Character designs were also revealed for the five characters
Kadokawa revealed at the “Fantasia Bunko Daikanshasai Online 2023” livestream event on Saturday, adding more cast for the television anime adaptation of Nana Nanato’s VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after the light novel series Gently Forgot to Turn Off My Stream. The event also revealed that the anime will premiere in 2024.
Cast and character images, including previously revealed cast members, include:
Ayane Sakura as Awayuki Kokorone
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Yū Kobayashi as Sei Utsuki
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Saku Mizuno as Mashiro Irodori
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Machico as Hikari Matsuriya
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Sayaka Kikuchi as Chami Yanagase
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Takuya Asaoka (Immoral Guild, Redo of Healer) is directing the anime at TNK. Deko Akao (Noragami, Komi Can’t Communication) is supervising the script and Reina Iwasaki (The Dawn of the Witch) is designing the characters. Live2D JUKU is responsible for directing Live 2D and nizima LIVE is responsible for tracking Live2D movement.
J-Novel Club licensed the novel and describes the story:
Twenty-year-old former wage slave Yuki Tanaka now works alongside his idols: streamer Live-On, one of Japan’s top VTuber companies. As the beautiful, elegant Awayuki Kokorone, she delivers only the most feminine content. Unfortunately, her subscriber count and savings are at their lowest.
One evening, after Yuki thought she was finished with the live stream, she said a few cold sentences—and many crude jokes—while watching Live-On’s video archive. But her viewers heard it all, and clips of her raunchy, drunken comments went viral overnight. Yuki thinks her career is over…until her manager reveals that everyone at Live-On has been waiting for her for a long time and allows her to drink freely on television.
Now completely free. Feigning innocence, she jumps right into her new “noisy drunk” persona and is welcomed into the group by her fellow Live-On VTubers, who turn out to be just as crazy as she is! With her perspective and finances skyrocketing, Yuki’s job—for the first time in her life—is actually exciting!
Nanato launched the novel series with illustrations by Siokazunoko in 2021. Roto Fujisaki launched the manga adaptation in Kadokawa’s Comp Ace magazine on August 25.
Source: Press release, Fantasia Bunko Daikanshasai 2023 Online live stream
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