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Gawr Gura (がうる・ぐら) is a female English-speaking Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, debuting in 2020 as part of hololive English first generation "-Myth-" alongside Ninomae Ina'nis, Takanashi Kiara, Watson Amelia and Mori Calliope.
Gura is currently the most subscribed VTuber worldwide with over 4 million YouTube subscribers, taking the #1 spot from industry pioneer Kizuna AI in 2021.
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Introduction Video
DEBUT STREAM SHAAAAAARK hololiveEnglish holoMyth
Gura's introduction.
Profile
| hololive.hololivepro.com |
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| A descendant of the Lost City of Atlantis, who swam to Earth while saying, "It's so boring down there LOLOLOL!"
Gura bought her clothes (and her shark hat) in the human world and she really loves them. In her spare time, she enjoys talking to marine life.[10] |
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| Gura is a descendant of the Lost City of Atlantis, who swam to Earth while saying "It's so boring down there LOLOLOL!" She bought her clothes (and her shark hat) in the human world and she really loves them. In her spare time, she enjoys talking to marine life.[1] |
Personality
Gura is friendly and readily likeable, and often amuses her viewers with foolish antics. She has no sense of direction, often misspells and mispronounces words, has trouble remembering her own age, and consistently fails to solve basic math problems, leading viewers to affectionately call her a "dum shark". Memorably, one viewer declared that "Gura has a heart of gold and a head of bone."
She can also be lazy at times. She often forgets about perishable items until they start to rot, and eats baby food "because you don't have to cook it... [or] chew on it."
However, despite her poor math and spelling skills, Gura is quick-witted, clever, and has vast knowledge of Shark Facts. When questioned on why she was not "boing boing," she excused it by claiming that she was "hydrodynamic." Her skill with fast-paced rhythm games is exceptional, and she is highly ambitious. She also occasionally makes lewd jokes, and is familiar with modern meme culture, which she references often.
Appearance
Gawr Gura is very short, reaching around 141 cm (4'7"). She has a slim body type. She has white, light silver-like hair with baby blue and cobalt blue strands, along with short pigtails on either side of her head, tied with diamond-shaped, shark-faced hair ties. She has cyan pupils, and sharp, shark-like teeth. She can wear a dark cerulean-blue hood in the shape of a shark's head.
She wears an oversized, dark cerulean-blue hoodie that fades into white on her arm sleeves and hem, two yellow strings in the shape of an "x" that connect the front part of her white hoodie hood, a shark mouth designed on her hoodie waist with a zipper, gray hoodie drawstrings with two black circles on each of them, and two pockets on the left and right sides of her hoodie waist with white fish bone designs on them.
She also wears a gray shirt under her hoodie. She wears dark blue socks, white shoes with pale baby blue shoe tongues, black shoelaces, gray velcro patches on the vamps, and thick, black soles. She wields a sapphire-blue trident and has a cyan shark tail. The upper lobe of Gura's caudal fin, the top part of her tail, is sewn up with gray stitches because of a rock that fell on it while she was in a deep sea trench. The lower lobe of Gura's caudal fin, the bottom part of her tail, has three bite marks, which she forgot the cause of.
History
Background
On 23 April 2020, following the success of the Japanese-language hololive VTuber group, Cover Corporation announced auditions for English-speaking members.[11] The initial round of auditions ran until 24 May.[12]
Gura first encountered hololive via Shirakami Fubuki's Say! Fanfare!, which appeared as a song in the rhythm game Muse Dash. She did not find out what hololive was until later, and decided to apply after learning of the hololive English auditions via Twitter. Her initial audition video was over the top, which she scrapped in favor of one that better represented her personality. She made it to a second round of auditions, followed by a third round normally consisting of a video call, which Gura actually declined. Despite this, she was selected to join hololive.[13]
During her audition, Gura drew a cute character in a "power stance" with their hands on their hips, which she credited as setting a good impression. Gura recalls being asked about the SCP Foundation, a wiki of articles describing fictional artifacts and beings, although she had to admit that she didn't know what it was.[14]
The members of -Myth- began training around June 2020, three months before their debut.[15]
Gawr Gura's design was known to other members of holoEN as early as 2 July 2020, when Amelia Watson drew the first ever piece of Gawr Gura fanart.[16] This was not the finalized design, however, and an unspecified design change was made before Gura's debut.[17] Internal pre-debut test streams were conducted between all members of hololive English, where in one case a bug caused Gura to spawn in without any clothes.
Gura's YouTube channel and Twitter account were created on 16 July 2020.
On 8 September 2020,[TZ] Gawr Gura was first revealed in a short promotional video alongside the other four members of hololive -Myth-. A simultaneous announcement was made at the hololive Twitter account, and the hololive English Twitter account.[18][19][20] At the same time, Gura made her first tweet, famously consisting of the single letter "a."[21]
Debut
Gura's debut stream was scheduled for 12 September 2020 at 2PM PDT,[TZ] although she was 12 minutes and 32 seconds late to her own debut stream due to a technical issue. She was the fourth of the five original members of hololive English to debut on the same day. Over 45,000 viewers tuned in to watch the event, in which she wowed viewers with a rendition of Tatsuro Yamashita's 1980 city pop single Ride on Time.[22]
In a six-month review of her debut, she described being so nervous that she could feel her heart beat in her head, and had stomach problems as she was too nervous to eat before the stream. Prior to the stream, she watched the debut videos of a number of hololive Japan streamers in order to prepare.[17]
The debut events were concluded with the first hololive English collaboration event at 6:35PM PDT,[TZ] in which Gura streamed together with the other four members of hololive English.
2020
Gura quickly rose in popularity, becoming the fastest-growing VTuber ever, gaining 100,000 new subscribers every two to five days. Just 13 days after her debut, on 26 September, she reached 500,000 YouTube subscribers, making her the 12th hololive member to reach this milestone, as well as the 1st member of the English branch to do so. On 20 October, just 37 days after her debut, Gura overtook both Shirakami Fubuki and Inugami Korone to become the #1 most subscribed hololive VTuber on YouTube.
On 22 October, Gura became the first hololive member to reach 1,000,000 subscribers, the third VTuber overall after Kizuna AI and Kaguya Luna, and the first English-speaker ever to do so.[23]
On 30 November, Gura reached 1,500,000 YouTube subscribers, making her the 1st hololive member to reach this milestone.
2021
On 17 January, Gura reached 2,000,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, being the first hololive member to do so and the second VTuber ever to reach that milestone after Kizuna Ai.[24]
On 22 January, Gura celebrated her 2,000,000 subscriber milestone with a karaoke stream.[25]
On 1 April, all holoMyth members revealed new chibi models based on popular fan designs by Walfie.[26]
On 14 April, Gura reached 2.5 million YouTube subscribers.
On 30 April, hololive's Twitter account announced that every member of holoMyth would get their second 2D costumes.[27]
On 6 May, Gura debuted her second 2D costume. In this costume, Gura has cat ears and her hair is styled with a side ponytail. Her clothes consist of a white blouse, a blue jumpsuit with a design resembling a shark's mouth, and sandals with Bloop's face on them, and a dark blue strap, and oak soles. Gura also has a bag with a similar design.[28] This debut was at the time the stream with the largest simultaneous viewer count of any VTuber in history, peaking at 194,280 concurrent viewers.[29] It was later surpassed by Kiryu Coco's graduation live stream which was held on 1 July. As of October 2024, it is still the #1 watched hololive English stream, and #25 most watched VTuber stream in history.[30]
On 18 June, Gura reached 1 million Twitter followers.
On 20 June, Gura celebrated her birthday with a Jaws movie watch-along and a birthday stream in which she released merchandise: a squishy cheek mouse pad, T-shirt, voice pack and unique postcard illustrated by Icomochi. During the birthday stream she also announced that she would debut her first original song "REFLECT" on 22 June at midnight, local time.[31]
On 22 June, Gura released her first original song "REFLECT" on YouTube. It surpassed 1,000,000 views in 10 hours and 25 minutes after its premiere.[32]
On 30 June, Gura's subscriber count on YouTube officially passed that of Kizuna AI's, making Gura the most subscribed VTuber in any streaming platform in the world.
On 4 July, Gura reached 3,000,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, being the first hololive member, as well as the first VTuber in the world, to reach this milestone. Earlier on that same day, her song "REFLECT" surpassed 5,000,000 views on her YouTube channel.
On 12 September, during Myth's 1 year anniversary celebration, the group revealed their official logo and announced that every member would get their third 2D costume.[33]
On 14 September, Gura hosted a Super Mario Party collab stream with Houshou Marine, Minato Aqua, and Ninomae Ina'nis (as well as A-chan providing translation), and at the end of the stream, it was announced that they would form a new unit "UMISEA," in which all four members sharing the theme of ocean. Several videos and streams featuring the unit is set to release throughout mid-September.[34][35]
On 20 October, she reached 3,500,000 YouTube subscribers.
On 31 October, -Myth- debuted their first original song "Myth or Treat" during a Halloween collab with every hololive EN member attending. The song lyrics were written by Calli. The official video of the song was later debuted that same day on Amelia's channel.[36][37]
On 11 December, Gura debuted her third 2D costume. In this costume, Gura got a new hairstyle: long twintails instead of her usual short ones. The twintails are decorated with golden ornaments. She also wears a golden laurel crown that comes out of her braids. She has decorative blue gemstones on her hair, her cheeks, and her dress. She also wears a golden necklace with another blue gemstone. Her outfit is inspired in her lore as an Atlantean, as she wears a white tunic that fades into blue. Gura also has a shawl with the same color pattern, but with a different, darker shade of blue on the inner side. The tunic has some golden ornaments and a belt, blue gemstones to her left, and some more are present at the some ends of her skirt. On her left wrist, she has two bracelets, while on her right wrist, she wears a golden wristband instead. Gura wears golden sandals, and her nails on her hands and feet are painted light blue. Her trident also has a gold chain with golden, oval-shaped ornaments hanging off it. The golden chain also has a small Bloop figure, and the base of her trident also has more blue gemstones.[38]
2022
On 6 January, hololive's Twitter account announced that both Myth and Council members would get new year costumes.[39]
On 9 January, Gura debuted her fourth 2D costume, a kimono, to celebrate the new year. Gura said this kimono was inspired by kagami mochi. In this costume, Gura mostly keeps her standard hairstyle. She wears hair ornaments in the shape of her tail. Additionally, Gura can wear white, fluffy earmuffs and have a small shrimp lay on top of her head, which she named "Ebi-chan". Gura wears a white and blue shoulderless kimono, with the upper section of her torso having a wavy, ocean design. Her long sleeves have puffy, shark tail-shaped, steel blue ribbons on the middle of her upper arm, each ribbon having two red strings with a white puffy ball on the ends. Her kimono's sleeves also have a wavy, ocean design with white flowers and fish, along with dark blue laces near her kimono's forearms.
Her kimono's skirt has two layers: an upper pale cerulean-blue layer with a white fish bone pattern, and a lower white second layer with ruffles and dark blue strings in the shape of two "x"s. The kimono is complemented by a dark blue obi with a dark blue bow, along with a white fish bone and two aquatic green fern leaves on the ribbon. On her tail, Gura wears a small white bow, small white socks with two white spikes and a red, diamond-shaped jewel on each side, and pale, baby blue sandals with dark blue sandal straps. Gura can also wear a white, fluffy scarf and can hold her trident with a new kimono design in her right hand. The new kimono-themed trident has white feathers on the top, making it look like a hamaya. In her left hand, she can carry her mascot, Bloop, in a small bag with water, typical of fish won at festivals.[40]
The same day, holoMyth debuted their second original song, "Journey Like a Thousand Years."
On 19 March, Gura debuted her 3D model during "hololive 3rd fes. Link Your Wish" day 1.[41]
On 16 June, she reached 4,000,000 YouTube subscribers, becoming the first VTuber to attain the milestone.[42]
On 28 June, on Amelia's channel, -Myth- held the first off-collab where every member was present.[43]
On 18 September, Gura held a 3D live, featuring duets with other members of hololive. The livestream began with Gura's new original animation "Shark'd", which depicts Gura's arrival on land, how she got her iconic clothes, and how she was introduced to hololive. The animation was produced by San Francisco based studio Tonari Animation, who also released a "making of" video for the original animation.
On 21 December, hololive English's Twitter account announced that Gura was taking an extended break for health reasons. Gura's last stream at that point had been on 8 December.[44]
2023
On 11 February, Gura returned to her activities.[45] Her return stream reached a peak of 49,214 viewers.
On 17 February, Gura debuted new accessories for her second 2D costume. Gura has a new hairstyle using short twintails decorated with either small red ribbons or hair ties with blue spheres. She can also use a plaid purple headband and a star shaped hairpin.[46]
On 2 March, Gura officially debuted her 3D model on her YouTube channel.[47]
On 19 March, Gura debuted her 3D idol costume during hololive 4th fes. "Our Bright Parade" DAY2.[48]
Following a stream on 5 May, Gura was largely absent from streaming, aside from a The Outlast Trials collab stream on 28 May.
On 20 June, Gura returned from hiatus to celebrate her birthday stream. She also announced birthday merchandise and an upcoming 3D live.
On 1 July, as part of the "hololive Summer 2023" event, Gura debuted her 3D yukata. These are the same designs that Japanese members debuted the previous year.[49]
On 2 July, she participated in "hololive English 1st Concert Connect the World."[50]
On 31 July, as part of the "hololive Summer 2023" event, during a stream alongside Nanashi Mumei, Gura debuted her 3D swimsuit. The 2023 swimsuits are inspired in a sailor uniform. Members wear a two layered swimsuit, the first layer is blue from the straps going down diagonally to the center where each member has a mostly blue bow but one of the sides and the brooch are in one color representative of each member. The rest of the top is white. The edge has a semi circular cut. The lower piece of the first layer has two variants, one is a two layered blue skirt decorated with a white belt, a golden chain with some decorations hanging from it and a bow to the left and planks to the right. The second version is mostly the same but they wear blue shorts instead of a mini skirt. Gura uses the shorts. The second layer of the outfit is a matching striped bikini in white and another color depending on the member. She and Mumei used T-shirts on top of the costume but the visible straps match the swimsuit.[51]
On 8 September, hololive English's Twitter account announced that Gura would get her fifth 2D costume.[52]
On 10 September, Gura debuted her fifth 2D costume. Gura's bangs are combed slightly to the left, her side locks have bigger blue lights, she has a thin side ponytail decorated with a scrunchie, she also has a hairpin resembling a bunny's head but with the mouth and color of a shark. Gura wears a white sailor fuku with outlines in red and blue in the collar and decorated with a blue tie. She has a blue skirt. On her left knee Gura has two band-aids, one is shaped like a heart. Gura uses white Mary Jane shoes. Gura can also use a yellow vest.[53]
2024
On 25 January, Gura returned to streaming on a regular schedule. Prior to this, her last stream had been 23 November 2023, and her last non-event stream had been on 18 August 2023. Gura streamed until 10 February, before taking another break until April, when she streamed on the 14th and 19th. She returned with a Subnautica stream on 25 May.
On 31 May, Gura debuted two new hairstyles for her fifth 2D costume. It uses a braided twintails with an Ebi hairpin, and a lob hairstyle that exposes her forehead.[54]
On 20 June, Gura celebrated a birthday collaboration performance, song cover, and birthday stream. She also announced birthday merchandise, including a limited edition set which sold out almost instantly.
On 22 July, Gura reached 4,500,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, making her the first member in hololive to reach this milestone.
On 31 August, as part of the ENigmatic Recollection project, hololive English members debuted a new accessory for their main 2D costumes. They wear the white and blue cloaks first seen in the project's introduction video and related concept art. The cloak includes a blue gem containing a symbol that represents their affiliated guilds.[55]
On 8 September, Gura's main 2D model was updated to the 2.0 version. She has a lot of improved facial expressions and movements, such as her twintails, the straps on her hoodie. Bloop can mimic Gura's emotions and his bubble received new physics.[56]
2025
On 25 January, Gura debuted her sixth 2D costume, a winter outfit. She uses a hairstyle similar to her main one with long hair and her side bangs styled outward,on the side, she has a blue ribbon and a black crossed hairpin. Gura wears a long sleeved, light blue shirt with a white collar, on the front the shirt has a print of her main outfit's hoodie with yellow eyes. She uses a brown, checkered pattern skirt with a white edge and ribbons. Gura has short, beige socks and light brown boots decorated with blue ribbons. Gura can also wear a blue jacket with light blue ribbon-shaped buttons, a white, puffy collar and end. The sleeves have various decorative diamonds. Gura has mittens, she can move her hands up to her face. She can also use a red, big checkered scarf tied with a ribbon to the side that partially covers her mouth.[57]
On 9 March, she debuted her hololive 6th fes. Color Rise Harmony 3D idol costume during the event's day 2 STAGE 3. The costume has some variants, it can be black or white, complemented with a color representative of the talent. The midriff can be covered or not. One has variant has a skirt while the other uses pants, with one leg exposed. Aside for the design featured in promotional material, the costume also includes a short jacket.[58]
Discography
- Main page: Gawr Gura/Discography
| REFLECT | 1st single | 22 June 2021 |
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| Domination! All the World Is an Ocean | as UMISEA | 19 September 2021 |
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Events
- On 12 March 2021, as part of their six month anniversary, the holoMyth members announced that they would get an official BGM image soundtrack featuring Camellia, with a release date of 14 March. The song inspired by Gura is titled "Sharkventure!!"[59]
- On 23 June 2021, hololive's Japanese Twitter account announced that every holoMyth member would appear in "Anime Expo Lite 2021" throughout 3 July and 4 July 2021.[60]
- On 29 September 2021, DoKomi's Twitter account announced that Gura and Ninomae Ina'nis would appear in "DigiKomi."[61]
- On 1 November 2021, OMOCAT's Twitter account announced a hololive English clothing collection, showing holoMyth's logo. Later on 12 November, the same account revealed the design used for the cloth in a black T-shirt and jacket. The collection would be released in December 2021.[62][63]
- On 26 April 2022, Anime Central announced that Gawr Gura of -Myth- and Hakos Baelz of -Council- would appear in their event on 21 May at 4:00 PM which was also the first event to participate in hololive Meet of hololive.[64][65]
- On 14 July 2022, Crunchyroll Expo's Twitter account announced that Gura and other members of hololive English would be appearing as guests in "Crunchyroll Expo 2022," which would be held from 5 to 7 August 2022.[66]
- On 10 September 2022, Anime Festival Asia announced on Twitter that Gura and other members would be appearing at "Anime Festival Asia Singapore 2022," which would be held from 25-27 November 2022.[67]
- On 20 September 2022, hololive's Japanese Twitter account announced that she alongside Shirakami Fubuki, Ookami Mio, Inugami Korone, Nekomata Okayu, Usada Pekora, Houshou Marine, Moona Hoshinova, Ayunda Risu and Watson Amelia's hats and outfits would appear on the game "Among Us" and can be obtained purchasing the hololive production Cosmicube. The Cosmicube would be available until 20 December 2022.[68][69]
- On 8 February 2023, hololive's Twitter account announced that Gura, Mori Calliope, and Sakura Miko were appointed as "Tokyo Tourism Ambassadors."[70][71]
- On 9 March 2023, hololive's Twitter account announced "hololive EN café," a collaboration with CAPSULE Inc., featuring all hololive English members: Myth, Project HOPE, Council in foods and limited goods. The event would be held from 3 to 23 March 2023.[72]
- On 5 January 2024, hololive Twitter account announced a collaboration with CAPSULE on a "Cheer UP" themed pop-up store, featuring Kaela Kovalskia, Kobo Kanaeru, Oozora Subaru, Usada Pekora, Gawr Gura, and Koseki Bijou in Cheer up themed costume goods, and other activities. The store would be open from 27 January to 4 February 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan.[73]
- On 26 March 2024, fashion brand SuperGroupies announced its first collaboration collection with hololive English -Myth-, featuring Gura in four products inspired by her, consisting of a watch, a pullover jacket, a backpack, and an acrylic stand, which would be available for pre-order on SuperGroupies's official website from 26 March to 14 April.[74]
- On 1 June 2024, hololive announced "hololive night," a collaboration with Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, featuring Usada Pekora, Hoshimachi Suisei, and Gawr Gura in commercials, merchandise, and various activities, including a drone show. The event took place on 5 July 2024 in Dodger Stadium, and anyone who purchased a ticket received three exclusive trading cards featuring the talents in Dodgers uniform.[75] Gura sang the traditional song Take Me Out to the Ball Game during the seventh inning of the game.
- On 5 July 2024, hololive announced the water park-themed collaboration event "Party time: hololive production in water land" with OU-EN EVENT of CAPSULE, featuring Nakiri Ayame, Houshou Marine, Momosuzu Nene, Moona Hoshinova, Kobo Kanaeru, Ninomae Ina'nis, Gawr Gura, Fuwawa Abyssgard, and Mococo Abyssgard in special illustrations, food, merchandise, and exclusive contents in Leofoo Water Park, Taiwan. The event would take place from 7 August to 8 September 2024.[76]
Awards
Mascots and Fans
Bloop trapped in his bubble. Nobody knows for sure why he's in there except Gura.
- Gura's mascot is named Bloop, a "long time friend who stays in a bubble 'for the better'." Bloop wears a can on his head, marked "emergency ration" 「非常食」. According to Gura in a multiple-choice question, Bloop is emergency food. In other instances, she has implied that Bloop isn't exactly a morally upstanding individual, and is likely bordering on evil based on how she described his plush version.
- Unlike the rest of the holoMyth mascots, Bloop was designed by Gura's artist Amashiro Natsuki, as seen in her concept illustration. However, Ina made the design for the chibi version.[79]
- Bloop shares its name with the Bloop, an ultra-low-frequency, high amplitude underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 1997. Previously thought to have been caused by a marine animal, it is now believed to have been caused by movement of glaciers.
- Her fanbase are officially called "Chumbuds."[80]
- Her channel members are referred to as MemberShrimp. This is a reference to Gura seeing her chat use the word "simp," to which she replied "I just saw the word 'simp' go by. What is simp? Do you mean shrimp?"
- Calling monetary supporters of VTubers "shrimps" has spread beyond Gura's fans, particularly after streaming platform Twitch banned the word "simp."
Relationships
- Notable units and groups Gura is part of:
- "-Myth-," alongside Ninomae Ina'nis, Takanashi Kiara, Mori Calliope and Watson Amelia.
- "AmeSame," alongside Watson Amelia.
- "Bone Bros.," along with Mori Calliope.
- "SameTori," alongside Takanashi Kiara.
- "Gawrlic," alongside Murasaki Shion.
- "Apex Predators" alongisde Shishiro Botan.
- "UMISEA," alongside Ninomae Ina'nis, Houshou Marine, Minato Aqua and Sakamata Chloe.
- "SharPea," alongside Pavolia Reine.
- "SNOTCast," (Shark, Nature, Owl and Time) alongside Ceres Fauna, Nanashi Mumei, and Ouro Kronii.
- "Scarlet Wand," alongside Ceres Fauna, Shiori Novella, Cecilia Immergreen, and Nerissa Ravencroft. They are guildmates within the ENigmatic Recollection story.
- "PTSD," (Phoenix, Time, Shark and Detective) along with Takanashi Kiara, Ouro Kronii and Watson Amelia.[81]
Quotes
- "a."
- "Shaaaaaark!"
- "Oh nyo."
- "See, sometimes, in life, you try and hit life with a 'hoocha!', but then life decides to hit you with a 'hoocha!'. You know what you do, in this predicament? When life hoochas you? You go AGAIN!"[82]
- "Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. You know what? Not every adventure comes to a happy ending. Sometimes you just gotta retrace, go back, and start over."[83]
- (On 12 November 2020) "It's officially Christmas!"[84]
- "I don't know, maybe it's not great progress compared to other people, but I'm happy with my progress. And you know what? Quite frankly, that's all that matters. If you spend too much time worrying about, you know, other people's progress and how it matches up to yours then... I don't know, you might forget what really matters, and that's your progress, you know?"[85]
- "You can't be mad at me... I'm cute!" [86]
- "Bodka. Vodka. Spasibo? Boodka. Vodka. VAAdka. Bodka? Vohdka. Boodka, bood- *clears throat* bAAH-dke. Uh, hmm-hm-hm-ha. *inhales* nyAaAaAAeeeyoouh eugh agh *exhales* nice. Ni- Uup! Mic on. Hiii!"[87]
Trivia
Name
- In Japanese, Gura's name is written 「がうる・ぐら」 ("gauru gura").[88]
- She gives her surname first, Japanese style, even when speaking in English. Takanashi Kiara and Ninomae Ina'nis also do this, while Calliope Mori and Amelia Watson use the English name order when speaking in English.
- Gura is the only member of holoMyth to write her name entirely in hiragana. This is consistent with her childlike demeanor and academic skills, since hiragana-only writting is usually reserved for children's books.
- Her surname Gawr comes from the gar, an ancient holosteian order of ray-finned fish. Her first name Gura comes from the Latin gula, meaning "gluttony."[89]
Lore
- Gura comes from Atlantis, an ancient lost underwater city appearing in legend. On her first solo stream on 13 September 2020, in which she played the shark simulator game Maneater, she said that Atlantis didn't have French fries, so she's not interested in returning.
- Atlantis does not have many laws in the same manner as modern land nations. However, punishments are more severe, including public executions at a colosseum. Gura described once seeing a person eaten alive by a megalodon. A major conflict took place around 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, involving something about seashells.
- Various underwater species live there. Giant hermit crabs engage in racing, and can move surprisingly quickly. Lobster people also exist.[90]
- Food in Atlantis is healthy, but boring, consisting mainly of fish and seaweed.
- In the Fish Tank, Gura revealed that Atlantis has been gone for thousands of years, and now only ruins exist. Visiting them is difficult due to the high ocean pressure at this depth. Ame hopes to visit it one day when the flat earth tips over and all the water spills out.[91]
- People in Atlantis don't normally wear clothes. According to the animation Shark'd, this caused a stir when Gura first arrived at the surface. She bought her outfit at a beachside store, and paid in seashells and sand. The outfit includes black shorts which are not usually seen.
- Gura is a shark girl. According to the original animation Shark'd, she has gills on the sides of her torso.
- Gura names her own species as "Gura shark." During one of her Fall Guys streams, she joked that "Gura" was an acronym for "Giant Underwater Rubber Animal."[92]
- Later she stated that she doesn't quite know what kind of shark she is, but she probably was the descendent of one of the big ones. She went on to list the megalodon, great white, and salmon shark, (her favorite type of shark), as some of the possibilities.[93]
- Her birthday, 20 June, is the same date the 1975 film Jaws was released.[94] Gura says that this is not her actual birthday, (which she cannot remember), but rather the anniversary of her arrival on land after she left Atlantis.
- The clapping sound often heard in her streams can be attributed to her tail thrashing around excitedly.[95]
- Gura attributes the stitches in her tail to an event long ago where her tail was trapped beneath a boulder in an underwater ravine. She cannot remember how she got the bite marks in her tail.
- Her skin doesn't get wrinkly no matter how long she stays in the bath.
Gura's age
- Gura has trouble remembering her own age.
- In her debut stream, she first gave her age as "somewhere in the 9,000s [...] I'll go with 9,361, yeah, we'll go with that. Once you get past around the 5k mark, [...] it starts to blur. But I wouldn't expect humans to understand that." She then immediately forgot the age she just gave, saying "I don't remember what I said, let's pick another number," and selected 9,927.[9]
- On 13 October 2020, she gave her age as 4,295, 9,495, and 9,485.[96]
- In a Ring Fit stream, she entered her age as "99" because it only accepts two digits.
- In a six-month rewatch of her debut, she gave 9,492, saying "It's always different, and it always will be." Gura quoted the famous meme "It's over 9,000!," a well-known reference to Dragonball Z.[17]
- On 28 April 2021, during a Monster Hunter Rise stream, she gave her age as 9,927.[97]
- In her first birthday stream on 20 June 2021, she had a birthday card wishing her a happy 9,485th birthday.[98]
- In her 2021 birthday collab stream, she claimed to be 9,655, then agreed when Anya Melfissa said 9,600.[99]
- In a tweet for her 2023 birthday stream, Gura claimed her birthday cake to candle ratio as one to 9,536.[100]
- During the 2023 birthday stream itself, she sang "Happy birthday to me, I'm 9,303.".[101]
Likes and dislikes
- She likes food. She also enjoys a hobby known in Atlantis as "PWWIE" (people watching without intent to eat), but she claims humans don't taste good so viewers don't have to worry.[102]
- When Moona Hoshinova joked during a Minecraft stream that she wanted to turn Gura into shark soup and Watson Amelia commented that "It's a good thing detectives aren't very tasty." Gura replied with, "I beg to differ, I beg to differ." Unless she was joking, this implies that detectives taste better than normal humans.[103]
- Her favorite food is salmon, which she has misspelled as "salman." She enjoys drinking a carton of "salmon milk." She also likes eating pizza, McDonald's hamburgers, mint chocolate chip ice cream, and baby food.
- This may be a reason as to why Gura's favorite shark is the salmon shark.
- Her favorite cake is strawberry cake. She claims to be able to eat her weight in strawberries.[101]
- Gura's favorite games are Muse Dash, Taiko no Tatsujin, Rhythm Heaven, Borderlands, and Resident Evil. Her favorite video game in her childhood was Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue.
- She likes Konosuba and even had the pleasure to read the entirety of volume 1 on stream in partnership with Bookwalker. Her audience also took pleasure in knowing the stream doubled as an audiobook, as the series has yet to have an English release in the format.
- Gura especially has an affinity for cowboy and wild west culture, such as ranch animals like horses and grubs, instruments such as banjos and a preference for revolvers/six-shooters.
- During a superchat reading stream on 13 March 2021, Gura received a superchat informing her about the existence of an instrument that is the fusion of a banjo and a ukulele. Almost a year later on 2 February 2022, Gura sang her classic BGM with a banjolele she had bought, resulting in many of her viewers commenting that they felt nostalgic.
- Gura dislikes hot sand, and her biggest fear is having people hear her stomach noises, (which she wrote incorrectly in her debut stream as "loud stomak").
- Her favorite color is blue.
- Gura's favorite type of shark, other than herself, is the salmon shark.[104]
- Gura is close friends with Watson Amelia. In one stream, Gura sang You Are My Sunshine but changed the lyrics to be about Amelia. The pair often collab together and are most commonly shipped together under the name and Twitter tag "#amesame."
- When asked which last name would be taken if married to Amelia, Gura stated she would rather have Amelia's last name, as "Watson" sounds more like a family name than "Gawr."[105]
- On 20 June 2022, Amelia and Gura revealed that Gura was streaming at Amelia's house. Later that day, the two had an unarchived off-collab karaoke.
- Gura hates wearing pants. She has even given the question "If you could get away with not wearing pants, would you?" as her reason before jokingly shouting "BAN PANTS!" on stream, though has noted it does indeed get in the way of her tail. However, she has said she doesn't mind wearing skirts.
Gura's antics
- Gura is famous for her mathematical miscalculations, once saying: "Numbers, the numbers! I'm bad with the numbers, we know this!" She once calculated that 9+10 equals 11; 2020-2011 equals 10; half of twelve is 5; 9x9 equals 36; and that 5x5 equals 35.[106]
- She has a poor sense of direction, and has difficulty telling left from right. In their first five-member Minecraft collab, sent the entire hololive EN digging for 20 minutes in the wrong direction because she misread a map. Later, while giving Ina directions, she hit a block with a pickaxe to direct her rather than use the word "left."
- Gura used to misspells or mispronounces words. In her debut stream, she misspelled salmon as "salman" (leading to a fan comic where Gura eats a fast food deliveryman named Salman), stomach as "stomak," Twitter as "Tiwtter," and twister as "tiwster." She once pronounced "almond milk" as "Ame milk." She spelled "iron" as "arm," "baby pickaxe" as "babie picaxe," and mispronounced "she will die" as "she while dee." She claimed not to recognize the term "simp," which she corrected to "shrimp," although that might have been a joke. In recent streams, her spelling has been much better, though she can still fumble over her words sometimes.
- She once mistook bread for a potato.
- She has a habit of jinxing herself, also known as "tempting fate;" there are many instances of her confidently making a statement only for it to immediately backfire on her. In Among Us, she said "Somebody kill someone! Not me, right?" immediately before being killed by Ame; in the first Minecraft collab, while watching Kiara dangerously build over a ravine, she said "eh, she's got it" right before Kiara fell; and in Left 4 Dead 2 she taunted a zombie by saying "he can't climb," only to be proven wrong a few seconds later.[107] Inversely, she is starting to become aware of her jinxing so Gura jinxes herself into the lead positions of Mario Kart by saying how terrible she is going to do.
- Before her debut, there was an incident known as the "Naked Gura Incident" in which the other HoloEN members saw her without her clothes on. This was almost certainly due to a technical issue, but that hasn't stopped them from teasing her for it.
- During her "Bathtub Pizza" stream, Gura explained that people from Atlantis don't wear clothes because they're underwater, so she showed up naked thinking that people on land don't wear clothing all the time, only to discover she was "under-dressed, to say the least." She has since then learned about wearing clothes.
- Gura has also gone to say she hates wearing pants and prefers to be naked. Though she has said she won't mind wearing skirts.
- Affectionately referred to as "Same-chan" (サメちゃん) by Japanese audiences, Gura regularly charms her senior members of hololive with her cuteness and kindness, sometimes making them act unlike their usual selves. For example:
- Gura sent a private video message to Murasaki Shion in which she sang a special birthday song in Japanese, causing Shion to abandon her typical bratty attitude to gush about Gura's cuteness.
- In another instance when her chat was poking fun at Gura's chest, Uruha Rushia tried to protect Gura by redirecting the "flat" jokes towards herself, even though she would normally respond to such jokes with death threats.
- Shirogane Noel, who normally only has eyes for Shiranui Flare, tried to learn English purely to both meet and cuddle with Gura like a body pillow.
- Fellow holoEN member Ninomae Ina'nis, usually gentle and even-tempered, says that anyone who makes Gura cry will "face the wrath of Ina" and "won't see the light of day." She made the same promise for all of the holoEN girls, although tears of joy are an exception.[108]
- While autographing a large amount of merchandise, she zoned out and signed several of them "Gura Gura" by accident.
- In the famous "where's the rest of 'em?" event, Gura misinterpreted "the grades one to five" as "one two five", and wondered what happened to the grades three and four.
Miscellaneous
- At 141 cm, Gura is currently the 2nd shortest member of hololive English behind Koseki Bijou (140 cm), and the third-shortest member of hololive overall after Bijou and Himemori Luna (140 cm) and La+ Darknesss (139 cm).
- At debut, she described her goals as playing Twister with the other holoMyth members in a 3D collaboration, playing the scariest horror games with a heart rate monitor, and learning to play the banjo.[9]
- Gura achieved all of her goals. She was learning banjo as of her six-month anniversary watch of her debut,[17] and went on to play banjo at karaoke streams. She played Outlast with heart rate monitor on 29 October 2021. Finally, on 1 April 2022, she played Twister with the other Myth members in a 3D collab.
- Gura amazed viewers in her debut by singing "Ride on Time" by Tatsuro Yamashita, impressing them with her singing skill, music taste, and flawless Japanese pronunciation (despite not actually being fluent in Japanese). This is the origin of her nickname "City Pop Shark."
- Gura's first tweet was the single letter "a."[21]
- After being 12 minutes and 32 seconds late to her own debut, Gura looked around for a few moments, said "a" with reverb, and cut back to the intro animation. This joke was well-received by the audience, and "a" became her most recognized meme.[109]
- Gura used to begin streams with a "shark fact" - a random piece of shark-themed trivia. The facts varied from actual trivia about sharks to nonsensical/humorous bits she could come up with on the spot. During a Japanese-language lesson stream, Takanashi Kiara suggested that "shark fact" in Japanese should translate to "same chishiki" (a pun on "mame chishiki," a Japanese idiom literally meaning "a bean of knowledge"). During a German-language lesson stream in March 2021, Kiara complained about the lack of shark facts in recent streams.
- One particular shark fact of note that is that sharks eat each other in the womb. This particularly gruesome fact seems to carry over to shark people as well, as Gura slipped in her Dead by Daylight collab with Anya and has "threatened" Kiara of the possibility when playing Uno cards.
- After finally securing the rights to do a Powerwash Simulator stream, Gura produced a new shark fact (a shark's scales are known as denticles). She also wore her rarely-used hood and played the original Gura stream intro theme as background music for nostalgia.
- She claims that she is not "boing boing" (an onomatopoeia for bouncing things associated with having big-breast popularized by Uruha Rushia), because aquatic beings need to be hydrodynamic.[110]
- While Gura doesn't mind being called flat, or even pretends to be offended for fun, she will eventually become irritated at her audience's lack of originality if they keep repeating the same jokes, causing her to bite back with thick layers of sarcasm.
- She can get hiccups from laughing too much.
- Gura said she has very ticklish feet and can't stand it.
- Before debut, Gura attempted to coin the catchphrase "sha-ha-ha-ark," a sort of iconic laugh, which she used once in her debut stream. It didn't work well, and was quickly abandoned.[17]
- Gura initially planned to keep her hat on for the entire debut, and keep her twintails a secret for as long as possible, to reveal at a later date. During the debut, she decided to reveal it anyway.[17]
- Gura is sometimes nicknamed samegaki, from the Japanese same (shark) and gaki (a bratty kid).[111] She is sometimes referred to this when she does something underhanded such as cheating a head start in Mario Kart. In Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, Murasaki Shion named her Garchomp "Samegaki" after Gura.[112] Houshou Marine uses the similar terms mesugaki and erogaki.[113]
- Gura has a pet cat named "Pita," who likes to crawl into her armpit.[114]
- Gawr Gura's intro theme was originally commissioned for Watson Amelia. Ame ended up not using the music, so Gura used it instead.
- Although Gura's fan mark is officially 🔱 (trident, representing the one present in her official render), she is also represented by the emoji 🦈 (shark) on occasion (particularly on A-chan's schedule tweets).
- During Kiryu Coco's graduation stream, she asked Gura to promise to play ARK with other members. On 23 January 2022, Gura played ARK with Nanashi Mumei.[115]
- She is often referred to by any number of nicknames that vaguely sound like "Gura," including but not limited to "Goomba," "Goob," and "Grumbus."
- On 27 August 2023, Gura won a Streamy award in the VTuber category.[116]
External Links
Media
- Gawr Gura Ch. hololive-EN - YouTube channel
- Gawr Gura's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
- @gawrgura - Twitter account
- @gawrgura_holoen - TikTok account
Hashtags
Further readings
- がうる・ぐら - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
- Gawr Gura Ch. hololive-EN - Wikitubia
- がうるぐら - Pixiv Encyclopedia
- 噶嗚·古拉 - Moegirl Encyclopedia
- 가우르 구라 - Namu Wiki
- Gawr Gura - Hololive Fan Wiki
- がうる・ぐら - Japanese Wikipedia
References
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