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Gawr Gura (がうる・ぐら) is a virtual YouTuber affiliated with Hololive English.[2][3] She is a member of Hololive English - Myth (stylized as HoloMyth), alongside Takanashi Kiara [ja] (小鳥遊キアラ), Mori Calliope [ja] (森カリオペ),[4] Ninomae Ina'nis [ja] (一伊那尓栖), and Watson Amelia [ja] (ワトソン・アメリア).[5] She debuted on September 13, 2020, and has since become the most subscribed virtual YouTuber, amassing over 4 million subscribers.[6][7][8] Her livestreams focus on entertainment, and primarily consist of Let's Plays, karaoke, and chats with the audience. Gura is often called "Same-chan" in Japan, same meaning shark.[9]

Cover Corporation announced auditions for English speakers from April 23 to May 24 of 2020, following the global success of its Japanese VTuber lineup.[10][11] The design of Gawr Gura was illustrated by Amashiro Natsuki,[12][13] and the original modeling was done by Shin Umiushi.[14]

Gura's Twitter activities first began on September 9, 2020.[15] Her first YouTube livestream was broadcast at 6 AM JST on September 13,[16] to a viewership of approximately 45,000 people; the VOD gained over 800,000 views in the span of three days.[17] On November 28, "Gawr Gura" was listed in the Niconico Japanese Internet Pop 100 as one of the top 100 most popular search terms of that year on Niconico and Pixiv, ranking 99th.[18]

Her channel reached 1 million subscribers on October 22, 2020,[19][20] which was the fastest growth of any VTuber channel. She is the third VTuber overall to reach 1 million, behind Kizuna AI and Kaguya Luna [jp].[19] On January 18, her channel subscribers surpassed 2 million, making her the second VTuber to reach this milestone, second only to Kizuna AI,[21][22] and she celebrated with a karaoke stream on January 23.[23] On May 7, her first outfit reveal stream reached a peak of 194,280 simultaneous viewers,[24][25] breaking the VTuber record previously held by Sakura Miko (about 145,000).[26][27] Her first original song, "REFLECT", was released on June 21, 2021.[28][29] On June 30, 5:01 a.m. (UTC+0), she reached 2.97 million subscribers on July 1, surpassing Kizuna AI as the most subscribed VTuber on YouTube.[30][31][32][33][34] On July 4, she became the first virtual YouTuber to reach 3 million subscribers, and subsequently 4 million subscribers on June 16, 2022.[7][35][36]

On July 3, 2021, it was announced that a Gawr Gura Nendoroid figure would be produced,[37][38] and on August 6, pre-orders for the figure were opened.[39] On March 18, 2022, following her 3D debut live performance at Makuhari Messe, it was announced that the life-sized figure and 1/7-scale figure of Gura, which were both displayed at the expo, would be auctioned for charity.[40][41]

On April 25, 2022, Cover Corporation announced the Hololive Meet project, featuring all the talent from across Hololive Production and aims to accelerate the expansion of Hololive Production into international markets[42] and named Gawr Gura, Tokino Sora and Ayunda Risu as ambassadors for the project. The three appeared at Anime Expo the same year.[43]

On December 2, 2022, Cover Corporation announced a collaboration with musician DECO*27, named "Holo*27" featuring Hololive talents to perform at the Holo*27 stage at the Hololive 4th Fest. Our Bright Parade on March 19, 2023 and named Gura as one of the participating members.[44]

On February 8, 2023, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government appointed Gura, fellow Hololive Myth member Mori Calliope and Hololive Japan member Sakura Miko as Tokyo Tourism Ambassadors with the aim of "increasing the number of visitors and revitalizing the region" for potential visitors. Hololive Production noted that the three will "share the attractions of Tokyo to the world" [45] [46] [47][48]

On March 13, 2023, in the lead up to Hololive 4th Fes. Our Bright Parade, Cover Corporation introduced a new series of billboards across 9 Tokyo Metro train lines, featuring all Hololive members, debuting a new slogan "A new daily life is around the corner". [49] On March 18, following Day 1 of 4th Fes. Hololive announced that all ten members of Hololive English will hold their first concert, "Connect the World", on July 2nd, to be held at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles, California.[50][51]

On September 9, 2020, Gura posted her first tweet with the word "a".[52] On September 13, her first live broadcast was delayed and her first words were "a" ([æ]).[21] Later, the broadcast was interrupted due to equipment problems, leaving tens of thousands of users typing "a" in the chat room, waiting for the broadcast to resume.[53] "a" quickly became an internet meme. This, combined with the overall popular surge of VTubers (and virtual reality in general) as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,[54] likely contributed to Gura's fast success.[53] Only forty days after her debut, she had reached one million subscribers, becoming the first Hololive VTuber to do so.[55]

Gawr Gura a Basic Details Original Name がうる・ぐら Nickname(s) Same-chanApex PredatorCity Pop SharkSamegakiGoomba Debut Date YouTube: 2020/09/13[1] Character Designer Illustration: Amashiro Natsuki[2]Live2D:Shin Umiushi (Original)[3]BrianTsuii (Third Costume/New year)[4]3D Model: Pomp-chou[5]"Smol" Design:Illustration: WalfieLive2D: Ilie Tou Affiliation hololive English Media Channel YouTube Social Media TwitterTikTok Official Website hololive.hololivepro.com Personal Details Gender Female Age between 9,000 and 10,000 years old (has forgotten exact number after ~5,000 years)[6] Birthday 20 June Height 141 cm (4'7")[6] Zodiac Sign Gemini Emoji 🔱

Gawr Gura (がうる・ぐら) is a female English-speaking Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, debuting in 2020 as part of hololive English first generation "-Myth-" alongside Ninomae Ina'nis, Takanashi Kiara, Watson Amelia and Mori Calliope.

Gura is currently the most subscribed VTuber worldwide with over 4 million YouTube subscribers, taking the #1 spot from industry pioneer Kizuna AI in 2021.

Gura is friendly and readily likeable, and often amuses her viewers with foolish antics. She has no sense of direction, often misspells and mispronounces words, has trouble remembering her own age, and consistently fails to solve basic math problems, leading viewers to affectionately call her a "dum shark". Memorably, one viewer declared that "Gura has a heart of gold and a head of bone."

She can also be lazy at times. She often forgets about perishable items until they start to rot, and eats baby food "because you don't have to cook it... [or] chew on it."

However, despite her poor math and spelling skills, Gura is quick-witted, clever, and has vast knowledge of Shark Facts. When questioned on why she was not "boing boing," she excused it by claiming that she was "hydrodynamic." Her skill with fast-paced rhythm games is exceptional, and she is highly ambitious. She also occasionally makes lewd jokes, and is familiar with modern meme culture, which she references often.

Gawr Gura is very short, reaching around 141 cm (4'7"). She has a slim body type. She has white, light silver-like hair with baby blue and cobalt blue strands, along with short pigtails on either side of her head, tied with diamond-shaped, shark-faced hair ties. She has cyan pupils, and sharp, shark-like teeth. She can wear a dark cerulean-blue hood in the shape of a shark's head. She wears an oversized, dark cerulean-blue hoodie that fades into white on her arm sleeves and hem, two yellow strings in the shape of an "x" that connect the front part of her white hoodie hood, a shark mouth designed on her hoodie waist with a zipper, gray hoodie drawstrings with two black circles on each of them, and two pockets on the left and right sides of her hoodie waist with white fish bone designs on them. She also wears a gray shirt under her hoodie. She wears dark blue socks, white shoes with pale baby blue shoe tongues, black shoelaces, gray velcro patches on the vamps, and thick, black soles. She wields a sapphire-blue trident and has a cyan shark tail. The upper lobe of Gura's caudal fin, the top part of her tail, is sewn up with gray stitches because of a rock that fell on it while she was in a deep sea trench. The lower lobe of Gura's caudal fin, the bottom part of her tail, has three bite marks, which she forgot the cause of.

On 23 April 2020, following the success of the Japanese-language hololive VTuber group, Cover Corporation announced auditions for English-speaking members.[8] The initial round of auditions ran until 24 May.[9]

During her audition, Gura drew a cute character in a "power stance" with their hands on their hips, which she credited as setting a good impression. Gura recalls being asked about the SCP Foundation, a wiki of articles describing fictional artifacts and beings, although she had to admit that she didn't know what it was.[10]

The members of -Myth- began training around June 2020, three months before their debut.[11]

Gawr Gura's design was known to other members of holoEN as early as 2 July 2020, when Amelia Watson drew the first ever piece of Gawr Gura fanart.[12] This was not the finalized design, however, and an unspecified design change was made before Gura's debut.[13] Internal pre-debut test streams were conducted between all members of hololive English, where in one case a bug caused Gura to spawn in without any clothes.

Gura's YouTube channel and Twitter account were created on 16 July 2020.

On 8 September 2020,[TZ] Gawr Gura was first revealed in a short promotional video alongside the other four members of hololive -Myth-. A simultaneous announcement was made at the hololive Twitter account, and the hololive English Twitter account.[14][15][16] At the same time, Gura made her first tweet, famously consisting of the single letter "a."[17]

Gura's debut stream was scheduled for 12 September 2020 at 2PM PDT,[TZ] although she was 12 minutes and 32 seconds late to her own debut stream due to a technical issue. She was the fourth of the five original members of hololive English to debut on the same day. Over 45,000 viewers tuned in to watch the event, in which she wowed viewers with a rendition of Tatsuro Yamashita's 1980 city pop single Ride on Time.[18]

In a six-month review of her debut, she described being so nervous that she could feel her heart beat in her head, and had stomach problems as she was too nervous to eat before the stream. Prior to the stream, she watched the debut videos of a number of hololive Japan streamers in order to prepare.[13]

The debut events were concluded with the first hololive English collaboration event at 6:35PM PDT,[TZ] in which Gura streamed together with the other four members of hololive English.

Gura quickly rose in popularity, becoming the fastest-growing VTuber ever, gaining 100,000 new subscribers every two to five days. Just 13 days after her debut, on 26 September, she reached 500,000 YouTube subscribers, making her the 12th hololive member to reach this milestone, as well as the 1st member of the English branch to do so. On 20 October, just 37 days after her debut, Gura overtook both Shirakami Fubuki and Inugami Korone to become the #1 most subscribed hololive VTuber on YouTube.

On 22 October, Gura became the first hololive member to reach 1,000,000 subscribers, the third VTuber overall after Kizuna AI and Kaguya Luna, and the first English-speaker ever to do so.[19]

On 30 November, Gura reached 1,500,000 YouTube subscribers, making her the 1st hololive member to reach this milestone.

On 17 January, Gura reached 2,000,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, being the first hololive member to do so and the second VTuber ever to reach that milestone after Kizuna Ai.[20]

On 22 January, Gura celebrated her 2,000,000 subscriber milestone with a karaoke stream.[21]

On 1 April, all holoMyth members revealed new chibi models based on popular fan designs by Walfie.[22]

On 14 April, Gura reached 2.5 million YouTube subscribers.

On 30 April, hololive's Twitter account announced that every member of holoMyth would get their second 2D costumes.[23]

On 6 May, Gura debuted her second 2D costume, in this costume Gura has cat ears and her hair is styled with a side ponytail, her clothes consist of a white blouse and a blue jumpsuit skirt, her skirt as the design that resembles a shark's mouth open on the side, Gura also has a bag with a really similar design.[24] This debut was at the time the stream with the largest simultaneous viewer count of any VTuber in history, peaking at 194,280 concurrent viewers.[25] It was later surpassed by Kiryu Coco's graduation live stream which was held on 1 July.

On 18 June, Gura reached 1 million Twitter followers.

On 20 June, Gura celebrated her birthday with a Jaws movie watch-along and a birthday stream in which she released merchandise: a squishy cheek mouse pad, T-shirt, voice pack and unique postcard illustrated by Icomochi. During the birthday stream she also announced that she would debut her first original song "REFLECT" on 22 June at midnight, local time.[26]

On 22 June, Gura released her first original song "REFLECT" on YouTube. It surpassed 1,000,000 views in 10 hours and 25 minutes after its premiere.[27]

On 30 June, Gura's subscriber count on YouTube officially passed that of Kizuna AI's, making Gura the most subscribed VTuber in any streaming platform in the world.

On 4 July, Gura reached 3,000,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, being the first hololive member, as well as the first VTuber in the world, to reach this milestone. Earlier on that same day, her song "REFLECT" surpassed 5,000,000 views on her YouTube channel.

On 12 September, during Myth's 1 year anniversary celebration, the group revealed their official logo and announced that every member would get their third 2D costume.[28]

On 14 September, Gura hosted a Super Mario Party collab stream with Houshou Marine, Minato Aqua, and Ninomae Ina'nis (as well as A-chan providing translation), and at the end of the stream, it was announced that they would form a new unit "UMISEA," in which all four members sharing the theme of ocean. Several videos and streams featuring the unit is set to release throughout mid-September.[29][30]

On 20 October, she reached 3,500,000 YouTube subscribers.

On 31 October, -Myth- debuted their first original song "Myth or Treat" during a Halloween collab with every hololive EN member attending. The song lyrics were written by Calli. The official video of the song was later debuted that same day on Amelia's channel.[31][32]

On 11 December, Gura debuted her third 2D costume. In this costume, Gura got a new hairstyle: long twintails instead of her usual short ones. The twintails are decorated with golden ornaments. She also wears a golden laurel crown that comes out of her braids. She has decorative blue gemstones on her hair, her cheeks, and her dress. She also wears a golden necklace with another blue gemstone. Her outfit is inspired in her lore as an Atlantean, as she wears a white tunic that fades into blue. Gura also has a shawl with the same color pattern, but with a different, darker shade of blue on the inner side. The tunic has some golden ornaments and a belt, blue gemstones to her left, and some more are present at the some ends of her skirt. On her left wrist, she has two bracelets, while on her right wrist, she wears a golden wristband instead. Gura wears golden sandals, and her nails on her hands and feet are painted light blue. Her trident also has a gold chain with golden, oval-shaped ornaments hanging off it. The golden chain also has a small Bloop figure, and the base of her trident also has more blue gemstones.[33]

On 6 January, hololive's Twitter account announced that both Myth and Council members would get new year costumes.[34]

On 9 January, Gura debuted her fourth 2D costume, a kimono, to celebrate the new year. Gura said this kimono was inspired by kagami mochi. In this costume, Gura mostly keeps her standard hairstyle. She wears hair ornaments in the shape of her tail. Additionally, Gura can wear white, fluffy earmuffs and have a small shrimp lay on top of her head, which she named "Ebi-chan". Gura wears a white and blue shoulderless kimono, with the upper section of her torso having a wavy, ocean design. Her long sleeves have puffy, shark tail-shaped, steel blue ribbons on the middle of her upper arm, each ribbon having two red strings with a white puffy ball on the ends. Her kimono's sleeves also have a wavy, ocean design with white flowers and fish, along with dark blue laces near her kimono's forearms. Her kimono's skirt has two layers: an upper pale cerulean-blue layer with a white fish bone pattern, and a lower white second layer with ruffles and dark blue strings in the shape of two "x"s. The kimono is complemented by a dark blue obi with a dark blue bow, along with a white fish bone and two aquatic green fern leaves on the ribbon. On her tail, Gura wears a small white bow, small white socks with two white spikes and a red, diamond-shaped jewel on each side, and pale, baby blue sandals with dark blue sandal straps. Gura can also wear a white, fluffy scarf and can hold her trident with a new kimono design in her right hand. The new kimono-themed trident has white feathers on the top, making it look like a hamaya. In her left hand, she can carry her mascot, Bloop, in a small bag with water, typical of fish won at festivals.[35]

The same day, holoMyth debuted their second original song, "Journey Like a Thousand Years."

On 19 March, Gura debuted her 3D model during "hololive 3rd fes. Link Your Wish" day 1.[36]

On 16 June, she reached 4,000,000 YouTube subscribers, becoming the first VTuber to attain the milestone.[37]

On 28 June, on Amelia's channel, -Myth- held the first off-collab where every member was present.[38]

On 18 September, Gura held a 3D live, featuring duets with other members of hololive. The livestream began with Gura's new original animation "Shark'd", which depicts Gura's arrival on land, how she got her iconic clothes, and how she was introduced to hololive. The animation was produced by San Francisco based studio Tonari Animation, who also released a "making of" video for the original animation.

On 21 December, hololive English's Twitter account announced that Gura was taking an extended break for health reasons. Gura's last stream at that point had been on 8 December.[39]

On 11 February, Gura returned to her activities.[40] Her return stream reached a peak of 49,214 viewers.

On 17 February, Gura debuted new accessories for her second 2D costume. Gura has a new hairstyle using short twintails decorated with either small red ribbons or hair ties with blue spheres. She can also use a plaid purple headband and a star shaped hairpin.[41]

On 2 March, Gura officially debuted her 3D model on her YouTube channel.[42]

On 19 March, Gura debuted her 3D idol costume during hololive 4th fes. "Our Bright Parade" DAY2.[43]