Sakura Miko

Sakura Miko (さくらみこ) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber.

Introduction Video
Miko's introduction.

Personality

 * Was created long ago by the god of the cyber world to bring life and prosperity to the new-born world.
 * A cyber world-born maiden, Sakura Miko touches upon subcultures such as anime and video games.
 * She started to work as a VTuber for her dreams to become an idol.
 * After making contact with anime and video games, she is quickly corrupted from a hard-working priestess into a lazy miko, attempts to learn how to be an idol while continuing her job as a shrine maiden. Self-proclaimed elite, she likes taiyaki and cute girls.
 * Used to make short broadcasts before joining hololive, then she begins live-streaming more often.

Virtual YouTubers tend to have their own greeting phrases; in her case, she says "NyaHello".

History
Her Twitter account was opened on 31 March 2018 while her YouTube channel was created on 25 April although her first activity on her channel was not started until her introduction video which was uploaded on 1 August.

On 25 December, it was announced that she would join Hololive as the main cast in Miko no Tsutome! (みこのつとめっ！), a short animation under the Holo Anime (ホロアニメ) brand.

On 1 August 2019, she celebrated her 1st anniversary along with the announcement of getting a new "2nd" 3D outfit were she is wearing a swimsuit.

Events

 * Since 12 April 2019, she hosts a monthly variety show in the REALITY app called God Summit (神々さみっと Kamigami Samitto) which is a collaboration with her co-hosts Kazamiya Matsuri, Sister Cleaire, and Tenjin Kotone. There are currently five episodes in total, with some of the episodes archived in their respective YouTube channels, with one episode archived in REALITY Studio channel.
 * On 12 September 2019, she made an appearance in hololive's collaboration with Dawn of the Breakers as one of the characters alongside Akai Haato, Natsuiro Matsuri, Shirakami Fubuki, Nakiri Ayame, Oozora Subaru, and Ookami Mio.

Fans
She officially calls her fans "35P" (みこぴー Mikopi). Her name "Miko" (みこ) can be harmonized into the numbers "3" and "5" in Japanese, which also corresponds to her birthday (5 March), hence the origin of the fan name. Fans often Super Chat her streams in amounts of "3,535" as a reference to her name. They are usually depicted as white cats in her videos.

Trivia

 * Her character designer is Tanaka Yuuichi which is known as the character designer for A Certain Magical Index and My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO!, among others. Her hairstyle bears some similarities to the main characters of both shows, Misaka Mikoto and Hikigaya Hachiman respectively.
 * She has varying official height measurements.
 * On 5 March 2019, she agreed with an artist that deduced her height to be about 156 to 157 cm.
 * On 28 March 2019, she tweeted an image stating her height to be at 153 cm.
 * During the Arte Akihabara and hololive collaboration campaign, an official height chart of hololive virtual YouTubers was put on display with her height being stated as 152 cm.

Character

 * Has a large and beautiful shrine as her abode, had a firework show as ending to celebrate her first livestream success.
 * Has a talking pink cat by the name of "Kintoki" as pet shikigami, the white cat is called 35p.
 * The shrine she is currently working in is called "cyber sakura shrine", while the god is called Cyber God.
 * Has a special taiyaki-looking mobile phone which looks like a real taiyaki. Fans often argue that it is a taiyaki with the ability to phone others rather than a phone that looks like a taiyaki.
 * She does not fare well with Japanese horror and jump-scare games, but is surprisingly tolerant of bloody games.
 * Claims she likes cute girls, is knowledgable when talking about Galgames, and sometimes seen playing them during midnight streams. Once talked about her colleagues during one of her midnight livestreams and made comments on what tactics she would use to make them fall for her if it were a Galgame. However, starts stuttering and is unable to speak properly when she actually meets cute girls in person.
 * The first tweet she sent after becoming a VTuber is "Galgames and anime are textbooks for life".
 * She tweeted that she learnt to play the piano when she was young but has not touched it ever since. She also knows how to play guqin.
 * Has a personality that doesn't allow her to give up easily, once attempted to beat Beat Saber and started streaming from 23 o'clock to 10 the next morning (a total of 11 hours 39 minutes). Is then praised by the viewers as "Elite miko".
 * She is nicknamed by Chinese fans as "Pink Rathian", a reference to the monster in Monster Hunter. (Note:  the word  “樱火龙” or pink rathian shares the same first word with "樱巫女", or Sakura Miko) This originated from the saying that people who don't give up even after multiple failures are called “头铁” (literal translation is head steel), which leads to a connection between the two (Sakura Miko being stubborn" while the monster has a hard head).
 * Sakura Miko is well aware of the nickname, and once changed her profile picture into a pink rathian for a day.


 * She likes playing Eroge and has a playlist of her Eroge streams in her channel.
 * She has, on many occasions, accidentally open an Eroge in the middle of playing another game in her stream.
 * She once told during one of her streams that Saga Planets is her favorite Eroge Studio. Among the games from this studio she has played and streamed are Hatsuyuki Sakura, Kin'iro Loveriche, and Natsuyume Nagisa.
 * She collaborated on a stream with Maimoto Keisuke of Nijisanji about Eroge Opening music.

Interpersonal relationship(s) with other VTubers

 * Is nicknamed by her senpai Tokino Sora as "えっちさん（H-san)."
 * She was extremely nervous when she was collaborating with Sora, appeared scared but did not dare to reject when Sora invited her to play horror games together.
 * When Sora first met her, she commented that Miko looked like Omega sisters. She later made a video with Sora pretending as Omega sisters.
 * When Sora was playing "トロとパズル", she was asked by an NPC in the game "please, teach me how to speak in an erotic manner", in which Sora immediately typed "さくらみこちゃん（Sakura Miko-san)". Miko was shocked after knowing this on Twitter.
 * Has a lot of collaborations with third batch hololiver Usada Pekora, fought with Pekora in "MikoPeko War"(ぺこみこ戦争) in Minecraft and received generally good comments.

Video clips

 * 【GTAV】Miko saying the N-word

《You must not laugh! Animoji challenge》(Designed by Miko)
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FouVUPkqcKs (Part 1)


 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyfWMsAEaJE (Part 2)


 * 《Work of a miko!》（みこのつとめっ）(10 episodes)

Whole clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7_tBbluNZ4 Whole clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpGsbs0k-Q Whole clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx2IdvIb238 Whole clip: さくらみこちゃんと一緒に「アイキス」体験版ゲーム実況！！【コラボ配信】
 * 【Minecraft】Careless Miko that burns half of her house down
 * Miko's tour in Minecraft (with Matsuri)
 * 【Minecraft】Matsuri the performer (After Miko has rejected her proposal to live together)
 * 【Minecraft】Miko the punchbag by Usada Pekora (Pekora was drunk that day and Miko kept taunting her)
 * 【Erolive】Miko getting excited after protagonist in Galgame confessed to her