Love-chan

Love-chan (Loveちゃん) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber who was originally the second of the four Kizuna AI's variants introduced, until 14 June 2020, where she along with her sister Aipii, got their own channel appropriately named love-pii channel and later on her own distinctive design.

Personality
In contrast to Aipii, who is more tomboyish, Love-chan has a more mature and calm personality. She regularly refers to herself as "cool beauty." Love-chan is also a fan of Kamen Rider.

Background
The former company in charge of Kizuna AI, Activ8, conceived in June 2019 a new initiative called the Four Kizuna AI, which was unveiled through a series of videos on A.I. Channel called Kizuna AI's Everyday (キズナアイな日々 Kizuna Ai na Hibi). The main goal of the project was to diversify Kizuna AI's content and to introduce a franchise of the channel to the audience of the People's Republic of China. Love-chan was the first of three new Kizuna AI to be introduced to the public.

Unfortunately, the project was not well received by the fans and it eventually lead to a series of reforms on how the content of Kizuna AI was made. One of these decisions was to separate Love-chan and Aipii from Kizuna AI. First by giving them identification markers, but eventually to give them a separate channel and a new brand image.

While she was part of A.I. Channel, she used a hairpin with the design of a blue number sign (#) and "Love-chan" was a nickname given to her by fans. In 8 April 2020 she and her sister Aipii debuted on their new independent channel and in 14 June of the same year, she debuted her new 2d avatar.

2020
In September, after Aipii left the love-pii channel, it was renamed Love channel (loveちゃんねる). Love-chan continued on as a solo Virtual Youtuber. She had her first solo stream on 25 September.

2021
On 25 April, Love-chan revealed that she would get her 3D model.

On 5 June, she announced that she would soon debut her 3D model.

On 7 June, as part of her birthday celebration, Love-chan debuted her 3D model during a stream.

On 3 July, she announced that she would go on hiatus for the rest of the month. Later on 31 July, Kizuna AI Inc.'s official Twitter announced that Love-chan would return on early August. However, she had remained on hiatus since that month.

2022
After more than half a year of inactivity, on 20 January Love-chan returned to her activities with a short clip.

On 10 February, she announced her appearance on Kizuna Ai's Last Live Hello World 2022 concert on 26 February, the last appearance of Ai before her indefinite hiatus.

On 26 May, she revealed a new 3D outfit, a pink striped hoodie and cat ears.

Fans

 * Her fans are officially called "Rabugumi" 「らぶぐみ」.

Trivia

 * Love-chan's new image still retains the identification marker she used when she was Kizuna AI, the blue number sign. But this time it is the design of her right earring. Her new image, a white with blue long dress includes at the center of her chest, a pin with the shape of Kizuna Ai's Pyoko-pyoko, symbolizing her connection and origin with Kizuna AI.
 * Love-chan's birthday is on 7 June, the date the second Kizuna AI "installed" her new personality pack.
 * She shares the same illustrator with AZKi from hololive.

Twitter hashtags

 * #loveちゃん - General
 * #らぶたいむ - Stream talk
 * #らぶぐみ - Fans
 * #らぶりえ - Fan art
 * #ここすきらぶちゃ - Video clips

Further readings

 * loveちゃん - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
 * loveちゃん - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * love酱 - Moegirl Encyclopedia