>>38889013I'm not into male idols, but I used to watch Rio (blue) play MC when none of the girls were streaming. In terms of being entertaining, I'd put him somewhere around lower-mid HoloJP level, but he'll never get their numbers because being a man in Cover is a huge debuff. However, I think they fucked up royally by not giving him a shota model. There aren't many men in vtubing who could pull off a shota voice without straining their vocal chords, and if he was given a good model like Ciel (picrel), I'm sure he'd have 2-5x more viewers simply because this niche is not filled in corpo vtubing sphere. On the other hand, if Yagoo isn't willing to cater to fujos/yumejos by offering something new('ish), then he shouldn't have released another copy-paste effeminate stars gen.
Also, in my opinion, they all seem to lack the X factor to make them stick out in the chuuba world, but there are/were maybe no more than 10 holo girls who could be considered iconic entertainers with the rest of them being filler, so it's not an easy task to accomplish for the scouting team. And, yes, I'm aware of Fuma's past, but that doesn't matter in 2022 because everything is different compared to the early days.
