Shiori Novella

Who is Shiori Novella: Shiori Novella (シオリ・ノヴェラ) is a female English speaking Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive. She debuted in 2023 as part of hololive -Advent-, the third generation of members of hololive English, alongside Koseki Bijou, Nerissa Ravencroft, Fuwawa Abyssgard and Mococo Abyssgard.

Shiori Novella's Profile: "Don't you think that's a wonderful story?" Driven by her thirst for knowledge, Shiori Novella is "The Archiver." She turns her favorite stories and treasured memories into bookmarks and saves them. By misfortune, she was found to have obtained forbidden knowledge within one of her stories and was imprisoned. But to her, that experience itself is but a fascinating story. In order to continue her search for more stories, she planned and executed a prison break.

Shiori Novella's Personality: Shiori can best be described as cheerful and dorky. She's kind-hearted, though she often teases those she is close with, especially her genmates. Her streams are mostly cozy and chill, though she'll often get excited about random things. Shiori is well known among fans for her tangents—rambling discussions about whatever strange topics pop into her head. These can be anything from childhood traumas, to pregnancy, to cannibalism. Fans joke that her manager ("Henmama") is losing sleep and/or sanity trying to keep Shiori from being too unhinged. One of the emotes available to members of Shiori's YouTube channel is a "bonk" emote, to be used whenever viewers think she deserves to be reined in.

Shiori Novella's Physical Description: She has mid length two-tone black and white hair, with some sharp hairpins reminiscent of a shuriken-like weapon. Her eyes are a bright, glowing light yellow. She wears a dark purple and black jacket and dress that has some 'dripping' parts.

Shiori Novella's Background: Following the debut of hololive English second generation -Council-, hololive English announced a permanent English language audition page on 30 December 2021. An update to the audition page on 7 September 2022 sparked speculation of an upcoming English third generation. Shiori first discovered hololive from untranslated YouTube clips of Inugami Korone. She decided to join for various reasons, including her desire to create things. She was with family when she got the acceptance email, and waited for a while before constructing a formal reply. Shiori Novella's YouTube and Twitter accounts were originally created on 11 May 2023, although they contained no content at this point. The third generation of hololive English, -Advent-, was first teased on the hololive English Twitter account with a short video on 22 July 2023. This was followed by another teaser video on 23 July, showing five new characters. On 25 July, the hololive English YouTube channel posted a video titled Wanted!, revealing the five members of -Advent- and announcing their upcoming debuts. At the same time, Shiori also posted a short teaser video and made her first tweet, consisting of a single image. Shiori's Twitter and YouTube accounts were accidentally discovered by some fans several hours prior to the official announcement, although they had no profile pictures or content yet. Her YouTube account received over a thousand subscribers before its official launch. All -Advent- members' YouTube channels reached 100,000 subscribers within twelve hours of the announcement.

Shiori Novella's Lore 1/3: The members of Advent were sealed away in The Cell, a prison deep underground built to hold dangerous people and things. Its location is a closely-guarded secret.

Shiori Novella's Lore 2/3: Shiori was the mastermind behind the -Advent- prison break.

Shiori Novella's Lore 3/3: Her two-tone hair was originally all black, but part of it went grey due to stress from learning too much knowledge.

Shiori Novella's Likes and dislikes 1/8: Her hobbies include piano playing, cooking, photography, feeding strays, daydreaming, listening to audiobooks, reading text adventures, reading visual novels, and playing light sims.

Shiori Novella's Likes and dislikes 2/8: She enjoys taking pictures of insects.

Shiori Novella's Likes and dislikes 3/8: She is able to sight read music.

Shiori Novella's Likes and dislikes 4/8: Her favorite books are The Devil Aspect by Craig Russell, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the Heathcliff Lennox series by Karen Baugh Menuhin, Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon: A Minnesota Mystery by Larry Millett, Hellfire Conspiracy by Will Thomas, The Cthulhu Casebooks 2-3 by James Lovegrove, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith, and Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson. She has read the entire Sherlock Holmes canon, and her favorites of that are The Blue Carbuncle, Hound of the Baskervilles, Charles Augustus Milverton, and Devil's Foot. Her favorite literary genre is mystery.

Shiori Novella's Likes and dislikes 5/8: Her favorite western cartoons are Courage the Cowardly Dog, Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Blue's Clues, Metalocalypse, South Park, Superjail!, and Over the Garden Wall.

Shiori Novella's Likes and dislikes 6/8: Her favorite games are Super Mario Sunshine, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, Harvest Moon: Magical Melody, Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility, and Super Smash Bros Brawl. She also enjoys Dragon Quest XI, Omori, Dragon Quest Builders 2, multiplayer horror games with friends, and My Time at Portia.

Shiori Novella's Likes and dislikes 7/8: She enjoys playing life simulator games for herself, but would rather play more plot-heavy games on stream, as they're more interesting to viewers.

Shiori Novella's Likes and dislikes 8/8: Her "husbandos" are Sherlock Holmes, Dan Heng from Honkai: Star Rail, Scaramouche, Kazuha and Xiao from Genshin Impact, Snufkin from Moomin, Kurapika from Hunter x Hunter, Erik from Dragon Quest XI, Clear from Dramatical Murder, Kaneki Ken from Tokyo Ghoul, and Riku from Kingdom Hearts.

Shiori Novella's Trivia 1/4: She sometimes eats with scissors.

Shiori Novella's Trivia 2/4: She suffers from insomnia and headaches.

Shiori Novella's Trivia 3/4: She used to own over 30 porcelain dolls.

Shiori Novella's Trivia 4/4: She typically doesn't wake up until at least noon.

Cute Bookworm: She's a scatterbrained Perky Goth with an adorable voice who absolutely loves reading, spending most of her debut gushing over the kinds of books she likes.

Drives Like Crazy: You wouldn't expect it from someone as calm as she normally is, but the Advent crew became streamers because she somehow managed to crash their getaway car into the hololive offices.

Perky Goth: She cheerfully calls herself a "hot goth girlfriend". And yes, she likes Hot Topic.

Yandere: Her randomly obsessive nature can veer into this territory from time to time, flipping between flirty and implicitly threatening at the drop of a hat. One of her various tangents had her discuss how during her playthrough of Fable II, Shiori was so enamored by the female worker at a furniture store that post-game, she spent her time protecting her, proposing to her, and showering her with strange gifts, including a remote cottage in the woods for just the two of them. Apparently, when the "furniture woman" had enough and threatened to leave, Shiori killed her so they could be together forever.

Shiori Novella's Gender: Female.

Shiori Novella's Age: "Eye-don't-know"

Shiori Novella's Birthday: 2 May.

Shiori Novella's Height: 163 cm (5'4").

Shiori Novella's Zodiac Sign: Taurus.

Shiori Novella's Fan Name: Novelites.

Shiori Novella's Emoji: 👁‍🗨.