This dancing duck warms my kokoro damn much
Now she's singing Fansa, and I immediately remembered Kaichou
edit: Subaru's singing + dance moves makes me believe that besides Sora and a few, she is a true idol too.
They don't call her Hololive's sun for nothing. She puts
so much effort and heart into everything she does, and it's wonderful to see it paying off!
I'm not going to write down an autistic play-by-play but there's a fascinating back and forth going on in /vt/ questioning who two of the Wave 3 people actually are and I honestly don't know what to make of it.
It's especially funny because the wrench in the works of the 'Hana/Shannon/Lyrica/Marie' was thrown by fucking Selen Tatsuki of all people by saying one of the members wasn't a singer and were nervous about recording.
We know 100% that Lyrica is Millie and it's very likely that Reimu is Marie given her JP competency and laughing at Petra's Spanish, but what's interesting is that people can't actually agree on Shannon being the mommy fox or the higher pitched bird. If Shannon is the bird, then it means Hana didn't get in and there's an unknown person playing the fox.
I'd imagine it's safe to say that the confusion will be cleared up as soon as they debut?
Still glad to hear Lyrica is (essentially) confirmed. The Millie character design is excellent, top-tier even, and I think she'll have a lot of fun with it!
Lyrica will actually be the first VTuber I've ever seen
before and after going corpo, so it'll be interesting hearing a familiar voice from a new model.
Sora basically bringing Ina around her builds/stuff, explaining things like Ina's in a voice chat with her (Sora's def using it to practice her English), and Ina is just vibin and following. Who knew I needed this to exist
This is exactly what I needed to exist -- more JP/EN interactions.
But also for Sora in particular... I posted a clip a few pages back about how Subaru would be nervous to chat "casually" with Sora, and that's mostly around honorifics and polite/impolite language -- well, English doesn't really have those same rigid distinctions, so it's almost a headstart in some ways. And obviously western countries don't have the strict senpai/kouhai culture (although even in the west, junior coworkers can often be shy around seniors/higher-ups).
Sora may not find as close a friendship as she has with Iofi within the EN branch, but I do hope they take advantage of the more casual culture and language to really make her feel welcome. The tour with Ina was a great start, and if Baelz
almost managed to push Sora down a hole during their first meeting, that's a very good sign too!

I was looking at that "Little Witch Nobeta" game that got (very slightly) review-bombed by the bugs for having Hololive voices in it.
This is a feature I personally haven't seen from Steam before -- the reviews were marked as "off-topic" and are removed from the aggregate review scores (there are asterisks at the top too, and tooltips explaining it).
Not sure if this means it was auto-detected by some algorithm, or if someone at Steam actually bothered taking 5 minutes out of their day for such a small indie early access game, but either way it's kinda impressive.
Chink antis, and being completely ineffective at anything - name a more iconic duo!