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Yozora Mel - VTuber

Yozora Mel is a first-generation Hololive member who debuted on YouTube in May 2018. She has since charmed many viewers with her beautiful voice and sweet, caring personality. While several Hololive members debuted before Mel, she was the first Hololive VTuber to have a Live2D model, a trend that would follow for nearly every Hololive member who followed.

Background of Yozora Mel

Yozora Mel is a young vampire Vtuber known for her ASMR streams and chats. While she is generally seen as kind and innocent, she has moments where her vampish provocations manifest, especially when she is with Yuzuki Choco , a female demon Vtuber and close friend of Mel.

Story of Yozora Mel

Yozora Mel debuted on May 13, 2018, on YouTube, portraying herself as a vampire who disliked drinking blood. After her debut, viewers were charmed by her often intimate ASMR streams and heartwarming conversations. From December 2019 to June 2020, however, Mel was forced to take a hiatus. Although she uploaded content periodically, her channel remained largely inactive during this time. Mel and Hololive eventually released a statement explaining the reason for the hiatus and stating that Mel was the target of a harassment campaign by someone she knew from her personal life. After police intervention, the matter was finally resolved, and Mel began streaming regularly on June 24, 2020. Since her original debut, Mel has received an updated Live2D model, several alternate costumes, and a 3D model as well.

Physical description of Yozora Mel

Although she has the appearance of an ordinary human, Yozora Mel is a vampire with short yellow hair and matching yellow eyes. Her main outfit consists of a rather revealing white, black, and orange top with detached yellow sleeves that leave her midriff and shoulders exposed, and a matching skirt. The skirt is decorated with multicolored bows, while her sleeves have small bat wings attached, which, along with her prominent fang, help to reinforce her vampiric design.

Mel also received a New Year's outfit for New Year's Day, January 1, 2020. This red and purple kimono features a long, pleated purple skirt that reaches down to her ankles and long sleeves decorated with bat wings and stars. Mel's hair is also noticeably longer in this outfit and is tied into two braids with black ribbons. This outfit also includes a pair of thin, circular-framed glasses.

Personality of Yozora Mel

Despite being a vampire, Mel has noted that she dislikes blood and prefers to drink acerola juice instead. She is also generally known for her kind and pure personality, which is a stark contrast to what most viewers expect from the stereotypical vampire. That said, she does have moments where her more charming vampiric tendencies show through. Ironically, during the first stream after her hiatus, YouTube blocked Mel's stream twice for allegedly violating its terms of service. As she and some fans believed the cause of the bans was due to her rather revealing outfit, she covered a large portion of her upper body with a plain black bar. After this, Mel also earned the nickname "Ban-pire." However, regardless of the struggles she goes through, Mel cares deeply for her viewers and has stated that she enjoys hosting chat streams because it allows her to interact with them more.

Associated company

Yozora Mel is one of the many different Vtubers managed by Hololive Productions. This agency is owned by Cover Corporation and manages other popular Vtubers like Shirakami Fubuki None Gawr Gura (Gauru Gura) , and Inugami Crown. While many Hololive members primarily stream on YouTube, they also often sing original songs and occasionally participate in live concerts. In February 2021, Hololive held "Bloom," a concert that featured only original Hololive music.

Notable releases

Although Mel started out primarily making ASMR videos, a discussion that ASMR content was leading to members being demonetized led Mel to make many of her early videos private, though she still hosts a few ASMR streams these days. Today, many of the streams she hosts are joined by other Vtubers and can include a variety of different games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Keep Talking and Nobody Will Explode .

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

In early 2021, Mel participated in several large-scale Mario Kart 8 tournaments that brought together Vtubers from both inside and outside of Hololive. One such tournament was the "Hololive New Year's Cup," which was planned and organized by Tokoyami Towa. Members were split into three different blocs, each of which held qualifying matches to decide who would advance to the final round of races. Like many other members, Mel streamed practice matches before the tournament itself and shared her individual perspective on her channel.

Keep talking and no one will explode with Watson Amelia

Keep Talking and Nobody Will Explode is a game centered around the idea of bomb defusing and requires precise communication between the person holding the bomb defusing manual and the person actually defusing the bomb. On January 28, 2021, Mel and Amelia Watson of Hololive-EN hosted a collaborative stream together where they attempted to overcome the language barrier between them despite a lack of proficiency in each other's respective languages. The unique methods the two developed to overcome this divide proved highly entertaining for viewers, as it remains one of their most popular streams to date.