if you're even superficially familiar with vtubers then you've probably heard of hololive, but have you heard of HOLOSTARS?? they're the male branch of hololive and feature over 20 fantastic streamers between JP & EN!!

Holostars EN is separated in two main units: TEMPUS, the "hero's" guild, and ARMIS, the mercenary group. Fans of TEMPUS are called tempura 🍤, fans of ARMIS are called armada 💪, and fans of both and of Holostars overall are known as starmin!🌟

each member of Holostars brings something unique to the table, but you can bet on a couple recurring things: eyewatering comedy! sweaty gaming! chill breaks! a lotta heart! a thin veil of homoeroticism! not really but the tempura and armada fanbases are very gay so maybe a little bit question mark

my oshis on the EN side are 🏹 Josuiji Shinri, 🎩 Gavis Bettel, and 💢 Crimson Ruze, in that order (as a ruzader i am blood-bound to place Ruze last)(this is an inside joke with his audience). Shinri's standing to the right of your screen right now!!

since i already have so many gotdamn lists i figured, why not ALSO list out Historically Significant Streams for the boys? these are the ones i like the most and that i think make great introductions to newcomers! also i really wanted to use the blingies everyone's been making hehehe :) i have a bias for my oshis, but i tried putting a bit of everyone! let's get started!!

as a companion to this webpage, i've prepared a Youtube playlist containing all the below mentioned videos and then some! feel free to give it a look and if you have any suggestions let me know by @'ing or dm'ing me on bluesky! other official or fanmade playslists will be linked as we go :)

technically all the debuts count, but i wanted to give a special shoutout to Altare's debut for being the very first for the EN branch and to Vesper's for being what got me into holostars english ♥ the comments are gone, but you can still see the video here!

Altare and Alban's Terraria collab broke the invisible wall between Hololive EN and Nijisanji EN, which by 2022 had yet to collaborate. This stream was received with a lot of excitement by both communities and remains a very fun watch!! ("he's just like me fr fr")

Judge Magni.

if you're familiar with hololive but not STARS, you probably know of them from the HoloSALT streams! SALT is an acronym that refers to each member, that being Shinigami (Calliope Mori), Alchemist (Magni Dezmond), Librarian (Vesper Noir), and Time (Ouro Kronii). the slew of streams with these four doofuses remains some of the more well known collabs between the boys and girls prior to Magni and Vesper's graduations. Ranivus has condensed summaries for each collab HERE and Rustygamer04 has the streams proper HERE!

the birth of TEAM SNAKE BITE🐍🐍🐍

the 2023 april fool streams, but especially the time where Shinri and Bettel pretended to be each other

Bettel's 2023 Birthday Celebration AKA the introduction of Bettel 2 (his real life twin)(not a bit) who routinely plays with Bettel on Sibling Sundays

Magni's 1.5 model update aka Magni is a genius of vtuber lore

the 2023 Tempus Week streams, with special shout outs to Flay's visual novel, Temprizz, and Bettel's plays (my favorite was Shadow of Six Shooters aka the boys acting as a polycule in shambles for almost half an hour)

Temprizz: ARMIS edition. i rewatch this vod at least once a month. for sustenance

Flay has done at least three HISTORIC streams after which several other vtubers (including some outside hololive productions) followed suit: the huniepop stream. the trouble days stream. the period sim stream. WHICH LED TO SHINRI'S PERIOD SIM STREAM WHICH......no.....i shan't say

IT'S A YEAR IN REVIEWWWWWW

the introduction of the often hated, sometimes loved, but forever iconic Azure Ruze

the NPC stream aka Ruzebow introduction aka Crimzon Ruze is a genius of vtuber lore AND!!! the follow up truck stream here -- for clips of each character in his truck sim stream check out Hincaru's playlist here!!!

WRESTLETUBER 2024!! Featuring the boys as wrestlers and announcers!! Day 1, Day 2

THE 3D SHOWCASES!!!!! AAAH OUR TEMPUS BOYS ARE 3D NOW AUUUUGHHH click on the link to see the playlist and watch the boys put on a fantastic show!!

......why are you still here GO!!!! GO NOW

The Great Chip War of Planet Zoo

APEX LEGENDS - RETURN OF ARMIS

literally any of Bettel's Month in Review streams, like the time Vanguard turned into dogboys, or the time they turned into catboys

the cock-wranglin yeehaw ranch simulator collab

The FIVE HOUR just chatting stream

that time that bettel was so sick he lost his voice and turned the stream into an old timey sepia tone movie. there are few things funnier than seeing someone's avatar clearly fucking losing it with a muted mic

[Watermelon Game /スイカゲーム] HOW BAD COULD IT BE - every now and then i come back to this. this was my Mundial. the drama. the gravitas. the screaming. all over a bunch of fruits. this is cinema to me

Flayon has several lore streams that are really gripping, i don't always catch his streams but i'm always excited to hear what he does with his lore!! here are two streams that i still think about: 【CHURCH OF RUNE】 and 【My 18434th BIRTHDAY STREAM!!!】