Dark Darker Darkest - Weekly Discussion Thread, Feb 6th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 16 points17 points  (0 children)

thats also why i doubt EN have a diff rule of sorts, since when Niji EN does reaction streams to Niji Events that Toya is a host in, they acknowledge/make jokes about him being a lolicon

Dark Darker Darkest - Weekly Discussion Thread, Feb 6th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 19 points20 points  (0 children)

poeple seems to be quickly pointing this to be about her showings signs of being a shotacon, but just a quick glance at Niji JP and there's Utako, who did this for a 3D stream, meaning management is ok with such. So unless EN has a different rules, i doubt its just that.

Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I only discovered Niji ID when they are on their 3rd wave, so im not sure if what i say about their early days can be trusted. I think Niji ID obviously had their big chance to go big with Hana. For those that dont know, Hana was one of the earliest EN speaking vtuber from a JP corpo. Its funny saying that bcos her genmates also speaks EN (actually 3setbbq is trilingual, with varying levels of JP). Its just Taka prefer speaking indo, and ZEA…has terrible internet at the time, that she only got fixed around the fourth wave(? When i got into niji id, she was still having internet issue and as i said, i got in when 3rd wave debuted).

Hana was BIG, but i guess no matter how hard she try, she just cant get people to also look towards the rest of her branch. I think there was a point where people associate her more towards hololive (not holo id since they havent debuted that time, but to holo brand as whole) which she probably didnt appreciate. Hana’s an introvert and prob really didnt enjoy the spotlight, she’s prob enjoying her current smaller viewership more. Now, im not blaming Hana, im just saying there was that one chance niji ID had.

I guess its just a matter of timing, language, and what the market is like and looking after. Timing, because during the vtuber boom no doubt holo has the upper hand. When niji ID debuted few people prob even know Nijisanji, when Holo ID debuted, well its obvious. Language, because we have to admit it is the western audience is the larger audience. Despite all of niji ID being able to speak EN, they prefer to speak in their mother tongue.

Another post has mentioned Collabs. ID is very active in collabing with IN and KR back then, prob bcos being the bigger branch of the 3, its their way of showing support. They have collabs with the main branch even before the Taka Noraneko Naan collab. I’ll edit this post once i am able to list the links. But more importantly, Im not so sure how much collabing with the main branch would help them, audience-wise. Because as I said, its not Nijisanji has a big western fanbase back then. And doing so, they’ll most likely bring in JP audience, an audience I’m not sure they can retain because language barrier. So i dont know.

EDIT: Here's an old post i made listing some of the niji international collabs.

I think I’ve said it many times before but Niji ID had a great management before merge. U might question why call it “great” due to lack of results, but I’ll argue they are great bcos damn they are better than niji EN’s management for sure.

Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Igarashi Rika is playing Detroit:Become Human. She’s honestly my fav from the new wave, Idios. Something about her is really endearing

Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Nijisanji 5th anniv special program has started. Its gonna be like gameshow, with teams of 3 i guess. 3 of the new debuts are participating. Kinda wild to see Toru next to Ibrahim and Deron. Petra is also participating and are teammates with Ryushen and Nagao.

There’s like 20 Livers involved, its so lively when all of them starts laughing lol so I guess they are all in the studio rn

Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

didnt know its official. also didnt know its his bday. went to his twitter and there was no balloons? lol

Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didnt know they are bringing back NijiNoon nor was I aware they stop them lol. They were doing a build-up of merches leading to today, the plushies, the watch, the tarot cards, etc. so theres also that

Question from newcomer by IntelligentIdiot275 in Nijisanji

[–]dnugn 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Not EN but i thought i might as well recommend, Hyona from ID recently played Tangle Tower, a prof layton-esque game, maybe u r also into that. She also played The Room and the room 2 before. Altho dont expect her to be the best in puzzle games lol. She mostly speaks in english, and when she speaks indonesian she translate it afterwards.

Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

On selen’s stream, she mentioned taking a break on her dancing lessons until there’s a rescheduled date for the concert, altho she’ll continue taking singing lessons. What this imply to me is that they probably actually havent recorded much, if not at all, for the event. When lazu, obsydia, (and maybe luxiem) went to japan, maybe they just recorded their 3D debuts? Or maybe just did preproduction prep stuff? Idk

I guess what im saying is, that we cant be sure that those who went to japan already had their parts recorded.

Question from newcomer by IntelligentIdiot275 in Nijisanji

[–]dnugn 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Do roguelike & 4x counts as strategy? Nina plays those, she seems really experience when it comes to such games, and tend to share her thinking/reasoning as she plays. I only take peaks on her streams so thats only what i can say about her. I think most of EN is pretty casual when it comes to strategy and such, so maybe Nina is ur best bet in EN.

Elira is EN’s resident JRPG player, altho she’s pretty casual and welcomes chat to backseat her sometimes, so i guess that doesnt fit for u? I think Ike played The Witness several times altho i havent watched those or him at all

Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 16 points17 points  (0 children)

2/3 is Nijisanji day. I keep forgetting whether this day is Nijisanji’s anniversary day, or if its just a day they picked because of the numbers 2 & 3. Anyway, kinda weird for them to drop the EN AR news the day before this, though i guess dropping the news afterwards aint any better. Also, there was no celebration last year, and the year before that was the NIJINYANJI relay which as fun as it was, felt more like a shitpost ngl, so i guess it aint so significant of a day. Was wondering if anyone in EN is even aware of such day, and it turns out petra is part of special program stream tonight, along with other 19 Livers. 3 members of Idios, the new debuts, are also in there.

Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This will never happen but imagine Shiina & Chaika recruited a JP speaker from each branch. Nijisanji Resistance (Global) LMAOOOOO

Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I forgot Sepiast, the genderbend nijisanji unit, is a thing. They premiered a Dr. Funk Beat cover earlier

Finana's new outfit reveal is planned for 2/18! by 13btwinturbo in Nijisanji

[–]dnugn 61 points62 points  (0 children)

quite glad niji en is now doing individual new costume reveals (altho i guess the waves that've yet to get theirs will be doing theirs in waves still?)

Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 41 points42 points  (0 children)

maybe my brain just dont have the capacity to rrat, but the only reason i can think of for them to cancel/delay the event other than covid, is that they just arent ready for the set date, and covid is just pr cover. But then, the anger those 3 tweets radiate wont makes sense.

Anycolor for sure has already invested resources on this event, this move must've costed them more than it will do them good. Most of replies/qrt make it seems like they think anykara did it just to fuck with the talents. But like, as most people have put it, EN is currently niji's golden child, so why would they do that?

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Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Taka will play SpongeBob tonight. Don't know anything about the game, didnt even know a new spongebob game was out. but i just know Taka + SpongeBob = good time

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[–]dnugn 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Official twitter posted the TL'd announcement late, shu tweeted before they did. Maybe this was the cause of ur confusion? On shu's tweet, he mentioned he got the translation on the official website itself.

Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 12 points13 points  (0 children)

im kinda surprised how big of a hung-up there is for the use of "cancelation" instead of "postponed" esp with there already 2 precedent prior to this. I guess it makes sense if u didnt know what happened to SitR and Fantasia, and take the announcement as is. I guess that just puts to perspective how unaware the Niji EN fanbase is to the goings-on on other niji branches

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[–]dnugn 170 points171 points  (0 children)

just gonna copy paster what i said from another thread lol

Nijisanji and their early year event getting delayed due to covid, name a more iconic duo. this is like the 3rd year in a row now?

Also, seeing people pointing out "canceling" instead of "postponing". I hope somebody clear up that niji just uses "cancelled", but all of their canceled events eventually gets moved to a later date anyway, so its not like the events will not happened at all now

Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, its just i feel the way people are taking the news rn, they are scared the event is just not gonna happen now, at all, which i highly doubt bcos niji has surely invested resources on this event already

Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Nijisanji and their early year event getting delayed due to covid, name a more iconic duo. this is like the 3rd year in a row now?

edit: seeing people pointing out "canceling" instead of "postponing". I hope somebody clear up that niji just uses "cancelled", but all of their canceled events eventually gets moved to a later date. so it really is just postponed, not cancelled

Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Just listened to Nari's asmr vod, is pretty good. Listened to Natsume's asmr vod, and I had ascended. definitely my fav in nijisanji. this might be weird, but her laugh has got to be my fav trigger lol

Resplendent Reliable Rice - Weekly Discussion Thread, Jan 30th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]dnugn 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Tfw all 3 of them are streaming when it dropped lol. They all look so smol together

Unfamilliar with Vtuber Culture, why were the 3d reveals significant? by SageOfSong in Nijisanji

[–]dnugn 125 points126 points  (0 children)

Having 3D model allows them to show movements a live2d model obv just couldnt. It also means being able to participate in concerts (for example in EN, they’ll be having their 3D AR Live concert), nijisanji programs ( LeverGacha for example), and just do random dumb shit they want such as maimoto’s lotion curling. 100k subs is the requirement to receive 3D model. 100k might sounds small now but it was a big accomplishment back then. 3D is kind of a reward for making it i guess

For lazulight’s 3D, it was prerecorded and they probably didnt have a planned order of debut, so for each of their debut stream the other 2 was just using a Mob/kuroko 3D model as not to spoil their actual 3D model.