General Discussion for Virtual Youtubers / Vtubers / Chuubas - it's okay to be a simp for 2D, just don't thirstpost.

[RainwaterDrop]

IRyS is a fucking monster, Jesus.

Hope has descended... and it's coming for you!

Quotes aside, IRyS is pretty entertaining, being mean is part of her role in this case lol!

Fishman dropped 100 Maple dollars on Pippa

Is that a tip or a bonus? Lol!

So glad now that the council and Irys are around make these full en collabs possible.

Before they were either relying on someone from JP or ID being available and the timezone and language barriers were more of a thing, now we have a full house with way less issues making for more frequent collabs, really worked out!

 

[masterstocking]

Already art is arising from this meeting of the EN minds.

 

[Cubanodun]

Giga Chad Ryugon that barely started this month: banter with the legendary Kson for a while and is a official member of the Kson Gang

VOMS Cashcow and the face of the company:

Our kettle is selling herself to short, she did not had any problem collabing with Ina but i suppose because Ina main area is western and she is mostly in JP circles, collabing with her would be a huge mental hurdle

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

 

[Moth Enjoyer]

https://twitter.com/LaynaLazar/status/1452018720906174464?t=hJmtvFXShghZgXUARJNN7w&s=19
My Oshi will never look at me the same way she looks at xenomorphs......

 

[Fujishiro Nageki]

Pippa's karaoke is fire, I really hope someone will post a link to archive, I'd unironically enjoy relistening it a couple times.

Archive / anonfiles

 

[Takodachi]

Bat really is bad at videogames

 

[Airihead]

Don't think the Rat had much time with Watson. Callie and Kronii popped in quite often though which Ame would just fuck with Callie by telling her she was the killer and that her kill button was on cooldown.

Watson did that to Kronii too i was watching Kronii it was pretty funny to find out Kronii wasn't alone

 

[Diya]

Some interesting moment from the insider. The discussion about her trying not to numberfag and do a chicken aside, it seems as if Pomu is feeling that NijiEN is getting saturated, even more so with the Wave 4 in the horizon? That's how I see it at least.

 

[Rhialtokourai]

At first I thought Gura's salt in the big Among Us collab was due to the large group and the language barrier. Apparently it was neither of those.

- JP Gen 2 before they debuted, had a voice call sort of thing. Originally shion and aqua didn't really mesh that well at first and didn't get on the best (keep in mind they were still like kids back then), but over time over the years as they got older, they came a lot closer and have become the very good friends they are today.

This was interesting because I didn't think Aqua was that close to Shion in age.

Spoiler: Clips

I'm still mystified as to how this thing with Mumei and Suisei started. Collab when though?
(Also Mumei showing that her Japanese is at least above Gura/Watson tier, though she has yet to speak to any JP on stream)

RosenJack

Lamy engine ASMR

Edit: Cat and wolf singing English must be posted

 

[Scuttle]

Some interesting moment from the insider. The discussion about her trying not to numberfag and do a chicken aside, it seems as if Pomu is feeling that NijiEN is getting saturated, even more so with the Wave 4 in the horizon? That's how I see it at least.

It sounds like she knows more about the arrival of Wave 4 than she's letting on, too. We know only 2 weeks separate the cutoff date for their audition but even I would appreciate a January release.

At the very least, I hope Wave 4 is the last for a while so the existing members can intake more fans. Then again, I feel the men are going to attract a completely different audience and Waves 1-3 will be pretty untouched.

 

[Tor Lugosi]

The Gurative

literally a hour in paint.net

 

[ZMOT]

Detective Subaru found the person who cuck Mio fans. Damn thieving cat...

she's the sexy mion advocate, that answer is peak okayu.
the more I see of her the better it gets being a fan of sexy mion is also supreme taste

OOOOFFFF that was a critical hit. Don't think she was expecting that. Fun Fact: if you literally just google "44.5" you will see quite a few results of Aqua show up. Still cant believe she actually that weight, its literally nothing.

it's not so bad when it fits the size:

EDIT; smol meido is smol

 

[Azchan]

Hope has descended... and it's coming for you!

Quotes aside, IRyS is pretty entertaining, being mean is part of her role in this case lol!



Is that a tip or a bonus? Lol!


Before they were either relying on someone from JP or ID being available and the timezone and language barriers were more of a thing, now we have a full house with way less issues making for more frequent collabs, really worked out!

I'm still mystified as to how this thing with Mumei and Suisei started. Collab when though?
(Also Mumei showing that her Japanese is at least above Gura/Watson tier, though she has yet to speak to any JP on stream)

Odd. I thought she did know japanese but yeah now that I think about it I dont think she has spoken it much.

It sounds like she knows more about the arrival of Wave 4 than she's letting on, too. We know only 2 weeks separate the cutoff date for their audition but even I would appreciate a January release.

At the very least, I hope Wave 4 is the last for a while so the existing members can intake more fans. Then again, I feel the men are going to attract a completely different audience and Waves 1-3 will be pretty untouched.

Wait, Wave 4? Shit didn't wave 3 just pop up a week ago?

 

[kukkia]

It sounds like she knows more about the arrival of Wave 4 than she's letting on, too. We know only 2 weeks separate the cutoff date for their audition but even I would appreciate a January release.

At the very least, I hope Wave 4 is the last for a while so the existing members can intake more fans. Then again, I feel the men are going to attract a completely different audience and Waves 1-3 will be pretty untouched.

Anecdotally speaking Niji guys and girls tend to attract mostly different audiences. There is obviously some overlap, and the bulk of the audience for both is mostly male (contrary to some often-repeated, unfounded claims), but the Nijisanji JP and ID fans I know tend to either mostly watch and focus on either the girls or the guys.

I think the male wave is worth getting out because they'll be the first agency with any degree of significant name recognition to debut male EN vtubers. Even the smaller agencies like Prism, Tsunderia, and Phase Connect have stuck with girls. It is a gamble, no doubt, but the floor for their popularity is still likely to be much higher than the current audience male EN indies get, making joining Niji well worth a shot for male indies (even if they get half the views of the girls that would still be many times more than male EN indies currently get). I often hear EN vtube fans say that they would be interested in watching male vtubers but don't know "how to find them" because they're all indies.

If they end up doing better than expected, it'll be something that sets the branch apart. They've been having a lot of success with guys in the JP branch this past year (the top guys regularly out-earn the top Niji girls and even rival top Hololive members in terms of superchats from time to time) and Ha Yun from the latest KR wave has had better growth than his female genmates.

NijiEN will probably never match HoloEN in this market, but if they can establish themselves as a solid second or third it's worth the investment for them. I do think that they should hold off on female waves for a while, probably till mid-2022 or so IMO.

 

[ZMOT]

I'm honestly kind of amazed that Cover hasn't made a Hololive gacha. Not sure why, but it seems like something that a company with a bunch of Vtubers would do. I don't know why I feel that way.

it's easy money but also saturated as fuck, and they're already making bank as vtubers themselves, they don't really need to be characters in a game for that.
even their holoalt thing will probably be "generic" hololive with the chance of haachama stepping on you and miko call you a nigger in vr.

 

[kukkia]

Wait, Wave 4? Shit didn't wave 3 just pop up a week ago?

There were two auditions in the summer - one male, one female. Wave 3 came from the female audition (which ended first). Wave 4 will likely be an all-male wave.

 

[Just a Basic Plebian]

Spoiler: Just some clips from the HoloEN collab

1) IRyS kills the council

2) Whatever the fuck happens in Bae's meeting:

Gura POV

Kronii POV

Mumei POV

Bae's POV

3) Gura the harmless

4) All deaths + Ina's kills

Ina's kills:

Gotta say that as a shrimp, seems like Gura is using the salt from a year ago as fuel to win. Ngl, the last round was pretty clutch and epic.

---

New hologra episode:

Fucking meta episode, but the small Mio is cute

 

[Scuttle]

Wait, Wave 4? Shit didn't wave 3 just pop up a week ago?

It hasn't been formally announced but we know it's coming. Wave 3 auditions arrived in June at the same time as a 'male audition' or audition for male characters (could end up having a female voice actress behind them I guess).

The only thing is that Wave 3 had 4 designs complete and ready to go at the time of the audition announcement, whereas the corresponding male audition did not. It's possible that Anycolor weren't expecting a demand for men given HoloMyth's success and therefore didn't have anything set in stone. This could also mean that their debut is farther away because, even if they have selected the auditionees, they haven't necessarily got their designs and rigging complete. This is why I think we won't see them until next year.

 

[kuuu]

New hologra episode:

Smol Mio sure is cute. So is smug Flare.
But what the fuck have they done to their mouths?
That level of cartooney is a bit too much.