Stage 5/Design reference and trivia

Enemy Trivia
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This page contains information on enemies that appear in Stage 5, including their origin and how they relate to the talents they are referencing.

Summary

Notes
HLC OG are designs original to HoloCure. General are mascots, both official and fan made, belonging to or associated with a talent, but are not meant to represent their fans. Fan Mascots are official mascots representing the associated talent fanbase.
Hololive Members	Fan name	Mascot Name and Type	Mascots
Usada Pekora	Nousagi	Nousagi (Fan Mascot)
Houshou Marine	Houshou no Ichimi	Ichimin (Fan Mascot)
Shiranui Flare	Elfriend	Elfriend (Fan Mascot)
Shirogane Noel	Knight's Order of Shirogane	Danin (Fan Mascot)
Kiryu Coco	Tatsunoko	Tatsunoko (HLC OG)
		Otaku (HLC OG)
Amane Kanata	Heimin	Heimin (HLC OG)
Upao (General)
Tsunomaki Watame	Watamate	Watamate (Fan Mascot)
Tokoyami Towa	Tokoyami Kenzoku	Kenzoku (HLC OG)
Himemori Luna	LuKnight	LuKnight (Fan Mascot)
Major Bosses
Hololive Members	Mascot name		Mascot
Himemori Luna	Nanora
Usada Pekora	Pekodam

Major Bosses

Nanora

Main article: Nanora

Nanora is based on a depiction of Himemori Luna by fan animator Mochimiko.

Pekodam

Main article: Pekodam

Pekodam is a Gundam-inspired expensive build project by Usada Pekora within the Hololive Minecraft Server.

Canon Fan Mascots

This category consists of enemies that are directly based on official fan mascot design use by Hololive Talents.

List of canon fan mascot designs: Nousagi, Ichimin, Elfriend, Dannin, Watamate, LuKnight

Nousagi

Nousagi messing around while their princess suffer.

Nousagi (野兎, Wild Rabbits) are fans of Usada Pekora. Their name is the shorten form of 野うさぎ同盟 (No-usagi Doumei, Wild Rabbit Alliance). According to Pekora's lore, the Nousagis are the citizen of Pekoland and are the subject of its ruler Princess Pekora. Their design first appeared in Pekora's first new start screen that she began using a few months after her debut.

• The word Nousagi is the common local name of the Japanese Hare.
• Nousagi's flowery fullname is a trait they share with their fellow JP Gen 3 fandom the Ichimin and Danin.

Houshou no Ichimin

A crewmate being punished by his pushy captain

Houshou no Ichimi (宝鐘の一味, Houshou's (Pirate) Crew) are fans of Houshou Marine. Their name is typically shorten as Ichimi (一味, Crew). According to Marine's Lore, the Ichimis are supposed to be her pirate subordinate but her lack of ship meant the Ichimi only gets to show off in her fantasy MVs.

• One of the earliest depiction of the red-white striped shirt Ichimi appeared as far back as July 2022 with an official T-shirt that was part of her Birthday Merch Set which suggest that the design has existed since an even earlier date.

Elfriend

Elfriend being given Flare's Golden YAGOO trophy as gift

Elfriend are fans of Shiranui Flare. Their name is a simple portmanteu of Elf and Friend. The little orange bird designed was announced and revealed alongside Flare's visual redesign which was meant to emphasize more on her cutesy side.

Knight's Order of Shirogane

Danins feading their oshi in her pre-start screen.

Knight's Order of Shirogane (白銀聖騎士団, Shirogane Kishidan) are fans of Shirogane Noel. Their name is typically shorten as Danin (団員, Order Member). Their mascot being a hamster with a Gyudon bow as a hat is based on Noel's own love of hamster and gyudon.

• Danin are the only fanbase introduce in Version 0.7 to use their English name which happens to also make them the longest fan name in HoloCure. This name was so long that even its short type name Shirogane Knights, used as the worker name in HoloHouse, was still too long and overflow from its UI window.
• Despite their lore where they are member's of Noel's Knight Order, they are almost never depicted as knights in any official media and are mostly shown as Noel's animal henchman.

Watamate

A variety of Watamate in various stage of life (and death)

Watamate are fans of Tsunomaki Watame. Their sheeplike appeareance is likely based on the shepherdess bard motif of Watame which can be seen in media like the Hololive Alternative PV. While the Watamates are frequently depicts as sheep, the current recognized design as used by HoloCure was created by Watame herself and first appeared in episode 28 of Watame Night Fever, Watame's weekly karaoke stream.

LuKnight

Luna playing around with a 3D LuKnight

LuKnight (ルーナイト, Ruunaito) are fans of Himemori Luna. Their name is a pun combining Luna (ルーナ, Ruuna) and the Japanese transliteration of the English word Knight (ナイト, Naito). Owing to their name, the LuKnights were frequently depicted as some form of armored knight especially after their performances in Monster Hunter where they showed their skill alongside their princess albeit in less than modest pink outfits. The official stubby pink knight design first appeared sometime in 2021 and has since made its way into official artworks, 3D Live and more.

Canon Mascot

This category consists of enemies based on mascots associated with Hololive Talents, including fan designs that are acknowledged by the talents themselves.

List of canon mascot designs: Upao.

Upao

Kanata commiserate about Upao's lack of popularity feat. two common variants of Upao.

Upao is the mascot belonging to Amane Kanata. The mascot came from Kanata's legendary Minecraft farming series where she tried to breed the rare blue color axolotls that ending up taking over 3000 axolotls and 27 hours. The moment became so iconic that Kanata would create her mascot Upao based on the blue axolotl and naming it after the Japanese term for axolotls, Wooper Looper (Upa Rupa).

HoloCure Original

This category consists of enemies that were created by the HoloCure team for the game. This category can include a range from entirely original designs, to designs that are inspired by other mascots, or popular fan interpretations.

List of HoloCure original designs: Otaku, Tatsunoko, Heimin, Kenzoku

Otaku

Main article: Stage 2/Design reference and trivia § Otaku

Otaku are enemies introduced in Version 0.5 for Stage 3 and Stage 2 (Hard). They are a representation of the Hololive reddit communities in general, and concert-going fans in particular. They were also considered the unofficial version the Tatsunoko, the fandom of former hololive talent Kiryu Coco until the introduction of actual Tatsunoko enemies in Version 0.7.

Tatsunoko

The final official artwork of Kiryu Coco with a Chungus-face Tatsunoko accompanying her for her next journey

Tatsunoko (たつのこ) are fans of Kiryu Coco. Their face, similar to the Otaku enemies, are based on the ( :^ ) ) emoticon face popularized by the "Quantum Chicken Soup Grass Big Chungus" meme by Reddit user u/Archdarck. They are depicted in HoloCure as suits wearing yakuza-inspired suits which likely referenced their other name, Kiryu-kai (桐生会, Kiryu Clan), which is based on Coco's love of yakuza media.

• The name Tatsunoko might have been derived from the kanji 竜の子 (Tatsu no Ko) which can be translated as Children of Dragon.

Heimin

Heimin (へい民) are fans of Amane Kanata. Their name is likely a Japanese pun combine common greeting Hey (transliterate as へい (hei)) and Heimin (平民, Plebeian/Commoner). Their in-game mascot is an original design that is a simplified version of Upao.

Tokoyami Kenzoku

Tokoyami Kenzoku (常闇眷属, Kin/Family of Tokoyami) are fans of Tokoyami Towa. Their in-game design is a HoloCure original that is likely based on Towa's familiar/mascot Bibi (See: Tokoyami Towa#Trivia).