Kiara Takanashi

Kiara Takanashi, also known as Frogiwawa, Kiwawa, Kusotori, Tenchou and Wawa, is a Japanese Virtual YouTuber endorsed by hololive.
== Charactah Account ==
Kiara Takanashi is an idol whose dream is to become the owner of a fast food chain. Kiara is a phoenix, not a chicken or turkey (which is very important). She burns brightly, working herself to the bone since she'll just be reborn from her ashes anyway.
Kiara is enthusiastic, energetic, passionate, and friendly, and is open with her feelings. She cares strongly for her friends and family, and misses them a great deal while she is abroad. She has seemingly no trouble holding a conversation with other talents, both within and outside of hololive. Kiara has no problem taking the lead in collaborations, and performing as host whenever the situation calls for it. Her energetic personality is also prevalent in her original songs, most notably SPARKS and HINOTORI, as they both have fast-paced beats and lyrics that feature an encouraging and positive message. Although energetic and sometimes chaotic in nature, and eager to collab with other members, she is secretly quite shy. She is sometimes bird-brained, being forgetful or having a short attention span. She prefers video games with fixed goals, such as RPGs, rather than open-world games like Minecraft.
Kiara is very fond of her genmates, and regularly mentions and commends them for their hard work, both on-stream and on social media. While her relationship with Mori Calliope may be described as flirtatious in nature, their interactions continue to reinforce the trust and comradely spirit between the two. Her fanbase is no different, as the KFP have regularly been subjects of her gratitude for their support, while also playfully experiencing her frustration by getting sent to "The Usual Room". 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Heart Challenger
* Holo no Graffiti
* Hololive Alternative
* Nezumi Scheme
* Seishun Archive
* Watame Did Borderline Nothing Wrong
=== Video Games ===
* Valkyrie Connect
== Trivia ==
* Kiara is a phoenix, a mythical fire bird creature who revives if killed.
* In her introduction, Kiara's backstory stated that she would be reborn in a different dimension every time she dies. However, on 10 December 2020 during her "re-debut" stream, Kiara claimed to have mastered revival, as she was reborn again in the same dimension, which is fine by her as long as Calli is there.
* Kiara's belt can turn her back into her phoenix form; as such, she is prohibited from using it.
* Kiara's hair can ignite when she's angry. In school, she would handle this by running to the bathroom and dunking her head in the toilet. She can control this better as an adult. Her belt helps prevent this from happening.
** Kiara has €500,000 in debt from unpaid fines for accidentally setting off fire alarms. Despite this, she managed to secure investment to launch KFP by just not telling anyone.
* In her previous lives, Kiara has held many jobs, including a shrine maiden, an idol, a race car driver, an air hostess, a personal trainer, and a warrior.
* Once, in a previous life, Kiara died after being hit by a train.
* Kiara's blue feather "earrings" are in fact not earrings, but feathers which come from behind her ears. However, she also has a small blue stud piercing in her left ear.
** Kiara's ear feathers are phoenix down, which can revive the dead. During an off-collab with Kobo Kanaeru in 2023, Kiara admitted that she had used up her phoenix down, and had to wait for them to regrow. In the meantime, she has been wearing fake phoenix feather earrings that she bought on Amazon.
* According to her introduction video, Kiara was born in a time before humans lived on Earth. This makes her potentially the oldest hololive member at the time of her debut, at least several hundred thousand to several million years old depending on the definition of "human" in the evolutionary tree.
** Potentially older members include Ceres Fauna (4.54 billion years old), Tsukumo Sana (13.8 billion years old), Ouro Kronii (infinity), and Mori Calliope (who is the personification of an abstract concept and has no date of birth).
** However, as Kiara is technically reborn every few centuries, it could be argued that Kiara was only born relatively recently.
** Following her re-debut on 10 December 2020 JST, Kiara officially died and was reborn, technically making her the youngest hololive member at age 0. Himemori Luna was arguably joint youngest at age 0, but she would still be older than Kiara by two months until Luna's next 0th birthday of 10 October 2021.
* Phoenixes live longer than humans. In Kiara's April 1st stream, Come closer and listen, youngling..., a grandma Kiara (nicknamed Kibaba) had lived for over 3,000 years. hololive had closed down by this point after being shut down by a mysterious organization.
** Predictions made by Kibaba included hololive Myth meeting in Japan (her favorite memory) and wearing matching pajamas (Kiara's idea), her original album, a holomyth concert featuring a very emotional slow version of Journey of a Thousand Years, and a Kiara solo live concert.
** Future Kibaba has a second house for her 231 cats, including a new cat named Bonkers and an alien cat from Mars. Ina is still alive in this timeline and lives near Kiara, who cooks her food so she doesn't just eat cup noodle and sleep on the floor. Ame became part of hololive management before returning to time travel and hang out with aliens. Gura looks more grown-up and became president of Atlantis. Calli left Hell and became an angel instead. Yagoo commutes between Heaven and Hell because he's looking for someone in particular. Kiara saved Jenma's life by giving her one of her phoenix feathers. Twitter still exists in the future after KFP bought it out and changed the blue bird logo into an orange Kotori, but rivals Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram have shut down. The EN Curse is still active, but nobody ever found the cause.
* Kiara's cats are also phoenix cats.
* Kiara, as a phoenix who is continuously reborn, always meets Calliope each time she dies. However, it is not within Calliope's power to keep a phoenix in the Underworld.
* Kiara is the CEO of a fast food franchise called Kiara Fried Phoenix, or KFP for short.
* Kiara's employees are chickens. After a year, they are fried and served to customers. Kiara assures employees that the company's products are made with vegan chicken, and missing employees have merely been transferred to another branch.
** After they are cooked, Kiara is able to return to life in a form similar to Kiara's mascot, Kotori.
** Employees may choose their own salary, but they pay their salary to Kiara, instead of the other way around. Other employee benefits include German lessons, unlimited chicken nuggets for life, and Kiara will beat up anyone you have a beef with.
** Employees are various sizes, with some small enough for Kiara to hold them in her hands. The largest employee on record is 69 metres (226 feet) tall, and is tasked with stomping rival fast food restaurants to the ground.
* Kiara is known by the title tenchou, "store manager." Since KFP expanded from a single store to a franchise, her title should technically be shachou, company president; however, she still goes by "tenchou."
* On 17 September 2020, Kiara announced the menu for KFP. It included the Phoenix Burger (chicken meat, salad, pineapple, BBQ sauce, onions, tomato, bacon, and mozzarella cheese); and the Yagoo Burger (two beef patties, salad, pickles, egg, cheddar cheese, secret seiso sauce, and onion rings). Fans subsequently actually made both burgers.
** On 3 April 2022, KFP revealed and updated menu. It included the new Kotori Burger, consisting of crispy fried chicken patty, lettuce, tomato x2, bacon, optional cheddar sauce, and a mayonnaise base sauce.
* Kiara uses the hashtags #WOKE and #YOLK. As established during the Fire Emblem streams, these stand for Watch Only Kiara Everyday, and You Only Love Kiara. The history of #WOKE #YOLK was later detailed in the 2022 video 【KFP 101】Ep. 03: #WOKE #YOLK.
* Kiara denies that KFP is a cult.
* Kiara often threatens to send misbehaving employees to a place called the Usual Room. The Usual Room contains a jigsaw with one piece missing, screens which play Kiara music videos 24/7, and pro-KFP propaganda for "re-education". The floor is covered in Lego.
** Someone once found the missing jigsaw piece and gave it to Kiara. She promptly destroyed it to maintain the status quo.
** Each Usual Room is unique to the individual employee.
* The notion that KFP employees are all chickens was popularized after a Minecraft prank by Gawr Gura on 15 November 2020, where Kiara filled the back room of Kiara's KFP building with chickens. On 17 November, Ina was checking on the chickens when a creeper exploded in the KFP building, releasing the chickens. Ina attempted to return them to the room by staging a new employee orientation event. Kiara found out three days later and "fired" Ina for killing chicken employees.
* Kiara's office at KFP headquarters appears in her superchat (tangent) reading streams.
** Features of the office include Kiara's spare uniforms, a "Best Boss" mug, a Kotori mug, all five holomyth plushies, a Holotalk poster, VHS tapes of previous Holotalk episodes, vinyl singles of Kiara's original songs and covers, a fishbowl with Kiara's "am frog" by Mamaloni, a "menu ideas" board, TV screens showing Kiara's music videos and her original 2020 stream intro animation, a mousehole for Casper, books titled "How to Run a Business" and "How to Run a Cult for Dummies", Usual Room release forms (stamped "DENIED"), Kiara's sword, her cats Smoothie and Chonkers, a picture of the first Smol Myth collab, and framed pictures of Kiara with her oshi Pekora, O'Riends, Holobirbs, and holoMyth (labeled "FAMILY").
** The office changes with the seasons. In spring, it has cherry blossom petals falling outside. A KFP employee can occasionally be seen throwing the petals.
* All branches of KFP have ramps. This is partly for wheelchair accessibility, but also because it's fun to Naruto-run down the ramps.
* The chicken KFP employee who serves as DJ on Kiara's stage scene is named D. Chicken.
* Kiara likes fast food, adventures and hats. Kiara insists that fast food is healthy, and chicken in particular is very healthy. She claims to eat 53 pieces of chicken per day.
* Kiara's hobbies include singing, drawing, eating and fighting.
* Kiara dislikes scary stuff and one-sided feelings (see Takamori).
* Kiara's favorite senior member is Usada Pekora. Pekora noticed Kiara on her introduction stream, leaving her speechless. Kiara has watched every one of Pekora's archived streams. One of Kiara's objectives is to collab with the Japanese members, but especially Pekora. Her collab with Pekora finally happened on 27 November 2020, in which Pekora took Kiara for a tour on the Japanese branch Minecraft server.
* Kiara's favorite games include the Tales of series, Atelier series, Arknights, Super Mario games and The Legend of Zelda.
* As revealed during Kiara's "Karaoke till 500k subs!!!" stream her favorite anime is Bakemonogatari. Her second is A Certain Scientific Railgun, and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is in her top five. Her other favorite anime include A Certain Magical Index, Nichijou, Working!!, Minami-ke, Steins;Gate, Kannagi and Re:Zero.
* Kiara's goals are to open a fast food restaurant, release original music, for people to make fanart or cosplay of her, collaborations with games, anime or conventions among others.
** As of 2023, Kiara achieved all these goals, including a KFP pop-up shop at an event.
* Kiara doesn't drink.
** This is referenced in the lyrics to Kiara's song Fever Night: "I don't need no drinks tonight / Gimme that beat, get me dancing".
* Kiara's favorite chocolate brands are Ritter Sport, Milka, Mikado, and Kinder.
* Kiara's favorite German word is "oida," an Austrian slang word meaning "dude" or "hey".
* Kiara's favorite hobbies are ice skating, swimming, and skiing.
* Kiara is multilingual, speaking English, Japanese, German (native speaker), and "Bird." As of early 2022 she is also learning Korean. She has stated that her English is not perfect, and has corrected Mori Calliope's Japanese. She has also promised to do some Japanese only streams. She shares languages with the Evangelion character Asuka Langley Soryu, a Japanese-American who also speaks English, Japanese and German.
** Kiara revealed that "bird" language is actually a pun that only works in Japanese. The Japanese for "trilingual", begins with "tori," meaning "bird."
* Kiara is from Austria, a small German-speaking country in Europe.
** As a running gag, Kiara would claim to be from "Australia" and wink. In January 2022, she ended the "Australia" joke, partly because many viewers incorrectly believed she was actually from Australia. The history of the Australia meme is detailed in the video 【KFP 101】Ep. 01: AUSTRALIA.
* Kiara's birthday, 6 July, is National Fried Chicken Day in the United States.
* Kiara's loading screen, introduction video and narration were made by Mori Calliope, while Kiara made the art. An alternate version of the intro video was later released with narration by Kiara.
* Kiara is the third hololive EN member and ninth hololive member overall to join official Hololive Subreddit as a moderator.
* Kiara's catchphrase is "kikkerikii!". It is the german onomatopoeia for the cry of a rooster, but according to Kiara it is the sound made by a phoenix. Mori Calliope drew Kiara as a chicken saying "kicky ricky or whatever."
** Kiara's ending catchphrase is "Auf wiedersehen," a German farewell phrase.
** When thanking donators, Kiara says "danke schön," German for "thank you very much." She also uses "vielen dank," German for "many thanks." which viewers misheard as "feelin' dank." In bird language, "thank you" is translated as "pipipi".
* Kiara is the first hololive member ever to have her channel terminated and then restored.
* Kiara is left handed. Despite this, she is usually depicted wielding her sword in her right hand.
* Kiara suffers from asthma.
* Kiara originally learned of hololive when she discovered Shirakami Fubuki.
* Kiara mentioned that she has a sister who is aware of her VTuber activities as after Kiara played The Sims 4 on stream, her sister sent her a meme about her.
* Kiara uploaded her first meme video on 3 January 2021, even though she said once that she isn't the type to make these kind of videos.
* Kiara is currently the hololive English member with the most collabs due to her good Japanese speaking skills.
* Kiara was both the last guest of Reddit Shitpost Review with Kiryu Coco as the host, and the first guest with Akai Haato as the host.
* Kiara is particularly fond of rickrolling, a prank in which one tricks someone else into watching or singing Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up.
** Kiara tricked Gura into singing the song in Japanese during a lesson stream, and did the same again in German during a German language stream. She tricked her entire audience when she "released" her cover of Kanaria's "KING", five of which included fellow members Kureiji Ollie, Anya Melfissa, Momosuzu Nene, Moona Hoshinova and Ayunda Risu falling victims of said tweet as well.
* The chicken drumsticks which Kiara sometimes holds are plastic props, not real food.
* Kiara has two cats, which she calls Chonkers and Smoothie. Fanartists have depicted one as orange and the other mint or teal green, like Kiara's feathers, which Kiara declared canon in a Superchat reading. Kiara added them to her family in Sims 4, with Chonkers the orange cat and Smoothie the green cat.
** In April 2022, Kiara got a grey pet raccoon (tanuki) named Bonkers. Bonkers appeared on Kiara's Easter egg painting stream on 17 April 2022, where she was mistaken by some viewers for a cat after jumping on the table. However, Kiara's cats are orange and green. Fanart of Bonkers appeared almost immediately.
* Although Kiara's art hashtag was originally #artsofashes (i.e. arts plural), fans often misspelled it #artofashes. The hashtag was later changed to #KFPicasso due to spam.
* Kiara hates the font Comic Sans.
* At Kiara's old apartment building, a bulk packet of Ritter Sport chocolate was eaten by a mouse, who she named Casper. A mousehole for Casper later appeared in her KFP office background. The story of Casper was recorded in 【KFP 101】Ep. 02: Casper.
* After winning at Mario Kart, Kiara declared she had been "making kfp proud since 9000 BCE," implying that she has been a kart racer for over 11,000 years. The earliest known archaeological evidence for wheeled vehicles appears in the Halaf culture of 6500 to 5100 BCE, found at a site which also featured stonework depicting a winged humanoid goddess around the 10th century BC.
* Kiara frequently goes off on tangents during her superchat reading streams, effectively turning them into "zatsudan" or "Just Chatting" streams.
* For her birthday in 2022, Kiara was awarded a Highland Title making her a Lady of Kilnaish and Glencoe. She subsequently began to be referred to as Lady Kiara.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Takanashi Kiara at Virtual YouTuber Wiki
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