Anycolor has finally shared more details on their 'Virtual Talent Academy' (VTA) that they announced about 4 months ago.
They will be debuting 9 members — 5 men and 4 women — in 30min relays on Nov. 4. It's unknown if they'll get their own channel or if they'll all be operating under the main
YouTube Channel for the sake of brevity.
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(From left to right starting from bottom: Misono Satoshi, Amagase Muyu, Fuura Kanato, Ponto Nei, Watarai Hibari, Kaburaki Roko, Shikinagi Akira, Suzumiya Sonata, Umise Yotsuha)
The goal is to give people who are brand new to streaming the opportunity, education, and experience of a V-Tuber, so that they can either go on to join Nijisanji, or at least have the professional experience of working under Anycolor on their résumé to join other corporations. This accomplishes a few things:
1) It alleviates the unofficial 'Experience required' bar to entry most big corporations have; as the likes of Nijisanji and Hololive tend to favour people who already have a history of streaming or content creation.
1a) This essentially protects all of them from having their past lives and identities found out by conventional means, as there is no past life to find.
2) It allows Anycolor to trial people they think have potential in a real streaming environment towards a live audience (it'll probably be much smaller than Nijisanji debuts by design, so I wouldn't expect much cross-promotion).
3) It adds more stability to, and improves the health of, what is a young, 'Wild West' industry by offering literal training programs free of charge (Anycolor is fronting all the costs, it seems).
Overall I think this is a really good initiative. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of skepticism but the worst it can do is not work out. It gives the 'normal' person an opportunity to make a career of themselves, rather than be the unfortunate souls who applied for the same spots as, say, IRyS and Millie Parfait, and didn't stand a chance.
