Awesome / VShojo

• Nyanners' original song "Foolish Heart" can certainly qualify as Crowning Music of Awesome, being an Ear Worm with vocal work that really shows off Nyan's singing chops, as well as a sweet sax solo.
• Directly related to the above is Nyan's appearance as a Special Guest on the Kizuna Ai Virtual US Tour that happened shortly after she released "Foolish Heart," where she performed the song live. Of all of the US-based VTubers that the Oyabun could've picked to share the stage with her, she went with our humble Nyan. Taken further when you remember the times that Nyan had mentioned wanting to sing and dance on stage since a young age, meaning that she had fulfilled a lifelong dream in one fell swoop here.
• Fans of both VShojo and hololive who had been clamoring for collaborations between the two finally got their wish in June 2021, where not one but two such collabs managed to get arranged despite many dismissing the idea as impossible.
  • First was a Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics stream with Nyan and Takanashi Kiara.
  • Soon afterward was a chatting stream with Mousey and Calliope Mori.
  • A few months later, Ironmouse would collab with Kureiji Ollie for Speak of the Devil's fourth episode.
• The time Mouse sang every Super Sentai opening in a row, including the second Go-Busters theme and both Akibaranger themes.
• In one YouTube-based stream held by Zen, she, Froot, and Haruka Karibu played Apex Legends together. In their last round, they managed to come out on top as the champions, with Froot getting both the highest damage dealt among the team and the winning kill. What makes this really good is that it was also a "casual charity stream" in which Zen was raising money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, to which Froot had pledged to donate $500 if they won a match, so it was in large part because of her own efforts that she would make good on it.
• In the Twitch Rivals UNO Tournament, Silvervale ended up finishing in third place and Mouse won the tournament.
• For her "4th year streaming anniversary," Mouse held a charity stream for the Immune Deficiency Foundation. She ended up hitting the $10,000 donation goal in less than 15 minutes (as seen here) and ended up raising more than $100,000 for the organization.
• Silver, Mouse. and Nyanners' performance in "VILLS Vol.3" was a huge one for the three girls and VShojo as a company. The three girls entered with an intro animated by Kanauru and proceeded to absolutely floor everyone with the quality of their movements and their performance. It's an especially big one for Mousey, who due to her condition never thought she would ever be able to perform in front of a live audience. But she did, and she performed spendidly.
• Mouse's 2022 subathon is a huge one for her. She managed to stream continuously for more than four weeks (started on February 6 and ended on March 7) despite her condition ^note (her health was a top priority, including sleep), during which several important Twitch records were broken:
  • As of February 11, Mouse became the #1 Viewed Female Streamer by Hours Watched, having racked up a super-impressive 3 million hours watched by her fans.
  • As of February 16, she was also the #1 most subbed female streamer.
  • On February 22, Mouse became the #1 most actively subbed streamer on Twitch overall, after blowing past 91,000 subs. This also placed her (at the time) as the 9th-most-subbed streamer in Twitch history.
  • A special mention to CDawgVA who, at the end of the first week, when Mousey seemed ready to give up (with a little bit over 3 hours left and about all of her strength depleted), got everyone in chat to raise Mousey's timer to about 8 hours ^note (raising the timer required gifting a sub {or subscribing yourself}, donating $5, or giving 500 bits; doing any of these added 15 seconds to the timer) in a span of ten minutes. This allowed Mousey to get some well-deserved rest and keep on going. The moment was so epic it even got animated.
    • Though this was eclipsed by Bubi, who is definitely not voiced by Connor, who managed to "RAISE THE TIMER" to over 24 hours!
  • When the subathon finally ended, Mouse had reached #3 in number of all-time subs, putting her right behind legendary streamer Ninja at #2.
  • Mousey's subathon was so big in fact that it made international news and even had articles on The Bloomberg Report and The Washington Post!
• In May 2022, Ironmouse interviews the one, the only, the man who loves catgirls, Asmongold. What could have been a disastrous collision between two wildly divergent fanbases instead is an insightful three-hour conversation as the pair talk about VTubing, kinks, MMOs, and anime.
  • Mouse's interview show, Speak of the Devil, deserves its own spot in general, with Mouse having been able to not only interview VShojo members and independent VTubers, but famous streamers such as the aforementioned Asmongold, and even VTubers from the likes of hololive and Nijisanji.
• On July 2nd, 2022 at Anime Expo, VShojo revealed their new Japan division, with not only the debut of Nazuna Amemiya, but Kson On Air would be joining, too!
  Kson: HELLO, MOTHERFUCKERS!
• Amemiya Nazuna's debut stream on July 16th, 2022 was a huge success, peaking at 53,000 viewers and never dropping below 40,000, making it the most successful VTuber debut in Twitch history. Especially impressive if you consider the very limited audience for Japanese streamers on Twitch.
  • It's also a moment of awesome for the VShojo technical crew. Nazuna's model had incredible rigging work done, with impressive visual depth for her belly. It also had live subtitles, courtesy of Taishi. In fact, VShojo developed a special translation tool just for her to use it on her streams!
• Ironmouse finally being able to fully sing "When I look at you" in her opera voice shows how much she has progressed. It's especially awesome when you compare it to her previous attempts to sing the song.
• For raising awareness about the importance of plasma donation, and for inspiring countless people to start donating plasma themselves, Ironmouse is now officially a plasma hero!
• Silvervale making a triumphant return after being harassed and doxed over playing Hogwarts Legacy. Essentially telling her abusers to go fuck themselves and get a life. The fact that she managed to return five days after her mental breakdown video was celebrated not only by her fans, but fans of other VTubers as well. Even VShojo-haters supported Silvervale in her stance in standing up to her harassers.
• Ironmouse winning "Best VTuber" at the 2023 Streamer Awards.
• Froot's cover of "Sun Killer" proves that, despite her normally soft and quiet voice, she can become a metal singer and hit those Metal Screams perfectly.
  • Her cover of "115" is possibly even better at showing her vocal range, switching from her normal, soft tone to an aggressive, borderline demonic-sounding voice on a dime.
• After going through a several-months-long grueling audition process and competing with several thousand women, Kson finally manages to achieve one of her life's dreams: getting featured as a hostess in the Yakuza/Like A Dragon game series. She became one of the five finalists in the "Like A Dragon" audition, meaning she will be featured in "Like A Dragon: Gaiden" as a hostess.
  • And then she actually manages to win the Grand Prix! This means that "Like A Dragon 8" will have her featured as a fully realized character^note She is going to be the "madame" who takes care of the main party's base! (Oh, yeah and she also got a check for 1 million yen).
  • When she later breaks down the votes for the Grand Prix it's revealed that it was the Programming Team and the Marketing Team that clinched the win for her^note She was consistently placing second in all other categories up until their votes were counted. The Programming team was really impressed with her Ad Libs which revealed an in-depth knowledge of the series, while the Marketing team was impressed with how long she has been an outspoken fan of the series and how many people got into it because of her.
• After some teases, it was announced in May 2023 that VShojo would be collaborating with Smite - adding six event skins to the game modelled after not only Ironmouse, Kson and Froot,^note for Persephone, Nemesis and Izanami respectively but also one last show from Silvervale, Vei and Nyanners!^note for Skadi, Nu Wa and Serqet respectively
  • And in December, we got a Zentreya skin for Mulan to expand the set!
• In late May 2023, Henya not only managed to generate a Golden Kappa Hype Train^ExplanationHype Trains occur when enough viewers donate, subscribe, and gift subscriptions in a short amount of time, giving everyone who participates unique emotes while also drumming up support for the streamer. Golden Kappa Hype Trains occur after certain level thresholds for streamers with especially large viewer numbers in their stream., but generate one of the biggest ones to date, reaching an unprecedented Level 35.
• Mousey's June 2023 subathon concluded with her reaching 200,000 active subscribers, absolutely smashing her previous record and raising a ton of money for the Immune Deficiency Foundation in the process! ^note Mouse donated 50% of all sub revenue during the subathon, along with all of her donation and merch revenue to the IDF
• On the 13th of July 2023, Mousey was featured on El Nuevo Dia, one of Puerto Rico's biggest newspapers. The article was a full two-page feature and left the interviewer questioning his sense of reality (you can read a very rough screen-translation of the article here).
• To celebrate six years since Mousey began streaming, VShojo worked with Tonari Animation to produce Ironmouse Unleashed - a fully animated lore video featuring every single variant of Mousey and Bubi shown up to that point in an all-out battle against the most evil version of the demon queen yet! It's brief, clocking in at around 6 minutes, but it is a delight to watch, and a huge achievement for everyone involved.
  • The original song to accompany it, Anarchy deserves a mention too as a perfect demonstration of not just Mousey's singing skills, but Bubi's as well!
• The entirety of the Candy Pop Explosion concert was this for the group - five original songs, some covers, and full 3D animated skits to introduce each act, it was clear VShojo wanted to fire on all cylinders for their first pay-per-view concert. Of particular note is Zentreya being able to sing through a Vocaloid-style voice modulator - she's certainly come a long way from her days of communicating through speech bubbles!
  • Each cover Zen has released since then shows the development of that voice modulator, with her covers of "I Really Want to Stay at Your House" (here) and "Face My Fears" (here) being noteworthy examples.
• After a monumental year of streaming, Ironmouse caps it by making history twice over, becoming the first VTuber to be nominated for the category of Content Creator of the Year at the 2023 Game Awards—and then becoming the first VTuber to win it!
  • In the VTuber Awards, Ironmouse won "Miss VTuber" (the category for fashion), "Best Streamed Event" (her subathon) and "VTuber of the Year"! Plus, Melody won "Lewdtuber of the Year" and Henya won the "Rising Star" award!
• Through the collective efforts of Ironmouse and CDawgVA, largely due to the funds they both managed to raise for their cause, the Immune Deficiency Foundation managed to successfully lobby Congress to pass a bill making insurance companies cover primary immune deficiency conditions such as Mousey's CVID. Mousey, by inspiring Connor to take up her cause and raising funds and awareness, really managed to make the lives of thousands of people better.

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