General V-Tuber thread

Oh, this is pretty cool. A group called Tactical Elysium has been working on a TEMPUS fangame for a while. They put out the finished product, Protostar Twilight, not too long ago. It's a strategy RPG like Fire Emblem, which fits this crew pretty well :p

I can appreciate the candor about both terminations and departures. For the latter, sometimes things just don't work out, and it isn't necessarily somebody's fault, yeah?

Oh! Thanks for sharing! I do like me an SRPG. I do hope it gets onto Holoindie so the group gets some exposure as well.

For Biboo's birthday, Ludokano once again delivered a brainrot of a jem.

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Clip where, for their 4th Anniversary, Area 15 Marsha (Risu) and the gang, Herman (Iofi) and Fitri (Moona) do an interview with the Indonesian public about them.

Edited by terumokou on Apr 16th 2024 at 12:23:58 PM

I like how people realize Biboo was the most justifed being locked up

She sure wasn't lying about driving people mad.

Now we wait to see if THE BRO TUG escapes Biboo's birthday stream to become a true meme

A recent Image Pickin' thread made the decision to limit the images on the hololive character pages to the main pics for each member. It was suggested that the other pics be preserved on an Image Links page, but they were culled without doing that. I'll work on that as I can, but assistance would be appreciated.

Edited by Willbyr on Apr 16th 2024 at 12:03:23 PM

Would you say that Hololive's Noel and Flare have a Tomboy and Girly Girl dynamic, be it the streamers themselves or their characters in the various official publications (HoloGra, official manga, etc.), even if it's downplayed?

Edited by MarqFJA on Apr 16th 2024 at 10:32:33 PM

I wouldn't say so, especially these days. In the early days, maybe, with Danchou (ironically) being the girly one and Flare being the husband-like tomboy, but in general both girls are pretty girly; when they basically did a revamp of their on-screen relationship in 2021 to be closer to how they actually are IRL, the two of them had also spoken out against being described as being "husband and wife" . Flare also felt like being called "cool" or husbandlike as being an uncomfortable burden.

Fair point. But what about their characters' depictions in the various Hololive official media?

Oh, here's something interesting— Nijisanji is doing a big ad campaign in Japan... in a bid to liquidate old merch. The fun part is that it includes stuff from graduated talent. If you ever wanted official merch of Mirei or Gibara, now's your chance!^note Do not do this. They won't even get their 2%; the contract doesn't let them get money past a month after leaving

Edited by Hylarn on Apr 16th 2024 at 5:19:24 AM

"Must pad Q4, must pad Q4, must pad Q4..."

Guess Q4 looks fantastic if they're doing this

What I like is how none of these money-making tactics are repeatable. EN in particular is getting money for Q4 by stealing from Q1

After four months, Crunchyroll Hime is back with an announcement!

...that she's shifting away from purely streaming, and is going to do a mix of produced video and streams on the main Crunchyroll channel (in fact, Hime conducted an interview about a month ago). Hope the new direction goes well. Gonna miss her eclectic taste in games and food talks, though :o

While NijiJP is doing that liquidation sale, NijiEN is opening up regular auditions. That does seem like they're expecting graduations if they're trying to widen the net like this.

Hime's new direction is probably the result of Sony deciding that they don't like being in the vtuber market

While Niji JP is doing that liquidation sale, Niji EN is opening up regular auditions.

Anyone can audition at any time now, huh? I'd expect this is to help counteract their shrinking pool of applicants more than anything

Of course they're not going to like it when they set their expectations at Hololive levels of meteoric success and profitability, got instead much lower but still respectable levels of success and profit margins, and couldn't bring themselves to be content with that over the alternative of abject failure to break even.

Aethel is gonna have surgery

Funniest bit about the Kurosanji JP's new campaign is that it's specifically a "shinseikatsu" campaign.

It literally translates to "new life support" in English, and is meant to be as in "support for new life", but unfortunately, it can also be taken as "life support that is new", which fits Kurosanji a lot more in a hilarious way right now

Edited by ShiningStardust on Apr 16th 2024 at 11:09:54 PM

edit: wrong thread

Edited by terumokou on Apr 16th 2024 at 9:09:18 AM

Of course they're not going to like it when they set their expectations at Hololive levels of meteoric success and profitability, got instead much lower but still respectable levels of success and profit margins, and couldn't bring themselves to be content with that over the alternative of abject failure to break even.

Well, their JP projects have been abjectly failing to break even. Pretty good chance that things are ugly behind the scenes at Vee

I was thinking of Prism Project's recent dissolution.

I guess that raises a good question: Where is the break-even point for a VTuber agency on the 'standard' JP model? Hololive is there, as is Nijisanji. VSPO probably is as well? But I can't think of anyone else who is in that kind of tier, yet there are groups like Nori Pro still chugging along. So is everyone outside of those three (and tbf VSPO might be on thinner ice given Brave Group's spreading itself out across multiple agency projects) slowly heading towards insolvency, or is there a decently stable mid-tier somewhere?

It really depends on what they're doing. If they're just providing a model and one manager per five or so talents, the overhead is pretty minimal and they have to fuck up rather badly to becomes insolvent. If they're advertising heavily, emphasizing 3D, getting crazy with the outfits, or what have you, then things can add up quickly

Also, there's not really a 'standard' JP model. Cover, Anycolor, and Brave Group (the three main players) all have remarkably different business models