Aki Rosenthal

Aki Rosenthal (アキ・ローゼンタール) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, as part of its first generation of VTubers alongside Yozora Mel, Natsuiro Matsuri, Shirakami Fubuki, and Akai Haato.

Personality
Aki is a curious, fun-loving, friendly and determined high school, half elf girl from another universe with a very calm voice and attitude, she enjoys singing and belly dancing; hobbies that can be seen combined in her original song "Shallys". Aki's streams are considered chill and wholesome, this can be seen in her gaming streams as it is rare for her to lose her temper, usually remaining cheerful. She also enjoys drinking as she has done streams talking to the chat while drinking and eating.

Aki also has a mischeavous and even lewd side, as she is not above playfully teasing other hololive members or her viewers, however she deeply cares for them.

She greets her viewers with "Alooona!" (アローナ) and she says good bye with "Otsuta-ru, bye bye" (おつたーる バイバイ).

Profile
"Alona, everyone! This is Aki Rosenthal a.k.a. AkiRose!"

A girl who traveled from a different universe. She has hyper curiosity and manages to reach out to all sorts of things. Her trademark pigtails float due to some sort of supernatural power.

Background
Her Twitter account was opened on 16 May 2018 while her YouTube channel was created on 25 May although she did not start her activity on YouTube until 8 June when her Mirrativ stream that was live on 1 June was re-uploaded on YouTube. Her first stream on YouTube went live on 21 June.

2019
On 17 February, during her birthday stream, she revealed her second 2D costume, a loose coat, with a tank top with ribbons.

Right after midnight on 17 May, she reached 30,000 subscribers, thus making it official that she would be getting a 3D model.

On 25 June, she announced that she would receive her 3D model. She debuted her 3D model on 29 June.

On 30 July she announced on her Twitter account that she would get a swimsuit for her 3D model. On 4 August, she debuted her 3D model swimsuit during a stream.

On 9 December, she published on her Twitter account the demonetization of her channel, while she didn't state this was caused by her ASMR videos, most of these videos were made private.

Sub Channel
As result of the demonetization of her channel, on 10 December she announced on Twitter the creation of a sub channel, with her first stream taking place on 11 December.

2020
On 1 January, she announced on Twitter her third 2D costume to celebrate the new year, this costume was revealed to be a kimono on a stream later that day. She also published on her Twitter, that her sub channel was rejected for monetization.

On 24 January along with the other hololive girls up to the third generation, she debuted her 3D idol outfit at hololive's 1st fes. Nonstop Story.

On 31 January, she announced on her Twitter account the remonetization of her main channel.

On 29 June, she debuted the full version of her original song "Shallys" the song is interpreted in Aki's original language.

On 29 July, she announced on her Twitter account that her original 2D model would get an updated to the 2.0 version. She debuted her updated model during a stream later the same day, featuring more facial expressions, her hair accesories "pat pat sensors" now can be moved up and down, and as demostrated by herself she can turn freely in more directions, her twintails also received adjustments to reflect these directions changes in line with the model capabilities of hololive members from the GAMERS unit onwards.

On 30 November, hololive's official Twitter account announced that Aki would get her fourth 2D costume.

On 4 December, Aki debuted her fouth 2D costume, a gothic maid themed dress, her "pat pat sensors" are know see-thought metalic like horns but they still move like their original variant, the accesories that keep her floating twintails in place are now themed the left one decorated with a bat/demon wing changed to black color while the right one has an angel wing design keeping its original white color, her twintails are now longer and curled decorated with a black and white ribbons, Aki can use a veil to cover her face and the veil has an eye pattern on the left, she wears earrings that make her ears look pointy, with a wine colored jewel at the end. Her black dress is decorated with white, wine and golden motifs, one of them is a giant key that she wears as a belt below the chest area, her dress has an opening to the left where her dress is wine colored, Aki wears white socks and ballerina like black shoes.

Events

 * On 23 May 2019, she made an appearance in hololive's collaboration with Dawn of the Breakers as one of the characters alongisde Roboco, Natsuiro Matsuri, Shirakami Fubuki, Minato Aqua, Yuzuki Choco, Oozora Subaru, and Ookami Mio.
 * On 4 December 2020, as part of the celebration of her getting her fourth 2D costume Aki announced that a key bag charm replica of the key she wears on this costume would be available as merch for a limited time, available from 4 December to 4 January 2021.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called "Squad Rose" in English while it is called "Rose-tai" (ロゼ隊) in Japanese.

Trivia

 * Units and groups she is part of:
 * "Anpontan Sisters", along with Roboco and Himemori Luna.
 * Aki is unique among the Japanese branch of hololive as being the only polynymous member whose full name is not formatted in the typical Japanese style (i.e. Last Name followed by First Name) but instead the typical Western style. Likewise her last name "Rosenthal" is also unique within hololive due to being the only last name of Western origin (specifically German).
 * As demonstrated in several episodes of holo no graffiti, Aki's floating twintails are detachable, capable of being "worn" by other hololive members, and are apparently even sentient and capable of talking, moving and flying on their own.
 * Aki is specified to be a half elf from another world, though the details of what exactly that means are currently unclear.
 * In one of the most bizarre elements of hololive lore, Aki is apparently capable of spontaneously producing a wide variety of different objects and materials from between her thighs. In an episode of holo no graffiti Aki involuntarily produced a vast amount of poisonous liquid from between her thighs causing the flooding of the entire office. In another episode Aki was able to will herself into "giving birth" to Oozora Subaru from between her thighs after Subaru had been magically eliminated from the universe. The exact nature of this strange ability and why Aki has it are unclear. Other hololive members have alluded to the fact that it is somehow related to Aki's identity as "a half elf from another world", but they have never specified as to what this means and why Aki has this ability.
 * She is the fourth member of hololive after Artia, Kiryu Coco, and Amane Kanata to join the official hololive Subreddit as a moderator.
 * Aki can play guitar, piano, and drum, also she can do belly dance
 * On Coco's Reddit Meme Review, Aki said that she is not a fan of the TakaMori ship, stating that she prefers MoriTaka.
 * While TakaMori indicates that Kiara is the top and Calliope is the bottom, MoriTaka has it vise versa, in which Calliope is the top and Kiara is the bottom.
 * Aki's name personally given by Motoaki Tanigo, Cover Corp. CEO.
 * Since August 2020 Aki accompanied by Ashino do acoustic karaoke streams every last week of a month.
 * Her avatar in ARK: Survival Evolved is an extremely muscular, bearded male nicknamed "MukiRose".

Videos

 * アキロゼCh. Vtuber/ホロライブ所属 - YouTube channel
 * AkiRose Ch.アキ・ローゼンタールSub - Secondary YouTube channel
 * 亚绮-罗森Official - bilibili channel
 * @akirosenthal - OPENREC.tv channel
 * アキ・ローゼンタール - Mirrativ channel
 * @akirosenthal - TwitCasting channel

Social media
Twitter hashtags
 * @akirosenthal - Twitter account
 * #アキ・ローゼンタール - General
 * #ロゼ隊 - Fans
 * #アロ絵 - Fan art
 * #Akimage - Fan art (worldwide)
 * #スケベなアロ絵 - Fan art (NSFW)
 * #切り抜きロゼ - Video clips
 * #アキロゼMMD - MMD

Further readings

 * アキ・ローゼンタール - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
 * アキ・ローゼンタール - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * アキ・ローゼンタール - unofficial hololive Seesaawiki
 * 亚绮·罗森塔尔 - Moegirl Encyclopedia
 * Aki Rosenthal - Hololive Fan Wiki