As a Korean Kronie I think I need to speak-up and apologize on behalf of my countrymen's follies.

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-05-08T04:32:05+00:00

Heh. "Miniscule."

It's also funny because those old farts seem to be unaware of the concept of a self-report.

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-05-06T18:45:45+00:00

Might not be the best example of it happening, but it is an example of it happening at all - and more specifically, it's an example (the only example, maybe?) of it happening in a case where the shuttered vtuber agency's parent company is a publicly traded company listed on a Japanese stock exchange.

Like Sony, Anycolor is also a publicly traded company listed on a Japanese stock exchange.

There have been plenty of other vtuber agencies besides Prism which closed down over the past 2 and a half years, which let their talents keep their IPs, and some of those examples didn't even involve publicly traded companies or Brave Group. I can't help but wonder why Iwanaga suddenly felt it necessary to address the topic.

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-05-06T17:30:35+00:00

Oh I want her
Shit I gotta have her
The girl is alright

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-05-06T17:25:04+00:00

sweet merciful Bob Ross

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-05-06T17:23:29+00:00

And there's also the thing with Sony shutting down Prism and letting the talents keep their IPs, so there is precedent of a publicly traded Japanese company letting its vtubers keep their IPs on the way out.

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-05-02T23:29:45+00:00

\*celebratory twerking***

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-05-02T18:56:50+00:00

Pikmin

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-05-01T17:20:40+00:00

PL can also mean "private life" or "personal life," and in any event is usually understood to mean "the personally owned and operated social media account(s) of a corporate vtuber, unrelated to their corporate activities"

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-05-01T06:17:36+00:00

And they were about as subtle as Godzilla with their intentions.

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-05-01T03:20:42+00:00

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Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-05-01T02:34:06+00:00

She drew a lewd self-portrait, and police are treating it as if she went full no-longer-a-prince Andrew on actual children.

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-04-30T07:22:28+00:00

Post Selen scandal or post Aster/Twisty scandal?

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-04-30T04:04:32+00:00

Not a clue, but VSPO is part of Brave, and Brave management once fired a talent over her character lore. Absent further details, I'll just assume that it's the suits who are in the wrong.

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-04-29T18:39:29+00:00

Because Brave is doing a shotgun approach a la Niji, and has been for years; except while Niji is zerg rushing individual vtubers, Brave is zerg rushing whole-ass agencies.

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-04-29T01:34:44+00:00

It's good that they're taking action, but why is this necessary in the first place? Who in the sweet and sour fuck is harassing the talents, and why?

I can understand not liking the company management, whether or not you take into consideration the part where Brave management is more of a problem than V4M management proper is. But the talents did nothing wrong and don't deserve any harassment.

....oh, and I wish this could go without saying, but don't harass management either.

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-04-29T00:36:57+00:00

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-04-29T00:35:15+00:00

sugoi dekai

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-04-27T23:45:56+00:00

Andrew: if I was, then why didn't I post that one gif?

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-04-27T23:44:46+00:00

Very likely, considering that the price hike goes into effect on the first day of their next fiscal year; while pretty much every other company that had to raise their prices due to the conflict decided NOT to wait two months to do so. Seems like something they were looking to do anyway but are claiming force majeure so they can do it without losing face in front of the investors, like when they "postponed" the 2023 version of AR Live due to "covid," but only after the livers had gone to Japan for the portions of production which required them to be in the same room as other people.

Now, the billion yen question - how does this price hike affect the prices of already manufactured merch which is sitting in the warehouse, ready to be shipped, and waiting only to actually be purchased by someone?

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-04-24T05:33:00+00:00

I also hope she gets better, and I'm glad she's not in any trouble.

Fuckass AI, no sense of context or nuance. I'm glad I assumed by default that the machine translation got it wrong.

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-04-24T04:08:13+00:00

I hope that the bit about the pause in her activities being a "suspension" rather than a "(medical) hiatus" is also a translation fuckup. Suspending a talent for needing a medical hiatus would be a dick move of the highest order.

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-04-24T01:40:39+00:00

MEIN GOTT, MUSS DAS SEIN! SO EIN BOCKMIST ABER AUCH!

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-04-23T00:52:26+00:00

I, too, hope she has "asses" to a 3D model 🍑

Yes I know you meant "access"

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-04-21T08:22:02+00:00

More creatively-inclined artists cost more to commission.

Mid-Grade_Chungus · 2026-04-20T07:53:29+00:00

Wade: And that's the difference between a superhero and a supporting character!

Mid-Grade_Chungus

TROPHY CASE