VTuber Nandaga Haishin Kiri Wasuretara Densetsu ni Natteta

Third-generation VTuber Awayuki Kokorone's fans know her as a prim, proper, and graceful idol. Though she has considerably less fans compared to other VTubers in the Live-On agency, Awayuki's loyal following supports her every step of the way.

One night, Awayuki forgets to turn her livestream off—a blunder that changes the trajectory of her online career forever. Contrary to her usual angelic persona, her genuine brutish personality is exposed to more than ten thousand people who tuned in. Awayuki reveals that she is nothing more than a severe alcoholic who spouts profanities nonstop, constantly viewing her fellow VTubers with lustful admiration.

However, instead of being reprimanded by her agency, Awayuki receives praise: her unhinged, disorderly conduct was Live-On's actual expectation of her. Now having her big break and permission to stream without holding anything back, the once-unpopular VTuber begins her rise to stardom.

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Kokorone, Awayuki Main

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Irodori, Mashiro Supporting

Mizuno, Saku Japanese

Kaminari, Shion Supporting

Morohoshi, Sumire Japanese

Yamatani, Kaeru Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Yanagase, Chami Supporting

Kikuchi, Sayaka Japanese

Mitsuriya, Hikari Supporting

Machico Japanese

Asagiri, Hareru Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Utsuki, Sei Supporting

Kobayashi, Yuu Japanese

Souma, Alice Supporting

Tadokoro, Azusa Japanese

Sonokaze, Eirai Supporting

Ichimichi, Mao Japanese

Asaoka, Takuya Director

Morishita, Hiroto Sound Director

Sakura, Ayane Theme Song Performance

Harada, Shigeyuki Theme Song Lyrics, Theme Song Composition

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Sep 22, 2024

Marinate1016

Recommended

I came into Vtuber legend with very little knowledge and frankly any interest in vtubers. I always saw them as weird and something for degenerates, but after watching this show I realised how narrow minded I’d been and how Vtubers are just like any other entertainment source. In fact, they can often resonate with you in ways normal content creators couldn’t. I fell in love with Awayuki from the first episode and this was just nonstop fun. It’s irreverent, hilarious, unapologetically gay af, and wholesome. I really could not ask for more out of this show. One of the biggest surprises of the season for ... me.

Vtuber legend has a few things that make it a great watch. Firstly, Awayuki is a riot. While she plays things up for her viewers, she is genuinely an amazing character who you can’t help but root for after learning all the adversity she’s had to overcome to get in a position to stream for a living. She brings an authenticity to her streams that really make the show. Yea, the strozero product placement can be a little over the top at times, but generally I think seeing her get drunk and being herself and vulnerable with her fans was a fun experience.

The other big thing for me is Awayuki’s relationship with her other vtubers. This is the best part of the show and I died laughing on several occasions seeing the collab streams. The story also doesn’t stray away from being unapologetically Yuri which is another big plus. Awayuki and a couple characters have some obvious romantic tension and I’m not just talking your usual bait confession, but legitimate feelings that characters talk about openly. Things definitely go hard on the 18+ side with sex toy references and other degenerate stuff, but it’s not like goonbait, it’s just lesbians being horny and I found that refreshing. Girls get horny too and there’s nothing wrong with talking about it! The skits and collab streams get increasingly unhinged as the season progresses, but I thoroughly enjoyed them all. The vtubers all have really unique personalities and diverse streaming styles just like irl so there’s someone and something for everyone in this one.

Vtuber Legend manages to keep you feeling very immersed thanks to the fact the characters are portrayed as being in their vtuber outfits the whole time, so it’s like you’re in the computer with them while they’re streaming if that makes sense. It’s done in an effort to preserve the feeling that they’re real people not just personas. It definitely hit for me. I felt myself wishing that Awayuki was real on more than one occasion throughout this. The amount of money I’d give her would be astonishing..

Vden is very much an otaku culture show. There’s a tons of references to other aspects of otaku culture, anime, visual novels and other media. But it’s also a series that people who don’t even necessarily like vtubers can get into. Despite having almost no working knowledge of vtubers this was one of my favourite shows of the year and I’ll miss it!

Vden gets a very easy 10/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Sep 23, 2024

Ionliosite2

Mixed Feelings

Note: I’m not into Vtuber culture, but I can recognize and understand some things about it mainly because they are so popular it’s basically impossible to escape them if you’re into otaku culture as they pretty much are a part of it, so I’m not going to be biased for it.

This anime is an advertisement for the Strong Zero beer- uh, I mean, it’s about a Vtuber breaking character and getting popular because of it as the title says. I'm surprised no one pointed out inside the show the little comments that are in the streams, because this show follows how Vtubers work, they even ... did their own live2D models of the characters for the show and use them from time to time where they could simply use regular animation all the time. While it also shows them outside of streamings, they usually don't change from how they look in their avatars, I could be cynical and say that it is to keep the illusion that Vtubers are still their personas outside of streams or that the studio was lazy and couldn't bother doing designs for how they should really look, but it is pretty obviously none of those, it’s because the show isn't focused on that, this isn't a show that has Vtubers on it, it’s a show about the Vtubers.

This show is pretty silly, it’s a complete slice of life show where you don't have to expect a plot, the characters can change a little in their relationships but it never goes to a point where you'll miss much, as it is basically a collection of streams which I guess most if not all are based on streams made by actual Vtubers and you'll probably see some characters and say that they remind you of some Vtuber you know. It’s also one of those anime where the comedy can vary a lot in quality, but it will never reach a point where you will be laughing a lot from them, if you understand the culture you will surely be able to enjoy it more, because the moments that landed the most for me was stuff like in that episode where they shouted "MAKOTO" and then showed the "nice boat", or the episode where they were playing an online card game where the studio even made an entire small animation for Rias Gremory and references to other TNK anime which I watched and loved, I mean, TNK animating Rias Gremory in the year 2015+9? I didn't even remember the last time they animated her, while other jokes are as bad as the adult baby fetish ones which I can only guess is one of the fetishes the author has as it had two episodes on it. If for some weird reason you were expecting something about the "dark side" of vtubing or anything of the sort here, then you aren't watching the right anime, there are some darker moments like Awayuki being forced to drink to keep capitalizing on her new drunk persona or when they doxed her, but those are played as comedy sketches that don't impact the characters or the setting much.

I can't understand why Vtubers are so popular, if anything they remind me that when I was like 12 there were some YouTubers that would do Let’s Play videos that my classmates would talk about, I never got into those because 1) I wasn't interested in that 2) I didn't have Wi-Fi back then, so watching things on YouTube was pretty difficult, so I wouldn't be able to do it even if I was interested. The only difference I can see from Vtubers to Let’s Players is that these are behind cute anime girl avatars, and it's not like I didn't try to watch things from them, I remember when I tried watching one of those Vtubers stream, I watched it for like 10 minutes or so, and while I guess it wasn't so bad, I just cannot possibly get what would be so interesting about watching it for hours to get all the popularity they have right now. If anything I'm surprised this anime isn't more popular given it’s about Vtubers, something extremely popular nowadays to the point of dominating the Comiket just behind a plague like Blue Archive, but this show doesn't even get much fanart, I guess it would be because Vtuber fans aren't even interested in anime or they could just watch their Vtuber instead of watching an anime about completely original Vtuber personas, or maybe the overlap of fanbases just isn't as strong as one would think, as Vtubers are much more similar to watching any other streamer than watching anime. If anything, this show is about what Vtubers can only dream to be, actual anime girls.

It's not like I could expect TNK to do this anime, they are one of the only studios that can constantly put out good ecchi anime and they don't do many works per year despite not having impressive animation or anything, so I can just wonder why they chose a light novel about Vtubers to adapt it, I could be disappointed on it as there are other ecchi shows that aired alongside this one like 2.5 getting censored, however, the reason why I'm not really disappointed is because you can see that they really were having fun doing this show, it surely won't change your opinions about Vtubers but you can see how much they appreciate the culture and the last episode is pretty much a testament to that.

Thank you for reading.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Sep 26, 2024

patkarunungan

Not Recommended

Like 'My Deer Friend Nokotan,' it is one of those shows that you will appreciate if you get the references. But if not, it depends on you liking the VTuber main character.

The premise is simple. Kokorone Awayuki was a struggling VTuber. She quit the job that she hates in order to be a VTuber, but it looks like being one ain't no different. For three months, she wasn't making any progress. Until one day, she forgot to stop streaming. So from the demure persona she was projecting, she got drunk and the world saw her real personality, someone who is unhinged. And the rest ... is the story of this anime.

It's a hit or miss, and I am scoring this low because it's more often than not a miss as far as I'm concerned. There's really no plot to talk about. This is just random VTubers doing their own thing that may or may not be funny.

Some episodes are a bit enjoyable but more often than not, it is too random that the main draw is the banter. Perhaps you need some knowledge of Japanese to appreciate this, as well as being into VTuber culture. It's not something that invites those not knowledgeable of VTubers to watch real VTubers. It assumes that you already like them. For people in the latter case, they would likely score this high, but for most people, this would be a turd.

If you cannot follow the references, this show will be mainly carried by the drunk personality of Awayuki, named Shuwa. It was fun at the beginning, but it quickly got old. It's also a season-long commercial for Strong Zero, which might annoy some.

Another thing going for it is that it reflects current otaku culture with all the new terms associated with it. This may interest some but I doubt it's enough to recommend this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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