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Inugami Korone (戌神ころね) is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, debuting as part of the group "hololive Gamers" (ホロライブゲーマーズ) alongside Shirakami Fubuki, Ookami Mio and Nekomata Okayu.
Introduction video
【 戌神ころね初配信】！！！！はじめまして！！！！【ホロライブ 新人Vtuber】
Korone's introduction.
Profile
| hololive.hololivepro.com |
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| "'Ello! Fingers! Give me your fingers!"
A dog from a bakery in the city. She likes to play games during her free time while watchdogging.[8] |
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| "G'morning! Fingers! Give me your fingers!!"
The dog from a random bakery. She likes to play games when she has free time while watchdogging.[9] |
Personality
Korone has a sweet and goofy personality comparable to that of an actual dog. She often kisses other hololive members for no reason, and has a high-pitched laugh that resembles the cry of a screeching seagull.
Like most dogs, Korone is fiercely loyal, specifically to Nekomata Okayu with whom she forms a pair known as "OkaKoro." In fact, the two are so close that Okayu didn't mind Korone grabbing and massaging her breasts during their sleepover after Korone had a exhaustive day of dance practice and concert work, which can be seen in a more maternal light. They also often casually kiss each other on the lips.
Korone has a fondness for retro games, especially those that are more niche (or even poorly-made). She gets a lot of amusement from the strangeness in these games, often laughing at how absurd they can be.
While her activities usually look playful and sugary, Korone can also be nonchalantly terrifying at times; for example, she accidentally revealed that she had searched for torture/execution methods in her mobile browser history, laughed joyfully while using the chainsaw in Doom, and was completely unfazed by a scene in Heavy Rain where the protagonist (under Korone's control) was forced to cut off his own finger. Many holoGirls, A-chan included, have gone out of their way to say Korone is flat out crazy. Unlike the axe-crazed Suisei, Korone has a childish style of psychopathy that suggests that she does not appreciate the severity of the physical pain she inflicts on others.
Korone is a fan of splatter-house styled horror, referencing movies like Human Centipede and Saw as her preferences, while voicing traditional ghost stories as her least preferred genre. This was further cemented in her two playthroughs of "Tsugu no Hi" games with her screaming at everything on screen, including parts where nothing scary was actually happening. This was even more ironic when she played Evil God Korone, the "Tsugu no Hi" spin-off based on her. Her habit of being easily startled during horror games carries into other games. For example, during her INFLICTION playthrough where she was playing with bathroom soap, she got startled after she accidentally brought up an inspection menu.
She has also gone on the record to abuse her fans, represented by Listener-kun, usually seen at the end of her streams where she forgets to give her fans' fingers back until they rot, or even having comical backdoor tragedies happen like giving back Listener-kun's finger only to swipe her fans money to gamble with in Dragon Quest, and is quick to jump on her viewers like an oppressively jealous housewife when she sees traces of other women around them. The fact that she is both cute and scary at the same time has only increased her appeal amongst her fanbase.
In a more dry and serious light, however, Korone has shared confidence issues during her Roomania 203 playthrough due to measuring her worth to other's actions causing her to criticize herself unnecessarily. Her time in hololive seems to be helping in this aspect.
Korone originally greeted viewers with "Yubi! Yubi!," which originated from her desire to have her own unique greeting. During her first stream with the other members of hololive Gamers, Korone noticed that she was the only one out of the group that didn't have her own greeting. She joked about possibly greeting her viewers by asking for their fingers, after which they would reply "Yubi! Yubi!" in return, "Yubi" being the Japanese word for finger.
While she's well known for the "yubi yubi" greeting, she's gradually stopped using it in favor of starting the streams without any specific set greeting. During collaborations, she usually introduces herself by name and sometimes with her hololive Gamers affiliation, but often says unexpected things or quickly speeds through her intro in a way that's hard for people to understand. This often confuses other hololive members that collaborate with her. While she doesn't use her regular greeting often, she has fun with playing with the other members' greetings and catchphrases. For example, when she did a Splatoon collaboration with holoX member Kazama Iroha, who says "de gozaru" at the end of her sentences, she went along with Iroha's archaic samurai speak. This included referring to viewers with the respectful honorific "-dono."
Her battle cry when playing games is "Orayo!", a trait that has remained consistent over the years.
Appearance
She has medium-length light brown hair with braided pigtails and dog ears, and she has brown eyes with a light yellow outer jacket with bows on the sleeves.
History
Background
Korone did not audition for hololive in the usual sense. Instead, she was recommended by Nekomata Okayu, a close personal friend who had herself auditioned for hololive Gamers.[10]
Korone was first announced on 22 March 2019 in Shirakami Fubuki's stream during which Fubuki debuted her new 3D model. Fubuki announced that she alongside with Nekomata Okayu would join hololive Gamers in April.[11] This was followed by an announcement on hololive's Twitter account on 25 March.[12] She was officially introduced on 1 April.[13]
Her Twitter account was opened on 24 March 2019 while her YouTube channel was created on 25 March.
Debut
She made her debut on 13 April[14] although she had appeared on the streams of other members before her debut, the first being on Oozora Subaru's channel on 7 April.[15]
Korone's debut stream was infamously difficult and rough, even for the standards of the era.
She appeared to be nervous and suffered from technical difficulties with OBS due to her complete unfamiliarity with the software, to the point of accidentally recording and leaking hololive's management Discord server, and because she also had a cold which affected her voice. Her fellow members of hololive Gamers joined the stream to assist her, without much success, and the rest of the stream was a Splatoon 2 collab between them.
Staff gave feedback on the debut, variously calling Korone "cute," "dangerous," and "a master of disaster."[16] Following her debut, hololive issued improved guidelines for member debut streams[17] , with Korone herself stating that "They (hololive) probably have my debut stream as an example of what NOT to do in a debut" during a stream with Subaru.
2019
On 15 August, Korone reached 50,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[18]
On 10 September she announced on her Twitter that she would be getting her 3D model,[19] later on 14 September she debuted her 3D model during a stream.[20]
On 6 December, she reached 100,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[21]
On 26 December she published on Twitter that she would get her second 2D costume. This costume was later revealed that day during a stream, and features a mostly brown dress with a ribbon and a hat.[22][23][24]
2020
On 1 January, she debuted her third 2D costume, a kimono in celebration of the new year.[25] The outfit also comes with a ridiculous kadomatsu-shaped hat, with three bamboo stems that can bob up and down.
On 24 January, along with the other hololive girls up to the third generation, she debuted her 3D idol outfit at hololive's 1st fes. Nonstop Story.[26]
On 25 February, she reached 200,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[27]
On 28 April, she reached 300,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[28]
On 30 May, she reached 400,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during a Spider-Man game stream.[29][30]
On 3 July, Korone reached 500,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, making her the 3rd hololive member to reach this milestone.[31]
On 1 August, Korone reached 600,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[32]
On 31 August, Korone reached 700,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during a Slither.io stream.[33]
On 18 September, she reached 800,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[34]
On 1 October, Korone received a new accessory as part of her birthday celebration, similar to her kadomatsu hat, she wears a strawberry birthday cake, decorated with pink and blue ribbons, a heart that reads "Korone" in hiragana, the cake hat has three candles.[35]
On 10 October, she reached 900,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[36]
On 1 November, Korone became the second hololive member to reach 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers and the first one of the Japanese branch to do so. She is also the first member of hololive GAMERS to reach it.[37]
2021
On 13 April, Korone debuted her first original song "SAIKYO TENSAI WANDERFUL WORLD of KORONE."[38]
On 10 May, she reached 1,500,000 YouTube subscribers. This makes her the 2nd member of hololive to achieve this milestone, as well as the first member of hololive JP. She is also the first member of hololive Gamers to achieve it.[39]
On 12 July, Korone announced on her Twitter account that she would get her fourth 2D costume.[40]
On 14 July, she revealed her fourth 2D costume along with Okayu. In this costume Korone got a new hairstyle, featuring an almost clear forehead thanks to the use of a pink diadem, her clothes consist of a pink jacket with a white hat shaped like a dog drawn in Korone's style that she can wear optionally, a shocker with a decorative finger, a black t-shirt decorated with illustrations of fingers (Yubi), her mascot Hosoinu among others, in this costume she wears denim shorts and a pair of slippers with Okayu's symbol.[41]
On 1 October, her birthday 3D live stream, she revealed her third 3D costume. This costume was first featured in the artwork of her original song SAIKYO TENSAI WANDERFUL WORLD of KORONE. In this costume Korone wears a golden crown to the right of her head with two hairpins: a red heart and a blue star, on her neck she wears a white and yellow shocker with her signature red and blue crossed bones, a white and yellow dress with various accessories in red and blue included in ribbons, buttons and more, a yellow corset, her skirt has a yellow piece to the left side with blue stars, the end of this piece is blue and has white fingers as a motif, Korone uses a white high sock on her right leg and a red one in her left leg, finally the whole outfit is complemented with a big gift like ribbon that goes from her left shoulder to her right leg featuring Hosoinu at its center and another ribbon on the back.[42]
On 9 November, Korone announced that she would be taking a break from streaming until December due to stress related symptoms, including sleep paralysis, shaky hands, and problems speaking. Misinformation was spread from poor translations that Korone had Autonomic Nervous System Disorder or heart disease. In reality, she was stressed from balancing too much work with taking care of her mom, but her symptoms would recover with proper rest.[43][44] Initially planned as a two week break, she returned in full on 16 December.
On 24 December, Korone debuted a new hat, similar to her kadomatsu hat, she wears a Christmas Tree that has some variants, Korone can wear the tree with or without decorations, in addition the tree includes the its own face turning it into a mask.[45]
2022
On 13 April, Korone debuted a new Live2D model: her "furball" dog form, based off of a popular fan design made by Sabaku. She also revealed the ability to have her jacket off on her base outfit. She also revealed a short straight bang haircut with her hoodie outfit, similar to a bangs update that Okayu received, with classic Japanese "nerd" style glasses.[4][46]
Additionally, she debuted her second original song "Doggy god's street."[47]
On 23 June, the Sonic the Hedgehog Japanese Twitter account announced that Korone would become ambassador for Sega as a part of the franchise's 31st anniversary collaboration. With this collaboration it was also announced that Korone would get her fifth 2D costume.[48][49] Parts of this collaboration include Korone becoming a voice actor for the Japanese dub of the movie "Sonic the Hedgehog 2"[50]
On 24 June, Korone debuted her fifth 2D costume. In this costume Korone has blue hair and green eyes like Sonic's and wears a Sonic themed hoodie with her trademark bones decoration (instead she uses a golden ring as her choker's accessory) and a black blouse underneath with the Sega brand logo. Korone uses Sonic's shoes. Additionally, she can carry a Knuckles plushie.[51] This also came with a Sega-themed variation to her background, complete with Sonic and Knuckles plushies and a Sega Mega Drive to the right with a Sega CD and multiple 32X's stacked on top of each other.[52]
On 18 July, the members of hololive GAMERS debuted a new accessory to celebrate their third anniversary, a headband with hearts on top of it. Korone's headband is orange.[53]
On 14 August, as part of the "hololive Summer 2022" event during Botan's 2nd Anniversary Live, Korone debuted her 3D swimsuit. Unlike the original swimsuits from 2019 that had individual designs, these swimsuits are meant to be matching outfits similar to the 3D idol costumes. The swimsuits come in two types one with thin straps for the top and a diagonal cut mini skirt and the other one has ruffled straps in the top and an even mini skirt. Both version are white with various patterns including hololive's and Holoearth's logos, hearts and sparks. The swimsuits are personalized by including different colors to match each talent. Additionally they have the option to wear a hoodie.[54]
On 20 August, continuing the "hololive Summer 2022" event, Korone debuted her 3D yukata during Ookami Mio's birthday celebration alongside Shirakami Fubuki.[55] Like other 3D costumes the yukatas have a variety of styles that hololive members can choose from. The yukatas come in various colors and patterns including fireworks, flowers and goldfish.[56]
On 12 November Korone debuted a new hairstyle for her fourth 2D costume. A new ponytail that fall to her back rather than to the side like previous hairstyles of this costume.[57]
2023
On 19 March, Korone debuted her new 3D idol costume during hololive 4th fes. "Our Bright Parade" DAY2.[58]
On 12 June, hololive's Twitter account announced that Korone would get her sixth 2D costume.[59]
On 28 June, Korone reached 2 million YouTube subscribers.[60] She was the seventh hololive member to reach this milestone.
On 7 July, after been delayed, Korone debuted her sixth 2D costume inspired by Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Korone uses long loose hair with twintails, with dog ears falling to the front. She wears a blue dress with a white apron slightly oriented to the right, her zipper has a golden heart with a lock as ornament, the key is in her choker. Korone use a diagonal black belt falling to the left, the belt has a pink potion hanging to the side. Korone has a two layered plank skirt with a diagonal cut to the right, where the skirt has an opening. Korone uses fishnets and black boots. She can also wear accessories such as a black and white jacket with dog paw and crossbones symbols, a black eye mask with a pink heart under the right eye, a nailed baseball bat on her back and a plate loaded with three cups and her mascot Hosoinu on top of it. Korone claims she has the "Alice" costume after Mio received a costume based on the Queen of Hearts and Okayu one based on the Cheshire Cat.[61]
On 26 July, she debuted a new 3D costume as a member of the "Blue Journey" musical project. She uses a blue beret with a plaid pattern. The costume has a white blouse with detached sleeves, a blue ribbon in the chest decorated with light blue jewel and a blue belt below the chest. The blouse lower edge is asymmetrical and divided in three, the front has planks and it is the longest, then the right side is longer that the left side. She uses a long blue skirt with a plaid pattern and the inner section is light blue. On the back the costume is decorated with a see through ribbon.[62]
On 1 August, as part of the "hololive Summer 2023" event, during Sakura Miko's 5th Anniversary Live, Korone debuted her second 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. Korone uses the skirt. The second layer of the outfit is a matching striped bikini in white and another color depending on the member.[63]
On 15 August, Korone's main 2D model was updated to the 3.0 version. Her eyes can be sparky and teary. Her pupils can become heart shaped and she can stick out her tongue.[64]
On 24 December, Korone along with Okayu, Noel, Lamy, Ayame, Koyori, and Chloe debuted their second 3D Christmas costumes during event hololive Xmas AR LIVE "Sweet Happy Holiday".[65]
2024
On 13 April, during her fifth anniversary, Korone debuted her seventh 2D costume. Korone's costume is viking themed. Korone has long messy hair with a braid in the left, her hair can be complemented with a golden helmet or a big bone hairpin. Korone wears a brown bikini armor top with a shoulder pad in her right. Underneath, she wears a black top. She uses long brown gloves with white fluffy edges. Korone has a red crossed skirt with golden prints, white fluffy edge and a black belt with a buckle with two crossed bones. She wears black socks and brown boots. Korone can also wear a long blue cape with golden ornaments. She also released her fifth original song "TROUBLE "WAN"DER!."[66]
On 1 October, during her birthday celebration, Korone debuted her eighth 2D costume. Korone has messy hair and a ponytail, she can also use her haircut from her main and seventh 2D costumes hairstyles. Korone wears a yellow jumpsuit with white and black assets. The jumpsuit includes some patches featuring Hosoinu and Listener-san. She wears a white belt. Korone has white sneakers with black heels and yellow straps. Korone can remove the jumpsuit to reveal a black crop top with a pink outline. The top has a print of a white heart inside a square with "YB-2" under it, as well as a vertical zipper in the middle. She also wears matching shorts. Korone also released her sixth original song "Mad POPCORN World!"[67]
On 24 November, Korone debuted the 3D model of her 2D Sonic-themed costume during her concert: "SoniKoro 2024: Korone Gakuen Dream Matsuri".[68] Two free parts of the concert were also streamed on Sonic Movie's YouTube channel.[69][70]
On 27 November, she debuted a ponytail hairstyle for her second 2D costume.[71]
2025
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.[72]
On 12 April, during her 6th anniversary countdown stream, Korone debuted the 3D version of her Sonic-themed costume on her YouTube channel.[73]
On 3 May, to promote "Star Wars Day", Korone along with Noel and Luna debuted Star Wars-themed accessories for their main 2D models, consisting of a brown Jedi cloak and a lightsaber which they can hold. In Korone's case, her lightsaber is blue.[74][75]
On 5 July, hololive GAMERS debuted their group 3D idol costumes during their 2nd "hololive GAMERS fes. Super super super gamers" concert at Saitama Super Arena.[76][77]
On 30 September, Korone debuted her ninth 2D costume. Korone's hairstyle is similar to her main one, but with all the side locks being part of her braided twintails that are tied with small red ribbons. To the side she uses a hockey mask. Korone's outfit is Halloween themed. Korone wears a striped yellow and white tattered T-shirt and blue overalls on top of it with a pocket in the chest that has a print in red that reads "Good Doog." Her socks are red and her sneakers are blue. Korone can also hold a chainsaw or a spiked bat.[78]
On 6 November, Korone's manager announced that Korone would be taking a temporary hiatus from streaming to care for her family.[79]
Discography
- Main page: Inugami Korone/Discography
| SAIKYO TENSAI WANDERFUL WORLD of KORONE | 1st single | 13 April 2021 |
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| MafiosA | 7th single | 2 October 2025 |
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Events
- On 28 January 2020, it was announced on Dengekionline that she would made an appearance in the game Neptunia Virtual Stars as one of the VTuber guest characters alongside Tokino Sora, Roboco, Sakura Miko, Shirakami Fubuki, Minato Aqua, Yuzuki Choco, Shirogane Noel and Houshou Marine.[80]
- On 3 July 2020, Korone announced on her Twitter account that she would appear in a collaboration with CyberStep's online crane game Toreba, where cushions with her image can be obtained, available until units run out.[81]
- On 17 February 2021, Rakugaki Kingdom's Twitter account announced that Korone alongside Fubuki, Shion, Marine, and Okayu would appear in the mobile RPG game by mid March. In addition to this Korone also designed a monster for the crossover event.[82][83]
- On 13 August 2021, hololive's Twitter account announced that 12 members including Korone (representing the SoftBank HAWKS) would participate in a collaboration with the six professional Japanese baseball teams from the Pacific League, each team represented by two hololive members. The collaboration include promotional merchandise that could be brought, including hats, posters, keychains, among others, also a promotional match between ORIX Buffaloes vs SoftBank HAWKS scheduled for 3 October 2021 at the Kyocera Dome Osaka stadium called "hololive day."[84]
- On 24 August 2022, as part of her Sega ambassador project, it was revealed that she would appear in a series of Japan-exclusive bundles in the video game "Sonic Frontiers" to be released on 8 November 2022 as a bonus for preordering four different bundles from specific online retail stores.[85] The first bundle includes a sound pack which changes all the sound effects to her voice.[86] The second bundle includes an acrylic panel of Korone in her Sonic outfit.[87] The third bundle bundle includes a Korone themed skin for Sonic.[88] The fourth bundle includes a Koronesuki skin for the in-game Koco creatures.[89]
- On 20 September 2022, hololive's Japanese Twitter account announced she alongside that Shirakami Fubuki, Ookami Mio, Nekomata Okayu, Usada Pekora, Houshou Marine,Moona Hoshinova, Ayunda Risu, Watson Amelia and Gawr Gura'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.[90][91]
- On 2 December 2022, hololive's Twitter account announced a collaboration with Tobu Zoo, featuring Inugami Korone, Nekomata Okayu, Ookami Mio, Shirakami Fubuki, Usada Pekora, and Shishiro Botan in games, foods, merch. The event would be held from 2 to 29 January 2022. Especially, special birthday cakes to celebrate Pekora birthday would be sold for limited time from 12-22 January 2022.[92]
- On 28 April 2023, hololive's Twitter account announced a collaboration with the Japanese professional baseball team "Yomiuri Giants" in a match on 1 August 2023 at Tokyo Dome, featuring Korone and another eight members participating in various promotionals: announcements, posters, signage in the halls, as well as tickets and merch.[93]
Mascot and fans
Hosoinu sitting on Listener-san.
- Her fanbase is officially called "Koronesuki" (ころねすきー) and is represented on screen as Listener-san (リスナーさん), a bald person with a permanently open mouth. In Japanese streamer fandom terminology, viewers are referred to as "[listeners]," derived from listeners of radio programs. Additionally, "listeners" is seen as a more appropriate term than the Japanese word for viewers (視聴者) when streams are more focused on speaking, singing, or game commentary than what's on screen.
- The Koronesuki design first appeared in a sushi-making game stream, where it was placed on screen to eat the trash sushi made when Korone messed up. Many viewers found the weird decapitated head to be creepy.[94]
- Her fanbase is also occasionally represented by her dog mascots: Hosoinu ("thin dog," a white dog drawn with thin lines) and Futoinu ("chunky dog"), a Snoopy-like white dog with black ears and tail drawn with thick lines.
- Japanese fans often donate 563 yen. This is goroawase, or a number-based pun, read as "Koro-san." Korone didn't pick up on the pun until April 2021 when she was reading super chats after a Dragon Quest stream.
Relationships
- Notable units and groups Korone is a part of are:
- "Dorobo Kensetsu" (泥棒建設), alongside Nekomata Okayu, Takane Lui, Ookami Mio, Shirakami Fubuki and La+ Darknesss.
- "MikKorone," alongside Sakura Miko.
- "OkaKoro," alongside Nekomata Okayu.
- "OKFAMS," alongside Nekomata Okayu, Shirakami Fubuki, Nakiri Ayame, Ookami Mio, and Oozora Subaru.
- "Yakamashi Musume," alongside Houshou Marine, Shirogane Noel, and Yukihana Lamy.
- "MariKoro," alongside Houshou Marine.
- "SMOK," alongside Oozora Subaru, Ookami Mio, and Nekomata Okayu.
Quotes
- "Ohayo~"
- "Wowowowow!"
- "X-Potato!"
- "I am Volkswagen."
- "I am Mercedes Benz."
- "I am BMW."
- "I am everyone’s wife, okay?"
- "Water in the fire, why? Water in the fire, WHY?! ... ah, not understand."
- "No no no!! Three brothers!!!"
- "Have confidence! ... No confidence!"
- "Oh, I'm die. Thank you forever."[95]
- "Secret money, heh heh heh. Thank you."
- "Pi-pe!"
- "I am justice!"
- "I am God Dog."
- (reads comment) "Why is she angry? Oh sorry!" (quickly smiles) "Happy Face!" (giggles) "Happy Dog!"
- "You are lonely! Lonely, lonely, lonely!"
- "Shampoo! (giggle) Shampoo- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!.... soap... soap..."[96]
- "Yubi Yubi!"
Trivia
Name
- "Korone" resembles the Japanese word for "chocolate cornet," a type of sweet bread from Japan, which plays with the fact that she works in a bakery.
- Korone's surname "Inugami," roughly translated as "Dog God" or "Dog Spirit," is a spiritual possession by the spirit of a dog, widely known about in western Japan.
- Her name may also be related to "inukoro," meaning "puppy."
Likes and dislikes
- She has a big collection of retro consoles and games. For her streams, she prefers to play retro games on the platform that they were originally released on instead of modern ports. For example, after deciding to re-play the first Yakuza game after realizing she didn't remember the story, she played the original on the PS2 instead of the Yakuza Kiwami remake.
- This can change depending on external factors. For example, while her playthroughs of Sonic 1-3 & Knuckles were on the Mega Drive and Sonic Adventure 1-2 were on the Dreamcast, she played Sonic Colors Ultimate instead of the original Wii version of Sonic Colors due to it being a sponsored stream.
- Due to the nature of playing on retro consoles, there are occasionally technical issues on start-up when making sure viewers can see what's on screen. Generally, Korone is good at troubleshooting these issues on her own.
- Her favorite game is Ganbare Goemon.
- Her favorite console is the Dreamcast.
- Korone has a notable interest in American popular culture. She is a fan of South Park, Steven Spielberg movies (especially Jurassic Park), Phineas & Ferb, Gravity Falls, Michael Jackson's music, and SpongeBob SquarePants.
- When her background was updated to feel like "her room," other bits of Americana were shown, such as a Blu-ray shelf filled with movies, with Child's Play and The Mask being displayed on stands as collector's items.
- She likely has an intense fear of worms, or certain types of bugs, as suggested in a part of her Metal Slug 3 stream.
- She is a fan of Star Wars character Boba Fett, and has a large collection of Boba Fett merchandise.[97]
Memes
- Korone's catchphrase "yubi yubi" originated from her debut stream, where she thought of the idea of asking viewers for their fingers.
- During the credit-scroll of Korone's stream of Blasphemous, the topic of conversation turned to Expósito; one of the game's most memorable bosses. Wanting to know how to properly pronounce the name using Google Translate, Korone mistakenly pronounced it as "X-Potato". This instance took off and became a widely repeated meme among her fanbase, with the term "X-Potato" sometimes used as a stand-in label for Korone's viewers.
- She was the most frequent target of "Eating Mike Tyson's Ass," a user who donates to various English-illiterate VTubers to prank them into reading his name. Korone has since smartened up to his antics by twisting his name to her own liking on stream, leading to many permutations like "Eating Mike Tyson's Biohazard."
- On 28 August 2020, YouTuber 2ManySnacks posted Eekum Bokum, an animation of Korone saying the phrase of the same name,[98] which eventually led to the phrase becoming a meme. She said this phrase in a livestream from 25 August 2020, in which she, seemingly amused by the phrase, would repeat it whenever it played in Banjo-Kazooie, a 1998 video game originally released for the Nintendo 64, which she was playing in the livestream. The sound is played upon collecting a Mumbo Token.
- On 19 September 2020, 2ManySnacks posted NomNomNom, another animation of Korone, this time featuring various voice clips from her second Banjo-Kazooie livestream. This animation also features the phrase "Eekum Bokum." The animation has also seen a sizable amount of edits, and could be considered a meme in its own right. In spite of the phrase's massive popularity, when she continued her Banjo-Kazooie playthroughs, she had already forgotten how to say "Eekum bokum," leading her to try to say it but in very different ways.
- While Korone has kept various running bits over the years ("orayo" as a gaming battlecry and the stream "ending making time" where Koronesukis meet strange and often untimely ends), she's also dropped ones, even when they've become representative of her to Hololive fandom. (The Japanese Study Time segment where she tries teaching Japanese words to overseas fans, saying "hey guys" to summon overseas fans, "yubi yubi" as a catchphrase).
Miscellaneous
- She has cited on several occasions that her specific breed is the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. This was also backed with her original song "SAIKYO TENSAI WANDERFUL WORLD of KORONE" where she mentions her breed type.
- Korone's designs, both regular and in her anthro "furball" model, don't show obvious resemblances to her breed in real life. However, the non-canon story in the video for "Doggy god's street" directly depicts her as a normal Cavalier King Charles Spaniel that transforms into her regular animal-eared human form thanks to her mysterious owner's rings.
- During her introduction, her height was incorrectly listed as 156 m instead of 156 cm. This has caused her fans to joke about her being a giantess whenever her image is portrayed especially bigger compared to other VTubers in the same video.
- Korone has some knowledge of English (as seen in one of her tweets). Korone is also noted by fans as one of the Japanese-speaking VTubers who's made the most effort to reach out to their English speaking audience, using Google Translate whenever she's at a loss for vocabulary or pronunciation. She treats these interactions as a fun way to gradually learn more English.
- Korone has inspired the term "bonking" within the hololive community. This came after she was playing around with her PNG props and used her mouse cursor, holding a mallet, to bonk Listener-kun and the chat for fun.
- Occasionally during Korone's streams, the screen mirroring software she uses to do live streams (named "AirServer") glitches or times out, causing her model to turn into a giant AirServer icon.[99]
- She has mentioned on stream that her accent comes from a combination of her grandmother's Kansai dialect and an unknown dialect of her parents that has not been revealed. She is working on changing it into a more common one.
- Her accent seems to differ most notably from the inflections of syllables. For example, she pronounces 皆 as MIIN-na rather than the more typical min-NAA.
- Korone is trained in martial arts, specifically boxing. This has led many fans to joke that they should never get on Korone's bad side, especially after she punched her chat (Listener-kun) in the face for obnoxious backseating during one of her Super Mario World streams. Korone has a habit of providing tongue-in-cheek "beatings" of her fans for bad behavior. For Example, she released a short video of Listener-kun being battered and bruised by her while pretending to be a sweetheart. This was in response to the Koronesukis voting her as the one who gave them the hardest time for tossing a dirty rag on their face in a S.M.O.K. collab.
- Korone designed monsters for the Rakugaki Kingdom × hololive event. In said event, she made a monster version of Hosoinu. She created the monster for the game in secret due to a collab ban surrounding hololive at the time.[100]
- Fans have noted that Korone's personality has changed noticeably over time. In many of her earlier streams, and especially in collaborations, she was quieter and more reserved. However, as time passed, she developed more of the open, friendly and energetic personality she is now known for. Korone herself has acknowledged this, and credits hololive's helpful and friendly atmosphere, in particular her close friendship with Okayu.
- According to Kiryu Coco, her daily schedule suggests that she only sleeps about 2-3 hours a day in between working at the bakery and streaming. Fans have expressed concern over her health.
- She shares the same character designer as Civia of hololive China and Shellin Burgundy from NIJISANJI, Kouichi from VirtuaReal, and Yoru Yorumo from Specialite.
- There was an Easter egg in Doom Eternal's DLC "The Ancient Gods: Part 1" that referenced Korone: pressing the dedicated Chainsaw button four times while on the rune slot screen would make a "DOOG Eternal" logo pop-up, a nod to Korone's avid use of the Chainsaw while playing Doom 64 and Doom 2016. Unfortunately, it was removed by id Software in the 3.1 Patch Update, likely due to the "DooG" logo being copyrighted by Cover corp. and hololive Production, thus presenting a legal risk.[101]
- Amane Kanata and she are avid baseball fans and have attended games together. Korone also has baseball games on her tablet, as seen when her game crashed and revealed the menu. In another situation where her phone leaked her app history, she is shown to have a baseball app for the upcoming baseball games.
- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the YouTube AI began automatically placing the "Get the latest information from the CDC about COVID-19" tab on all of Korone's videos, regardless of their topic or context. This even extended to edited and translated clips from her streams uploaded by other YouTubers. It has been speculated to be due to an error in YouTube's AI resulting from Korone's name being similar to the spelling of "Corona" in several different languages.
- Also because of the pandemic, YouTube began pushing more of its moderation work onto AI instead. The YouTube AI began abruptly ending and deleting streams of many VTubers (even without violation of YouTube's Community Guidelines). Korone began posting many positive comments about her love for YouTube in her stream descriptions in an attempt to prevent this for happening. She stopped doing this after her Plug & Play stream.
- Because of the "Korone Virus" incident, some fans have started to adopt this into their usernames for other VTubers to show their support or who their favorite is by replacing Korone's name with another.
- Her search history was leaked accidentally but Korone got permission to stream it later, it contained: Pentatonix, The Rocky Horror Show, top 16 torture methods, slow execution methods and Cut Wound Ouch.[102]
- Korone once broke her ring finger while gaming. The doctor refused to believe that she could have broken just from gaming.[103]
- It would later be found that she was practicing to perform a handspring at the hololive Fes stage performance, which may explain how she actually got the injury.
- Korone is very skilled in improvising in Open Broadcaster Software when display issues happen with her overlays or technical issues keep her from streaming. One particular incident lead to the creation of a "opposite" version of Korone called "Dark Side Korone."[104]
- It took two years after her debut to admit that she normally plays game audio from her speakers instead of using headphones or earphones.
- Korone did a voice cameo for a character in a small segment in episode 94 of the anime Yo-Kai Watch♪, released on 3 March 2023.[105][106]
- She has two pairs of ears: dog ears on the top of her head, and human-like ears on the side. This is different to Nekomata Okayu, who only has one pair of ears.
External links
Media
- Korone Ch. 戌神ころね - YouTube channel
- Inugami Korone's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
- @inugamikorone - Twitter account
- 戌神沁音Official - bilibili channel
Hashtags
- #戌神ころね - General
- #生神もんざえもん - Stream talk
- #生神めんざえもん - Stream talk for membership-only streams
- #ころねすきー, #ごまキング - Fans
- #できたてころね - Fan art
- #ちょこっところね - Video clips
- #戌神ころねMMD - MMD
Further reading
- 戌神ころね - Pixiv Encyclopedia
- 戌神ころね - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
- 戌神ころね - Japanese Wikipedia
- 戌神ころね - unofficial hololive Seesaawiki
- 戌神沁音 - Moegirl Encyclopedia
- 이누가미 코로네 - Namu Wiki
- Inugami Korone - Hololive Fan Wiki
- Inugami Korone at Sonic Wiki Zone
Statistics
- Inugami Korone - Social Blade YouTube stats
- Inugami Korone - Playboard YouTube stats
References
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