/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>3623411
>japanese reactin quickly to trends
dude they still animating in paper

>>3623411
When you can clone Rie Kugimiya you might be able to do this
Until then there's no way a popular seiyuu will waste their time and money on this.

they did with Gold Ship from umamusume
It's probably difficult to reconcile the creator's vision for what a charater should be with what the seiyuu would want to say as that character

>>3623411

>>3623411
how many other animes/mangas/light novels/whatever actually have their main characters visibly age like this?

>>3623466
But what if they earned good money for it? If you only did characters who were already very popular it would earn good money

These kinds of things were done in the past, like Super Sonico was a V-tuber for one point, and I think they even did it for School Days last year.

>>3623506
Why aren't there any pregnant chuuba models?

>>3623411
They wouldn't be able to pay them enough. Unless you only want 2 streams a year kek

>What is Uma Musume and 22/7?

>>3623466
You can hire Rie Tanaka. Who'd gladly play any of her characters on-stream.

>>3623411
They're trying it a bit. One of the girls from Zombieland Saga had a livestream a few weeks ago.

I assume seiyus already win enough money to not consider vtubing worth the effort

>>3623901
Really? Link?

Acting and livestreaming are different skillsets.

>>3623411
I WANNA FUCK MEGUMIN

Yeah dude, great idea
Until megumin says nigger live on youtube

>>3624354
Popular Seiyuus make around 80-150k USD per year with only ones that make it big in music being higher https://rank1-media.com/I0000324/&page=0
A lot of the holos probably have over 10,000 members which by itself is 600,000 a year. Taking into account the youtube cut (30%) and Cover cut (50% of the remaining) that's still ~210k USD annually. If we include superchat income, it's even more

>>3623411
The problem with characters becoming vtubers imo is that vtubing is actually a very demanding job in terms of time commitment, and I doubt you'd find a seiyuu willing to go on for long enough to penetrate the market. If you don't build momentum and constantly produce content, you'll quickly phase out into obscurity. It's not something you can do while also holding onto a full time seiyuu job.

>>3623411
anime characters ARE their voice actors. If their voice actors don't want to do it/are way too popular to do it, then why would they?

That said I remember seeing something about a Lina Inverse Vtuber sometime ago for some one-off stream, idk what happened to that.

>>3623521
I think you underestimate how much money the average VA gets for a starring role playing a character popular enough to get a vtuber. It's way more than the peanuts vtubers make now in superchats. They get money in contracts and additional work which adds up over time.

>>3623411
Japanese companies are way ahead of you; you either aren't following the wrong channels or don't know where to look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfGyLnPJ4qc

>>3623411
Don't give anyone any ideas. If I ever see an official Disney Mickey Mouse vtuber, I'm leaving the planet for good.

>>3625017
Unfortunately, VAs don't actually make that much money from their actual VA roles. Anime in Japan just don't make enough money to pay all the staff well, VAs included. Any extra money made from getting lucky and making a hit show is reinvested into the company to make more shows.
The VAs that make good bank are those that are successful with another gig using their popularity as a springboard. Even then it's usually not that much since the cuts the music industry takes are usually terrible for the performer

>>3625229
Won't be long, anon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frg2KhXWZBA

>>3625357
VA's make huge money in merch and just being cute girls with cute voices
like, a lot more than any vtuber

It's been happening occasionally with promotions. Uzaki has been playing around with it for a couple years now, even before the anime. This one is around when the anime aired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOooviF33Y0

Also they're selling tickets to experience Lina Inverse as a Vtuber through both a VRChat concert and twitcast.

https://gugenka.jp/event/slayers_event.php

Last thing worth mentioning is some seiyuu such as Azusa Tadokoro have simply started doing streaming on their own, without any real need to use an avatar.

>>3625549
I don't think VAs make that much off of merch either. If it's merch for a character they voiced, it's not the Seiyuu, but the merch manufacturer, anime production company, and original source author (if applicable) that will get the cut. If it's an album that they released, it's their record label that would get the most significant cut. If they pivoted to being an idol, it'd be their idol management company that gets the biggest cut.
Based on https://heikinnenshu.jp/creative/seiyu.html the average income for a VA in their 20s is $15,000 a year. It's only the ultra popular voice actors that even break over $100,000 a year. Even Kanahana including all her concerts and roles in anime is estimated to only make $150,000 a year. Only gods like Hayashibara Megumi that made a huge break in the music industry can make $700,000 a year.
I personally think they deserve more, but that's just how the industry is

>>3623506
damascus?

>>3626137
what

>>3623411
You have no idea how much AAA japanese voice actresses cost.

>>3623411
>megumin vtuber
UOOOOOH

>>3625510
I'm more forgiving of Barbie because she's had literally every job already, it's on brand.

But I think about the house of mouse gang doing a squad stream in fortnite and I just taste vomit that won't go away

>>3626395
god damn it

>>3623506
tits too small

>>3623411
Like zombieland saga? Because they did that

There had been vtubers based on anime characters ever since. Karen from Sister Princess also doubles as Dengeki's corporate mascot. There's also African Penguin and Humboldt from Kemono Friends who just debuted a few weeks ago. Heck, even Hello Kitty is a vtuber ever since the Kizuna Ai era and is still active to this day.

wait until AI can do live2d rigging

>>3630412
Just wait until an important Star Wars plot point is only revealed in a vtuber stream.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmYO-WfY7Tasry4D1YB4LJw

>>3623411
>let's get an established voice actress to be a Vtuber
because it worked so well for YUA

They do, but it can't be a full time thing

Rin Tohsaka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Gk1-hESqw

>>3623411
a vtuber would come off as too fake if they try to impersonate an anime character, it's way too hard to act out a role like this and not mess up if you're doing it impromptu for an entire duration of a stream and seiyuus pretty much never do that sort of thing.

>>3631495
does she ever talk about her husband, grape-kun?

>>3632144
You would just have the real voice actor do it.
But the real question is, why the fuck would they want to unless they are retiring from other voice work

>>3632144
I'm going to fill nepnep with my seed until she looks like she ate a dogoo

>>3623411
latechama...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1_4WA6KRXw

*ahem*

Imagine...

Great idea, OP.

>>3623411
Was reading a manga about a female NEET (Neeko wa Tsuruyo or something like that) and a decent amount of chapters into its run, she becomes a Vtuber...
...and the manga gives a link to her youtube channel. It was real. It ran (or is still running) concurrently with the events of the manga. Pretty sick.