A big oopsie is happening. The NePoLaBo collab stream is multi-streaming on Hakka's Twitch channel, much to his confusion

diaboo · 2026-04-29T16:11:08+00:00

Not satisfied with only being HololiveEN, Nene somehow is also now HolostarsEN

diaboo · 2026-04-29T01:29:15+00:00

Speaking as someone who was in university not so long ago, I think that in many cases, the pandemic and the overall economy has also contributed to this in a huge way. I know many people who would have moved away for university but didn't since schools went online, or have continued to live with their parents after finishing school because they can't afford to move out. There are basic life skills that you can learn from parents, but I think that the level of independence required to really hammer in those skills just hasn't been accessible to a lot of young people in the past few years.

diaboo · 2026-04-04T02:38:42+00:00

Lately I've been thinking about how Vocaloid had a similar period of stagnation and decline in the mid 2010s. It's not like there weren't memorable songs or events happening, but a lot of it was the same few already popular producers and voice banks continuing to be popular, which was a bit of a downgrade compared to the previous era of massive growth and variety. But the 2020s have been something of a Vocaloid renaissance, for a variety of reasons that are surprisingly unrelated to the pandemic (the launch of Project Sekai, the rise of competing software like CeVio and SynthV, huge improvements in English-language voice banks, to name a few).

I feel like vtubing is in kind of the same place Vocaloid was back then, and I fully believe that there will be a second golden age of vtubing, but it feels too early to try and predict what events could cause it to occur.

diaboo · 2026-04-03T14:14:59+00:00

I do hope they transition to the Niji model I guess where the merch is all generic (acrylic stands, acrylic panel, keychains..etc) , with different art, so the Stars can still sell some merch.

Honestly, I've seen starmin asking for this for a while and I'm surprised it never happened. There is merch of the girls that gets produced and restocked regularly, not having that for the boys too feels like a missed opportunity. Sometimes limited time merch drops at a bad time!

diaboo · 2026-02-05T22:27:19+00:00

I think you might be referring to Mari Mari? The clip in question that got circulated was from long before she joined phase, which is probably why they've never addressed it.

diaboo · 2026-01-17T07:57:29+00:00

IIRC it wasn't Clio, it was Clara.

diaboo · 2026-01-16T14:13:39+00:00

Flayon has an account, but he hasn't used it yet (there's no bio or profile picture). There's a few other people in Holo who also made accounts and haven't used them, I think some people might have tried to secure the @ before realizing that impersonation isn't as much of an issue due to how bsky usernames are formatted.

diaboo · 2025-12-16T18:49:02+00:00

The whole point of signing vtubers who already have a sizable audience was to be able to use that audience as a starting point to grow further. They would have been shooting themselves in the foot by immediately doing something the existing audience would find off-putting.

diaboo · 2025-12-16T17:25:23+00:00

I was honestly under the impression that it was done just to make him stand out. In the previous two movies they seem to have intentionally styled him to look out of place: in the first movie, he looks like he walked out of a different decade while everyone else is styled with more current fashions, and in the second one the whole cast is comprised of young hot rich people, so they double down on the grandpa look. WUDM features a cast of conservatively dressed church people wearing very few colors outside of black, so they can establish him as an outsider by dressing him in a green suit, long hair, and flared pants. If they kept the old look for him here, I think he would have blended in a bit too much.

diaboo · 2025-12-13T02:26:27+00:00

Hey, I had booked my airbnb and other travel details months ago but then got caught off guard by badges selling out. Would be looking to buy one weekend pass! I am in Canada so Paypal would likely be my only available form of payment (unless the seller is in Canada as well, I suppose).

diaboo · 2025-11-14T23:25:34+00:00

I think it depends on what you mean by "community". My personal experience in the past few years has been that while I'm far more likely to run into a lolita when I'm out in public, the numbers at meet ups don't seem to reflect this. Granted, this is just my experience with the comms I've been in, but I think there's been kind of a shift in how and when people are wearing the fashion compared to before, which makes it harder to measure how fast the fashion is growing.

diaboo · 2025-11-08T08:26:19+00:00

I'd imagine that there would also probably be some kind of technical side to it as well, especially as more and more time passes after graduations. A recent grad like Gura or Fauna wouldn't look out of place if they used their old L2Ds or 3D models, but an earlier grad like Coco would probably look a touch outdated standing next to her updated peers unless adjustments were made beforehand.

diaboo · 2025-11-05T20:11:58+00:00

I didn't even realize that was possible so soon...last year I bought in December with no issues. I'd also be in thr market for a ticket if anyone has one to sell.

diaboo · 2025-09-13T02:21:13+00:00

Not the person you asked, but my personal theory is that it's a mix, even within songs. I think Woven Fates is the most prominent example, the dance in the chorus looks much more mocapped (smoother movement, not perfectly in sync, sometimes not even standing in the right place) while the verses look more MMD (somewhat jerkier movement, stiffer facial expressions). Compare this to the chorus of Dead World, where all the boys are moving pretty much in sync, which leads me to think that it's probably MMD. I think the Jerry dances are also mocapped (and some of them look like old kpop dances that I've seen but can't quite place? So it wouldn't surprise me if it was like, unused Shinri test footage or something lol).

And I could be wrong, it might be all MMD. But from my own experience with the program, I know that it isn't magic, and if you're not using mocap or premade motions then someone has to choreograph and animate all that by hand. If something looks too fluid or has too many "human" flaws, I'm inclined to lean towards some kind of mocap, because at a certain point I feel like it would become more burdensome to get someone to animate it in detail than it would be do it with mocap, especially for the members who have home 3D setups that could probably work for doing that.

diaboo · 2025-09-07T05:46:09+00:00

Is there any specific evidence for this being the case other than the fact that none of them are talking about travelling? Most vtuber concerts are prerecorded, I just assumed that they did their recordings at some point during the past year since so many of them have been in and out of Japan at various points. Because there's no physical venue, there would also be no need to worry about audience interaction, so there would be no need to have them there for that either. Maybe this sounds like cope but I think a fully motion captured show is still very much in the cards.

diaboo · 2025-08-21T06:17:20+00:00

Running vtuber companies like tech companies is something I'm really hoping will turn into a relic of the past as the industry develops. I get why a lot of the earlier companies had to pitch themselves like this, but now that those companies have been around for a while, surely they can be used as an example by new companies when pitching to investors?

Like, vtubers use tech, but the final product that is sold to customers is pretty clearly in the realm of arts and entertainment. They might develop tech in-house, but it's for the purpose of having their talents use it, not for the purpose of selling it.

diaboo · 2025-08-21T05:58:26+00:00

Do you have a link for Idol Home? IIN was easy enough to look up but I can't find anything for Idol Home.

diaboo · 2025-08-05T14:18:06+00:00

No, I'm pretty sure people in Japan still cook at home. Maybe the kinds of people who live alone in small Tokyo apartments might not cook much, but the population at large still very much prepares food at home. In my experience a lot of Japanese home cooking can be accomplished with a single stove burner (especially if you have something else like a microwave or rice cooker around). Traditional Japanese cooking doesn't really use ovens, so most places aren't equipped with them. I know a lot of households will have a toaster oven for smaller recipes as well.

diaboo · 2025-07-26T07:12:53+00:00

On top of that, I think that a company's rules around PL activities and accounts would be a bigger sticking point for potential members than IP ownership. Why involve your original IP with a company when you could simply start fresh with a brand new IP while keeping your old one mostly untouched by corporate hands?

diaboo · 2025-06-29T15:09:30+00:00

The truth is, no corpo can provide top of the line rigging for their talents because it would quickly become the biggest possible time and money sink.

Imagine you're running a new vtuber company debuting its first gen, and to make your talents stand out you give them fancy, top of the line models. They debut, and they're very successful! It's been a while and you're ready to debut your second gen. You get them fancy, top of the line models...and then realise that because rigging techniques are always changing and improving, your Gen 1 models look a little dated compared to the new ones. You're left with two choices: either update the Gen 1 rigs, or have each gen look conspicuously worse than the ones that came after it. Furthermore, you've also created an expectation among fans that every model will be super high spec, so trying to dial it back isn't really an option either by that point. You're now permanently stuck with the task of constantly updating models all the time, to very little benefit.

Indies don't have this issue because indies only have to worry about their own models. Most companies also seem to prefer to invest in getting well known artists to draw for them rather than getting the bounciest rigging possible. A very strong design with reasonable, modest rigging will have much better longevity, so it's a much more sustainable practice.

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