VTubeers Girl Girl sells concerts, but is it “real”? Depends on who you ask

I am in one The ceremony was sold in Hollywood, and I am only in one place 1200 in addition to the capacity that does not know any of the songs. One of the actions has just ended and all the people around me started chanting and shaking their light sticks. We don’t have to wait: Co Maria, one of the main headlines, appears. Not on the same scene, but on a completely huge screen. (Never appeared at the scene, because she is an exciting anime girl of 66,669 years present only in virtual reality.) Maria begins to sing in Japanese. It seems that the adult next to me is about to tears.

Welcome to The Great Reality, a mini festival at the Fairmont Theater, which brings eight main girls of girls in VTBER from all girls with eyes and hair with IRL musicians. I am here to learn more about the reason for the fans ready to pay $ 180 (a VIP crossroads) to display these procedures personally, instead of paying the price of their homes.

Photo: Erica Hernandez

If you haven’t seen VTuber before, this may be just the subject of time. VTubers was in Japan about a decade ago and hosts everything from online climate stations to the launch of iPhone, but they have increased the popularity of Japan in Coveid Arnantine. If you want to see anything online – play, date, date – there is a VTuber version of it. This is the name Portmanteau from “YouTube Virtual Youtube”, as it appears, it is a life or video created, but instead of showing his face, the audience sees a two -dimensional or 3D virtual icon.

Technically, VTuber can have any look or theme (my favorite: a previous jacket in the prison bar that talks about the crime organizing real life), but the most popular are anime girls with beautiful sounds. Some of these VTubers also sing, from the simple Caruch currents to full music films. If VTBER is great enough, fans can also listen to most of the main music players. Market grows: Last week, the main VTuber Hololive agency has launched a standard sign. This will bring us back to the ceremony.

In almost most of the three plays, there are three human musicians on stage: one drama player, one bass and a guitar accompanying anime girls procession that appears on huge screens (one in the middle, two on the right and left). These two DJs, Mono Monte, a purple hair that moves from the house to Gabbar, and Joan, can be mixed with a real human being who appears on the stage to close the night with a more pleasant group, easily in any strange music. But the flesh of this show is what the cross listener can only call “anime music”, and sometimes for songs that come from ridiculous patterns (Isa Corva: “I hate coriander, my love / I hate you as much as I hate coriander, my loveCottailva as much as the link in rap:I shout on my country / love my fans“))

Maria, a vampire of anime, began in 2020, only in time when everyone was looking for a parasitic friend, launched fuel popularity in the quarantine. Its content is different from the game to chat with ASMR (sometimes only members) to karaoke, and he also released one service.

I saw some of his currents, but I didn’t know what to expect in his concert. The promotional materials for this event promised that there would be a living human group, but how exactly interacts with them?

So I arrange to talk to him a few days before the show. The video call begins and appears to be like it. I mean this literally: I am talking to the avatar she sees her fans.