/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

Dirty Google translate since EOP faggot here.

Sony Music Labels Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, President: Manabu Tsujino) collaborates with Helixes Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Taito-ku, Tokyo, President: Ryunosuke Shimura) to tell various stories. The traveling VTuber project "VTuber with the past" "VERSEn (reading: verse)" will start on November 1st (Monday).
In recent years, various virtual characters, led by VTuber, have been active on various platforms such as music provision, live distribution, and advertising area activities, and have been widely recognized not only in Japan but also around the world, and are showing great excitement.

"VERSEn" is a VTuber project that goes around various stories, and develops content such as live distribution, animation, music, illustrations, novels, and manga in cross media, and works with users to explore the past, present, and future in the world of "VERSEn". I will spin it as a story.
Some scenes from the anime PV released on November 12 Some scenes from the anime PV released on November 12
Some scenes from the anime PV released on November 12 Some scenes from the anime PV released on November 12

For the production team, "K-ON!" As an animation animation director / character design supervision. Yukiko Horiguchi, who was the character designer / animation director for "Lucky Star", participated in "Do you want Kaguya to tell you?" Akasaka Akasaka, the original author of "The Love Brain Battle of Geniuses", and other gorgeous production teams are also participating.

The first anime PV for "VERSEn" was produced by maxilla, who directed the opening video for "Fate / Grand Order -Absolute Demon Beast Front Babylonia-" and "Darling in the Franxx", and was produced on Friday, November 12th. ) Will be released on the official YouTube channel.


"VERSEn": Story

“The story of girls who connect the world.”

Rin was indulging in fantasy as usual.

Some of the worlds that float on the eyelids as a daydream are close to the real world in which we live, while others are supernatural worlds that are out of the ordinary. Lynn lived in all of that world, and in each world there were five girls who could be called best friends.

One day, each world that slowly collapses as if dragged by something influences each other,

─── Eventually one world collapsed.

And the memories of the five girls who revived in our world.

The truth that awaits the missing memory that leads to Rin.

To get there

The girls begin to tell someone something.

>>12341736
This attempt to make lore will be cringe like HoloCouncil, right?

>Akasaka
>Lucky Star character creator
>Maxilla
Not bad, they are going all out with this
>Greatly lore based
Never mind it's gonna fail

>>12341969
Council is shit because the person who wrote the lore can't write for shit, maybe sony actually hired a good writer to have a still cringe lore but not as bad lore

>>12342133
If they have Akasaka on board the writing will at the very least be INTERESTING, so I'll reserve judgement until they release their shit.

>>12342437
They are just gonna play minecraft and apex at the end of the day anyway.

>>12342666
you dont understand what lore is for

>>12341527
Sony music the ones who killed kagura luna. I supossed they gonna play their so exclusives games without permissions limitation

Can't wait to watch all this investment still crash and burn because they miss the point of why people enjoy vtubers.

>>12343372
It's easier to just buy Cover honestly

>>12341527
>goes around various stories, and develops content such as live distribution, animation, music, illustrations, novels, and manga in cross media,
Sony's going headfirst against holoalt. But without established vtubers. This is just an anime franchise at this point.

>>12344592
Yes of course it's a megacorp they don't understand what made vtubers popular in the first place

>>12344592
So basically just 22/7 but with less(?) Idol faggotery?

>>12344648
It boggles the mind. Nip franchises usually have a hit manga or anime-first already behind them. holoalt's push is in the same vein because holos already print money. Sony has what?

>>12345209
sony money

Wait wasent this called veepig or something hefore

>>12345209
Money, a lot of money. This project could crash and burn in a way that make other companies like Cover or Anycolor bankrupt and Sony would just walk away unscathed. Remember that this is the company that let talent like Kaguya Luna slip away at the of her popularity. Plus this is not the first time they venture to multimedia projects (and won't be the last).

>no men
Don't give a single flying fuck

>>12341527
Still not boosting Gura despite the threat is right around the corner. Why is Cover so retarded?
Most of the holos will be mogged by this and the only way to still be relevant is by keeping the number 1 spot.

>>12345337
I think the project as a whole was VEE, and the recruitment effort was branded as veepigenesis
https://www.sonymusic.co.jp/sd/vee/en/

with this first group being called VERSEn, I'm guessing all groups will start with the letter V.

>>12346969
>thinking Sony's gonna dominated in an already oversaturated market by going the Nijisanji route.
You know, in the console wars, it's not always the one with the best hardware that wins it. Often, it's the one that's more affordable and has more mainstream appeal. What has Sony done for the JP audience lately instead of earn their ire over bad decisions in gaming?

>>12347234
SMEJ is not SIE (Playstation)

>>12343372
Anons really liked Crunchyroll-hime

>>12341527
No one is going to say it? Alright, might as well be me.
Behold the next gura killer

>>12349104
Crunchyroll hime wasn't that corporate produced though

>>12341736
Mucho texto

>Killed Kaguya Luna
>killed 22/7

Do people really not expect them to absolutely murder their vtubers within a few months?

>>12347222
VERSE_n seems like a separate project from VEE. The press release doesn't make any mention of VEE.

>>12349104
Hime had unironically a fanbase for a long time.
However, I feel they approach it may be erronous since she is a corporate mascot. I feel a N-ko would had been better.

>>12341527
Those are going to be some very boring safe designs

>>12349104
i can understand an anime website making their own anime mascot, but why does Sony need one? Are they planning to have them do console reviews or something?

>>12349104
Everyone will bitch about muh Sony and the second they debut everyone's gonna find one of them cute and they'll love her. Many such cases.

Fuck Sony they stole my ideas!

>>12341527
The fuck does Versen mean?

It will flop.

>>12341736
>Akasaka Akasaka, the original author of "The Love Brain Battle of Geniuses", and other gorgeous production teams are also participating.

Aka is the Nisio of the 2020s in that he is overrated and kind of a retard.

>>12350556
>>12341736
>VERSEn (reading: verse)

>>12341527
Who will be the first vtuber to rope after they get forced out of their comfy job when Sony swallows their company and/or crashes and burns and takes the entire industry with it?

>>12350227
>be sonyniggers
>mismanage everything in retarded ways
>involved with early vtubing scene but fuck it up
>in the meantime smaller companies blow up in value on vtubing
>now you want to muscle back into the scene you abandoned now that you realize there's money there and you could have made some

Just the start. The question is if corporations can force their OCs or if the global wider acknowledgement of vtubers will cause a normalfagpocalypse as vtuber becomes as common in parlance as cryptocurrency and cosplay you might hear dripped from your boomer whore mother's mouth as she hears about it on CNN's evening news.

>>12350227
Sony fucking own Aniplex (and its anime studios), and their own star studded music label, anon. They can do any typical vtuber activity while shilling their shit and you probably wouldn't notice.

>>12350227
Seeing as Sony now owns Crunchyroll. They'll roll that Crunch up into this VERES project too soon enough

>>12347234
They will grab those Yoasobi audiences. And then they will compare music with the most popular vtuber in the world, only to find fucking Reflect and King in that channel. Mogged. What an embarrassment.

>SONY

Fuck you sony you trash garbage company, stop censoring your games and give me back Kaguya Luna SHE WAS OURS DAMN IT

>>12341527
Are they targeting Westerners or only Japanese.

>>12351949
Sony Computer or w/e the division Playstation is has nothing to do with this, since this is Sony Music/Aniplex

>>12342823
it just initial character story to get fan artist material to do what ever fan content they want

>>12341527
Is this the holy grail of corporate vtubing?

>>12341736
>K-ON
I'M ALREADY KNEELING.

A lot of newfaggoted tourists might not know this but the hololive model of debuting members in 5ives is greatly inspired by the K-ON. 5 Cute anime girls doing cute anime things.

If Sony follows the hololive model over MaleSanji's sausage fests then holy shit this is gonna be based as fuck. Kneel worthy even. these new Sony chuubas might be worth my time after all.

>>12341527
Sony vtubers? NijiEN/vshojo has new competition on the block. Meanwhile holobros just chilling. Kusa kusa

>>12341969
As long as they don't take it too seriously it won't be cringe.

Can't wait for you guys to become Sony fanboys

>>12352962
Not even close.
Alot of these entertainment companies want get in on the whole 'Metaverse' thing now.
Give it some time, you WILL get Facebook/Instagram chuuba's, you WILL get official vtweeters etc etc.

How the hell is Sony going to buy soul

I can only see this leading to extremely dark places where streamers get exclusivity agreements as the sole authorized performers of various games

see you guys in the next hobby

>>12341736
fuck

>>12354317
Sony lost their soul post PS2 era. One of their key chairman move to anoy company

I hope this doesn't affect the hololive permissions in the future

>>12351616
"this content is not available in your region due to licensing restrictions"
yea they succesfully revived anime piracy that's for sure
>>12351997
>inb4 content subtitled in 16 major languages

>>12356663
Hololive literally never play anything that isn't Minecraft sonthell be fine.

>>12356740
>>inb4 content subtitled in 16 major languages
oh man we’re fucked

They also have Crunchyroll Hime.

>>12341527
I want them to succeed because Sony has money and can give them all the resources, but I am 99% positive they will all be less popular than Nijis, and if they dont make money Sony will just cut them off.

>>12357344
fag

I still have not forgiven them for fucking up Kaguya Luna's career.

>>12341527
Wasn't their initial name/label kinda stupid sounding? Like v-pig or something?

>>12341527
Pretty sure they were teasing 50 debuts. Where are other 45?

>>12357818
Perhaps they're staggering releases, or this is a setup to highlight that project, who knows when it comes to a company as large as Sony Music.

>>12341527
Hololive killer? Hololive killer.
Perhais this is what it takes for YAGOO to fire that parasite Omegatranny just to stay competitive.

This sounds like it could be good.

>>12357017
...that actually might be significant

>>12341527
Those silhouettes aren't exactly filling me with confidence.

why is /vt/ always so afraid of new corporate chuubas? new and fresh content is always good

>>12360817
What’s wrong with them?

>>12360865
They're not afraid of the streamers they're afraid FOR THEM, because SONY is terrible see (Kaguya Luna etc.)

>>12361051
Yes. Sony Music is known to be absolute shit to work with, as far back as Michael Jackson. Kaguya Luna coming out just confirmed that they haven't changed, so its very doubtful that this does anything less than shit things up for everyone involved.

>>12341527
If this doesn't have Sephira then I will Kyoany'ed Sony HQ

>>12360817
Same

>>12349750
I don't think so, if these projects let the vtuber stream Sony game then this Will not crash, and PlayStation had a real fanboy which ngl worry me as they don't have a Limitation on who they attacking, they likely gonna be the next holobronies in this board if Sony ever get an English branch

>>12361307
There's gonna be some desperate 2views who'll do anything to be popular or ones who are new and ignorant that they don't know of the history. I mean quite literally Mori got in Hololive despite knowing almost nothing about it and thinking vtubers were cringe.

>>12341527
I think they're bit late to step in the market.

>>12362418
>Playstation fanboys
Already gone in Japan.

>>12364503
What happened?

>>12364646
Censorshit happens.

>>12364688
NTA, but what form of censorship? General Jap censorship or something else?

>>12364768
Bowing to Lefty western censorship whims, such that the fucking SWITCH has more T&A than Playstation nowadays unless you're fucking TLOSII. All the more niche JP studios that used to be on Playstation in the PS2/3 era had to seriously reconsider what platforms they were developing for.

>>12365306
You forgot the most important part.
They gave the American branch (based in California) complete reigns of that section of the company.
Imagine being a nip fanboy and your Japanese company gives away control to the Americans.

>>12365386
Yea, I did skip over that, didn't I...
Sigh, I mean yes, Sony Music =/= SIE, but it still doesn't breed confidence.

>>12341527
>No Microsoft permission
>No Nintendo permission
What's the point?

>>12367057
Anon Sony Music literally has games on Nintendo and Xbox... There's even a Switch exclusive Fate cooking spinoff

>>12367057
Money talks anon, who says they can't simply offer a decent enough chunk of dosh to ensure permissions?

>>12341527
Holo killer. Holo killer.

>>12356818
>APEX

>>12353882
They are just name dropping and spending. It still relies on the streamer being entertaining, no amount of money will change that.

>>12365306
>TLOSII
Talos principle 2?

>>12368601
Fuck I got the acronym wrong. I meant The Last of Us II, that absolute fucking waste of a game.

>>12342133
>sony actually hired a good writer
hahahah
you're gonna get druckmann and half of them will be men

>>12341527
>4 of them have hoodies with strings hanging off the bottom
>no cunny
lmao this is going to flop harder than I thought

>>12368648
Ah, thought you may have meant something like that.

Depending on how dedicated they are to the concept, they can manufacture a way to make it work. They can force it into tv commercials and other advertisements with barely any cost.

>>12368773
>doesn't understand opportunity cost
>thinks an individual vtuber is worth investing more than $100K per year

so whos the kiara of this gen so we could get the shitposting rolling

>>12368834
They can probably just shoehorn it into stuff they were already going to do, depends on how well the guy in charge of this project can navigate the internal politics of Sony.

>>12341527
Are auditions already over for all 50? Or will they be staggering auditions and debuts for later ones?

>>12368650
Once again sony music isn't sony game division, they're still in japan

>>12360721
i wasnt being sarcastic. its hard to tell some times

>>12369001
Nijisanji factory has just launched so they will probably stagger them after when they "graduate" from that.

>>12341527
5 new flops ok let's gooooooo

>>12341736
>>12341527
the /fgog/ Sony leaker who dropped the FGO localisation like half a year in advance amongst other shit from sony music/aniplex has weighed in on this to claim
>ICE Team, their internal tech wizards that help their first party playstation studios, has helped on the devwork for the facial capture software and models tech for this project.
>each star is being outfitted with 3D capture rigs for fullbody tracking and VR on day 1.
I'm unironically hype as fuck. Them leveraging their gaming brand for the tech could make the most impressively animated and rigged vtubers on the market and force niji and holo to invest in tech upgrades.

>>12368650
Druckmann is an okay writer and easily better than the sperg who dreamed up Irys and the Council's lore
>b-but m-muh joel and m-muh abby
Both great characters, kill yourself.

>>12371049
>holo
>investing on their talents
lol
lmao even

>>12371079
oh wow, an anon with an actual mental illness

>>12371079
IMAGINE SHILLING DRUCKMANN

>>12371049
>>each star is being outfitted with 3D capture rigs for fullbody tracking and VR on day 1.

So basically its gonna be a pain in the ass because you have to suit up every time you stream?

>>12371167
>>12371137
Sorry you don't have the mental acuity to handle even a writer on a midgrade tv serial's level, anons. One day you'll move passed a grade school reading level and be able to enjoy a passable story instead of clinging to whatever juvenile shit you doubtlessly consume.

>>12371341
kek, i refuse to believe that you can be serious about Cuckmann out of all people

>>12371508
>I refuse to believe you can be serious about a guy who made the consensus GOTY of 2020 which is heavily praised by critics and players alike for its writing
Anon you're in a minority if you disagree. A very loud, angry, but still small minority.

>>12341527
Well they will most likely be worked to death, have forced interactions and be pretty soulless. But at least they should all be able to sing.

>>12371659
hahaha holy shit, no way you're actually serious

>>12371049
>>each star is being outfitted with 3D capture rigs for fullbody tracking and VR on day 1.
Hololive is a VR company, they could have done it too. But they didn't because the whole point is to have the stars work their way up. Further, it is not practical to stream in VR at all times. Projekt Melody started out in a VR rig, but once she went PG Youtube on the side she made a 2D rig so that she can stream for longer and be more comfortable in.

I just am not sure Sony learned their lesson, they are acting like Microsoft when they started with the giant Xbox. Throwing money at it is not what is needed.

>>12376304
The only thing that Cover has released to public is a buggy app and janky live2d. The reason why they Cover didn't boast VR or 3D tracking isn't anything grand, it's just because they don't have the resources (be it human, time, and money). You can't compare Sony's resources with anyone in vtubing business except Cygames because they apparently have the most expensive 3D motion capture studio in Japan.

>>12371341
>you'll move passed
Imagine lecturing anyone with this type of spelling

>>12379216
NTA. but the point is the kind of studio you speak of isn't really what cover and nijisanji are going for in the first place, and its sort of what the industry evolved away from (some would say devolved). Unless they're doing preplanned skits or something, the full vr and 3d tracking bit isn't going to add much for their daily streaming if the personalities aren't there. For example, consider covers initial foray into movable arms for sora and miko's models (potentially for home3d?). It was a janky mess, but Miko herself made it absolutely memeable and useful due to her personality, painstakingly built fanbase, and honestly the associated history. This isn't even due to the equipment itself, but because its her, the streamer, whose personality and natural growth promotes even far flung cambodian rug beating forums like this one into using reaction pics like pic related. If you're a boring streamer or look forced though, all of that gear is wasted. Even Kizuna Ai has top of the line gear, and she is not a very competitive streamer these days, relying more on past glory than anything else. The personalities of the streamers, and if they want to take on Hololive then the overall chemistry, will be the absolutely most important thing, with clipper friendliness being a distant 3rd to that and personal talent. Even the scummy route of saving permissions for their exclusive use to 'force' people to watch them for lets plays will likely just backfire into anti campaigns and bad blood with the general vtuber community. All that gear though will be extremely useful for events, like concerts with singing and dancing, or perhaps skits, but that's step 3 or 4, when there is still the question whether they can get through step 1 and 2. No one is gonna care about top tier technology concerts if the person is a literal who or boring. If they try to build their popularity through manga and light novels first, then they have gotten the order wrong, and are essentially leaving the vtubers themselves trapped into acting roles, far more than Hololive talents are for example, and will come off as ingenuine. Basically that gear is a waste of money right now, and meaningless in their ability to compete with Nijisanji and Hololive. Basically their success relies on the same factors that Hololive and Nijisanji
s talents rely on, the strength of their talents, and the strength of their 'box'. So far, they have not impressed on those factors for a long time, and without those it all comes to nothing, a giant waste of money. Granted, they have the money to waste (but someone's head will still roll if it is wasted in such a fashion).

>>12382082
>essentially leaving the vtubers themselves trapped into acting roles, far more than Hololive talents are for example, and will come off as ingenuine.
I feel like a lot of companies get this wrong when casting (looking at you, Council, MyHolo, and Prism). A vast majority of VTuber enjoyers don't watch because it's "anime but with a real person" or whatever artistic bullshit people in suits tell themselves as they sit in their corner office and try to figure out what the kids want these days. It's just livestreaming with a cuter model and some VR-type gimmicks thrown in, and if you don't have an established brand that guarantees success based on nothing but a logo and rubber stamp, then it all comes down to individual talents and personalities. Giving a full 3D/VR rig to a milquetoast streamer won't make them more interesting to watch or listen to in the background. Most people would much rather watch someone with a less-impressive rig but an engaging and entertaining personality. You can add tech and gimmicks later, but you can't add a personality

>>12342133
>>12342823
Fuck off you faggots, there writing lore for fucking minecraft streamers, get your heads out of your asses, this is fucking retarded and pretentious as hell.

>>12353882
I fucking hate you GFE idol niggers so much. You have fucking shit taste and I hate how your weeb asses try to force the "CUTE GIRLS DOING CUTE THINGS" bullshit. I fucking hate your type and it's why /a/ is a fucking shit hole with fucking garbage taste..

>>12382935
people always look at "character design" first before personality though, nobody usually clicks on a basic looking model just to find out their personality and some regardless of engaging personality doesn't even watch either if they don't think the voice matches the model or just don't like their voice at all. Personality and content is what makes people stay but Character design is always the first impression

>>12383358
I absolutely agree, but I wasn't talking about character design. I was specifically referring to the full rig, ie 3D tech with realistic hand motion and VR production quality. While a high-quality rig does help improve your chances of getting noticed, you only need to search Twitch VTubers to find literal 0views with rigs by Iron Vertex or are at least of comparable quality. Obviously Sony will never be that hard up with their millions in advertising budget, but the premise still holds true that authenticity will win out over scripts when you're still trying to find an audience

>>12382935
it depends how its done. Hololive has always had the lore there as a brief description in the beginning, but the talent is free to 'build the body' over that 'skeleton' afterwards, and this is true from gen 0 to en council. All have played with it to one extent or another. But a light novel or manga is continued lore, rather than being used as a base, its being continually developed, so there is no room to 'branch out'. As for Nijisanji JP, I dont follow them, but from what I understand they have no lore to play with whatsoever, its pure character design. Not sure if Niji EN has any lore beyond the designs either, such as a short character description.
But sony to my understanding is basically trying to create their own Hololive Alternative before they have their own Hololive, as a way to promote their Hololive. The order is back asswards. Instead of being something fans will hype about, its something that will lock their chuuba personality in cement. which is untenable for daily streaming. They need to be allowed to inject their own personality into and over their character to be successful (and of course have the personality to inject).

>>12386181
>it depends how its done. Hololive has always had the lore there as a brief description in the beginning, but the talent is free to 'build the body' over that 'skeleton' afterwards, and this is true from gen 0 to en council. All have played with it to one extent or another. But a light novel or manga is continued lore, rather than being used as a base, its being continually developed, so there is no room to 'branch out'.
It's like how Sana's "role as personification of Space is less interesting to me, than her being a bread-loving Australian who would defend the honour of Australian coffee to the death.

People who sign up to Hololive are likely weird people to begin with, so we just have to let that weirdness shine through. The initial lore is just a starting point and the REAL lore is what the fans and the talents ended up creating.

The manga and anime? Yeah, Sony definite got it backwards. Cover is doing the manga project now only after most of the talents have made their own lore.

>>12371341
>praising writing that's worse than a game about blue and black talking hedgehogs
lol, your disingenuous and dishonest guro porn fanfic can't even compete with autism incarnate.

>>12341527
promising start

>>12351892
i only remember luna and pinkypop, who are the others?

>>12371659
based

>>12351949
Just watch pmarusama

>>12389314
>after most of the talents have made their own lore.
Don’t forget Cover’s branding. Hololive Alternative. It’s not even meant to directly represent streamer lore. Marine Alt can have ridiculously serious personality then streamer Marine can just talk about how she went full chuuni during the recording

>>12399143
It's not the same, even if the spirit is there.

>>12341527
The Gura killers are here...

>>12354205
nintendo is better

If this flops, then I wonder if Sony will just buy Hololive.
IIRC they have investors on Cover's board?

>>12353882
A five member group/band/unit/team/generation/project was not conceived by anyone involved with K-on. It wasn't new then or now.

Are all 50 of them women or just the first 5?

>>12406153
how can you be sure that the first 5 are women?

>>12341527
I'll never trust a Sony product again after they relocated to California and started censoring anime tiddies in games on their consoles
Simple as

>>12341736
soulless

>>12380665
That's not a spelling issue, that's a syntax difference between dialects of English. "Move past" always being correct is the Queen's English and not actually adhered to by every variety of it.

Though this shithole is the site where /lit/ards still try to pretend stuff like Scots and AAVE don't count I guess.

>>12405660
I think you're thinking of anykara, cover isn't publicly traded AFAIK.

>>12351892
How uninspiring.

>>12364768
What the god damn fuck is NTA?

>>12408361
Not that Anon.

>>12408361
How new?
>>12408891
Don't spoonfeed

>>12409770
Newfagchama...

>>12409770
>How new?
2006

>>12408891
Is that some plebbit import?