Kiryu Coco | Know Your Meme

About

Kiryu Coco is a Japanese virtual YouTuber and member of idol agency Hololive. Coco’s popularity stems from her eccentricity and tendency to push the boundaries of idol behavior, such as teaching English profanity to her fellow members. Her character design is a 3,500-year-old anthropomorphized dragon and was created by Twitter user @yamanta_15.

Online History

Kiryu Coco (seen below) joined Hololive as part of its fourth generation of virtual YouTubers, with her first stream taking place on December 28th, 2019 (stream privated at this time). The content of her livestreams varies, including chatting, gameplay, singing, etc. She also has a morning news talk show that she hosts, called “AsaCoco.” Coco is originally from the “USDA” (United States of Dragon America), and she typically appears in many collaborations with other Hololive members as an English tutor.

Reception

Coco’s popularity with fans grew in the months since her debut, especially around her 3D debut stream (shown below, left), which was uploaded to YouTube on June 27th, 2020, receiving over 75,000 views, 3,200 likes and 300 comments. Much like her normal content, the stream was full of skits and bizarre jokes, as well as indulging in her love of the Yakuza franchise of video games by portraying herself as the head of her own Yakuza clan. Fans were quick to make jokes and memes about the livestream, which Coco would react to in the following livestream. In particular, she played the reaction of Twitch livestreamer Koefficient, confirming his comments that she is American and wanted to emulate Shakira’s hip-shaking in her debut stream. The clip (shown below, right) was uploaded to YouTube on July 3rd, receiving over 324,000 views, 12,000 likes and 900 comments.

Coco’s content commonly references memes from the English-speaking internet. In a YouTube livestream with Akai Haato (seen below, left), Coco challenged Haato to correctly interpret multiple English-language memes, with the loser being forced to do several push-ups as punishment. On July 29th, Coco started hosting her own meme reviews on her YouTube channel (shown below, right), sharing the memes posted by overseas fans on the /r/Hololive subreddit. She would comment on many user submissions as to how accurate they were in describing her fellow Hololive members.

Asacoco

One of Kiryu Coco’s most popular recurring segments is her morning news talk show, “Asacoco,” where she will frequently report bizarre news stories involving herself and other Hololive members. Her show is the origin of her catchphrase, “Good Morning Motherfuckers!” These shows also contain commercial breaks featuring other Hololive members performing skits (seen below), in particular, they advertise Asacoco being used in the form of a highly addictive drug that can be taken by injections, tablets or even through a dragon tail-shaped buttplug. Coco now has the reputation of being Hololive’s drug dealer, getting many other members hooked on her “lame jokes and bad puns.”

English Tutoring

Coco is among the most proficient at speaking English in Hololive, so she appears in multiple collaborations where English speaking is involved. One of her more common activities is teaching swear words and other crass phrases to the other members (shown below, left). She also started a series on teaching “Real Japanese 101,” where she would teach the “real” way to say common Japanese phrases (shown below, right).

Hololive House

Coco and fellow members Amane Kanata and Hoshimachi Suisei announced that they were planning on living together in a shared apartment. When discussing living arrangements (seen below, left), topics included everyone sharing the same bathtub at once. In an “Off-Collab Sleepover,” the gang got involved in some unusual activities, such as using Kanata’s butt as a pair of drums (seen below, right).

Coco Kaine / Hololive USA

Kiryu Coco claims that she has a half-sister named Coco Kaine, who is a member of the fictitious “Hololive USA” branch. Coco Kaine dresses like a prostitute and is even more foul-mouthed than Kiryu Coco (shown below).

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