Botan Shishiro

**Botan Shishiro**, also known as **Shishiron**, **Adidas Lion**, **Apex Predator**, **La~Lion** and **Botan Mama**, is a Japanese Virtual YouTuber endorsed by *hololive*.

The mind of a lazy house cat in the body of a fearsome white lion. Botan is conscientious and will finish what she has started, but good luck getting her to start. Her favorite phrase is, "Go big or go home!".

In the AWA fics, Botan debuted in the All Worlds Alliance Missions - CROSSOVERDOSE.

## **Appearance**

Botan is a young woman with a tall stature and a fair complexion, she had a slender frame and a moderate bust. She had a wild & messy long silver hair and she had silver-colored eyes, she also sports a pair of lion ears with black piercings on the left side and a long tail with a bushy tip. She wears a golden-colored tribal necklace around the collar region, she wears a black sleeveless high-collared top with a white mesh on the upper chest area, a white single line on the left and three white lines on the right and the top is short that is exposes her belly. She wears a dark-gray pencil skirt with an unzipped line on the right and is held by a strap-like belt, and underneath the skirt is a black thong and a half-leg black pantyhose with several tears on the left side and a black strap with a golden ring wrapped around the upper thigh. She wears a black high-heeled boots with ring-shaped buckles and she wears a loose & baggy black jacket with white-furred collar.

## **Personality**

Botan's cool, mature appearance belies a cheerful and easygoing nature. She appears as very laid back during streams, even through intense gameplay and abrupt chaos. Botan cares deeply for her fellow Generation 5 hololive members, and sometimes acts as a leader for the group.

Botan also has a bit of a mischievous streak—examples include dragging her friends into playing horror games and attempts to eat Tsunomaki Watame. Botan laughs often, even—maybe especially—when she encounters a challenge.

## **Trivia**

* Botan's favorite manga includes Parasyte, Naniwa Kin'yūdō, and Naruto.
* Botan likes building PCs as a hobby and assembled the PC she uses for streams.
	+ Botan was the one who helped Takanashi Kiara with her PC when she had to relocate, disassembling her PC for shipping and advising her to "protect her GPU with her life" due to an ongoing GPU shortage at the time.
* Botan cannot drink alcohol for health reasons, and unlike Lamy, Botan can't eat spicy food.
* Botan enjoys video games, with first-person shooters (FPS) among her favorite genres. In particular, she prefers modern military-themed shooters, such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Rainbow 6: Siege.
* Botan has an interest in ancient Chinese history and can speak Mandarin Chinese on a basic level.
* When throwing grenades in FPS games, Botan often punctuates her throw with a calm or playful utterance of the mimetic *"poi"*. Used as an interjection, *"poi"* suggests tossing an object lightly, easily or without paying much attention, e.g. a ball of wastepaper into a nearby trash bin.
* Botan is supposedly not very good at fighting games and racing games.
* Horror games seemingly don't scare Botan at all, especially if the player character has a gun.
	+ This trait led in part to Botan's recurring "horror date" collaboration live streams with fellow fifth-generation hololive member Yukihana Lamy. Botan's indifference to most horror-game scares plays against Lamy's susceptibility to them, with Botan gently teasing Lamy throughout once Botan determines what about the game provokes the most energetic response from her partner.
	+ Resident Evil Village, a game that has managed to scare many, only managed to startle her once, when she was playing through the game again on a higher difficulty and she ran into an enemy who wasn't there on the first playthrough.
* Botan from time to time struggles in games when luck is involved or even being a major factor.
	+ When playing Fall Guys for the first time, Botan failed in guessing passable obstacles three times in a row, leading to her elimination.
	+ Botan often hit pities in gacha games or got the wrong card when a super rare comes.
	+ Botan tried to breed blue Axolotl in Minecraft but still to no avail after getting 2000+ with other colors.
	+ When playing blackjack from the Nintendo's 51 Worldwide Games with Usada Pekora, Botan was ranked the lowest at -200 points after losing scores in three consecutive rounds. Later in another collaboration with Oozora Subaru, Yuzuki Choco and Himemori Luna, she played this again and got a further lower -300 points, won a 2nd place only because Subaru and Choco had worse luck.
* Botan has some video editing skills, as demonstrated by the introduction in her debut stream, which was made by herself.
* Botan has a large Russian-speaking fanbase. This is possibly due to her outfit's resemblance to an Adidas tracksuit typically worn by *gopniks*.
* Botan is the fifteenth hololive member to join the official hololive Subreddit as a moderator.
* Botan is known for "attracting" rainy weather in her Minecraft streams, leading to viewers calling her Rain Girl (Ameonna, a Japanese yōkai associated with raining).
* Botan is known for using shopping cart in acrobatic motorcycle game Trial Rising, which is referenced in one episode of the holo no Graffiti. Ironically, she occasionally struggles to drive when switching back to normal bikes.
	+ Botan is known for making very ridiculous rides in theme park building game Planet Coaster, with rollercoasters inducing extremely high g-force on tourists being a common sight. The known highest g-force currently recorded on her rides is 96G.
	+ Botan has jokingly threatened to put her fans for a ride on the high g rollercoaster after she found 9.2% of them have moderate feeling for her in a Twitter poll, this has become a joke among SSRB that misbehaving or not liking Botan could earn a ticket for the ride as punishment.
* Botan is the organizer of the UsaKen Summer Fes, the second largest event in hololive Minecraft server after the Sport Festival, attended by 31 hololive members from all three hololive branches.
* In a collaboration stream with Takane Lui, Botan named Usada Pekora as the hololive member she would like to have as a younger sister. Coincidentaly, all three of them are the youngest sisters in their respective real life families.
	+ Botan's choice for "hololive member she would like to have as an elder sister" is Himemori Luna.

## **External Links**

* Shishiro Botan at Virtual YouTuber Wiki