Yuikawa Hinami

Yuikawa Hinami (Japanese: 由比河ひなみ) is a Japanese-speaking virtual YouTuber trainee in mekPark, a talent training program run by COVER Corporation, the company that operates hololive. She is one of the three members of the unit ACHRORA. She is known for her chick motif, and she was the first ACHRORA member to collaborate with a mekPark talent from outside her own unit.

Profile

Item	Detail
Debut	26 June 2026 (first ACHRORA stream)
Birthday	24 August
Zodiac sign	Virgo
Program	mekPark (COVER Corporation)
Unit	ACHRORA
Unit members	Sumishio Sayana, Rumigaki Rirara
Nicknames	Hina-chan, Yuihina
Emoji	Chick
Language	Japanese

Career

Before the members' debut, mekPark announced ACHRORA on its official website as a three-member VTuber unit made up of Sumishio Sayana, Rumigaki Rirara and Yuikawa Hinami. The project page listed Hinami's birthday as 24 August. Before the first stream, the members were introduced by their given names only, as SAYANA, RIRARA and HINAMI.

On 26 June 2026, the three trainees held their first stream on ACHRORA's shared YouTube channel. During that stream they revealed their full names, and Hinami was introduced as Yuikawa Hinami. ACHRORA was the second mekPark unit to debut, following UNIT B, which had debuted about a month earlier. VTuber news coverage at the time described ACHRORA as a new trainee group connected to hololive.

On 23 July 2026, Hinami held a talk stream with Kiyosumi Lyra of UNIT B. It was the first time a member of either unit streamed with someone from outside her own unit. It was also the first collaboration between mekPark's first two units.

Activities

Streaming style

Hinami streams in Japanese as part of mekPark's trainee program. ACHRORA's three members do not have their own channels. They share one YouTube channel and one set of social media accounts under the ACHRORA name, so Hinami's solo streams, unit streams and announcements all appear in the same place. Their first stream was a self-introduction broadcast where the members said they would talk a lot. Since debuting, Hinami has done solo streams and collaborations, including the talk stream with UNIT B's Kiyosumi Lyra. Commentary on the debut noted that ACHRORA's avatars, unlike UNIT B's, had moving mouths, and described them as somewhere between static PNG images and full Live2D models.

Characteristics

Hinami's personal emoji is a hatching chick, and the chick theme often comes up in her branding and in her interactions with viewers. Fan clips of her streams have joked about "chick allegations" in reference to this motif. Fans and unit materials call her Hina-chan and Yuihina. Her birthday is 24 August, which makes her a Virgo. Within ACHRORA, Sumishio Sayana uses a black heart emoji and Rumigaki Rirara uses a whale emoji, so each member has her own symbol on the shared channel.