Anime VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral After Forgot to Turn Off My Stream will premiere this coming July, as announced along with the first trailer and details about additional cast members. Studio TNK (Highschool DxD, Redo of Healer, School Days) is making the film under the direction of Takuya Asaoka (Redo of Healer, Futoku no Guild).
Deko Akao is writing the series and Reina Iwasaka is designing the characters. The cast lineup, with new additions, includes:
- Ayane Sakura plays Awayuki Kokorone
- Yu Kobayashi as Sei Utsuki
- Saku Mizuno plays Mashiro Irodori
- Machico as Hikari Matsuriya
- Sayaka Kikuchi as Chami Yanagase
- Sumire Morohoshi as Shion Kannari
- Ayaka Ohashi plays Nekoma Hirune
Anime VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral After Forgot to Turn Off My Stream is based on a light novel written by Nana Nanato and illustrated by Siokazunoko. Kadokawa is publishing it under the Fujimi Fantasia Bunko light novel publishing label. The novel began serialization in May 2021 and currently has seven volumes. A manga adaptation by Roto Fujisaki is also currently running on Comp Ace.
J-Novel Club is publishing the light novel in English, describing the plot as follows: Yuki Tanaka, a 20-year-old former wage slave, now works alongside his idols: Live-On streamers, one of Japan’s leading 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 made a few cold statements—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 free from all false purity, 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 her! With her perspective and finances skyrocketing, Yuki’s job—for the first time in her life—is actually exciting!
Source: Official website© Nana Nanato, Siokazunoko / KADOKAWA / “Buiden” Production Committee