A new character PV trailer has been released for the ongoing VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream TV anime series. The anime first premiered in Japan on July 7, 2024.
The new trailer highlights “Live-On 4th Generation” members Alice Soma (voiced by Azusa Tadokoro), M.A.O as Ehrai Sonokaze, and Ai Kayano as Kaeru Yamatani. The characters all appeared in last week’s fifth episode, with Kayano performing a cover of Kenji Otsuki‘s “Odoru Akachan Ningen” for the latest ending theme. Otsuki’s song was used as the first ending theme of the 2006 TV anime Welcome to the N.H.K.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast stars:
- • Ayane Sakura as Awayuki Kokorone
- • Saku Mizuno as Mashiro Irodori
- • Machico as Hikari Matsuriya
- • Sayaka Kikuchi as Chami Yanagase
- • Yoko Hikasa as Hareru Asagiri
- • Yu Kobayashi as Sei Utsuki
- • Sumire Morohoshi as Shion Kaminari
- • Ayaka Ohashi as Nekoma Hirune
Takuya Asaoka (Immoral Guild) is directing the anime series, with Deko Akao (The Case Study of Vanitas) as screenwriter, and Reina Iwasaki (The Dawn of the Witch) as character designer. Live2D JUKU is handling the Live2D direction, while nizima LIVE is in charge of the Live2D motion tracker. TNK is the animation production for the adaptation.
The anime is based on the light novel series written by Nana Nanato and illustrated by Noko Shiokazu. It was first published by Kadokawa’s Fantasia Bunko label on May 20, 2021 and has released nine volumes as of July 2024. The series began as a web novel on Hameln on June 22, 2020, and started serialization on Kakuyomu later that year.
The light novel series also inspired a manga adaptation by Roto Fujisaki in 2023.
J Novel Club releases the VTuber Legend light novels in English digitally, describing the synopsis 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!
Source: VTuber Legend Official Twitter
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