Aqua's chat was getting a ton of spam from EN idiots, trolls, and the good-old CCPCucks. She never acknowledged anything, and then there was a discord ping.:
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No tears or pleading, just went straight for the kill switch. Edit: It seemed to work.
You know, yesterday, she mentioned how in school she would finish tests really early and spend class-time just doodling and sleeping. Not really what you would expect from Baqua. These streams have been a bit of a gold-mine recently with her sharing a lot more.
I used to do the same thing back in school, usually on tests that are easy or subjects I'm very good at. This implies that Baqua is very confident on her tests, which, because of the nature of tests on East Asian countries, suggests she's very smart
Lulu shows up on Honhima anime again but adamantly refused to make a peep on her own channel, it's been more than a month already.
Also Yashiro appears on his daughter anime now. The rest of Dokuzuhonsha is an eventuality,
The holo girls solving a murder mystery at the hot spring. It's pretty entertaining if you're into trpg.
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One of them is not like the other
Oh, I thought they were streaming a weird RP free chat like the 3rd gen online offline collab. Damn, now I need to watch them
Also, probably the closest to her real voice you're going to hear since a year later she started using the type of voice we know today. Wouldn't mind if she pulled out this voice for her ASMR streams.
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Siren huh, a very interesting choice of game there
In the same way that D&D is *the* definitive TRPG of the US and The Dark Eye is *the* definitive TRPG of Germany, Call of Cthulhu is *the* definitive TRPG of Japan. When you say the word 'TRPG' to a Japanese person, it's what everyone imagines.
Japan didn't have much of a native TRPG culture (outside of a few niche games like Sword World) until replays of Call of Cthulhu sessions started blowing up on niconico and youtube in the early 2000s, at which point it became one of those weird otaku mainstays almost overnight. Some people think it's because Japanese people have a predilection for urban fantasy and horror. Me, personally, I think it's because WotC is incapable of publishing books that don't make Japanese bookstore owners shit themselves in fear over lost shelf space.
Yes. Actually a lot of Japanese media was. Allegedly a lot of the foundations of the Nasuverse spun out of a series of World of Darkness games Kinoko Nasu played during the 90s.
And therein is kind of a clue as to why TRPGs were so niche - the dice. Until the advent of online shipping, getting a hold of a set of polyhedral dice to play most of the games was nearly impossible in Japan (for reference, even in the 90s I could walk into most major bookstores in the US and get a set). You could find standard six-sided dice to play games like WoD or Sword World, but playing something like CoC or D&D was out of the question. Then in the 2000s, possibly encouraged in part by resurgence of interest in TRPGs in the west (with the 3rd edition of D&D and the OGL) and in part by an increasing awareness of the hobby in otaku subculture, more people started taking to it.
Fun fact: Similar to how we have tourists in the west who exclusively consume TRPG content through shows like Critical Role or The Adventure Zone, there's long been a 'Replay' culture in Japan wherein most people with awareness of the hobby consume it via transcribed game sessions with illustrations.
Before CoC, there was Lodoss War. It was so huge it basically became the DnD equivalent of influence in the fantasy genre in Japan. You know those tropes in fantasy anime or light novels? Those can be traced back to Lodoss War most of the time.
I think the RPG that's more popular in Japan are the system that favors roleplaying instead of the combat-oriented systems like DnD. In fact, some of the systems there even use cards instead of dice.
Also, a bit of fun fact, instead of the long archive-style of Critical Role, Replays are more of a rewriting of the campaign, with more emphasis on the characters and narratiin instead of the players. Its usually sold as a tool to promote the systems used, as a somekind of a guide for new players. The Replay system was so popular in Japan, in fact, a lot of writers there came from Replay background. Even the Goblin Slayer has roots as a Replay of Pathfinder
Pochi-sensei is hosting another meme stream.
It’s fascinating to see the different meme culture over there. It’s like Coco’s shitpost review except we’re the guest.
If you look at a viral (japanese called it "buzz" for some reason) japanese tweet, you'll often see their taste in meme. Its...weird, really, comparing it to both english/american or Indonesian memes. Its almost like they have a very disunited meme culture in their netsphere, compared to the rest of the world