Stage 2/Design reference and trivia

Enemy Trivia

This page contains the explanation of each enemy that appears in Stage 2 and Stage 2 (Hard), as well as their origin and how they relate to the talents they are referencing.

## Major Bosses

### Mikodanye

*Main article: Mikodanye*
Mikodanye is a costume mascot created for a cafe collaboration with Sakura Miko.

### A-chan

*Main article: A-chan*
A-chan is a Cover staff, close friend of Tokino Sora and co-founder of what would later become Hololive.

### Harusaki Nodoka

*Main article: Harusaki Nodoka*
Nodoka is a junior staff at Cover who appears on screen as the junior of A-chan.

## Canon Fan Mascots

This category consists of enemies that are directly based on official fan mascot design use by Hololive Talents.

List of canon fan mascot designs: Mio-fa, Onigiryaa, Koronesuki, Sukonbu, SSRBs, 35Ps, Robosa and Reddit-niki.

### Sukonbu

Sukonbu are the fans of Shirakami Fubuki. Their name Sukonbu/Cucorn(すこん部) contain multiple elements with its own meaning, with Suko being a slang for liking something, Kon is the onomatopoeia for Fox sound, and bu(部) is the suffix for clubs. The corn element of their design is due the similar sound of Corn and Kon in Japanese. Their mascot was created by Fubuki herself and comes in two variants, one wearing a light blue scarf meant to represent her Japanese fanbase and the one wearing a dark blue bow representing the foreign fans a.k.a Friends. The design use in-game is the Japanese version with a HoloCure original black variant representing Kurokami fans.

* Fubuki would later create a kemonomimi version meant to be used by her fans which she would commission a Live2D to use once at a joke.
* Sukonbu also has an older design, where it is a human male wearing a non-descript white t-shirt but their heads are replaced with a corn cobs.

### Miofa

    Miofa or Miofams are the fans of Ookami Mio. Their name is a combination of Mio's name and the shorten form of family. Their design was commission by Mio and consist of two variants, a wolf version and a cat version, which is based on her being a wolf-girl and her love for cat.

### Onigiryaa

    Onigiryaa are the fans of Nekomata Okayu. Their name contain the Onigiri which is Okayu favorite food hence they have an Onigiri for their head. Onigiryaa wear prisoner clothes because they're meant to share the sins of their oshi Okayu. Since Okayu sins are their sins, Onigiryaa will have to go to prison in place of her (although Okayu will occasionally join them there).

### Koronesuki

    Koronesuki are the fans of Inugami Korone. Their name is a simple combination of Korone's name and suki(すきー) which means "to like [something]". The actual mascot itself however is called **Listener-san** which is the generic term for an audience (equivalent to the English "Chat") of a Streamer or Radio Personality, which was where the term originated from. The mascot design, like most of Korone's drawing (i.e. Piki Piki Piman,...), was a spur of the moment creation during her famous retro game stream as a form of emotional boost. In this case, the game was a classic Popcap-esque conveyer sushi game and Korone, due to her frustration, wanted to use her viewers (the listeners) to act as a garbage dump for her bad sushi roll hence the large open mouth.

* Korone once did a stream to get her fans to create a new mascot for the Koronesuki only to pick the original design in the end. The most common complaint was that while she like the cuteness of a lot of the design, a Koronesuki mascot can't be too cute or else she can't deck it in the face.

### Soratomo

    Soratomo are the fans of Tokino Sora. Their in-game design is based on Nun-nun (๑╹ᆺ╹), Sora's favourite Emoji turned mascot. It's name came from Sora intentionally cutesy way of saying "Un un". The mascot would later be use to represent the Soratomos.

### Pioneer

Pioneers are fans of AZKi. Their design was created on-stream by AZKi with ideas contributed by her viewers. This design replaced an earlier HoloCure original design (Mic Pioneer) in Version 0.6.

* As per Kay usual speed, the new design was immediately drawn and integrated into the dev build for update Ver 0.6 only a few hours after AZKi ended the drawing stream.

### 35P

    35P are the fans of Sakura Miko. Their name is pronounced Miko-P which is based on Japanese Goroawase pun where certain spelling for 3 (Mi) and 5 (Go) create the sound for Miko. 35 also references Miko's birthday, March 5th. The suffix "-P" is the Japanese shorthand for a producer. Miko gave her fanbase this suffix base on the idea that her fanbase are her producers who suggest ideas and promote her works. Due to the perversion level of both Miko and the 35P, certain section of her fanbase decided to call themselves 45P (*ShikoP*) which means F\*p in Japanese.

* The -P suffix started as affectionate nickname for notable Japanese producers before being popularize first by the *iDOLM@STER* franchise before spreading to the Vocaloid fandom where many of its notable creators use the -P suffix in their name.
* Miko also stated that she is attached to the -pi sound due to it being part of her childhood nickname "Chappi" which she speculated might have influenced her to choose 35P as her fanname.

### Robosa

Robosa are fans of Roboco-san. Their name is derived from the word "Robot Circle" (***Robo**to **Sā**kuru* as it's pronounce in Japanese) which means Robotic Club. Their official English name is Roboser.

### SSRB

SSRB are the fans of Shishiro Botan. Their name is short for *Shishiro Bo-dan*(獅白ぼ団) which a pun based on Botan name and the word *dan*(団) which mean group or troupe.

* SSRBs are the first fan mascot to appear in-game before their associated member.
* During Botan first playthrough of Holo Office, She called the Atomic SSRB a noob (z*ako* ざこ) due to how quickly it died.

### Reddit-niki

Reddit-niki as their name implies is the fan mascot of Hololive Reddit communities particularly r/Hololive. Their appearance being the ( : ^ ) ) emoji face that was popularize by the Quantum Chicken Soup Grass Big Chungus meme image by u/Archdarck which was featured in one of Kiryu Coco's Meme Review. The face being closely link with Coco's Meme review also meant that it is also use as the unofficial mascot for Coco's fandom the Tatsunoko.

* This enemy was introduced in Version 0.5 and only appears in the Hard version of Stage 2 and the regular version of Stage 3.

## Canon Mascot

This category consist of enemies based on mascot associated with a Hololive Talent including fan designs that are acknowledge by the talents themselves.

List of canon mascot designs: Fubu-chun, Soratomo, Kintoki, Miteiru.

### Fubu-chun

Fubu-chun is part of a set of bird-like mascots meant to represent Gamers. The other design includes Mio-chun (Mio), Kayu-chun (Okayu) and Koro-chun (Korone). Chun is the Japanese onomatopoeia for birds. Like all of her mascots, they are designed by Fubuki herself.

### Kintoki

Kintoki is the mascot character of Cover Corp's Miko no Tsutome 3D anime shorts, a series that was created independently of Hololive. When the project was shelved and Miko was transferred into Hololive, the mascot remained as part of Miko's repertoire of characters. Like most of Hololive general mascots, Kintoki rarely appears on stream and only gets featured in backgrounds, on merchandise and on fanarts.

### Miteiru

Miteiru is mascot created by Fubuki after her 2020 Birthday and the outfit reveal that goes along side it. The mascot is based on that new outfit with the bow being a direct reference. Like most of Fubuki's mascot, its name is a verb meaning "to stare" or "watch".

* According to Fubuki, Miteiru are edible.
* This enemy only appears in the Hard version of Stage 2.

### Oruyanke

Oruyanke is one of Fubuki's many many mascots. Like all her mascot, it's name is a pun which in this case means "They're there!" in Japanese Kansai dialect.

* This enemy was introduced in Version 0.5 and only appears in the Hard version of Stage 2 and the regular version of Stage 3.
* The fact that this enemy appeared in both Stage 2 and Stage 3 is a nod to the fact that Fubuki is part of Gamers and JP Gen 1.

## HoloCure Original

This category consist of Enemies that were created by the HoloCure team for the game. This category can include a range from entirely original design to designs that are inspired by other mascots or popular fan interpretation.

List of HoloCure original designs: Hoshiyomi, Pioneers, and HoloStaff.

### Hoshiyomi

Hoshiyomi (星詠み, *Stargazer*) are fans of Hoshimachi Suisei. Their name is based on Suisei's star and comet motif. Suisei refuses to give her Hoshiyomi a cute mascot design, as she doesn't want them to get full of themselves and think of themselves as cute. Therefore (according to Suisei) Hoshiyomi are formless beings eternally looking for a (cute) vessel to form their being like wandering comets. This meant that their in-game design is a HoloCure Original Design with little possibility of being made canon.

* Suisei is one of the few Hololive members to not have any mascots at all. Others includes Anya and the ReGLOSS girls (Ao, Kanade, Ririka, Raden and Hajime).
* After encountering them for the first time after Version 0.5 release, Suisei mention that their design is closer to that of Cometomo (Hoshiyomi old name from her indie days), even naming them HoshiTomo. The moment also prompted fans to speculate that their current formless state is due to Suisei's destroying their old form.

### Mic Pioneer

Pioneers are fans of AZKi. Like Hoshiyomi, their design is entirely original to HoloCure as AZKi did not yet have any mascot to base them on. Their sprite was replaced in Version 0.6 by a new design created by AZKi.

### Holo Staff

Holo Staff are a HoloCure original enemy meant to represent the employees of Cover Corp and its Vtuber agency Hololive Production. Holopro staff doesn't have a general mascot to represent them as a collective although A-chan and later on Harusaki Nodoka fill in this role for the talent management side of Hololive.

* HoloCure's design is likely based on the Hololive Production floor staffs at HoloExpo 2022 who were wearing the same outfit as the sprite.
* Some specific staff members however do have their own unique design which can be roughly divided into two categories:
	+ Staffs given official design to interact with fans or appear in content: Izutsu (Legend of Polka Co-host), Tsuranimizu (former INNK President and AZKi's manager), Harusaki Nodoka (Cover Corp employee), Gorimane (HoloStar EN Senior Manager), Daidou Shinove (former Holostar Manager) and Omegaα (former HoloEN Staff)
	+ Managers who was given a design by their talents: Enma, Jenma, J-Chad (HoloEN Managers); A-chan (HoloPro Staff)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fubuki Unofficial Fansite (2021). Fubuki Mascots.
2. ↑ Shirakami Fubuki (2021/05/26). This is a summary of Sukonbu's appearance (^・ω・^§)ﾉ.
3. ↑ Shirakami Fubuki (2022/05/06). The rough sketches of the Babiniku Sukonbu & Friends that were devised during the broadcast 🦊🌽Everyone is finally here....
4. ↑ Sushi (2022/06/03). Fubuki accidentally becomes Sukonbu when she changes her outfit.
5. ↑ Mio Channel 大神ミオ (2022/04/23). 【復帰】大神ミオです！お久しぶり！【雑談】.
6. ↑ HoloLive etc Cuts (2020/06/11). Nekomata Okayu - Forced Her Sins on Onigirya~.
7. ↑ JShay Translations (ジェイ・シェイ) (2022/05/05). The Reason Why Korone Created the Koronesuki With Huge, Open Mouths.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 JShay Translations (ジェイ・シェイ) (2022/12/31). Korone Chooses a New Design for Her Viewer Mascot, Listener-san.
9. ↑ Takanashi Kiara (2021/09/18). 【HOLOTALK】With our 15th guest:Tokino Sora! , Question Nun-nun.
10. ↑ AZKi Channel (2023/05/14). 【お絵描き】ついに明かされる…！開拓者の姿！？Drawing Stream【ホロライブ / AZKi】.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Kay Yu (2023/05/15). Kaynimatic on r/hololive.
12. ↑ Hect / Hololive Clips (2023/06/12). Miko Named Her Fan Name "35P" And Talks About Its Origin.
13. ↑ Sushi (2021/05/02). Miko accidentally says "Fap-P" 45P【Hololive/Eng sub】.
14. ↑ Yunaユナ Ch (2022/06/22). Miko reveals her at-home nickname which may link to the origin of the 35P name.
15. ↑ Cover Corp. (2022). "Robocosan Birthday Celebration 2022" Robocosan & Roboser Lapel Pin.
16. ↑ VTube Tengoku (2022/09/11). Botan Meets BEEG SSRB and Immediately Calls It a NOOB【Hololive】.
17. ↑ u/Archdarck (2020/09/07). Coco has had it enough of our bullshit!.
18. ↑ Shirakami Fubuki (2019/05/06). Hololive Gamer Chun.
19. ↑ Cover Corp.. 【第一話】おれさまのごしゅじん【みこのつとめっ！】(Miko no Tsutome ep 1). Red Ch.赤.
20. ↑ Fubuki Unofficial Fansite (2021). Fubuki Mascots.
21. ↑ Yunaユナ Ch (2022/07/01). Sui-chan!! Give Hoshiyomis a Mascot too!!.
22. ↑ Yura (2023/03/08). Sui-chan Sees Hoshiyomis In HoloCure But... (Hoshimachi Suisei / Hololive).
23. ↑ VP Ch. (2022/03/27). Haachama Realized That She Knows Staff-San IRL And Can Get Her Number.