I hate that this is the latest of the corpo VTubers deciding to leave their company and immediately starting right back up again as an indie, not even bothering to pretend that they are anyone different or trying any kind of really different direction. It just feels a bit cheap. If they'd all started from zero under a different name, completely different artstyle and even a little change in personality, I would be impressed and actually maybe look into them, but they all just change their virtual skinsuits for something that looks ever-so-slightly different and just chug along as if nothing happened three months later. These relaunches make me think, especially of the Hololive girls, did they really leave because they were honestly being suffocated by their corporate personas/management and not able to change their style or have the experiences they really really really wanted to have, or did they do it because they wanted to ride the wave of adoration that indies get and not have to ever deal with a single hurdle or slowdown in their way of doing literally anything at all? Is being in Hololive honestly that much of a unfair thing for you?
She already streamed like once every two months for the past year+ as Gura before the graduation, and I'm not convinced personally that there's a legitimate reason for that rarity. I'd heard "oh, she's scared being the frontrunner of Cover and having so many people to impress" and then she puts all this effort into a rebrand, lets the hype build up, and goes off with 200k viewers on her debut stream with a personality that seems almost deliberately designed to maximize reachability for the Vtuber niche. I'm not sympathetic. This gives me the vibe of a spoiled rich girl being upset because she got the wrong-color of car for her 16th birthday. Being a VTuber, even a corpo one, will usually be one of the most free jobs that you could possibly have, you get to stream pretty much whenever, do pretty much whatever, not many deadlines or forced shit on your plate, but yet that's still too much hassle.
And nu-Gura being a loli specifically, I'm with Null on this one, it disappoints me. Not just because a segment of the fanbase is gonna be ultra-annoying UOOOOOOH CUNNY, but also because, honestly, for me she's not really any different from every other VTuber that is being pushed recently. I can't shake the feeling that instead of being actual women who are showing off their actual personality, they are just playing up being a tropey anime girlfailure just to catch all those lonely desperate men and gobble up their superchats/Twitch donos. They all feel like caricatures and not people, and maybe that's just my brand of autism not reacting well with the whole VTuber concept, but I just don't vibe with her or Doki or Dooby or all the other ones.
There are some VTubers that don't give off this feeling as badly (Tenma from Phase that comes to mind) but man I was really hoping that the biggest VTuber to ever be would actually try something original for a new rebirth, get a look that wasn't the 10,000th anime cute-machine, and for god's sake, stop jumping onto every goddamn flavor of the month. Ugh.
