VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral After Forgetting to Turn Off Anime's Slightly Meta YouTube Channel, Using the Story's Fictional Company VTuber Live-On's Name, Released a Cover Version of the Popular Anime Hoshimachi covers Suisei's song “Stellar Stellar”. The cover is performed by the main character Awayuki Kokorone, who is voiced by Ayane Sakura.
Like an actual VTuber cover, the song is accompanied by a video with illustrations and lyrics. The Awayuki illustrations here are drawn by Maki Machico.
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“Stellar Stellar” is the lead track from Suisei's first full-length album, Still Still Stellar, which was released in September 2021. In January 2023, Hoolive VTuber performed an acoustic version of the song above The First Takewith the video having over 16 million views at the time of writing.
VTuber Legend premiered on July 7 JST (effectively July 8 at 12:30 a.m. JST) in Japan and was streamed overseas by Ani-One Asia and Crunchyroll. The anime is an adaptation of a light novel written by Nana Nanatoand illustrated by Noko Shiokazupublished under KADOKAWA's Fantasia Bunko imprint.
J Novel Club describes the plot as follows:
Yuki Tanaka, a 20-year-old former salary slave, now works alongside her idols: livestreamers at Live-On, one of Japan's top VTuber companies. As the beautiful, well-mannered Awayuki Kokorone, she delivers only the most feminine content. Unfortunately, her subscriber count and savings are at an all-time low. One evening, after Yuki thought she had finished her livestream, she made a few cold remarks—and a lot of crude jokes—while browsing Live-On's video archive. But her viewers heard it all, and clips of her drunken, lewd commentary went viral overnight. Yuki thought her career was over…until her manager revealed that the people at Live-On had been waiting for her all along and gave her permission to drink freely on air. Now free of any false purity, she jumps right into her new “noisy drunk” persona and is welcomed into the fold by her fellow Live-On VTubers, who turn out to be just as crazy as she is! With her views and finances skyrocketing, Yuki’s job—for the first time in her life—is actually fun!
The light novel series began in 2021 and has eight volumes as of November 2023. It is adapted from the manga by Roto Fujisaki.
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Staff
→ Director: Takuya Asaoka (Immoral Guild)
Series creator: Deko Akao (The Case Study of Vanitas)
Character Designer: Reina Iwasaki (The Dawn of the Witch)
Live2D Directing: Live2D JUKU
Live2D Motion Tracker: nizima LIVE
Animation production: TNK
Performer
Ayane Sakura as Awayuki Kokorone
permission Yuu Kobayashi as Sei Utsuki
Sayaka Kikuchi as Chami Yanagase
Poet as Shion Kaminari
Ayaka Ohashi as Nekoma Hirune
Yoko Hikasa as Hareru Asagiri
à Yuu Kobayashi as Sei Utsuki
Source: Official live video and clip channel