Mori Calliope

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

Personality
Calliope is equally excited by both rapping and "reaping". Her favorite weapons include her scythe (nicknamed "Ricky") and the flail, a medieval weapon made from a spiked metal ball on a chain.

Although fluent in English, Calliope often fails to understand current modes of speech, such as the use of contractions or modern slang. She is easily flustered by romance, leading some to call her the "tsundereaper".

Profile
The Grim Reaper's first apprentice. Because the world's medical system advanced so dramatically, Calliope became a VTuber to collect souls. It seems that the lost souls vaporized by the wholesome relationships of VTubers flow through her as well. In the end, she's a gentle-hearted girl whose sweet voice contradicts the morbid things she tends to say, as well as her hardcore vocals.

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 also releasing her first original song: "失礼しますが、RIP♡" or known in English as "Excuse My Rudeness, But Could You Please RIP?"  a rap song written by herself.

2020
On 22 October, Calli reached 500,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 1 November, she released a new original song "Cursed Night"

On 14 December, she reached 800,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, Calli celebrated with an unarchived karaoke stream.

2021
On 7 January, she reached 900,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 25 January, Calli reached 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers during a subscriber endurance stream, making her the 7th hololive member to reach that milestone and the 2nd to do so on the English branch after Gawr Gura.

On 31 January, Calli debuted her eighth original song "Off With Their Heads"

On 15 February, she announced during a stream that as part of her birthday celebration she would release a second EP containing 5 songs, 4 of them original. Calli also announced that this EP would be released including physical copies.

EP


Dead Beats EP (デットビーツEP)
 * 1) ReaperかRapper? 自己紹介ラップ
 * 2) 失礼しますが、RIP♡ (Excuse My Rudeness, But Could You Please RIP?)
 * 3) Dead Beats
 * 4) Live Again
 * 5) 失礼しますが、RIP♡ (Instrumental)
 * 6) 失礼しますが、RIP♡ (Acapella)

Singles

 * Cursed Night
 * Off With Their Heads

Events

 * On 18 February 2021, Princess Connect! Re:Dive's English Twitter acccount published a teaser of a new song inspired in the game interpreted by Calli, later the same day on her Twitter account Calli also confirmed to be the writter of the lyrics of this song named: Ibasho (Where I Belong), as part of a collaboration between the game and hololive English.

Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called "Dead Beats" (デットビーツ)

Quotes

 * "If you quit when you suck, you'll suck forever."
 * "You can be cute and strong at the same time."
 * "We never forget the fallen, but we move on."

Trivia

 * In Japanese, her name is officially written 「森美声」.
 * "Mori" is a Japanese surname, written with the kanji 森, meaning "forest". Mori is also Latin for the verb "to die", as in such phrases as "memento mori". This is likely echoing Japanese suicide forests.
 * The kanji used to write "Calliope" is 美声, normally read "bisei", meaning "beautiful voice". This is a calque of her Greek namesake, Καλλιόπη.
 * In Greek mythology, Calliope is one of the Muses, a goddess who presides over epic poetry. It is normally pronounced "ka-LYE-o-pee" in English, which is how Calli pronounces her name.
 * As such, Calliope's name is likely a nod to her singing voice as well as her passion for rap music, as poetry is the foundation of the genre.
 * "Calliope" is alternatively written in katakana as カリオペ (kariope), as seen on her Twitter and SoundCloud profiles.
 * When speaking in English, Calli usually gives her name in the English order, as does Amelia Watson. The other three holomyth members (Gawr Gura, Ninomae Ina'nis, and Takanashi Kiara) put the surname first, Japanese style, even when speaking English.
 * She likes slaying people, dark spaces, flowers, stuffed dolls, sweets, the color red, mafia movies, rap (especially Japanese rap; she claims that she met the genre in the Underworld because it was dead), red wine, and “Death Sensei” (the Grim Reaper) as she is a reaper in training.
 * Because of her passion for rap, Calliope released an original song on her debut stream. She also announced that she would release her first EP for free to thank the support received, including four songs, an instrumental and an acapella version, some of them written by herself.
 * She dislikes crowds, coffee, hospitals and cantaloupe.
 * Her favorite animes include Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Made in Abyss and Dr. Stone.
 * Her favorite games include games from FromSoftware, Ghost of Tsushima, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, weird RPG maker games, and platformers (preferring side-scrollers).
 * Her goals and dreams include becoming a great track maker and mixer, collaborating with other VTubers and people, supporting her fellow first gen members, becoming an expert in Japanese, writing and performing an anime or video game opening song, and writing a full album.
 * Calliope was the first member of hololive English to debut.
 * In addition to English, she can speak Japanese - although she is still learning and actively taking classes on it
 * She claims that the Underworld mimics the aesthetic of the current era, so it looks mostly like a modern city.
 * Her debut stream experienced some lag. She claimed it was because of the bad internet connection in the Underworld.
 * She is the first hololive EN member and seventh hololive member overall to join official hololive Subreddit as a moderator.
 * She has a habit of randomly making comical gasping noises that sound like "guh", usually after taking a drink.
 * During her second live stream, Kiara revealed her crush on Calliope, much to Calliope's annoyance. This has to do with the fact that Kiara is immortal, so no matter how many times Calliope would kill her, she'd always revive. This has resulted in a long-standing running gag between the two, which eventually became the ship "TakaMori".
 * Her EP "Dead Beats" became the number one album worldwide on iTunes on 22 October 2020. This gave a lot of media attention to VTubers during a few days.
 * According to herself, before she became a Virtual Youtuber in the Human world, Calli worked two jobs, one of them a summer job at a restaurant chain as a waitress, in order to save up enough funds to take her dream trip to "Overworldian" Japan, and despite making quite a few mistakes during the Job, and being abused by more than one couple that entered, she stuck through it as long as she needed to.  However, as soon as she was done saving up, and she had enough to buy the cheapest plane ticket she could find, Calli quit her Summer job and went on the trip she had been saving so long for.
 * On 13 November 2020, she attended on the 23rd podcast video of Trash Taste, a podcast channel that consists of three Anitubers (Gigguk, CDawgVA, and The Anime Man.)

Media

 * Mori Calliope Ch. hololive-EN - YouTube channel
 * Mori Calliope's corporate profile on hololive.tv (EN)
 * Mori Calliope's corporate profile on hololive.tv (JP)
 * @moricalliope - Twitter account
 * MoriCalliope - SoundCloud account

Twitter hashtags

 * #calliolive - Stream talk (English)
 * #カリオライブ - Stream talk (Japanese)
 * #deadbeats - Fans (English)
 * #デッドビーツ - Fans (Japanese)
 * #callillust - Fan art (English)
 * #カリイラスト - Fan art (Japanese)
 * #callioP - Music
 * #calliomeme - Memes (English)
 * #カリオミーム - Memes (Japanese)

Further readings

 * 森美声 - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
 * 森美声 - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * 森美聲 - Moegirl Encyclopedia
 * Mori Calliope - Hololive Fan Wiki