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I still can't believe Kronii was the one who made that UwU cover of Bitch Lasagna. I guess you can say that Fate is one unpredictable thing, or something like that

By the way, this might be unrelated, but because of the thing about Hazbin Hotel changing VA due to Union bs, I've been wondering about something. If one day Cover decided to push further into the idol thing and also made their talents into VA (which I personally suspected they're already doing), would things like Union and shit could prevented that push in the US? As far as I know, Japan doesn't have that, so you can hire pretty much anyone so long as their agencies allowed it. But since Union has a big hand in the industry stateside, could Holomems find success as VAs? This is just a hypothetical question by the way
Who changed in Hazbin?
Kronii adds to the cringe
 
I still can't believe Kronii was the one who made that UwU cover of Bitch Lasagna. I guess you can say that Fate is one unpredictable thing, or something like that

By the way, this might be unrelated, but because of the thing about Hazbin Hotel changing VA due to Union bs, I've been wondering about something. If one day Cover decided to push further into the idol thing and also made their talents into VA (which I personally suspected they're already doing), would things like Union and shit could prevented that push in the US? As far as I know, Japan doesn't have that, so you can hire pretty much anyone so long as their agencies allowed it. But since Union has a big hand in the industry stateside, could Holomems find success as VAs? This is just a hypothetical question by the way
They are already giving them some cameos and smaller roles in anime, Nene did a small part on a horror anime (I think) and Shubaru, Nene and Baqua sang the Jahy Sama ED. There was a cameo by Fubuki and Matsuri on some other anime. As far as vtubing goes there is a colossal middle ground in the skills required for both vtubing and voice acting, having nice vocal and singing skills, which is why some VA's became chuubas, so it's easy to see the girls doing some voice acting in the future!
Which is weird. There are more cowboys in Montana than Texas.
Montana is one of the lesser known states, and Texas even has it's own character archetype with the Southern guys with white suits and cowboy hats lol!

I would say it depends on where the company making whatever they are participating as VAs is located. If it’s something in the US, specifically Hollywood, then Hollywood nepotism would probably win out.
Precisely. Having Hololive in your resume would really help, fuck, if you have some fans in the hiring process you're sure to be hired, but usual Hollywood Horseshit always shows up. It's easier in Japan because Hololive is fucking huge over there, the girls in EN and ID are successful but you won't see Amelia on any buildings, streets decorated with pictures of Ina and trucks going around announcing Calli's new single and other examples of the sort here in the West. They are penetrating the market little by little, and while having say, Fubuki voice a protagonist probably won't be a thing, we can expect a growth in their presence in voice acting!
 
Not exactly but they suck dick at working as a team. They did well in Crab game because it relies more on the individual than the team but got their shit pushed in in the Animal Apex thing.
They were flipflopping because someone promised a 3D model of Pippa if they finished third place
 
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I noticed Selen reads and replies to chat a lot, far more than I expected for someone her size
Now if only she didnt play Apex so FUCKING much

I mean, if you like Selen but don't like Apex you aren't exactly starved for content. Most of her streams aren't Apex. Just looking back at the most recent ones shows this. Granted, this doesn't include Twitch guerrilla streams, but the point still remains that most of her stuff isn't Apex.

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The official Hololive channel has some kind of a Christmas tree stream up, in the same vein as like a fireplace or aquarium channel I guess.
They're playing various Hololive songs, and there's supposed to be some sort of "light show" at 17:00 JST (about 2hr from this post's time).

Various Holos have shown up in chat. Miko even helpfully self-translated for us overseas bros:
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Why the hell would Hollywood hire hololive to voice anything when they can simply hire Chris Pratt?
No but seriously their is 0% chance they get into Hollywood because they are too busy pandering to China and it's billions. Big name movie stars have been doing more and more work in animated movies because it's easier so I doubt there is any room to get in. As a casting director you're really going to tell the higher ups you turned down selena gomez and zendeya being interested in this role for a V-tuber? You'd be fired on the spot.

Funimation is literally nepotism you work as a VA and then get promoted to casting and directing where they bring in their own people. I'm serious multiple younger siblings have be casted this way.

Their best shot is Sentai Filmworks for any VA work, if you can moan you can probably get hired here.
 
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They'll probably get hired for independent games and anime, there's a whole new industry being made right now of people fleeing the big companies. A few of the japanese companies like SEGA would probably hire them too, they fucking LOVE Korone, wouldnt be surprised if she shows up in the new sonic game
 
But since Union has a big hand in the industry stateside, could Holomems find success as VAs? This is just a hypothetical question by the way

Realistically speaking if Hololive does VA work in the US it'll be for anime dubs or games. Movie studios these days just hire celebrities to do voice acting most of the time, and it's not like vtubers are professional voice actors anyways. Most anime dubs are non-union in the US. Funimation, Sentai, Viz are all non-union. A lot of recording is done in Texas precisely because of union laws in that state. Games also tend to be non-union.

Also, while this may get me some flak, the vast majority of vtubers I've heard - Holo and otherwise - would probably not be good voice actors outside of small roles here and there. There are exceptions, but even then they'd probably only do well if typecast very specifically. The few voice actors who've made their way into vtubing are ones who did not have much success as voice actors. Casting vtubers as voice actors works on the same logic as Hollywood's practice of casting celebs as voice actors - it's mostly just about marketing.
 
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So I have a question for people here, out of curiosity.

What do we think of the Dead Beats EP, now that we're a over a year past Calliope's debut, and she's released so much music since then? How would you guys say it holds up?
 
I was listening to Pippa's "aaaa" six month stream while doing some driving yesterday, and she mentioned there's a Phase Connect Minecraft server. Was thinking of getting back into MC during some holiday downtime. Is anyone else in the server? Is it survival-based? Does it have a bunch of obnoxious mods or is it fairly close to the core gameplay?
 
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So I have a question for people here, out of curiosity.

What do we think of the Dead Beats EP, now that we're a over a year past Calliope's debut, and she's released so much music since then? How would you guys say it holds up?
Overall i think only really good song from that EP is Live again. Her non-kayfabe songs are much better like Red, Bully and EoaL.
 
I was listening to Pippa's "aaaa" six month stream while doing some driving yesterday, and she mentioned there's a Phase Connect Minecraft server. Was thinking of getting back into MC during some holiday downtime. Is anyone else in the server? Is it survival-based? Does it have a bunch of obnoxious mods or is it fairly close to the core gameplay?
I'm pretty sure it's a private server, reserved for PC members.
 
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I was listening to Pippa's "aaaa" six month stream while doing some driving yesterday, and she mentioned there's a Phase Connect Minecraft server. Was thinking of getting back into MC during some holiday downtime. Is anyone else in the server? Is it survival-based? Does it have a bunch of obnoxious mods or is it fairly close to the core gameplay?
I'm pretty sure it's a private server, reserved for PC members.
Yeah, it's a community server reserved for supporters who have a $5 membership to any of the talents. In order to get whitelisted on that one, you have to join the Phase-Connect Discord Server with your YouTube account connected so you have access to the supporter channels, and then DM one of the mods so they can whitelist you. I don't play on it myself at all, so I don't really know what goes on there, but that's how you get in to my understanding.
 
how apt.. it's fucking freezing here and Towa and Suisei release a cover about reminiscing about warm summer days lol
hearing the two of them in this cover, you kinda can tell Suisei has the training and the power if she wanted to use it whereas Towa is straight up power. Slight numberfagging but sad that Towa won't hit 1M this year but she's close enough to 900k she might get it before year end, hopefully. And if you're not a subscriber to Towa, you're a goddamn heretic and don't appreciate a good comeback story.

I fear the day Cover finds or originally songwrites a song that all the "great/top" singers (which opinions will vary and I am willing to bet we can descend into depths of autism, MATI, and dumb trying to even sort it out) of all their branches can participate in. Will the fans lose their shit or will it descend into civil war over who did their bit better
 
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