Hololive
Native name | ホロライブプロダクション |
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Industry |
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Founder | Motoaki "YAGOO" Tanigo |
Headquarters | Japan |
Key people | Motoaki Tanigo (CEO) |
Products | Tokino Sora |
Brands | Hololive Holostars INNK Music Hololive CN Hololive ID |
Owner | Cover Corp |
Website | en |
Hololive Production (ホロライブプロダクション) or simply Hololive (ホロライブ) is a virtual youtuber agency under the management of Cover corp. Notable Vtubers under their management include Shirakami Fubuki, Tokino Sora and Minato Aqua. Overall, they amass around 9.5 million subscribers on youtube with 37 channels and another 1 million on bilibili as of July 2020.[1]
History
When Kizuna AI debuted on Youtube on December 2016, she started the trend of a new type of YouTuber (バーチャルユーチューバー, bācharu yūchūbā) or Vtuber (ブイチューバー, buichūbā) for short which are youtuber who used an anime-style avatar (which can be 3D, Live2D or even a static image) to interact with the audience while also performing other youtuber activities such as streaming games, singing or having live chats. As of 2019, there are over 9000 Vtubers channels on Youtube alone.[2] According to Hololive CEO Motoaki Tanigo, Vtubers like Kizuna Ai who started early have more opportunity to acquire funds and build up the infrastructure themselves especially one with corporate backing (Activ8 in the case of Kizuna Ai). Cover corp and their Hololive division was created to support "newcomer" by providing them with basic gears such as a Live2D avatar as well as an IPhone X with its advance face tracking capability allowing the Vtuber to stream from their home instead of needing to rely on more cumbersome equipment such as 3D motion tracker. Hololive also recruits talents who already have experience in streaming on youtube or Niconico Douga.[3] An example of this is Vtubers Hoshimachi Suisei who started as a independent Vtubers but was later recruited into Hololive and was given a new 2D models and 3D models. Hololive debuted their first Vtuber Tokino Sora on September 17th 2017 and by July 2020 have debuted 48 Vtubers including 37 female Vtubers (28 Japanese, 6 Chinese, 3 Indonesian) and 11 male Vtubers.[4] Hololive began auditioning for English speaking Vtubers on April 24th 2020.[5]
Talents
Hololive vtuber are organized into several major groups starting with the Hololive brand and later includes the all male Holostars, the music focus INoNaKa MUSIC(INNK) as well foreign language groups Hololive ID (Indonesia) and Hololive CN (China). In general Hololive classified the Vtuber in each branch based on their "Generation" which indicates the general periods when they were recruited.
Hololive
Hololive affiliated talents (0th Gen)
Unlike the other gen, 0th gen consist of talents that debuted independently of each others including those that were brought under the Hololive brand after they debuted.
- Tokino Sora (debuted 17 September 2017)
- Roboco (debuted 3 March 2018)
- Sakura Miko (debuted 1 August 2018 directly under Cover, transferred under Hololive on 25 December 2018)
- Hoshimachi Suisei (debuted 22 March 2018 as an independent Vtuber, joined INNK on 19 May 2019 and transferred to Hololive on 1 December, 2019)
Hololive 1st Gen
- Yozora Mel (debuted 13 May 2018)
- Aki Rosenthal (debuted 1 June 2018)
- Natsuiro Matsuri (debuted 1 June 2018)
- Shirakami Fubuki (debuted 1 June 2018) - Is also the nominal leader of Hololive Gamers
- Akai Haato (debuted 2 June 2018)
Hololive 2nd Gen
- Minato Aqua (debuted 8 August 2018)
- Murasaki Shion (debuted 17 August 2018)
- Nakiri Ayame (debuted 3 September 2018)
- Yuzuki Choco (debuted 4 September 2018)
- Oozora Subaru (debuted 16 September 2018)
Hololive Gamers
- Ookami Mio (debuted 7 December 2018)
- Nekomata Okayu (debuted 6 April 2019)
- Inugami Korone (debuted 13 April 2019)
Hololive 3rd Gen (Hololive Fantasy)
- Usada Pekora (debuted 17 July 2019)
- Uruha Rushia (debuted 18 July 2019)
- Shiranui Flare (debuted 7 August 2019)
- Shirogane Noel (debuted 8 August 2019)
- Houshou Marine (debuted 11 August 2019)
Hololive 4th Gen
- Amane Kanata (debuted 27 December 2019)
- Kiryu Coco (debuted 28 December 2019)
- Tsunomaki Watame (debuted 29 December 2019)
- Tokoyami Towa (debuted 3 January 2020)
- Himemori Luna (debuted 4 January 2020)
INoNaKa MUSIC
- AZKi (debuted 15 November 2018)
Holostars
Generation 1
- Hanasaki Miyabi (debuted 8 June 2018)
- Kagami Kira (debuted 9 June 2018)
- Kanade Izuru (debuted 22 June 2018)
- Arurandeisu (debuted 08 September 2018)
- Rikka (debuted 20 October 2018)
Generation 2: SunTempo
- Astel Leda (debuted 7 December 2019)
- Kishido Temma (debuted 14 December 2019)
- Yukoku Roberu (debuted 24 December 2019)
Generation 3: TriNero
- Tsukishita Kaoru (debuted 29 April 2020)
- Kageyama Shien (debuted 30 April 2020)
- Aragami Oga (debuted 1 May 2020)
Hololive CN
The chinese branch of Hololive, they stream almost exclusively on bilibili.
Generation 1
- Yogiri (debuted 28 September 2019)
- Civia (debuted 2 December 2019)
- Spade Echo (debuted 30 January 2020)
Generation 2
- Doris (debuted 3 April 2020)
- Rosalyn (debuted 5 April 2020)
- Artia (debuted 11 April 2020)
Hololive ID
The indonesian branch and de facto english branch of Hololive
- Ayunda Risu (debuted 10 April 2020)
- Moona Hoshinova (debuted 11 April 2020)
- Airani Iofifteen (debuted 12 April 2020)
Discography
Official Songs
No. | Song name | Member | Release date |
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1 | Shiny Smily Story | hololive IDOL PROJECT [lower-alpha 1] | 2019-9-16[6] |
2 | Yumemiru Sora He | hololive IDOL PROJECT[lower-alpha 2] | 2019-9-17[6][7] |
3 | Kirameki Rider☆ | hololive IDOL PROJECT[lower-alpha 3] | 2019-9-24[6][7] |
Individual Artists
Tokino Sora[8]
No. | Name | Release Date | Note |
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1st | Hurray Hurray LOVE | 2019-10-07 | |
2nd | Aozora Symphony | 2020-05-15 | Birthday song/Limited release |
No. | Name | Release Date | Standard Product Number | Song list | Peak Oricon ranking | |
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Standard Edition | Limited Edition | |||||
1st | Dreaming! | 2019-03-27 | VICL-65163 | VIZL-1558 |
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12th place |
2nd | My Loving | 2020-03-04 | VICL-65329 | VIZL-1732 |
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16th place |
Hoshimachi Suisei
No. | Song name | Release date |
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1 | NEXT COLOR PLANET | 2020-03-22[6] |
AZKi
No. | Name | Label | Release Date | Note |
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1 | Creating World | AZKi FRONTiER | 2018-12-28 | |
2 | Real Melancholy | 2019-01-30 | ||
3 | Felicia | 2019-02-25 | ||
4 | I can't control myself | 2019-02-28 | ||
5 | Hikari no Machi | 2019-03-25 | ||
6 | Starry Regrets | 2019-03-28 | ||
7 | Fake.Fake.Fake | 2019-4-30 | ||
8 | Inochi | |||
9 | Sit Days | INoNaKa MUSIC | 2019-05-31 | |
10 | Sayonara Hero | 2019-06-30 | ||
11 | from A to Z | 2019-07-01 | ||
12 | ERROR | 2019-07-31 | ||
Creating World (jun kuroda Remix) | 2019-05-21 | Limited Release | ||
Inochi (Acoustic ver.) | 2019-07-27 | Limited Release | ||
for 1st Pioneer
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2019-12-29 | AZKi 4th LiVE Ticket bonus | ||
13 | mirror | 2020-03-15 | ||
14 | Kurogane no Mamoribito | 2020-03-20 | Ending song for the anime Jinki: Extend | |
15 | Eternity Bright | 2020-03-31 | ||
16 | Hikari | 2020-04-15 | ||
17 | Nekonaraba Ikeru | 2020-04-30 | ||
18 | Intersection | 2020-05-31 | ||
19 | Take me to Heaven | 2020-06-20 | ||
20 | Aoi Yume | 2020 |
No. | Name | Release date | Standard Product Number | Song list | Peak Oricon ranking | Note |
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1st | without U | 2019-11-12 | QACW-3012 <Type-A> QACW-3013 <Type-B> |
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88th place |
Incidents
Tokoyami Towa mystery male voice incident
During an Apex Legends stream by Vtuber Tokoyami Towa, an unknown male voice was heard in the background of her stream. This led to a harassment campaign by a section of her fanbase especially after she lied that he was a Hololive staff. On March 5th ,Cover release an apology on Twitter promising to prevent a similar incident from happening as well as temporarily suspending Towa streaming right for one week[9]. After her suspension, Towa release an apology stream where she apologize to her fans for her carelessness as well as thanking her fans (including a English message for international fans) for supporting her during the incident and her suspension.[10]
Yozora Mel harassment case
Starting from October 2019, Vtuber Yozora Mel came under an harassment campaign that using throwaway Twitter accounts and emails. Despite her attempts to block those messages and users, the campaign continued to ramp up. On October 30th, Mel received another one of these mail which contained the name of sender who is a employees of Cover. This forced Mel to report the incident to the police as well Cover CEO Tanigo. This led cancellation of her stream scheduled on the next day. With assistance from the police as well as her personal lawyer, the harasser was positively identified and confronted leading to the campaign stopping by March 2020. On May 15th, Mel released a message on Twitter detailing the incident from her perspective as well as announcing her temporary leave from Vtuber activities to deal with the stress and fear from the incident.[11][12]On May 25th, Cover release their own statement sign by the CEO Motoaki Tanigo himself, which includes the fact that the individual in question was part of Yozora Mel management team and had prior history of inappropriate behaviours towards Mel including a case where they would lock her in a conversation until morning using the pretense of meeting. The individual was relieved of their position by Cover but then continue to harass Mel using means outside the jurisdiction of Cover to handle. The company promised to revamp its internal structure, correcting the flaws in its management structure that allowed the incidents to take place. Finally the company apologize to Mel and fans for both their mishandling of the incidents as well as the delayed release of their statement and promised they will fully compensate all the cost incurred by Mel during the entirely of the case.[13] Mel returned to streaming on June 24th 2020.[14]
Nintendo game streaming right
On June 1st, 2019 Nintendo added an addendum to its streaming policy in Japan, specifying which corporation are allowed to to streams their games.[15] Cover corp whose name wasn't among the company listed came under criticism of its fan and haters. On June 5th, the company release an apology statement claiming that they had wrongly believe they had the streaming right as individual under the clause of the policy. The company then stated that they had contacted Nintendo and have come to a temporary agreement that allowed Cover and their Vtuber to keep their Nintendo related content online as long as it is demonetized. Finally Cover began negotiation with Nintendo to gain the streaming rights.[16]
Notes
- ↑ Tokino Sora/Roboco/Sakura Miko/Yozora Mel/Aki Rosenthal/Akai Haato/Shirakami Fubuki/Natsuiro Matsuri/Minato Aqua/Murasaki Shion/Nakiri Ayame/Yuzuki Coco/Ozora Subaru/Ookami Mio/Nekomata Okayu/Inugami Korone
- ↑ Hololive Gen 1(Yozora Mel/Aki Rosenthal/Natsuiro Matsuri/Shirakami Fubuki/Akai Haato)
- ↑ Tokino Sora/Roboco/Shirakami Fubuki/Minato Aqua/Shirogane Noel
Hololive in the Media
Reference
- ↑ ユーザーローカル. "ホロライブ カバー株式会社 バーチャルYouTuber一覧(ファン数順)". バーチャルYouTuberランキング (in 日本語). Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ↑ Alpeyev, Pavel; Furukawa, Yuki. "How Virtual Streamers Became Japan's Biggest YouTube Attraction". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ GLOBIS findings (2019-09-15). "The time has come for everyone to become a V-tuber! -Junichi Akakawa x Takeshi Osaka x Motoaki Tanigo x Yoshikazu Tanaka". Youtube. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Talents". hololive production. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
- ↑ Hololive [@hololive_En] (2020-04-23). "[⚠Public address loudspeakerGrand announcementsPublic address loudspeaker⚠]#hololiveaudition #holoEN #hololive English speaking VTuber Audition🗣 begins NOW! Apply now!en.hololive.tv/audition AND with that being said, the English version of our homepage 🖥 has also been released! Please take a look! en.hololive.tv" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 @hololivetv (2018-09-15). "🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊ホロライブ初の公式全体曲『Shiny Smily Story』フルver.販売・配信開始🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊9/16 0:00以降順次、🎁iTunesはこちら🎁 tunecore.co.jp/to/itunes/553272 🎉その他はこちらから🎉 linkco.re/0D3HfZA2 感想は #ホロライブSSS でタレントに教えてあげてください!" (Tweet). Retrieved 2019-09-16 – via Twitter.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 VTuber事務所「ホロライブ」、半年ぶりの公式曲第2弾「夢見る空へ」第3弾「キラメキライダー☆」リリース決定!PR TIME 2020年2月14日
- ↑ "DISCOGRAPHY". ときのそら ビクターエンタテインメント. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
- ↑ @cover_corp (2020-05-05). "この度は、弊社所属タレント「常闇トワ」がご迷惑およびご心配をおかけし誠に申し訳ございませんでした。今後は運営体制を強化し、再発防止に努める所存でございます。社員及びタレント一同、ファンの皆様の信頼回復に全力を尽くして参りますので、ご支援のほど、何卒よろしくお願い申し上げます。author=Cover Corp" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ↑ Tokoyami, Towa (March 12, 2020). "Sorry for the inconvenience. I'm back". Youtube. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Yozora Mel [@yozoramel] (2020-05-16). "この度、皆様にお伝えしたいことがあります。2019年10月頃から私の周りに起きたことについて、以下にまとめました。とても長くなってしまいますが、ご一読頂けますと幸いです。" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ↑ "Rough Summary of Mel's Letter". www.twitlonger.com. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Tanigo, Motoaki (2020-05-25). "弊社所属タレント「夜空メル」の発表と弊社の今後の対応につきまして". Cover-corp Official site (in 日本語). Retrieved 2020-07-13.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Yozora, Mel (2020-06-24). "[Easter Festival] Right now! Fight BAN! Yozora Mel revival! [Holo Live/Yozora Mel]". Youtube. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Nintendo Game Content Guidelines for Online Video & Image Sharing Platforms (Japanese)". 任天堂ホームページ (in 日本語). Retrieved 2020-07-13.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Cover (2020-06-05). "弊社における無許諾配信の不手際のお詫びと今後の対応につきまして". Cover-corp Official site (in 日本語). Retrieved 2020-07-13.
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External Links
- Official website
- Hololive on Facebook
- Hololive on Twitter
- Hololive on Reddit
- Hololive's channel on YouTube
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