Takanashi Kiara

Takanashi Kiara is an English Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, as part of its English (EN) branch first generation of Vtubers alongside Ninomae Ina'nis, Watson Amelia, Mori Calliope, and Gawr Gura.

Personality
In her debut, Watson Amelia described Kiara as having "Positive attitude and lovely voice".

Kiara is described as bird-brained. She it sometimes forgetful and has poor attention span. She prefers video games with fixed goals, such as RPGs, rather than open-world games like Minecraft.

Kiara has a particular fondness for Mori Calliope. Kiara, a phoenix who has been continuously reborn, always meets Calliope each time she dies. However, it is not within Calliope's power to keep a phoenix in the Underworld.

Background
She was introduced simultaneously on both hololive's and hololive's English Twitter accounts and on hololive English's YouTube channel in a small video with the rest of the first generation on 8 September 2020. Her Twitter account was created on July, but only made her first tweet on her official introduction on 8 September. Her YouTube channel was created on 16 July but she debuted on 12 September.

2020
On 11 October, one month after her debut, Kiara celebrated 300,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 16 October, Kiara held her first collaboration with Japanese hololive, playing Untitled Goose Game with Oozora Subaru.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called "Kiara Fan Club". She requested to write the name without abbreviation so she can actually find things related to her.
 * Members are referred to as "employees".

Trivia

 * In Japanese, her name is written 「小鳥遊キアラ」.
 * Her surname, "Takanashi", is written with the kanji for 小鳥, "kotori", meaning "little bird", and "遊", the root of "asobu", meaning "to play"; together meaning "little bird at play". It is read "takanashi", literally meaning "no hawks", a pun meaning that there must be no hawks for the little bird to play. It is an example of nanori, or idiosyncratic readings of kanji which only appear in names.
 * This kanji spelling of Takanashi is uncommon, ranked the 50,808th most popular Japanese surname in 2013. It is shared with Rikka Takanashi, protagonist of he animated series "Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai".
 * Her first name, "Kiara", is written in katakana, normally used for foreign words or names.
 * She likes fast food, adventures and hats. Kiara insists that fast food is healthy, and chicken in particular is very healthy. She claims to eat 53 pieces of chicken nuggets per day.
 * Her hobbies include singing, drawing, eating and fighting.
 * She dislikes scary stuff and one-sided feelings.
 * Her birthday, 6 July, is National Fried Chicken Day in the United States.
 * Her loading screen, introduction video and narration were made by Mori Calliope, while Kiara made the art. An alternate version of the intro video was later released with narration by Kiara.
 * She is left handed.
 * Kiara is multilingual, speaking English, Japanese, German (native speaker), and "Bird". She has stated that her English is not perfect, and has corrected Mori Calliope's Japanese. She has also promised to do some Japanese only streams. She shares languages with the Evangelion character Asuka Langley Soryu, a Japanese-American who also speaks English, Japanese and German.
 * Kiara revealed that "bird" language is actually a pun that only works in Japanese. The Japanese for "trilingual", 「トリリンガル」, begins with "tori", meaning "bird".
 * Her favorite senior member is Usada Pekora, Pekora noticed her on her introduction stream which made Kiara really happy. Kiara has watched every one of Pekora's archived streams. One of Kiara's objectives is to collab with the Japanese members, but especially Pekora.
 * Kiara's favorite games include Tales of series, Atelier series, Arknights, Super Mario games and The Legend of Zelda.
 * Her favorite anime are: Monogatari, Railgun/Index, Nichijou, Working!!, Minami-ke, Steins;Gate, Kannagi and Re:Zero.
 * She wants to open a fast food restaurant, release original music, for people to make fanart or cosplay of her, collaborations with games, anime or conventions among others.
 * Her belt can turn her back into her phoenix form, as such it is prohibited to use it.
 * She is the third hololive EN member and ninth hololive member overall to join official Hololive Subreddit as a moderator.
 * Kiara is arguably one of the oldest hololives. According to her introduction video, she was born in a time before humans lived on Earth. This would make her even older than Kiryu Coco (3,501) and Gawr Gura (over 9,000), but not older than Mori Calliope, who is the personification of abstract concept and has no date of birth. However, as Kiara is technically reborn every few centuries, it could be argued that Kiara was only born relatively recently.
 * Her catchphrase is 「キッケリキー!!」 (kikkerikii!). It is the sound made by a phoenix. Mori Calliope drew Kiara as a chicken saying "kicky ricky or whatever".
 * Her ending catchphrase is "Auf wiedersehen", a German farewell phrase.
 * When thanking donators, she says "danke schön", German for "thank you very much". She also uses "vielen dank", German for "many thanks", which viewers misheard as "feelin' dank". In bird language, "thank you" is translated as "pipipi".
 * On 17 September 2020, Kiara announced the menu for her her fried chicken branch, Kiara Fried Phoenix. It included the Phoenix Burger (chicken meat, salad, pineapple, BBQ sauce, onions, tomato, bacon, and mozarella cheese); and the Yagoo Burger (two beef patties, salad, pickles, egg, cheddar cheese, secret seiso sauce, and onion rings). Fans subsequently actually made both burgers.
 * Kiara's blue feather "earrings" are in fact not earrings, but feathers which come from behind her ears. However, she also has a small blue stud piercing in her left ear.
 * During Mori Calliope's second live stream, Kiara expressed that she has a crush on Calli, much to the other's dismay. This has to do with the fact that Kiara is immortal (unless she's eaten), so no matter how many times Calli would kill her, she'd always revive. This resulted in a ship later coined by Kiara as "TakaMori".