Jungle Cat/KemoV
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| Debut | September 9, 2022
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| Phase | Second
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| Nicknames | Gururu, Mama, Jan-san(ジャンさん)
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| Special Skills | gaming, Apex Legends, drawing, horse racing | ||
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| Channel | Youtube Twitch
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| Social Media | @Junglecat_KEMOV
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| Tag | #ぐるの覇者道
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| Art Tag | #ぐるの冒険書
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| Personal Emoji | 🪖🐈 | ||
| Jungle Cat | KF3 | Nexon Game | KemoV | Gallery |
Jungle Cat, more commonly called by her nickname Gururu (ぐるる), is a Virtual YouTuber and part of the KemoV project. As a veteran of the game Apex Legends, she is one of the five members of Kemo-V Next Project, often nicknamed, "Kemono Rangers", or simply Kemoren (けもレン), announced on July 1st, 2022. She forms a gaming-focused team, "Kemono Gamers", alongside Siberian Chipmunk and Brown Long-Eared Bat. The trio is now often called by its nickname Furupan (ふるぱん).
Personality
She has a calm and gentle personality. She speak in a caring, soft and mature voice that many viewers call her "Mama". She is an Apex Legends veteran who can make accurate moves swiftly and confidently, leading her team to victories. Being talented in drawing anime-styled artworks, she not only makes illustrations as livestream content but also cover artworks and emotes for other fellow members.
Greetings
She greets viewers with "N-na~" (んなぁ～) and "Kon-guru" (こんぐる～) and ends her streams with "Otsu-guru~" (おつぐる～) or "Guru Nna-i" (ぐるっなーい).
Regular Streams
She often streams at around 21:00 to 22:00 JST and sometimes at noon. Regular streams include digital drawing and playing games, often Apex Legend, and occasionally discussing horse racing with viewers.
Discography
- Kemono no Kodou, one of the vocals with 9 other KemoV members (March 29, 2024)
- Joyful, first solo original song
Timeline
- July 1, 2022: The KemoV Next Project teaser revealed silhouettes of five new members.
- September 1, 2022: Identity unveiled via Island Fox's livestream and the KemoV Park Staff's tweet, alongside Siberian Chipmunk and Brown Long-Eared Bat.
- September 9, 2022: Her debut stream.
- September 15, 2022: Her first gameplay stream playing "Passpartout: The Starving Artist".
- September 27, 2022: Monetization celebration stream.
- November 15, 2022: First external collab with Project Unitier's Shion (詩夢) playing "Labyrinthine".
- December 18, 2022: She performed in the "Kemono Friends V 1stLive" with all the current KemoV members.
- January 20, 2023: From January 20 to February 17, she participated in a game event of Rise of Kingdoms, "Rise of Oshi" (推し活対抗戦), to compete with three other KemoV members with the help of her fans.
- January 27, 2023: A major external collab with "fingger Group" (fingger部), a comedian/gamer group representing "fingger" which is a participatory game platform. She played against one of the members, Toshiyuki Itakura (板倉俊之), a Japanese comedian and writer.
- February 9, 2023: Membership of her Youtube channel started. On the same day she announced she will began streaming on Twitch as a secondary platform.
- February 12, 2023: Her first time streaming on Twitch. That also marks the very first KemoV stream on the platform.
- March 15, 2023: She announced that she has become Twitch Affiliate.
- September 9, 2023: Celebration stream for her one year anniversary since debut.
- December 4, 2023: Her 3D model debut stream with Coyote, .LIVE's Rikumu (リクム) and Aogiri Koukou (あおぎり高校)'s étra(エトラ) as guests.
- December 16, 2023: She will be performing in the second KemoV live performance, Kemono Friends LIVE (けものフレンズV LIVE♪ かがやきをより強く！), with all the current members.
- December 31, 2023: Celebration stream for reaching 5,000 subscribers on her Youtube channel.
- March 24, 2024: She together with Humboldt Penguin, Island Fox, Caracal and Brown Long-Eared Bat will be representing KemoV to perform at Life Like a Live!7, a three-day online virtual idol concert.
- April 27, 2024: The last full-cast Kemoren collab stream before Siberian Chipmunk graduates.
- October 29, 2024: It's been announced that she will release her first original solo song 'Joyful'. This will be one of the 6 original solos to be released by KemoV for the Kemono Friends live performance on November 9, 2024.
- November 9, 2024: She along with 8 other current KemoV members performed in the Kemono Friends live performance, 'Kemono Friends LIVE Hello Japan!' (けものフレンズLIVE はろー じゃぱん!) at Studio Freedom, Tokyo.
Trivia
- Some fans and members, especially Island Fox also call her by the less-common nickname, Jan-san (ジャンさん).
- Her fans give her the nickname "Mama" because of her voice and the way she speaks.
- She has shown to be good at digital drawing. She has made fan arts of herself, fellow members and also other Vtubers who have collabed with KemoV.
- She loves games, drawing and singing. She is passionate about cars.
- She has good knowledge about horse racing.
- She lives with a couple of cats and she collectively calls them Mabu (マブ), who sometimes hang out in her streaming room, in rare occasions disrupting her streams.
- She dislikes the feeling of falling and really hates tomato.
- She alongside Brown Long-Eared Bat and Siberian Chipmunk forms a gaming-focused trio officially called Kemono gamers. The team is now more often addressed by its nickname, Furupan (ふるぱん), which is abbreviated from "Fluffy Pantsu" (ふるふぃぱんつ).
- Jungle Cat was implemented in the mobile game Kemono Friends 3 some time after her Vtuber debut. However, the voice actress is different from Vtuber Jungle Cat.
Gallery
Jungle Cat's icon.
Jungle Cat's Twitter banner.
Jungle Cat's info card published on KemoV Park Staff Twitter
Jungle Cat's full design reference sheet.
Drawing of Jungle Cat's cat or one of her cats, Mabu.
The official poster for the KemoV 1st Live held on December 18, 2022.
Official art in celebration of reaching 5,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.
The common costume visual of Jungle Cat for the live performance, Life Like a Live!7, in March 2024.
Official artwork for the acrylic stand commemorating the release of KemoV's first CD single "Kemono no Kodou".
The key visual for the Kemono Friends live performance, 'Kemono Friends LIVE Hello Japan!' (けものフレンズLIVE はろー じゃぱん!) held on November 9, 2024, at Studio Freedom, Tokyo.
External Links
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| First Phase | African Penguin • Humboldt Penguin • Island Fox • Coyote • Dire Wolf • Caracal | ||||
| Second Phase | Large-Spotted Genet • Geoffroy's Cat • Brown Long-Eared Bat • Jungle Cat • Siberian Chipmunk | ||||