Aza Hanamaru (VTuber)

Aza Hanamaru is an El Kadsreian virtual Youtuber. Her livestreams focus on entertainment, and primarily consist of Let's Plays, karaoke, reaction videos and chats with the audience. She was created by El TV Kadsre.

History
In 2021, El TV Kadsre announced that they'll collaborate with Drillimation Studios to enter the virtual Youtuber industry. Drillimation was responsible with creating a design and modelling, with the physics engine done by Theorysonic.

Aza's Twitter activities first began on December 1, 2021. Her first YouTube livestream was broadcast at 8 AM JST on Januray 1, 2022 to a viewership of approximately 90,000 people; the VOD gained over 1,000,000 views in the span of a single day, while her first Wakachiau livestream was broadcasted the next day at 10AM JST. On January 18, her channel subscribers surpassed 200 million, making her the first VTuber doing so, and currently the YouTuber with most subscribers, beating "live" YouTubers like PewDiePie and T-Series. Her first original song, "Dear Love", was released on June 21, 2022. She has made her own Twitch, Dailymotion, Nebula, Facebook and Instagram accounts on July 2022.

On June 15, 2022, it was announced that an Aza Hanamaru Nendoroid figure would be produced, and on August 6, pre-orders for the figure were opened.On August 18, 2022, following her 3D debut live performance at El Kadsre City, broadcasted on El TV Kadsre 1, it was annouched she would have her own RPG video game developed by Drillimation Studios exclusively for Theorysonic Swift, TSUG and PTSUG. It was released on December 1st, 2022, to commemorate her 1st anniversary. In March 2023, Drillimation Studios starts producing light novel, anime and manga adapted from Aza's RPG video game, airing on El TV Kadsre Japanese, as well as internationally on TV Tokyo, HBO and Cartoon Network. The anime and manga are also avaliable on Crunchyroll in North America.