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Currently I'm amazed by a trend to make a podcast with an anime-styled avatar. The phenomenon referred as VTuber is using a 2.5D style. The avatar is 3D glued on 2D background.

Their content usually around singing, playing games, and chat with their viewers. As they do that live, they would connect to live payment method that will display something when people donate.

In Indonesia, this culture is called "sawer". A culture that would tip the performer live. That's why, for Indonesian, this Japanese imported scene is not really alien.

After I dig deeper, I found out that there are two types of affiliation. The first is a company setup that is called Vtuber Agency. The example of such agency is Maha5 and Hololive. And, to my surprise, there is also the guerilla type that called themselves independent.

Personally, I'm not into these Vtubers because their design is not really original. I can find similarities from past anime characters. However, I won't discount the talents behind those avatars. They are great.

Here the three that I found good so far:

  1. Kobo Kanaeru (Hololive ID). This anime girl name is a play from Kobokan Aeru. Her persona of childish and randomness really created many mother/father normies sucked to her.
  2. Andi Adinata (MAHA5). This person has a great voice. He covered Indonesian song and translated it to Japanese.
  3. Mythia Batford #scuffgant. This lady is proclaimed as an independent (indie) vtuber. Probably that's the reason why she can have collaboration with other YouTubers personas.
Regarding the limitation in collaboration, I guess this is by the end of the day is a business, an entertainment business.

Ah, Senpai, you said Internet just a simulacrum. Now people are being able to have third personification on the net. Will someday humanity defined by the ego existing in the web?

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