Sakura Miko
Sakura Miko is a Japanese virtual YouTuber affiliated with Hololive Production. She is part of Hololive Generation 0 alongside Tokino Sora, AZKi, Roboco-san, and Hoshimachi Suisei. She debuted on August1, 2018, and has amassed over 2million subscribers on YouTube.
Career
Sakura Miko debuted on August1, 2018. Her character was illustrated by Yuichi Tanaka. She started being a VTuber—an online entertainer who uses a virtual avatar generated using computer graphics—because she saw Tokino Sora and Kizuna Ai. She debuted under the Cover Corporation. She became part of Hololive Productions 0th generation member in December. She took a three-month break in July 2020 due to poor health. She reached 1million subscribers in April 2021, being 14th in Hololive to do so. In 2022, in a survey conducted by the app "Simeji", Sakura Miko ranked eighth on the "Top 10 Favorite VTubers chosen by Gen Z".In January 2023, she and Usada Pekora collaborated on the song "Mosh Race". In February, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government appointed Sakura Miko as one of the 16 Tokyo Tourism Ambassadors.
In March 2024, she released her song "Kyun Kyun Miko Kyun", written by the Vocaloid producer Kinoshita. In April, she released her song "Nyahello World" to celebrate hitting 2million subscribers on YouTube, the sixth in the Hololive to do so. In September, she released her first full album, flower rhapsody, which talks about her "true self" and "feelings for you". In October, she charted 21st in Billboard Japans Artist 100. In December, Sakura Miko was featured as examples in the research paper "Structural stability and thermodynamics of artistic composition" published in the PNAS journal.
She became the top three most watched streamer for January 2025 with 5.13million hours of watch time according to Stream Charts.