After the recent announcement of Yunli, Jiaoqiu is the next five-star playable character revealed in Honkai Star Rail! Here are the details for the Jiaoqiu drip marketing and official reveal.

Jiaoqiu Drip Marketing and Official Reveal

“No matter how many times I say it, people always forget — cooking is medicine, and making medicine is cooking. Using food to treat the sick is my specialty. As the saying goes, a chef who doesn't want to be a healer isn't worth his salt… or pepper, for that matter,” Jiaoqiu's drip marketing reveal quote reads.

Jiaoqiu is a foxian healer from the Xianzhou Yaoqing and a counselor. He often greets people with a smile, giving the impression of a friendly demeanor. However, Jiaoqiu is also known to be rather cunning.

As for his personal backstory, Jiaoqiu was born into a prestigious Alchemy Commission family. Adding to that, Jiaoqiu once stopped practicing medicine due to a broken heart. However, he returned to the field to treat General Feixiao, who is also known as “the Merlin's Claw”.

From what we can discern from his official drip marketing artwork and reveal, Jiaoqiu's character is centered around combining alchemy and cooking to heal people.

As a student of alchemical prescription, Jiaoqiu is an expert when it comes to viewing food as medicine, especially food that is spicy. Additionally, they invented a cauldron-based medicinal formula known as the “nine-squared grid.”

As of the moment, there is not much to know about Jiaoqiu besides the few snippets of his lore that we got from his official drip marketing and reveal.

When will Jiaoqiu be playable in Honkai Star Rail?

Jiaoqiu is a 5-star Fire character on the Path of Nihility. He is expected to be playable on Honkai Star Rail Version 2.4, which goes live on July 31, 2024.

Who are the Jiaoqiu Voice Actors?

For the English voiceover, Jiaoqiu is voiced by Mark Whitten. You might have heard his voice from the 2016 cartoon Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh, Kyojuro Rengoku's voice in the English dub of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train, or as Dr. Curt Connors from the 2023 Spider-Man 2 game.

As for the Japanese voiceover, Jiaoqiu is voiced by Toshiyuki Toyonaga. Toyonaga played several characters over the years including Mikado Ryugamine in Durarara!!, Yuri Katsuki in Yuri on Ice, Shun Matsuoka in Kimi to Boku, Hideyoshi Nagachika in Tokyo Ghoul, Yuuki Tenpouin in Code:Breaker, Mahiro Fuwa in Blast of Tempest, Takeru Totsuka in Kamigami no Asobi and Goshi Kaneshiro in B-Project.

Besides those two, Lee Jeong Min (이정민) voices the Korean version while Chen Zhang Taikang (陈张太康) is responsible for the Chinese version.

Reactions to Jiaoqiu Drip Marketing and Official Reveal

As with most fans of Honkai Star Rail, Jiaoqiu's drip marketing and official reveal was met with much glee. In fact, there are even fan accounts dedicated for Jiaoqiu that have sprouted like mushrooms on the internet.

As such, here are some of the reactions from Jiaoqiu's drip marketing and official reveal:

“Finally a fox guy,” one user on YouTube comments. Meanwhile, another user enthusiastically comments, “MALE FOX BOY?! TAKE MY MONEY!!!”

On X (formerly Twitter), one user posts, “LOOK AT THAT SMILE I LOVE HIM ALREADY.”

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