Episode 7 – VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral After Forgetting to Flip Off My Stream

Together with her enjoyable affect established and a number of other lovely new kouhai but to mentor, Awa continues to group up on this episode of VTuber Legend. First up this week is everybody’s favourite child, Kaeru. The buildup to this hangout session might be essentially the most fascinating a part of it, because the anime as soon as once more employs its visible gimmick of initially obscuring issues a bit: Awa and Kaeru do not understand who the opposite is till they reveal themselves to one another by some contextual clues and voice recognition. I do not know if that is how issues normally go when VTubers meet IRL, however it feels as if it is smart in context, particularly since Kaeru’s situation when Awa first finds her does not lend itself to formal introductions.

Awa meets Kaeru and the story tells a number of particulars concerning the large child. She all the time appears to favor working as a contract creator, and beforehand tried to make it as a manga artist. Kaeru simply isn’t lower out for a lifetime of extra formal jobs, and reacts with intense disgust and illness to something that even resembles a job interview. It’s a marvel she’s made it this far. She additionally struggles together with her age and the way it impacts her profession prospects. If solely she knew that the age of 30 was in demand. Kaeru might clearly use some actual assist together with her points. Nonetheless, remedy is dear in comparison with doing child role-plays for strangers on-line, which is definitely to make cash.

All the pieces about Kaeru’s story and character is relatable on some degree. Who amongst us hasn’t seen the carefree artistic facade that streamers and VTubers placed on and — with out realizing how a lot work goes into it — wished we might fiddle and play video games for a residing? Kaeru’s embodiment of those wishes and concepts is charming and fascinating in concept however the precise presentation on this a part of the episode is a little bit of a letdown. Her and Awa’s partnership is a primary rehash of the standard prompt-driven chat session – and regardless of that “ultra-mommy” nickname Kaeru claims Awa has, the duo’s chemistry does not appear fairly on the identical degree as earlier routines.

It is superb, it is not annoying or obnoxious or something. However the vignettes they bought into of their dialogue did not give me any large laughs, with loads of it feeling like rehashes of earlier items. It is onerous to make the newborn recreation work with Kaeru when the present simply did one of the weird variations of it with Shion within the earlier episode. That is Kaeru’s total gimmick and another person did it higher than her! Possibly that might feed her defining inferiority advanced, however it’s not one thing VTuber Legend actually stands out. It’s, because it has been, good to see Awa assist a junior, and there’s a genuinely candy second of connection between the 2 on the finish, however it was longer and extra languid than it wanted to get there.

Issues decide up once more within the second half of the episode, with Awa and Chami occurring a date at an amusement park. The setup for that is fairly quirky, as they’re gathering materials for a stream, however it’s not structured like a reside, on-line dialogue. As an alternative, it’s only a deal with to observe them hand around in this real-world setting, getting as much as the anticipated antics. Happening thrill rides, spinning teacups so quick Chami practically pees her pants. , regular stuff. It really works to see Awa merely on a date with certainly one of her many girlfriends – and the facial play on this bit alone ups the enjoyable issue.

There’s additionally a little bit of reflection on this installment. Chami’s crippling social anxiousness causes her to make use of this popping out as an try and develop into extra regular. “Regular” could be a very fluid idea, each in actual life and on this fictional account of anime avatar on-line girls. Completely different persons are going to outline “regular” otherwise, and it’s as much as them whether or not or not they attempt to attain it. In Chami’s case, she largely simply desires to be out in public with out peeing her pants, as her lack of normalcy within the social enviornment has been proven to have an effect on her relationships. Granted, it’s not like Awa is the perfect co-pilot at navigating issues usually, however she tries. As in all issues, at the very least Awa helps her co-stars have enjoyable.

This was a extra subdued episode of VTuber Legend than most. The second half confirmed how that may work, however the earlier half makes it clear that the collection nonetheless has a bit extra to do to actually shine. I feel a personality like Kaeru, like everybody else on this collection with their varied gimmicks, would work higher if he was put in a extra energetic state of affairs, or maybe grouped with extra co-streamers in addition to Awa. That potential for additional escalation is what the remainder of the collection is for, I feel.

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