No idea what's with the cube and error but yay new projects!

Prelude is something to do with IRyS, given all of her imagery in it, and the fact that she's narrating. My guess is that she's working on a concept album covering her backstory, but it could be a number of things (Probably nothing to do with new members, though)

Error is likely going to be a short film or webseries?

OkaKoro being gae IRL

I was going to post that, but Dynasty was down at the time and then I lost the link

...At this point I seriously have to wonder if they've graduated to lovers yet

Two arms, horns... That's Ibaraki-douji, who's not really the same person as Kasen

Stuff Nevri said

I feel like you've decided you hate the series and are working backwards from there? The episode was really good. Great cinematography! Solid animation! Good character writing! It's everything good about the series and little of what's bad

I expected much kinkier from the title

That's obviously a lady

...There's a mini-Hakunon in FGO?

A pairing based on both making it hard to see?

SAKANA

Possible but we don't actually know if this is similar to other companies

I'm not sure how an application requirement of "You will be able to work continuously for at least one year" could mean anything other than there being some sort of regular quota on streaming time

As far as other companies go, I feel like it's best to compare VEE to Hololive and Nijisanji, the current big, openly corporate groups. And they don't seem to do this

Who knows? I don't think any of the people saying this actually know a thing.

Might be a known thing in the music industry? This is being run by Sony's music branch, after all

This! There's a reason why Holo/Niji filter and only hire 3-5 at a time.

Uh. Nijisanji broke 50 in their first year alone. They've scaled way back lately, but

I've heard some really shitty stories about a couple of """"indie groups"""""

One of the weirdest things I've found about vtubing is that the big groups with clear corporate ties treat their members well, while the small, apparently indie groups routinely turn out to be absolutely shitty

I'll still give their talents a shot but I'm worried about them tbh, I hope they get treated well at least.

There's a few weird bits on their website that make me worry. Most notably, the part where they're expected to continuously stream for a year, which tells us that a) they're not going to have full control over their schedules and b) that the initial contracts are for one year. I think it's a fair assumption that the ability to retain name and character doesn't kick in until this initial contract has been completed... which in turn likely means that said contract is pretty bad and they expect the talent to use their new leverage to negotiate something better once it's up

Also there's that bit about debuting over fifty new vtubers. I think this means that they've been given a time limit to produce results if they don't want the project to get cancelled and the expected debut schedule puts them at 50-60 by that point. ...I really doubt that they're being given 5 years, so this is going to be pretty rushed

Haachama's back! And she comes bearing meme reviews!

Other news:

First full-party Mythbreakers session happened. Watoto MVP

Sony opened auditions for a large-scale vtuber project. Be interesting to see how it goes, and I hope they don't damage the market too badly

Oh, a lot of shows are getting delayed. It's just that they're all prime-time and Superstar is only major anime that fits that description at the moment

nah only wholesomeness from these two. Like 70% of the time

The other 30% of the time we get things like Okayu groping Korone's breasts while Korone nibbles on Okayu's ear

Makima!?

Uh, okay. I enjoyed each part of that on it's own, but they do not work well together

Hololive and Nijisansi seem pretty friendly on a whole

At least the JP branches. I'm not sure the EN branches have even acknowledged each other

Corporations: But that's forbidden love

Both corporations involved have lesbian couples among their talents, though?

I mean, you really want more than one breeding pair to revive a species anyway

I forgot to mention the OkaKoro costumes!! They are so cute!!!!!

I'm not sure I actually like either costume, but I appreciate that the concept seems to be 'Okayu just spent the night with Korone'

Watame reached 1M

Kanata's not far behind. Everyone else, though...

I didn't want to name drop lol

No else one here keeps with minor vtubers or vtuber gossip. You really need to name drop if you want people to know what you're talking about. And if you don't want people to know what you're talking about, why bother at all?

Maybe? Her voice is very unique, so it'll be spread around quickly if it's true.

I definitely get the impression that Selen has streamed before. She could well be using a different voice and/or character, though

Rosemi is 100% that one Vtuber I mentioned a few posts ago.

What you're saying still isn't enough information for someone who's not actively into indie EN vtubing to go off of. Her known languages make me think she's Miki, though?

The other 2 are pretty cute too. I heard one of them is also a revived Vtuber but idk.

Would have to be Selen, Petra mentioned that she hasn't streamed before

Let's see... crossover ship, dual persona, competition swimsuits, garter belts... not the highest amount of fetishes I've seen in one image, but up there

Hm, Aquatope. On one hand, the OP has a ton of romantic imagery between the leads (both female). On the other, we haven't seen much of that in the show itself, and one of the few male characters seems to have a crush on one of the girls. On the third hand, the other major male character seems to be into him

…I feel like I've seen the figure that Blackbeard is holding before…

Iroha, from Samurai Shodown/Samurai Spirits

NijisanjiEN getting little sisters/kohais/genmates?

I wonder if there's going to be a male group? Nijisanji being monogender is weird

Speaking of IRyS, anyone else get an uncanny feeling from her avatar? Something about the way she moves just creeps me out a little bit.

Her rigging is pretty good, I think the issue is that her design is unusually realistic

Fucked up. I enjoyed it