Kiran

Kiran (Japanese: キラン, Urdu: کرن) was a female Pakistani Virtual YouTuber and member of WINKS. She was born in Pakistan but raised in Japan. Kiran is fluent in Japanese, Urdu, and for instance Hindi. On March 15th Kiran announced she would be retiring due to the dissolution of WINKS [1 ]

Introduction Video
Kiran's Introduction Video (In transliterated Urdu)

Personality
Kiran is an easy-going and polite girl who wants to show Japan the traditional culture of Pakistan. She likes singing, playing the piano, eating delicious food, home gardening, shopping and sleeping. She dreams of becoming one day a professional singer.

Trivia

 * True to her Pakistani heritage, she greets her viewers with the Muslim greeting Aslaam alaikum (Arabic: السلام عليكم Urdu: سلام علیکم)
 * In her livestreams apart from singing, drawing and playing videogames, Kiran also teaches Hindi (this is because the Urdu language, the official Language of Pakistan, is mutually intelligible with Hindi, one of the many languages of India, and they only differ on specialized vocabulary and writing system).
 * She's surprised that many non-Japanese speakers watch her Hindi lessons' livestreams and she laments the fact that her English is not very good.
 * Apart from YouTube, she also uses Showroom for her livestreams and do Livestreams in Urdu on her Facebook page.
 * In her collaboration with the other members of WINKS, she speaks with the rest of her fellow VTubers in Japanese
 * On 15 March 2019, Kiran released a farewell video in which she announces her retirement because of the end of WINKS