The VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream anime’s slightly meta YouTube channel, which uses the name of the story’s fictional VTuber agency Live-On, has released a cover version of the popular Hoshimachi Suisei song “Stellar Stellar.” The cover is performed by main character Awayuki Kokorone, who is voiced by Ayane Sakura.
Like an actual VTuber cover, the song is accompanied by a video with illustrations and lyrics. The Awayuki illustrations here were drawn by Maki Machico.
“Stellar Stellar” is the main track of Suisei’s first full album, Still Still Stellar, which was released in September 2021. In January 2023, the hololive VTuber performed an acoustic version of the song on The First Take, with the video having more than 16 million views at the time of writing.
VTuber Legend premiered on July 7 JST (effectively July 8 at 12:30 AM JST) in Japan and is streamed overseas by Ani-One Asia and Crunchyroll. The anime adapts the light novels written by Nana Nanato and illustrated by Noko Shiokazu, which is published under KADOKAWA’s Fantasia Bunko label.
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!
The light novel series began in 2021 and has eight volumes as of November 2023. It has a manga adaptation by Roto Fujisaki.
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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
Cast
• Ayane Sakura as Awayuki Kokorone
• Yuu Kobayashi as Sei Utsuki
• Sayaka Kikuchi as Chami Yanagase
• Saku Mizuno as Mashiro Irodori
• Machico as Hikari Matsuriya
• Sumire Moroboshi as Shion Kaminari
• Ayaka Ohashi as Nekoma Hirune
• Yoko Hikasa as Hareru Asagiri
• Yuu Kobayashi as Sei Utsuki
Source: Live-On official video and clips channel
