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Seeing Axel's mask again reminded me of a question I've had before: will we ever see a full face mask vtuber, specifically in Hololive or Nijisanji?
Who needs a masked vtuber in Hololive and Nijisanji when we got POLAR? The hottest sensation part of the Metaverse. A totally original concept of a virtual popstar that will have virtual concerts.
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I feel like this past week nothing really happened related to Vtubing. I guess everyone and their mothers debutting at the same time around 3 weeks ago + Sana graduation served as a sensory overload when it comes to the industry as a whole.
 
And i do admit this is happening to the nijis too, but that's just how it is, the more popular they get the more expectations will be put on them to be better than the competition, you don't get to be the cool hipster alternative to the evil holos forever.
Interestingly, if you look at the thread during the time period LazuLight was announced, there were plenty of discussions about Cover possibly releasing EN2 to 'completely kill off their competition'. You could say that the fact you even regard NijiEN as the 'cool hipster alternative' is a sign that Council didn't meet those expectations from thread regulars, or NijiEN exceeded expectations of thread regulars, or both.

And while I think that the discussion of company expectations and numburz has more nuance to it than what seems to be acknowledged in today's thread sperging, we are essentially talking about exactly how shiny a person's golden ticket is relative to the shininess of others' golden tickets. It is also worthy of note that, unless you are Square Enix, 'not meeting expectations' doesn't necessarily mean 'failure'. Something can still turn a nice profit even if it didn't turn the eye-wateringly high profits they expected. V-Tuber businesses aren't immune to putting the cart before the horse.
 
Who needs a masked vtuber in Hololive and Nijisanji when we got POLAR? The hottest sensation part of the Metaverse. A totally original concept of a virtual popstar that will have virtual concerts.
Yeesh. The "anime vs netflix adaptation" meme isn't an instruction manual, guys.

EDIT: I meantioned Aka a while back. I've enjoyed a couple of her streams. She's about to play some Half Life (that's right, not Black Mesa, not Half Life 2, the original Half Life).

EDIT: She has no clue what she's doing, but she makes it funny. How did Aka Baka get this far?
 
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Looking at the wiki, looks like:

Myth promo video September 8, 2020
Myth debut September 12, 2020

Council Teaser trailer August 14, 2021
Council deput August 22, 2021

If this is accurate and if HL is doing an EN gen 3, it should be within the next month or so..
The thing your not taking into account with this is that Cover has a tendency to space debuts of their various branches no closer than 3 months apart, for example HololiveID gen 3 debuted at the end of March, Tempus debuted roughly 3 months later. With additional branches, new additions to each branch seem to be coming at a slower pace. So if Hololive EN does debut new talents, it'll likely be mid to late October at the earliest.
 
Everyone was talking about their odd Oshi dreams the other day, and today Pippa is talking about hers, and surprised by her dream job
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And she's house hunting, so the gig she has is finally paying off, I think she found the one, just needs a little sweeping
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I mean I don't know if a suburb of Austin is exactly a redneck paradise. Lake Travis is like the lake everyone in Austin goes to. The ill-fated Trump boat parade from a few years ago was at Lake Travis.
 
Gura will participate in Shion's anniversary live on august 19 (including also Laplus and Aqua)
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Also the official announcement and more infos on the HoloID Cup on august 16. Main stream on Moona's channel with her an Ollie as hosts, team povs from Reine and Anya
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Man the Harimau team is fucking busted with Botan and Amelia there ,reminder Watson put a good fight in the last School tournament
 
I mean I don't know if a suburb of Austin is exactly a redneck paradise. Lake Travis is like the lake everyone in Austin goes to. The ill-fated Trump boat parade from a few years ago was at Lake Travis.
I feel like Pippa would bring the redneck to the area with her, sort of how Zerg create creep wherever they go. You know, you go to bed one night in your normal urban town, and the next day people have a slight tang in their voice. You don't pay it much mind, but more and more you notice strange things, people bathing in a drum that's heated by a campfire underneath, more Daisy Dukes being worn openly, and for some strange reason you have a sudden urge to buy some propane and propane accessories so that you can taste the meat and not the heat. Then one day, out of nowhere, everything returns to normal and the past months or years feel like a strange fever dream, but you can't quite understand why, the only thing that sticks out is that one strange girl with a personal menagerie of animals moved to a different town the other weekend.
 
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Personally I have mixed feelings about this design, it feels both too much and too little all at the same time. Maybe I'm having a hard time liking it since Anya's mama usually has a lighter pastel-y color palette and this seems off to me.
I kinda dig the steampunk adventurer get up
Everyone expected Pippa to be the first 4view on PC, but Tenma just powered through at her own phase.
Pippa has hit over 1k before. Once during the Portugal stream and once during a stream maybe over a month ago but I don't remember which one that was or the circumstances were around it.
 
I kinda dig the steampunk adventurer get up

Pippa has hit over 1k before. Once during the Portugal stream and once during a stream maybe over a month ago but I don't remember which one that was or the circumstances were around it.
I thought she hit 800 or 900 during the Portugal stream? I was not paying that much attention to her numbers at that time, because that was when I first discovered the yabbit

I think the other one you're referring to got bots involved, I remember her stream hit 1.6 or 1.4k.
 
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