Korone Inugami

Korone Inugami, also known as Koro-san, Korogi-senpai, Koronen, Kotaro Inugami, Doggo, DOOG, God Dog and Rap Dog, is a Japanese Virtual YouTuber endorsed by hololive.
== Charactah Account ==
The dog from a random bakery, Korone likes to play games when she has free time while watchdogging.
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.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Doggy God's Street
* Holo no Graffiti
* Hololive Alternative
* Hololive Summer 2022
=== Video Games ===
* Neptunia Virtual Stars
* Rakugaki Kingdom
* Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble
== Trivia ==
* "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.
* Korone 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, Korone 's 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.
* Korone 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.
** Korone's accent seems to differ most notably from the inflections of syllables. For example, she pronounces 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.
* 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, Korone's 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.
* Korone shares the same character designer with Civia of hololive China and Shellin Burgundy from Nijisanji.
* 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 Korone's background was updated to feel like "her room," other bits of Americana were shown, such as a oversized baseball and a Blu-ray shelf filled with movies, with Child's Play and The Mask being displayed on stands as collector's items.
* 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.
* Amane Kanata and her 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Korone 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, 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.
* Korone likely has an intense fear of worms, or certain types of bugs, as suggested in a part of her Metal Slug 3 stream.
* Korone's 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.
* As of 1 November 2020, Inugami Korone is the second hololive VTuber to reach 1 million subscribers, the first being Gawr Gura.
* Korone once broke her ring finger while gaming. The doctor refused to believe that she could have broken just from gaming.
* Korone 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.
* 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."
* It took two years after her debut to admit that she normally plays game audio from her speakers instead of using headphones or earphones.
* 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).
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== External Links ==
* Inugami Korone at Virtual YouTuber Wiki
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