The main cast and a 2024 premiere date have been announced for the upcoming VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral anime adaptation. Ayane Sakura is headlining the cast list as main heroine Awayuki Kokorone, who she previously voiced in trailers for the light novel series.
Another returning name from the light novel PVs is Yuu Kobayashi as Sei Utsuki, a 2nd Gen VTuber of the agency Live-On. Joining Sakura and Kobayashi for the VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral anime are:
• Sayaka Kikuchi as Chami Yanagase (Live-On 3rd Gen VTuber)
• Saku Mizuno as Mashiro Irodori (Live-On 3rd Gen VTuber)
• Machico as Hikari Matsuriya (Live-On 3rd Gen VTuber)
The VTuber Legend light novel series, which is published under KADOKAWA’s Fantasia Bunko label, began in 2021 and will release its eighth volume on November 17, 2023. The books are authored by Nana Nanato and illustrated by Noko Shiokazu.
J Novel Club describes the plot as:
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!
VTuber Legend began as a Hameln web novel in 2020 and started publication on Kakuyomu later the same year.
Staff
• Director: Takuya Asaoka (Immoral Guild)
• Series composer: Deko Akao (The Case Study of Vanitas)
• Character designer: Reina Iwasaki (The Dawn of the Witch)
• Live2D direction: Live2D JUKU
• Live2D motion tracker: nizima LIVE
• Animation production: TNK
Sources: Fantasia Bunko Daikanshasai 2023 Online livestream, @vden_anime (1), (2)
