Kiryu Coco

Kiryu Coco (桐生ココ) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber endorsed by hololive. She is part of hololive's fourth generation of VTubers alongside Tsunomaki Watame, Tokoyami Towa, Amane Kanata and Himemori Luna.

Introduction Video
Coco's introduction.

Personality
Coco is an outspoken, irreverent individual who often employs crude humor in her videos. She is extremely proficient in English, to the point where many English fans believe she came from America. She's not afraid to swear and swears often in English. Coco loves the Yakuza video game series and stream it often. Her love for Yakuza goes as far as to be called '4th Chairman' or just 'Chairman' (会長), which is a title associated with the yakuza and shared by her favorite character, Kazuma Kiryu.

Coco can be rather crude in her speech, taking the cruder versions of words (i.e. 'ass' instead of 'butt,' 'shit' instead of 'crap') but she isn't as outright lewd as some other Livers like Matsuri. She enjoys teasing the other hololive members also.

Despite her sometimes vulgar speech and crude humor, Coco is probably one of the biggest hearted members of hololive. During a live stream of The Raft with Aqua, Aqua shared her feelings about how difficult the life of a virtual Idol could be and Coco gave some truly kind words of encouragement that nearly brought Aqua to tears. She's also very playful and fun-loving. She started the hololive 'ARK Addiction' because she wanted them all to play the game together (going as far as to buy Roboco her copy of ARK: Aberration) and usually comes to the aid of the other players when the experience technical problems. This is further showed by the fact that, unlike the Nijisanji ARK server, which is PvP, Coco's is PvE. Coco's proposed the construction of a 'hololive house' for all the hololive streamers to live together and help take care of each other.

Coco often pushes the boundaries of what Vtubers can do on Youtube by using thumbnails of her flipping the bird or be it the questionable content she airs. Many English fans have cited Coco's clever use of the other 4th Generation Members, either by featuring them a great deal in the earlier Asacoco episodes or giving them special segments on the show to spread their appeal around, for the quick growth of the 4th Generation.

Background
Her Twitter account was created on November 2019, while her first tweet was made on 25 December, her YouTube channel was created on 4 December and her debut stream was on 28 December.

2020
On 7 February after being rejected for monetization from the start, her channel became monetizable.

In less than two months after her debut, on 14 February she published on Twitter that she reached two hundred thousand subscribers.

On 18 April, Coco's streaming rights were revoked by YouTube. Instead of streaming live, Coco opted to upload videos. Less than a week later, on the 23 April, she regained the ability to stream.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called "Tatsunoko" (たつのこ).

Trivia

 * She is the tallest among the hololive members.
 * Like Haato, Coco speaks English fluently. Unusually, she uses American English pronunciation for English words rather than the Japanese pronunciation (e.g. "V-tuber" as opposed to "V-chubah ビ·チュウバー" ). Coco is frequently theorized by fans to be a non-native Japanese-speaker speaking Japanese as a second-language, with her primary language being English.
 * Her Japanese is slightly accented, and she frequently uses the phrase nanto (なんと / somehow) and the jargon expression kusa (草 / the Japanese version of the word LOL). This has evolved to her encouraging English speaking viewers to say 'grass' when something funny happens, as kusa means 'grass,'
 * Coco is the presenter of a 20-minute-long satirical Morning News Digest called AsaCoco Live News (あさココLIVEニュース). Parodying a news anchor, Coco presents news related to her, her fourth generation colleagues and hololive in a humorous way. AsaCoco Live News is livestreamed in her channel on weekdays at 6:00 AM JST.
 * AsaCoco is also the name of a (fictional) mind-altering drug that Coco sometimes advertises during the AsaCoco show.
 * She claims to currently hold the RTA world record in using the bathroom.
 * She is the one who started the 'ARK: Survival Evolved' trend by first introducing it to the girls in hololive. It has become so popular that even some in the rival VTuber group Nijisanji have started playing it.
 * She doesn't own a Switch, and gets many donations during streams to buy her own, despite her refusing to do so.
 * Coco refers to her senior members of hololive with the "パイセン" (paisen) honorific, a slang term for "先輩" (senpai).
 * Coco is frequently theorized by fans to also be the Vtuber Kson, who has operated her own independent YouTube channel since 2017 and continues to do so. Fans have cited Kson and Coco's extremely similar voices with distinct, recognizable accents, their similar styles of crass humor, and the fact that Kson and Coco are both bilingual, speaking both English and Japanese fluently.
 * She is one of the VTubers who is a moderator in the official Hololive Subreddit, alongside Artia.
 * Her surname 'Kiryu' (桐生 ) is written with the exact same kanji as her favorite character from Yakuza, Kiryu Kazuma (桐生 一馬).
 * Coco's growth in popularity after joining Hololive has been notably rapid. Within two weeks of her premiere she had already amassed more than 100,000 total subscribers on YouTube. Less than four months after her premiere she amassed more than 300,000 total subscribers. Coco's channel has maintained an average of 1,500 to 2,000 new subscribers per day since her premiere. This growth not only exceeded that of any of the other four members of Holoive's fourth generation of VTubers that she premiered alongside, but has even resulted in Coco overtaking several veteran members of Hololive in popularity that have been active months or even years longer than she has. Despite only debuting at the beginning of 2020 she is currently one of the most subscribed members of Hololive. This meteoric rise compared to Hololive's other VTubers is speculated by fans to be due to a combination of a number of factors, including Coco's rapid output of new content, her consistency in producing a new episode of AsaCoco Live News every weekday, the general appeal of AsaCoco Live News as a short-form but entertaining program for fans of VTubers, and her ability to appeal to both Japanese and English-speakers through both her bilingualism and the fact that AsaCoco Live News is rapidly provided English translation subtitles for each episode.
 * Coco proposed the creation of hololive USA on Asacoco and premiered the first 'idol,' an overweight, middle-age smoker named 'Coco Kaine.' What was at first meant to be a joke, became a lot more real when Coco's 'mama' drew a young version of Coco Kaine which, ironically, got more likes than Coco's art (something she was quite jealous of). Now there are English viewers asking for the debut of (young) Coco Kaine ever since the announcement of auditions for Hololive EN.