Gawr Gura Ch. hololive-EN

Gura Gawr (がうる・ぐら) (birthday: June 20) is a VTuber affiliated with Hololive as part of its first generation of English-speaking VTubers, HoloMyth, alongside Calliope Mori, Amelia Watson, Kiara Takanashi and Ina'nis Ninomae.https://twitter.com/gawrgura/status/1536763492631515137/photo/1
==Content==
Gura's first video was her debut stream, which was uploaded on September 20, 2020. In it, Gura revealed her full name, that her favorite color was blue, that her favorite food was salmon (though it was spelled "salman") and that her biggest fear was "loud stomak". The stream also revealed that her goals were to learn to play the banjo on stream, gain a 3D model so she could play Twister with her genmates and play the scariest horror game with a heart rate monitor. It was her most viewed video, only to be later dethroned by her first original song, REFLECT. After her debut, she uploaded gaming and reacting livestreams. On October 22, 2020 her channel received a Golden Play Button. 
Her earliest videos were of a vastly different nature than her modern ones, as she would often open her streams with random and miscellaneous shark facts, speak with an unusual, made up accent (dubbed "Atlantean" by the fans, though the accent was later dropped) as well as pronounce her name differently - she dubbed herself "Gula" during the first few months of streaming, but would slip into the more common pronouncation "Goora", and as of December 2020, she has normalized using the latter. Gura has also stated that she does not care how you pronounce it, and both are acceptable. 
In her early streams she was notorious for her lack of luck, as she repeatedly died in her first ever Minecraft stream, died early in Among Us and never got to play as the Imposter, and even died in Superliminal thanks to a glitch, despite the fact that it isn't even possible to die in the game.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlJQItn5Z2ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwnnwPTB72ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZ36YG2wcM This has also extended to out of gaming, as when she showed her model to her genmates for the first time, for whatever reason her model render lacked all clothing (later Gura claimed that it was because as an Atlantean, she had no idea that humans were to wear clothes, and joked that if she reached 10 Million subscribers, she would reveal the naked render). During her six-month anniversay stream, Gura would cringe at her own debut. 
Her bad luck streak also extends to those around her, as in a Minecraft stream she accidentally murdered Aqua out of excitement of playing with one of her idols for the first time (that, and Aqua was the one who pulled her down the VTuber rabbit hole), and also killed her pet parrot and Mumei with stray arrows. However, Gura's strength remains in rhythm games, and she has aced Extreme+ levels of Project Diva:Mega Mix while sleep deprived and using a controller she wasn't used to. 
She has also played Among Us, Phasmophobia, Bus Simulator, Jump King, Devil May Cry 3, Among the Sleep, Outlast, Dead by Daylight, Dark Deception, Visage, A Way Out, SOMA, Taiko no Tatsujin, APEX Legends, Ring Fit Adventure, Superliminal, Don't Starve Together, Passpartout, Skyrim, Devil May Cry 4, Devour, Cookie Run: Kingdom, Metroid, Here Comes Niko, Apotheon, Superhot, Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem, West of Loathing, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Bully, Blue Archive, I am Fish, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Vampre Survivors, Apotheon, Grand Theft Auto 5, Project Diva Mega Mix, Scarlet Nexus, Unbeatable: White Label, Monster Hunter Rise and Stray. Most of her gaming livestreams are usually Minecraft Let's Plays and other miscellaneous gaming streams. Her favorite games are Lockstep, Muse Dash, Taiko no Tatsujin, Rhythm Heaven, Borderlands, Skyrim, Minecraft and Resident Evil, though favorite video game in her childhood was Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue. 
She also talks about anime and reads manga to her audience, and read Konosubahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYChcl_6rvs in an hour-long stream. She has cited the anime as one of her favorites. 
Gura streams movies with her viewers such as Die Hard. Befitting to her shark theme, she streams films such as Sharknado, and for her 2021 birthday celebration, she watched Jaws with her audience. 
On the same day, Gura announced her original song, REFLECT, which garnered over 5 million views in the span of one month. The song was praised for Gura's vocal range, as well as her speaking a variety of languages, even opening it by narrating the ancient Greek tragedy of The Trojan Woman.
For Valentine's Day 2022, she held a Valentine's Day Cake Bake stream, where she showed herself to have poor cooking skills. She also held another cooking stream on Halloween 2022, where she, mostly on accident, partially revealed her arms.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diW3LFhYj4E 
==Collaborations==
Most of her earliest collaborations were with Amelia and the two are close friends. Amelia also drew the first ever Gura fanart, and fandom commonly ships the two, with their ship name being "Amesame". This has been encouraged by them both, with Amelia calling Gura "her wife",https://twitter.com/watsonameliaEN/status/1347373242600706050 Gura saying their love will last forever,https://mobile.twitter.com/gawrgura/status/1349521403750572035 singing the same songs about one anotherhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFDkx3ZeH4chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j36SWB7G0hg and in Minecraft, Gura tends to make lewd references and jokes about her, such as adding boobs to her statue and claiming that she "put her seed in Ame's chest" (in context, she was placing flower seeds in Amelia's Minecraft chest). 
Gura sometimes will prank people in Minecraft, such as sniping them with arrows, telling Calliope you can milk horses in-game and setting up a circuit that emitted noises under Kronii's corporation just to annoy her (dubbed "Neighbour Wars"). This often leads to consequences like accidentally dying when she tried to prank Ame or Ina turning her house into winter. 
Gura and Calliope have played World of Darkness, We Were Here Too and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with each other. The two regularly play Minecraft and Super Drink Bros and have also covered KING - Kanaria. 
Gura and Kiara also play The Sims regularly, and Kiara has also praised her for learning Japanese, German and Russian from her rather quickly.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0332Bg022U Gura and Ina'nis have held an anime watchalong of SSSS.DYNAZENON.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMBUJnHSPts Gura, Kiara and Amelia have played Paranormal Cleanup together.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmMWKmxtm2A
Other Hololive VTubers speak of Gura's kindness, such as Ina'nis, who threatened her wrath upon anyone who made Gura cry (the exception being tears of joy). Noel Shirogane stated that she wanted to learn English just to meet her, and that one of her goals was to get Gura to sleep with her. Rushia takes humiliating jokes at her expense to defend Gura, despite usually getting extremely upset at them.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-lidJlPg-M The Japanese branch of Hololive nicknames her "Same-chan", as "same" is the Japanese word for "shark". Gura and Coco met each other for the first time in Minecraft. While they never collaborated (though Gura had hoped to play ARK with her), when Coco graduated she made Gura promise to play ARK with everyone.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLkyzxhEdS4&t=52shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE0yrs3h478
In her and Anya's first Dead by Daylight stream, they had a "cute off", and bonded over their similar small designs and features.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Aju2oxhco&t=777s
On 14 September 2021, during a Super Mario Party collab where Gura was the host, Hololive announced that Marine, Aqua, Gura and Ina'nis would form a new unit "UMISEA", due to their shared oceanic themes, and several videos and streams featuring the unit would be released throughout the month. In the next month, Gura and Shion Murasaki got "married" in a Minecraft stream, with Aqua and Amelia being their supporting bridesmaids. As of Summer 2021, Gura and Shion have been collaborating more in games and song covers.
Mumei and Gura's first interaction was when Gura accidentally killed her with stray arrows in Minecraft, leading to Mumei vowing revenge in spite of Gura's apologies and cleaning up her loot. However the two get along in general and have also reviewed rooms together.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwXUlaluqb0
Fauna was a huge Gura fan pre-Hololive and has said that she likes being "cringe" with Gura. Kiara, Fauna, Gura and Ina'nis have also played Monopoly together.https://twitter.com/takanashikiara/status/1494256022315220992/photo/1 Fauna, Mumei, Kronii and Gura have streamed Wolfquest together.https://twitter.com/nanashimumei_en/status/1577395633240952834/photo/1
Kronii and Gura have played Escape Simulator. 
Baelz has stated that she frequently texts Gura and the two are good friends.
With the debut of HoloX, Hololive's sixth generation, Laplus, Iroha, Gura and Calliope would partake in an English-language learning stream.https://twitter.com/moricalliope/status/1499832687934144512/photo/1
She has participated in the HoloEN/ID/JP Among Us collab, the HoloEN/ID Mario Kart tournament, and the HoloEN Among Us tournament.
==Design==
Her character designer is Amashiro Natsukihttps://twitter.com/amsrntk3, and her modeler is Shin Uimishi.https://twitter.com/Shin_umiushi_o Her chibi model was made by Walfiehttps://twitter.com/walfieee and modelled by 入江燈. Gura's illustrator became famous overnight thanks to her character design of Gura, and went on to illustrate Luto Araka, Kana Kamiko, Naname Gokigen, Akami Karubi, Kona Draki and Detarame-chan.
At 4'7" (141cm), she is the third shortest member of Hololive, after Laplus (139cm) and Luna (140cm).https://youtu.be/dBK0gKW61NU?t=1084
In the HoloMyth anniversary stream, Gura revealed that when her VTuber model was presented to her, she requested that she have an ahoge and shark teeth; the former request was denied.https://www.youtube.com/live/qgMKIdy4qjg?feature=share&t=2403 She was finally given an ahoge during her New Years Kimono outfit reveal.
She occasionally changes the color scheme of her model to a red one, referring to herself as "Gawr" and putting on a more aggressive personality, based off of the character from her song Reflect.
==Lore==
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.https://hololive.hololivepro.com/en/talents/gawr-gura
===Atlantis===
Gura came from Atlantis, a land home to several marine underwater creatures. Culture in Atlantis is vastly different from the culture of our world, as over there people wear little to no clothes, speak Ancient Greek, publicly execute criminals by feeding them to animals in arenas reminiscent of Roman amphitheaters (Gura stated she witnessed a man get eaten by a megalodon once) and has gigantic hermit crabs that like to race. Cuisine of Atlantis is mostly fish and seaweed, but because it has no French fries, Gura lacks any interest in going back to it. 3,000-4,000 years ago, a major conflict regarding seashells broke out.
As of current, Atlantis is in ruins, though she hasn't specified why, and to visit it one would need equipment to combat its high-pressure oceanic water. Laplus claims to have sunk it but Gura hasn't confirmed this, and given how Laplus tends to lie to prop herself up, many have assumed she is lying.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w7wvfE3l-8 
===Gawr===
Gawr is an evil, dark side of Gura's, who's existence was first hinted at in REFLECT, though her first full appearance was in an unarchived karaoke stream streamed on the 17th of August, 2021. In the stream she used petty, ridiculous and over-the-top insults towards Gura and mocked her genmates, as well as the surface world and their inventions, such as chairs and Fortnite. In REFLECT, Gura sang about how she hated her past self for being cruel and overly critical- the past self being Gawr. However this has not stopped Gawr from being verbally abusive regardless, lampooning Gura's accomplishments and success as "pwaying Minecraft".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa4QUzBodOMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-RPg66HLpg
=== Other===
*Gura's species is a "Gura shark". In a Fall Guys streams, it was implied in a joking manner that "Gura" was an acronym for "Giant Underwater Rubber Animal", but later, she stated that despite not knowing what kind of shark she is, she likely is descended from one of the biggest species.
* Her mascot is a shark named Bloop, who has an "emergency rations" tin on his head. Gura has stated that he is her own emergency rations, and has also implied that he was responsible for the bloop.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop Apart from being her mascot, he also is used as a censor bar to hide anything Gura does not want to show. Like her genmates' mascots, he was illustrated by Ina'nis.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGROBEYAV3A 
**Bloop's species is a "shark shark"
*She has stated that she has forgotten her age due to being alive for so long, but has stated in her debut stream that she was 9927 years old and that her birthday is June 20.https://youtu.be/dBK0gKW61NU?t=808
* Her streams tend to have a clapping sound randomly, which Gura has insisted is the sound of her tail thrashing.
*She has flip-flopped on how her species reproduced, stating that she is a live-birth shark who ate her siblings in the womb. However in a Monster Hunter collab with Ina, Gura claims she lays eggs and claimed she came from one, despite earlier discussing her belly button.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgAJ97FyJH0
*Gura has also noted that her skin never gets wrinkly no matter how long she stays in the bath.
*Gura claimed to have 55 teeth.
*Her tail has stitches because it was trapped under a ravine, though the details of the incident have slipped her memory.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG9_A4dtuqw
==Discography==
===REFLECT===
Release date: 22 June 2021
Songs
REFLECT
===Domination! All the World Is an Ocean===
Release date: September 19, 2021
Songs
"Domination! All the World Is an Ocean" (浸食!! 地球全域全おーしゃん, Shinshoku!! Chikyū Zeniki Zen Ocean)
"Domination! All the World Is an Ocean" (instrumental)
===Myth or Treat===
Release date: October 31, 2021
Songs
"Myth or Treat"
===Journey like a Thousand Years===
Release date: January 14, 2022
Songs
"Journey like a Thousand Years" (千年の旅, Sennen no Tabi)
"Journey Like a Thousand Years" (instrumental)
===Q===
Release date: February 3, 2022
Songs
"[Q]"
===It Comes Ryuuu And It goes Kyuuu===
Release date: August 29, 2022
Songs
"It Comes Ryuuu And It goes Kyuuu" (りゅーーっときてきゅーーっ!!!)
"It Comes Ryuuu And It goes Kyuuu" (instrumental)
===Non-Fiction===
Release date: October 1, 2022
Songs
"Non-Fiction"
"Non-Fiction" (instrumental)
===Sweet Appetite===
Release date: February 17, 2023
Songs
"Sweet Appetite"
"Sweet Appetite" (instrumental)
==Hashtags==
*#gawrgura - General / Stream talk
*#gawrt - Fan art
*#chumbuds - Fans
==Quotes==
*(On November 12, 2020) "It's officially Christmas!"
*(while stuck) "Step-brother, help!"
*(about the bot from Dead Space) "Chumbot"
*"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!"
*"Parkour"
*"Domo, same desu"
*"What do you mean?"
*"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?"
*"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."
*"Candy G-string"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQEKqrrxORw
*"I am here and I am hungry"
*"Da-DUN"
*(Before the enemy chucks a rock at her character and kills it) "That's right, what're you gonna do bro?"
*"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."
*"I'll have you know that I have more hours on [Project Diva: Mega Mix] than you have on this Earth."'
*(while covering The Lazy Song - Bruno Mars) "Tomorrow I'll wake up, do some P90X. Meet a really nice girl, have some really nice... tacos."
*"Papers, Please! I mean.. ehem... Hewwo! Papars Pwease! :3"'
*"Speech:A hundred"
*"What do you mean I was slow? Lady, I ran over people for you!"
*"Shapes are hard, man. Geometry! Pythagorean Theorem! A squared plus B squared is C squared."
*"I smack-a you with my baguette."
*"Dearest lady Shion, my love for you burns like an everlasting flame of love. I hope one day we may meet in this block world. Please log in again. I will wait for all eternity. Your hair shines like the brightest moonlight, your smile shines light the sun. Shion... suki, - same.... STOP CALLING ME CRINGE, DAMNIT!"
*"I'm cold, wet, and hungruy."
*"...who just said "k"? I'm gonna go off on that entire little tangent and all you can tell me is "k"? Do you text people like that? Are you one of those people, you pour your heart out, heart and soul out to someone and all you type back is "k"? You ask him something, you're in a really bad predicament, you really need a lift and you're panicking, it's raining, you have no umbrella and all he texts you back is "k"? You're worried about someone, so you take a long time outta your day, and you're worried sick about them and you're constantly asking them "are you okay? Are you okay?" and all they can respond back to you three hours later is "k"? "K"!?"
*"We're fine. It's fine. I got this. Gur-Gura has got this- (dies) ...I need to shuuuut my mooouth! Why am I so cursed?"
*"A love confession? That's cringe"https://youtu.be/vci-RuRSios?t=5673
*"Hello, Ma'am do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior Lightning Mcqueen?"https://youtu.be/vci-RuRSios?t=6215
*"Dear Calli, I'm about to prank call you"https://youtu.be/vci-RuRSios?t=5789
*"Do you like colors? Colors are good"https://youtu.be/vci-RuRSios?t=7120
*"Oh nyo!"
==Fandom==
Gura's fans are called "Chumbuds", but her channel members are referred to as "MemberShrimp". She also calls her fans "Chumbies". 
Even Bandai Namco America are Chumbuds and watched her stream of Taiko no Tatsujin, as are many Japanese comedianshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W_mcwLB_kMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pdFeZ2QgRM. When Gura uploaded a stream of learning Japanese with Duolingo, the offiicial Duolingo YouTube channel commented "💚💚💚💚" underneathhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3phaXN_FjiE.
PewDiePie has appeared in Gura's chat before, and Merryweather Comics praised her song REFLECThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KvowySh354&feature=youtu.behttps://64.media.tumblr.com/85c4ff36446455b6c41de019950af6ce/0a11243a01a82657-57/s500x750/7d2b5a442cd8bdbb6b35fed540c9a0c8eaac7107.jpg. Her cover of KING - Kanaria (ft. Calliope) was praised by Pianominion and Louishttps://64.media.tumblr.com/3fa8747789516008c06dcd86175c8889/566093b42f3a48ab-95/s540x810/816cac2f76982a722dffdf4e756314ce0cf083ea.jpghttps://64.media.tumblr.com/77d7c00b4f75ebbbfd1340d0e45533ec/566093b42f3a48ab-18/s500x750/7d7e51b5cc367c78b0c4be7392360a457ef7041a.jpg.
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===In-jokes/memes===
*"a"
*"shrimp"
*Gura isn't flat, she's "hydrodynamic".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22-hd6ZGC-8
*Gura once wanted to make sandwich but ended up misplacing the loaf. Since then Chumbuds have joked about her "missing bread".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHnF63loOvs
*Her hatred of David King from Dead by Daylight, because every time Gura plays as a Killer she tends to target him and enjoy killing him.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ICO8n4TTrE
*Since her model lacks her being able to show her bottom teeth, Chumbuds joke that she doesn't have any.
*As mentioned before, she repeatedly died in her first ever Minecraft stream (which lasted 3 hours), and the only thing she didn't screw up was opening a door. Because of this, Chumbuds have made a joke that "Door = Progress".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oivPALStPug
*In her and Calli's Papers, please streams, Chumbuds and Deadbeats began referring to the Gulag as the "Gurag".
*Gura has various nicknames:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjAjzrdFV90https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUHW4Dri_ps 
**Fellow VTubers and fans refer to her as Same-chan, Goomba, Apex Predator and City Pop Shark.
**After Gura began swimming around in circles in Minecraft, Chumbuds began calling her "Lost Shark".
**They also call her "Good Shark" whenever she isn't being good.
**When Miko met her at the Usada Kensetsu Summer Festivals, she tried to call her "Jaws", but Gura heard it as "George". Not helped by the fact that Ollie began calling Gura "George-senpai" quickly after.
**Gura is often called a child and because of this, she frequently has to clarify that she is an adult. This has spawned jokes that Gura is a "Gurandma".
** Gura is "Dum" because she wore headgear with the word in an Among Us stream.
** During a meme showcase, someone submitted a version of Gura as a human, dubbed "Gabriella 'Gabbie' Giselle from Atlanta".
**Calliope once called Gura "Grumbus".
*Whenever Gura does something dumb or confusing, Chumbuds spam the emote ":GuraMM:". Gura sometimes reacts with her own face.
*Due to her massive and sudden success, some joke that Gura is speedrunning milestones.
*From Gura learning German from Kiara: "1 2 5".
*"Oh nyo!"
*Gura once tried to say "Chikubi" when she was giving Shion a tour of the EN server but ended up saying "TKB". It has now become slang for nipple in between every Hololive talent.
*In Gura's VR Chat Debut at Kiara's school, she did the middle fingerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m16F--bNZyg.
*Gura's jabs at gaming journalists.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox8OELMGTFkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_idzrPn0A
==Partnerships==
Gura's first solo sponsorship deal was of BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!, and it also created a limited edition item that was themed after her.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owi95Eo1Brwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdjM4ND53IM Gura would vicariously play it in her pre-Hololive days, and happily accepted it. All of HoloMyth were also invited to show sneak peeks of and host livestreams of Princess Connect! Re:Dive.https://twitter.com/gawrgura/status/1344115996932665344/photo/1
On March 12, 2021, to celebrate six months of VTubing, each Holomyth member would get their own official BGM image soundtrack featuring Camellia. The song inspired by Gura was called "Sharkventure". Gura also made an appearance at the anime expo lite 2021 and was featured in a Taco Bell commercial.https://twitter.com/gawrgura/status/1420444695570886658 She was invited to Dokomi 2021 as well alongside her genmates. 
For the Hololive EN x Cookie Run collaboration, Amelia and Gura played Cookie Run Kingdom on stream.https://twitter.com/gawrgura/status/1448581774439759872/photo/1 On November 2, OMOCAT tweeted that they scheduled a collaboration with all of HoloEN.https://twitter.com/_omocat/status/1455323771523510282/photo/1 Later in the year they also released exclusive merchandise based on Gura.https://twitter.com/_omocat/status/1466210508621721608?t=OMrepP81fAUBrbNniAPSVA&s=19 Her original song, REFLECT, was featured in GROOVE COASTER WAI WAI PARTY.https://twitter.com/gawrgura/status/1473971646683828227?t=HPyrIRjsxUtmIyHQSa8biQ&s=19
On December 27, 2021, Tsukumo announced a merchandise deal featuring all of HoloMyth.https://twitter.com/Tsukumo_netshop/status/1475320086823325700?t=OLEUqifxV2gE1Q_9Y4u4hQ&s=19 In the same month, Gura partnered with Groove Coaster, and appeared as a virtual, voiced avatar in-game.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLUL7oOSa8k On January 2, 2022, POP UP PARADE revealed that all of HoloMyth would be receiving their own figurines.https://twitter.com/gsc_kahotan/status/1477452183927160836?t=AqG8MMCdMAEIbfuHAMA6ew&s=19 In the same year Gura would be featured in the game Scarlet Nexus.https://twitter.com/SNX_RS/status/1501518543648530436
On April 26, 2022, Anime Central announced that Gura would make an appearance in their 2022 convention.https://twitter.com/animecentral/status/1518968291741638661 On July 14, 2022, the Aniplus cafe announced a collaboration with hololive that would feature a special menu, accessories, sweaters and other goods based on HoloMyth.https://twitter.com/ANIPLUS_SHOP/status/1547491116248756224?t=10Y56V4y9gEblN2y4RX_zg&s=19 On the same day it was announced that she would appear at the Crunchyroll Expo as a Featured Guest.https://twitter.com/crunchyrollexpo/status/1547302343737229317/photo/1 On July 20, 2022, AliceFiction announced that Gura and Kiara were sponsored to play their game.https://twitter.com/alicefiction_EN/status/1549745942856839168/photo/1
On October 21, 2022, Otaku Lamps released lava lamps based on all five members of Holomyth.https://mobile.twitter.com/otakulamps/status/1583354328584450048/photo/1 On November 27, 2022, CounterSide Global announced the release of their Gawr Gura skin.https://twitter.com/CounterSideGBL/status/1596670141911236609 On November 28, 2022, Smile Base Cafe announced a collaboration with Gura, Ina'nis, Marine, Aqua, Botan, Suisei, Mio, Pekora, Watame, Sora, Mel and Subaru.https://twitter.com/smilebasecafe/status/1597108026208567298 On December 16, 2022, Smile Base announced a partnership with UMISEA.https://twitter.com/y_o_m_y_o_m/status/1603529727305666560/photo/1
==Controversy==
===Membership emotes===
On October 2020, an anonymous artisthttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoSrY_IQQVpmIRZ9Xf-y93g/community?lc=UgytImxR70o2GU_sGId4AaABAg&lb=Ugxryy_Quzogl5LW2ud4AaABCQ made channel membership emotes for Gura. After the stream ended, Gura eventually discovered that the emotes were actually traced from other artists' works. Upon hearing this news, she promptly removed the emotes, promising to be more careful in the future.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoSrY_IQQVpmIRZ9Xf-y93g/community?lb=Ugxryy_Quzogl5LW2ud4AaABCQ
==Personal life==
Gura has a brother.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tOvYBw_swhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8_J15q1lv
===Other jobs===
Having grown up as a farm girl in the South, she loves gardening and wishes to own her own greenhouse.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCvMy4mJzDk
Prior to becoming a VTuber, Gura had signed a contract to work in children's television, which was cancelled over budgetary issues.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Bh8nWXCm8
She used to volunteer at animal shelters to help take care of cats and as of July 20, 2021 Gura has adopted her own cat.
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
*1 million subscribers: October 22, 2020
*2 million subscribers: January 18, 2021
*3 million subscribers: July 3, 2021
*4 million subscribers: June 16, 2022
===Video view milestones=== 
*50 million video views: December 16, 2020
*100 million video views: April 23, 2021
*150 million video views: August 6, 2021
==Further reading==
*Gawr Gura on Wikipedia
*Gawr Gura on Virtual YouTuber Wiki
==Trivia==
 
*Like the rest of HoloEN, her name follows Japanese conventions, meaning Gura is her given name and Gawr her family name.
* Gura's favourite colour is blue.https://youtu.be/dBK0gKW61NU?t=1085
*She enjoys high intensity cardio like walking, biking and running.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l3T8cWuTUA
*Gura used to be very afraid of toilets and sounds of toilets flushing as she feared her clothing being sucked down the drain, and washed her hands in different rooms for the very reason.
*Regarding animals:
**In Minecraft, Gura doesn't get along with dolphins. Some have noticed this is similar to how sharks and dolphins act in real life.
**Also in Minecraft, her horse is named Joergon, which is a reference to PewDiePie.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhJ9YJRXsVw
** Despite being a shark, Gura can't swim without floaties. Her genmates love to poke fun at her over this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FB88HEAW1s
**She has also mentioned wanting a pet tarantula to Kiara.
**Gura doesn't find cockraches scary.
*Her other interests include wild west culture, learning new languages, learning about foods and their history, and singing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PhUgyFISbM
*Despite being considered one of the best of HoloEN when it comes to driving games, Gura has no interest in getting a car license in real life. However, she can change a tire.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBEcEeaUjkc
*Regarding food: 
**She has described pizza, mint ice cream, baby food, McDonald's and salmon (which was spelt "salman" in her debut stream) as her favorite foods, but hates sweet foods, cheese, milk, and dairy products in general.https://youtu.be/dBK0gKW61NU?t=738https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkos8GMAEjEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4DBLfAleA4
**She prefers cake to ice cream, and does not like ice cream cake.
**Whenever she's sick, she thinks of making soup.
*Regarding music:
**She has access to a guitar, electric, bass, ukulele, violin, drums, and banjo. While she can play the ukelele and a bit of guitar, she's still practicing the banjo.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpLVuGPmw6Q
**She is a self taught singer.
**The background music in Gura's streams was originally commissioned as Amelia's. Amelia thought it didn't fit her so she let Gura have it.
*Her favourite flower is the .
* Regarding anime:
**Her favourite anime character is Dante from the Devil May Cry anime.https://youtu.be/EQs_UcPPjaU?t=80https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz2DSRfxKM8
**If she was in an anime she'd rather be an antagonist than a hero, because that's cooler.
*She once mentioned JackSucksAtLife in a deleted scene while streaming on October 4, 2020. 
**She also watches Linus Tech Tips and mentioned wanting to get a Nintendo Switch OLED because Linus himself had recommended it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6gJ_IxZfog
*Gura is somewhat skilled in web design, and knows how to code HTML. She also built her own PC, and added a glass panel on it for her feet.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCKm4WrQA78
*Gura was once held up by airport security since she was mistaken by them as a child.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_dodShpMX4
*Regarding games:
**One of her favourites games Muse Dash. Ironically, Gura would be banned from playing Muse Dash due to it being a Chinese game following the Coco Kiryu Taiwan incident and the stream of her playing it was pulled from the channel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxDBJVC9vfk
**Her favourite Pokemon is Magikarp.
*Gura giggles in her sleep, according to her mother.
*Gura was the fastest member of Hololive to reach 500,000 subscribers, having reached it 13 days after her debut. 
** This record was later broken by IRyS, who reached it after a week of her debut. 
***On 3 December, not a week after her debut, Chloe reached 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, breaking IRyS' record of fastest Hololive member to reach half a million subscribers. 
****Salome Hyakumantenbara would break this in thirteen days after her channel's creation
**Gura is also the first Hololive talent to reach 1 million and 2 million subscribers. On 30 June 2021, Gura's subscriber count on YouTube officially passed that of Kizuna AI's, making her the most subscribed VTuber in the world.
*She hates wearing pants but accepts skirts.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x-rOMWPwag 
*Ever since joining hololive, Gura's sleep schedule has been altered rapidly. She usually sleeps at 6 AM after a long day of streaming.
*Gura has a penchant for making dirty jokes and once joked about putting a Nendoroid of her in a jar.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74B94qoLd6k
*Gura owns a plush of Blue from Blue's Clues.https://youtu.be/JhkECK5AX2o?t=905
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