Kurokiri Aria

Kurokiri Aria (黒桐アリア) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber.

Profile
''A black cat girl who loves singing and playing the piano. Princess of the cat kingdom. A self-proclaimed cat genius with a yandere temperament.''

"I usually hide my cat ears."

Currently, she is active as an idol singer.

Appearance
She has short dark purplish black hair with pink streaks through out and rounded cat eared shaped hairbuns with a blue and pink eye.

Background
Her YouTube channel was created on 3 March 2019, with her first video being uploaded on 6 June 2019 as part of PLIVYou, the same group which Shiromiya Mimi of AniMare originates from, and was launched by her illustrator, Yasuyuki. After its dissolution, she began to work independently.

2020
After her activities on bilibili was suspended in relation to the dissolution of PLIVYou, on 31 March she returned to bilibili.

2021
On 18 December she debuted her new Live2D model.

2022
On 21 March, during birthday celebration, Aria debuted her second outfit.

On 27 November, Aria announced that she would get a 3D model.

On 4 December, Aria debuted her 3D model. During the stream, she released her new original song "unreal."

Mascot and Fans

 * Her partner is a black cat named "Noel"「ノエル」. She has blue eyes, her tail wears a pink bow and a yellow bell. She takes care of Aria.
 * Her fanbase is called "Kuro Nekoya" 「黒猫家」.
 * Her members have 3 tiers: "Aria no gohan (miruku)"「アリアのごはん（ミルク）」, "Ari ano gohan (o sakana)"「ありあのごはん（おさかな）」, and "Aria no gohan (kokyu fudo)"「アリアのごはん（高級フード）」.

Trivia

 * She likes cats, singing, omelette rice, tea, and meat.
 * She dislike ghosts, horror things, injections, coffee, shrimp, and remember the in-game map.
 * Her dreams are to be a famous Vsinger idol, to be an idol who can play an active role in the world, live on stage with 3D model, release original songs, chat in English and Spanish, voice actors in games and anime, and at least 1 tweet per day.
 * In addition to Chinese fanbase based in bilibili, she has some fanbase in Spanish-speaking area, thus she sometimes uses Spanish on her streams.
 * She shares character designer Tosaka Asagi with Ceres Fauna of hololive English, Aizawa Ema of VSpo, Shishido Akari of NIJISANJI and Kokuyou Lira from VEE.

Media

 * Aria Ch. 黒桐アリア - YouTube channel
 * 黑桐亚里亚Official - bilibili channel
 * @kurokiriaria - TwitCasting channel
 * @kurokiriaria - Twitter account
 * kurokiriaria - FANBOX account
 * Merch shop - Booth account
 * @kurokiriaria - lit.link
 * kurokiriaria.wixsite - Official website

Twitter hashtags

 * #黒桐アリア / #AriaKurokiri- General
 * #アリアライブ / #AriAlive - Live
 * #アリアみて / #drawAria - Fan art
 * #黒猫家巻物 - Recommend