VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream Volume 1 (eBook)

Nana Nanato (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-8698-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Twenty-year-old former wage slave Yuki Tanaka now works among her idols: the streamers of Live-On, one of Japan's top VTuber companies. As the gorgeous, polite Awayuki Kokorone, she delivers only the most ladylike content. Unfortunately, her subscriber count and savings are at rock bottom. One evening, after Yuki thinks she's ended her stream, she cracks a few cold ones-and more than a few crude jokes-while watching Live-On's video archives. But her viewers hear it all, and clips of her bawdy, drunken commentary go viral overnight. Yuki thinks her career is over...until her manager reveals that everyone at Live-On has been waiting for her to snap all along and gives her free rein to drink on-stream. Now free of all feigned purity, she jumps right into her new 'rowdy drunk' character 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 work-for the first time in her life-is actually fun!

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Twenty-year-old former wage slave Yuki Tanaka now works among her idols: the streamers of Live-On, one of Japan's top VTuber companies. As the gorgeous, polite Awayuki Kokorone, she delivers only the most ladylike content. Unfortunately, her subscriber count and savings are at rock bottom. One evening, after Yuki thinks she's ended her stream, she cracks a few cold ones-and more than a few crude jokes-while watching Live-On's video archives. But her viewers hear it all, and clips of her bawdy, drunken commentary go viral overnight. Yuki thinks her career is over...until her manager reveals that everyone at Live-On has been waiting for her to snap all along and gives her free rein to drink on-stream. Now free of all feigned purity, she jumps right into her new "e;rowdy drunk"e; character 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 work-for the first time in her life-is actually fun!

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Chapter 1

Solo Stream

Once the incident with me forgetting to turn off the stream was over, I gave Suzuki-san a call back to apologize. Even though my computer issues had been what had kicked everything off, it was entirely my responsibility for having exposed my shameful conduct to the public. If she told me to take a break from streaming, I would understand. I was prepared to correct the wretchedness of the old drunk inside me. I was actually ready to stop drinking StroZero entirely—even though it now ranked alongside blood and water in importance to my survival.

However, the answer waiting for me was the opposite of what I’d expected.

“Oh, well,” Suzuki-san said, “I’d certainly like you to never forget to end your stream again, but drinking is absolutely fine.”

“Huh? Wait. Why is it absolutely fine? You know what I did, don’t you?! This was a huge blunder! It goes way beyond ruining my character! We’re basically talking about Gandhi turning into the king of blood-splattering, flesh-scattering street fights here!”

“Well, given who you are, Yuki-san, that was well within the company’s expectations...”

“Huh?” I repeated. What was she even talking about? The company? Sure, people said most of Live-On’s streamers marched to the beat of their own drums—with some even calling it a hangout or hot pot for some real crazy types—but that incident was “well within expectations”?

“Actually, during your interview when we were recruiting for the third gen, you were nothing like your character,” Suzuki-san replied. “Don’t you remember?”

“What?! What do you mean? Did I do something terrible during the interview?!”

“Huh? You really don’t remember? You landed with such an impact that ever since then, it’s been very strange to see you act so normally...”

But it’s been three whole months since the interview! Why are you only bringing this up now?!

“And I thought for sure,” continued my manager, “that you were acting so wholesome precisely to overturn everyone’s expectations later down the road.”

“I wasn’t!”

“But to me, you’re just as chaotic as Yujiro Hanma and Heihachi Edajima.”

“Great...” I remembered literally zero of what I’d done during my interview, since I’d been so nervous, but to be compared to insane shonen manga characters like that, I must have really done something...

But at the same time, I finally had my answer to a mystery that had been plaguing me ever since I’d joined Live-On—of why I’d been selected at all. Those Live-On jerks only picked me because I was a terrible danger to myself and others and they thought it was funny!

“I, er... I’m just surprised you’d pick such an obvious time bomb...” I managed to reply.

“We actually had to put a lot of time and thought into it, you know. But our selection standards here at Live-On state that streamers must be people who can really shine. And we felt that from you, Yuki-san.”

“I don’t feel like I’m shining. I feel like I’m covered in nasty mud-water.”

“Oh, you’re shining. Your character—Awayuki Kokorone—is the center of attention now. The shock was a bit much, true, and we are seeing a few critical comments here and there, but it hasn’t escalated into flaming.”

That did surprise me, actually. To tell the truth, after all that, I’d done a fearful little search on myself on the Internet. While there was plenty of teasing and making fun, there was a surprising lack of remarks that could be taken as slander. In fact, most people were excited to see my next stream—even if it was mostly a joke for some.

“That means that regardless of what you’re really like,” Suzuki-san went on, “a lot of people are watching you now—because you interest and attract them.”

“Is that...right?”

“Otherwise, they wouldn’t be waiting for your next stream, would they? I’ll be sure to watch all of your streams from now on, and if you ever really go too far, I’ll stop you. So why not try coming out of your shell for once?”

“My shell...”

“I promise it’ll turn out well. And besides, you’re already past the point of no return, aren’t you? If you went back to your pure, seiso character for your next stream, the level of weirdness for everyone watching would pierce the heavens.”

“Urk!” Really hitting me where it hurts...

Our phone call ended after that, with Suzuki-san saying she had to get back to work.

But then... “Eep?!” Not one minute after that call ended did my ringtone go off again. And the one calling...was Hikari-chan.

Oh, great, I thought. This is so awkward. But I can’t just ignore her... Okay. You can do this. “H-Hello?”

“Oh! Good morning, Awayuki-chan! And congratulations! You’re the talk of the whole world! Number one! I never knew you were such a fun person normally! Hearing you act so naturally actually made me start having fun too!”

“Ah, aha ha...”

Hikari-chan congratulated me with the same super-energetic tone she always used. And she was probably sincere too—not just someone trying to be excited for a newcomer. I could tell as much because we’d known each other since our debut. She really wasn’t any different when she streamed from when she wasn’t. She was always bright and optimistic.

Wait. Didn’t that make her, in virtually all respects, my polar opposite?

“A-Also, I was curious about something!” she added.

“Huh? What is it?”

“Well, I got curious earlier and watched the clips from the stream.”

“Uh-huh.” Of course people had clipped it, LOL.

“When you were watching my stream, you said you were really hard. I didn’t know what it meant, so I asked my manager!”

“What.”

“And she told me it meant you were saying I was really, really charming!”

What the hell was Hikari-chan’s manager doing to her?! Having too much fun at her expense, I bet! She must have been smirking when she’d told her that!

“Oh, you! It made me blush. Eheh heh!” she continued. “Let’s collab again soon, okay? Bye-bye!” And with that, after leaving a storm roiling within my heart, Hikari-chan left.

Right. I’d known it would happen, but I still felt disappointed at how all the other VTubers knew about my true colors already.

After that, starting with Chami-chan, I got DMs and calls from the other VTubers of Live-On—both from my generation and from the previous ones. Every one of them shared a sense of amusement and happiness at being able to see me act so naturally.

Now that I thought about it, maybe I’d been alienating myself from everyone else by hiding what I was really like.

Ahh... After thinking about everything, for some reason, I feel like I’ve just gotten permission to live my life freely.

Anyway, owing to all that, right now I was...

“Let’s do this...”

Pshhh! The can opened with that delightful sound.

I couldn’t really wrap my head around anything anyway, so I decided to just leave it all by the wayside!

“We’re starting the stream now, woohoo!”

: She's heeeeeeeeeeeeeere━━━(゜∀゜)━━━!!!!!

: Number one in the world is streaming!

: lmao at "starting the stream now, woohoo"

: Huh? Who's this?

: 110% right from the start hahahaha

: Is this the Strong Blizzard stream I heard about?

: You make her sound like a pro wrestler

: she's literally not sorry at all LMAOOO

The comment section scrolled by faster than I’d ever seen it go before. Ahh, this is sweet! I’d rate this pleasure at about three cans of StroZero.

“Actually! I was pretty sorry about it. Honest! I’ll never forget to end my streams again! I’m really sorry, everyone!”

: Wait, is someone different behind the screen now? I'd know that model anywhere, but she's not the one talking!

: did she get hijacked?

: Oh, she got hijacked. By StroZero.

: I laughed so hard when that one alcoholic viewer calling himself a sound sommelier knew it was a StroZero can opening, and then you made the comment about the underground empire right after

: Wait, so you're not sorry about the booze?

“Well, I planned to stop with the booze, obviously. But apparently management isn’t really mad about it, so you know what? I don’t care anymore!”

: The management must be ill

: Same as always lol. the management is chaotic neutral, so it makes sense the people they recruit are too

: in the end, it's just Live-On being Live-On

: Don't tell me you're ALREADY drunk???

“Huh? What did you expect? Got one empty can here already. I’d...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.5.2022
• Reihe/Serie: VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream
• Reihe/Serie: VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream
• Illustrationen: Siokazunoko
• Übersetzer: Alice Prowse
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Schlagworte: business • cute girls • ecchi • female protagonist • Light Novel • Slice of Life • zero to hero
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-8698-2 / 1718386982
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-8698-3 / 9781718386983