lewd that the stream ended up getting banned.
 * Due to how often he would talk about lewd things, members of hololive Indonesia's first gen sometimes refer to him as "Kaoru-ecchi."
 * In Kaoru's debut stream, it was written down that his birthday was on 28 August. However, during the first TriNero collab, while the group were talking about birthdays, Kaoru stated that he was born on Yakiniku Day (29 August). Kaoru's birthdate is also corrected in his Twitter profile.
 * Kaoru shared his character designer with Hiodoshi Ao of hololive DEV_IS.

Media

 * Kaoru Ch.月下カオル - YouTube channel
 * Tsukishita Kaoru's corporate profile on hololive.tv (English) (archived)
 * Tsukishita Kaoru's corporate profile on hololive.tv (Japanese) (archived)
 * @tsukishitakaoru - Tsukishita Kaoru's official Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #月下カオル - General
 * #カオルがおる Stream talk
 * #着せカオル - Fan art
 * #脱が下カオル - Fan art (NSFW)

Further readings

 * 月下カオル - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
 * 月下カオル - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * 月下カオル - Unofficial holostars seesaawiki
 * 月下薰 - Moegirl Encyclopedia
 * Tsukishita Kaoru - Hololive Fan Wiki