VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream Gets TV Anime Adaptation
Good news for fans of light novels about virtual performers getting chaotic and rowdy: comedy light novel series VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream is being adapted into a TV anime. A commemorative illustration by Siokazunoko (above) and a mock livestream video announcing the adaptation featuring voice actor Ayane Sakura as VTuber Awayuki Kokorone (below) have been published to celebrate the announcement.
No further details about the TV anime adaptation (such as the staff, the cast, or the release window) have yet been revealed.
The original VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream light novels are written by Nana Nanato, illustrated by Siokazunoko, and published in Japan by Fujimi Shobo under their Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint. An English language version is available from J-Novel Club, who describe the story of the series as follows:
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: Comic Natalie
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