Coco Ch. 桐生ココ

Coco Kiryu (Japanese: 桐生ココ; born June 17, over 3000 years ago, according to lore) is an American-Japanese former VTuber associated with Hololive, as part of its fourth generation of VTubers alongside Watame Tsunomaki, Towa Tokoyami, Kanata Amane and Luna Himemori.https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4152&v=ezMiRezzaPc
At one point she was the most superchatted channel in all of YouTube.
==Content==
Coco debuted on December 29, 2019, four weeks after the creation of her channel. She is known for her crude and informal way of speaking, excessive cursing, crude humour and dark jokes. The streams after her debut were chatting streams, and the first games she streamed were Stigmatized Propertyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfAksX6WhME, Heave Hohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zbBMkOSqhs and Yakuzahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AUemRO1MzA. 
She also streams Minecraft and Ark a lot, and has also played Fallout 4, Quest Rooms, Monster Hunter Rise, Shadow Corridor, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Superliminal, Among Us, Terraria, Fall Guys, 7 Days to Die, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes and The House on the Hill. She hosts movie watchalongs, and so far has watched 3 Idiots and Hentai Kamenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpKvu5VQpf4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kixEahvWPiI with her Tatsunoko. She has also hosted a cooking stream.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzkpOwxo2ho
On February 17 2020, she reached a million subscribers, and Kanata bought her a Nintendo Switch to celebrate.
===Asacoco Live News===
Kiryu also hosts the satirical Morning News Digest called AsaCoco Live News (あさココLIVEニュース) where she discusses Hololive news, especially regarding her fellow generation members. The show, AsaCoco, shares its name with a drug that she often advertises, which has side effects such as ahagao face, a bigger ass and incoherent babbling. 
== Collaborations ==
When she played the The Raft with Aqua, she comforted her as she vented about the hard life of being a VTuber. She loves Ark to the point she even bought a copy for Roboco and encouraged her fellow VTubers to play it. 
She was the 7th guest of Kiara's show HoloTALK. 
Coco wanted to do a collaboration with Projekt Melody of VShojo, but in later streams, she revealed that the higher ups at Hololive demanded her to never mention her name ever again. This is unusual, as Hololive has been open to collaborating with VTubers from other companies such as Nijisanji - Aqua Minato and Saku Sasaki have collaborated several times. This could be because Melody is a pornstar.
After retirement, she declared Amelia Watson her successor in Meme Review and gave her the Asacoco recipe. Amelia recommended against taking Asacoco and Watson Concoction at the same time. Akai Haato took her place in hosting AsaCoco. Gura once expressed her desire to play ARK with Coco, but Coco made her promise to play it with everyone else.
== Retirement ==
On June 9, 2021, it was announced that Coco would be leaving Hololive, citing feeling unmotivated, constantly negatively comparing herself to others, and feeling burnt out as the reason. Many idols and even the CEO of Hololive, Yagoo, tried to talk her out of it but she had made up her mind.
Even though she was leaving, Kanata said that she would still live with her. She entrusted Kanata to keep her legacy content going during her last month with the agency. Coco's voice can also be heard in some of Kanata's streams, though she is referred to as "Friend-C" (as per one viewer's suggestion) in them.
=== Reactions ===
Coco's news of retiring led to many negative reactions. Many people blamed the Taiwan incident, even though Coco said it was due to lack of motivation. Some people theorized Coco would be working for hololive behind the scenes but she debunked that claim. Even her fellow idols were distressed - Marine considered quitting with her and Shion was so upset she didn't want to follow up her invitation to host meme review.
== Design ==
Her character designer is yaman. Yaman also designed Leto Kamikurai, Yura Rikudou and kson.
She is 5'10.8 (180cm), which makes her the tallest of Hololive.
Her modelers are けっふぃー and Shin.https://twitter.com/Shin_umiushi_O
== Lore ==
A kid dragon who came to Japan from another world as a language exchange student. Holds a deep interest in human culture.
She is a dragon with a strict code of honor, and keeps her human form through sheer force of willpower.https://hololive.hololivepro.com/en/talents/kiryu-coco/
===Other===
*One day, as she was flying, she crashed into the Hololive HQ center, which caused the CEO, Yagoo, to get sent to the hospital, and she became a VTuber in order to make up for it (later, Amelia revealed that in fact, she time travelled back to the time Coco was flying and shot her with a tranquilizer in order to cause the crash). In her episode of HoloTALK, Coco said she left Hololive as she repaid her debt, but may show up again in 500 years or so.
*Coco has a sister, Coco Kaine, a hard drinking party girl who practices sex work and is a founding member of Hololive USA (not to be confused with HoloEN). Coco Kaine is disowned by the family, but she constantly tries to visit Coco.
*Coco runs her own Yakuza mafia.
*She claimed to be 3051 years old at the time of her debut, given that she debuted in 2019, this would mean she was born in 1032 BC
*She was raised in United States of Dragon America (USDA)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxEFEjiAeM4 before moving to Japan.
*Coco's tail can be unplugged.
==Discography==
===Kiseki Musubi===
Release date: 25 June 2021
Songs
"Kiseki Musubi" (キセキ結び, Kiseki knot)
"Kiseki Musubi" (instrumental)
== Controversy ==
===Acknowledging Taiwan===
On September 27, 2020, Coco mentioned "Taiwan" as one of the "Top Countries", in her YouTube channel analytics. The mention of Taiwan sparked fury amongst her viewers who supported the belief of there only being One China, and this caused her a lot of harassment and constant abuse. Her chat would constantly be flooded with nationalistic remarks and abusive language. The incident caused at least one anti to be arrested due to being caught using a VPNhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4IxxTREuR8. As a result Coco, along with Akai Haato (who also mentioned Taiwan) was suspended by Hololive for three weeks, not to punish them, but for the situation to cool downhttps://twitter.com/hololive_En/status/1310226779739623427https://www.reddit.com/r/VirtualYoutubers/comments/j0psqn/cover_just_released_an_statement_regarding_the/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzOYeE3NMGM. 
This incident was even featured on Taiwanese newshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTQPLQ4HFPs&ab_channel=%E7%91%8B%E9%9C%96WeiLin and the Japanese government held a meeting regarding the matterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pa-iWGjHQw. They resumed activities later. Haato blamed herself for the stream but Coco assured her that it wasn't her fault. 
However, this was not enough for the One China nationalists. They demanded that Hololive completely terminate Kiryu Coco and Akai Haato. Hololive refused, cutting all ties with China and dissolving the Hololive China branch, therefore ending the careers of all their Chinese VTubers. 
Due to the aforementioned incident, any and all hololive content has been banned in China - even media that hosts partnerships, such as the game The Witch's House (which has a character voiced by Fubuki), the anime The Detective is already Dead (featuring a cameo of Fubuki and Matsuri) and the anime The Great Jahy-sama will not be defeated (which features Nene singing the outro) has either been banned in China or edited so that the talents do not make any appearance in ithttps://www.reddit.com/r/Hololive/comments/oo26ov/just_found_out_bilibili_didnt_put_matsuri_and/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OzV4QfnwxY. 
==Twitter Hashtags ==
*#桐生ココ - General
*#ココここ - Stream talk
*#たつのこ - Fans
* #みかじ絵 - Fan art
*#あさココLIVE - AsaCoco talk
*#あさココリーク - AsaCoco leaks
*#redditshitreview - Reddit Shitpost Review talk
==Quotes==
*"Good morning, motherf***ers!"
*"Nanto..."
*"KUSA"
*"Nobody can dampen the fighting spirit in my heart. There's no stopping Kiryu Coco."
*"The thing with hard work is, even if you work hard, you may never be recognized. But I was very lucky. You guys recognize me for my hard work. I'm really blessed. I was a really lucky gebokawa dragon"
*"Is that why I sound like a drugged Mickey Mouse?"
*"Paisen!" (her nickname for Hololive members from older generations)
* "Cute dragon noises"
*Those are Redditors"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm764Ro4qSM
==Partnerships==
Her show, AsaCoco, appeared as a parody in the Kaguya-sama:Love Is War mangahttps://www.reddit.com/r/Hololive/comments/guilta/coco_and_pekora_in_the_latest_kaguya_sama/, along with Pekora Usada.
==Fandom==
Her fanbase is officially called "Tatsunoko" (たつのこ).
===In-jokes/memes===
*She is fluent in English due to her half-American heritage. This has led to some calling her and Haato "the original HoloEN".
*Whenever any hololive talent acts insane, it's described as "when the Asacoco kicks in"
*Coco's love of meme culture has led to phrases like "Quantum chicken soup grass big chungus?" (量子チキンスープグラスビックチュングス？) and other terribly translated Japanese-to-English phrases being spammed in her chat, especially after Coco once admitted that badly translated phrases of Japanese severely irk her.
*Despite hololive being an idol agency, Coco acts extremely un-idol-like. Unlike most VTubers, she rarely sings, and only sang once at the Beyond the Stage concert, though in some streams she sang English songs while being entirely drunkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ0sJQC8qkE. The irony of Coco being Hololive's most superchatted VTuber despite all this is not lost on Tatsunoko.
*She is nicknamed "The Dragon". She is also nicknamed "Adidas Dragon" as according to Kanata, in real life her closet consists of Adidas and Adidas only. Coco is also nicknamed "The noseless" because her model seems to lack a nose. Any time she angles herself to show it or she's using her 3D model, fans hype it up as a "nose reveal." Since her favorite game is the Yakuza series, she is nicknamed "Kaichou/ 会長" (chairman), by her Tatsunoko.
*Coco's mangled attempts to sing Kpop in some streams is dubbed "Cocorean". Her mangled Spanish is dubbed "Cocospanol".
*Upon the announcement of her retirement, the Friday Night Funkin' mod "Hololive Funkin'" is announced a special update dedicated to her honor. It features her own week on the mod replacing Mommy Mearest from the base game while singing her favorite Yakuza songs. This announcement is garnered with heartfelt acclaim, as it's a lovely send-off to the idol herself.
==Personal life==
Coco was born and raised in America, and is half-Japanese and American. She currently lives in Japan.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wRJSRfOelQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxEFEjiAeM4
== Channel milestones ==
===Subscriber milestones===
===Video view milestones===
*50 million views: June 21, 2020
*100 million views: January 23, 2021
*150 million views: June 19, 2021
==Trivia==
*Due to her being the most superchatted hololive talent, and the fact that the hashtags #GoodbyeCoco and #桐生ココ卒業LIVE became trending worldwide on Twitter on the date of her retirement, some people consider her the most popular and iconic member in all of Hololive, a little more than Gawr Gura & post-retirement Mano Aloe.
*Kanata's mother once mistook Coco and Kanata as a gay couple.
*Coco was one of the reasons Hololive decided to create an EN branch, and she also had the honor of reviewing the auditions and had a say in who would get hired.
*She used to have an American accent when speaking Japanese, but later it became barely noticeable.
*Coco originally wanted to be a manager at Hololive, but when she applied, she was told she had to be either a manager or a VTuber, so she decided to be a VTuber.
*At one point in 2020, she was the most superchatted YouTuber and earned the most money, and remained one of the most superchatted YouTube channels in 2021.
*She once purchased a bed for $9000.
** Kanata mentioned that sometimes if she has trouble sleeping, she'll sleep in the same bed as Coco.
*Marine dubs Coco's behavior "the Coco Kiryu line" due to how Coco tends to push the envelope in terms of what Hololive deems acceptable. The "line" in this case refers to what Coco can get away with as most of her behavior is generally considered extremely un-idol-like.
*Coco once tried to disable her father's Twitter account because he would keep getting into political fights online and accidentally leaked revealing information about their location, but he kept finding his way back online.
*One of Coco's colleagues recognized her when she was streaminghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FF_snKj4qY.
*She owns a PSPhttps://twitter.com/kiryucoco/status/1379098235243913216/photo/1.
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