>>5146888>Schizo-chama, who is your favorite of the girls so far? As an EOP, I've been pretty consistent about focusing on kusagi. Cute rabbit vtubers with a decent design who can make people laugh are a solid commodity. Her background as a shitposter also stands out as a unique aspect. The next one is cunnyfox, whose cute design and attempts at trying her best to be esl will presumably endear her to both audiences. Trashbear is third. I like the fashionably casual urban aesthetic and she doesn't sound awful, even if she hasn't done anything yet to truly stand out. Kanchou sounds like a bad anime dub in the promo but is still expected to command respect as the gen's social anchor. Mori herself debuted first and hit it big despite being godawful at kayfabe, so a character's genuine charm points will only reveal themselves in time. This is all just tentative and equates to blue iPhone hype. The one that will win out in the end isn't necessarily the most notable at the start.
As far as which one I'll like most post debut and keep watching months down the line, that's something nobody can answer right now since there's no fully informed basis to craft an opinion. That, and the JPs are out of my wheel house since the finer aspects of their personalities will likely be distilled into a caricature by clippers, so you'll have to ask bilingual anons to get a real answer.
>What kinds of streams do you want them to do? Trick question. First off, I already posted a few starting collab suggestions for seemingly permissions friendly games in the archive. Secondly, the right answer is whatever they enjoy the most. People watch streamers to enjoy their personalities. The rest is irrelevant in the sense that people are having the most fun when a streamer's following their creative passions and creating something that inspires and fulfills them.
For example, nobody cares about Alpharad playing let's go eevee or skipping the dialogue. The real content is the commentary and interactions with his sidekick. This is the essence of a collab. The game doesn't matter. Skill doesn't matter. The interplay of friendly personalities and the jokes that come out of it are always the main attraction for any streamer that's not a top tier esports player.
The ideal would be the talents finding something inherent to their own interests and creating relevant content using that as a basis. If they just try to copy hololive/nijisanji/etc or be people they're not then it will come off as generic, derivative and insincere. It's also hard to lie consistently about who you are nonstop on a daily basis for an extended period of time while still pretending to be passionate. That's not to say they shouldn't do what others are doing. It means that they should only be doing it if it's something they themselves are passionate about, it's a contractual obligation, or they're desperately looking to boost their numbers through content like standard issue buff games (Minecraft, Apex, etc).
That was Hololive's strength. The strongest streamers radiated genuine interest in what they were doing even when those like Korone were playing niche/retro games. Korone's endurance streams, Asacoco, meme review, oozora kensetsu and nene's clusterfuck of graphics on screen are the most obvious examples of personalized content, where the creativity and originality came from the creator's own ambitions rather than a cookie cutter list in "How to be a Vtuber for Dummies."
Also, taking reasonable risks to branch out isn't inherently bad. But if it's done for cynical purposes then the streamer might give up before that kind of content yields results. Some seeda.don't sprout immediately, and they might still get one upped by a vtuber sincerely interested in that field.
What I don't personally like is chat sessions where streamers or fans dump their depressing personal circumstances on everyone who's trying to have a good time. I'm sorry if you're dog died, but get fucked. The middle of a mario kart tournament isn't the time or place for that. Unless it's relevant to the content at hand and adds something constructive, being a tragic character who does things like going on drunken self destructive rants would (at least in my opinion) only ever be a flash in the pan that got old quick.
And if you'll excuse me for being completely selfish...fuck watchalongs. They're filled with dead air and, if the chuba isn't streaming it themself because the material's copyrighted, that's extra effort viewers have to put in to even get something worthwhile out of the stream. It's arguably the laziest, most passive kind of reaction content a chuba can produce. I've never watched along with a single watchalong stream, as my ideal watchalong is watching material raw while commenting with pals. Not once have I ever wanted a chuba to talk through what I'm trying to watch.
A lot of this might've been said before. Also the last question needs two posts. Hope Kevin enjoys taking notes.
