Houshou Marine

Houshou Marine (宝鐘マリン) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber. She is a part of the third generation of hololive members called hololive Fantasy (ホロライブファンタジー) alongside Usada Pekora, Uruha Rushia, Shiranui Flare, and Shirogane Noel.

Introduction Video
Marine's introduction.

Personality
Marine is a bold, fast-talking girl who often throws caution to the wind, making obscene jokes and playfully mocking her higher-ups. She loves money, jewels and treasure, she decided to become a Vtuber to get money to buy her own ship, so others consider her just a cosplayer. Unlike Natsuiro Matsuri, who portrays herself as a shameless lesbian, Marine is just as liable to tease her male viewers.

She greets her viewers with "Ahoy!" a typical pirate greeting.

Background
Her Twitter account and YouTube channel was created on 22 July 2019. She debuted with her introduction stream on 11 August.

2020
On 1 January, she announced on Twitter that she would get a new costume, that was revealed the next day on 2 January, being her 2D new year kimono costume, being her second costume overall.

On 19 January, hololive's Twitter account published a tweet mentioning that Houshou Marine, Hoshimachi Suisei and Shiranui Flare would participe in a stream previous to hololive's 1st fest Nonstop Story. The next day, in this stream it was revealed that the three of them would get their 3D model debut in said event,but that they would have a YouTube debut later, in Marine's case her stream was sheduled for February.

On 24 January, she appeared in her 3D model for the first time at hololive's 1st fest Nonstop Story with both her standard and idol outfits.

On 11 February, she teased a special announcement during her stream, this was revealed to be the date of her 3D model debut for YouTube programed for 15 February.

On 15 February, she appeared in her 3D model for the first time in YouTube during a stream.

On 13 March, she announced on her Twitter account the demonetization of her channel, apparently for sexual content, she also stated that for the last 4 months every video had the yellow monetization symbol, which means monetization coming for advertisement on her channel was already limited.

On 27 March, she announced at the end of an Animal Crossing New Horizons stream the remonetization of her channel which was later also announced on Twitter, later that day she had a remonenization stream.

Events

 * On 28 January 2020, it was announced on Dengekionline that she would made an appearance in the game VVVtune Tokino Sora, Shirakami Fubuki, Roboco, Minato Aqua, Yuzuki Choco, Sakura Miko, Inugami Korone and Shirogane Noel.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is called "Houshou no Ichimi" (宝鐘の一味).

Trivia

 * Marine is notably good at drawing as shown on these tweets, she has drawn Shirakami Fubuki, Minato Aqua and Natsuiro Matsuri on their swimsuits.
 * She has heterochromia, though it is usually not visible due to her eyepatch.
 * The hashtag #宝鐘マリン3D (#HoushouMarine3D) became trending number one worldwide on Twitter when she debuted her 3D model on YouTube.