Chapter 47: Hitomitsuki

[Osorin’s broadcast summary from yesterday]

(Screenshot of Osorin’s broadcast with her eyes sparkling and smiling brightly, filling the screen)

Cute

-Damn, she’s cute

-Who’s the illustrator? It’s totally my type

└Hayeon. Does anyone know this person?

└Hayeon?

└Hayeon, not Hayeon?

└Who is that

└I don’t know

-The illustration is well drawn

└That moves

└???

[No, how did they do that?]

(GIF of Osorin’s broadcast screen, frowning and shaking her head)

It’s not 3D, but can you do this with 2D?

Is that level of technology possible now?

Even if it is, was it possible for an individual broadcaster to do it??

-I don’t know, it’s just amazing

-I’m someone who does rigging work at a game company, and this is really amazing

└What’s rigging?

└Simply put, it’s making joints so that characters or objects can move

-It’s possible, but this quality is… I can only admire it

[You guys, this is VTuber]

It was already popular in Japan and then died down, so why are you making a fuss now?

When I imported Japanese VTubers and showed them, you cursed at them saying what the heck!!!

-So what’s a VTuber

└Virtual YouTuber, shortened to VTuber

-What the heck

-Ah, so is that why the quality is the same lol

└Yeah, if you look at Japanese ones, they can’t even open their eyes properly and move like they have a stiff neck

-Japan is done!

-As expected of an animation powerhouse

[I’ll explain what a VTuber is + Osorin is a crazy b*tch]

As I’ve seen in other comments, it’s virtual youtuber shortened to VTuber

In Korea, it’s called VTuber, but in its home country, Japan, and overseas, it’s called vtuber, but let’s skip this

I want to talk about the origin of VTubers, but you guys don’t want that, so I’ll skip this too

If you’re curious, search for Kizuna AI on Wiki and read it

First of all, VTubers each have what’s called an RP

It’s short for Role Playing, and it means that the YouTuber acts while keeping the setting of a virtual character

This is why Osorin says she’s an Osori human from Honey Star

It’s not that she really uses it, she just sets it up as she pleases

In Japan, for example, there was a person who was a 1000-year-old legal loli, and there was a person who was just a high school girl

It’s really like becoming that character and broadcasting

And the most important thing in VTuber is movement and expression

This can also be divided into 2D and 3D, but go to Wiki for the difference

This is where you can see that Osorin is a crazy b*tch

If you watch the video, the character doesn’t just move

It’s completely natural and moves like a real person

What this means is that when a person turns their head, they don’t just move their head

If you turn it hard, your shoulders and chest also turn

It means that each of those is expressed accurately

Besides

There’s even breast morphing

(Osorin wearing glasses)

When the angle is tilted, the light shining on the glasses, and

Even the parts that don’t matter are all worked on

This b*tch is just crazy about details;;

-Belly button crazy

└You know what’s hot;;

-The glasses are so cute

-I don’t know what you’re saying, but I know it’s amazing

-How did they really rig those…

└You have to layer each one and add illustrations, it’s really crazy labor

-Finally, VTubers have landed in Korea!!!!!!

└Isn’t this more like a simultaneous creation than a landing?

└Yeah, Osorin’s technology seems better than her home country

└Realistically, I think she got help from Jina, right?

└Then why wouldn’t Jina do it

└That’s true

[Actually, Osorin might be smart]

She joined Jina’s content when she was a newbie to increase her awareness

She keeps making content that people will like to create regular viewers

She made them familiar with moving pictures with standing images

Now she just made the whole face move

Honestly, if she had released a VTuber from the beginning, there would have been many people who didn’t watch it because it was creepy

Isn’t this year slowly taming us to broadcast? Wow.

-What kind of ghost story is this

-I don’t know if she’s a genius, but I know she’s good at broadcasting

-But isn’t that mostly controlled by Racoon?

└Rattattouille?

└Is Racoon the final boss?

└Makes sense?

-She’s a broadcasting genius, this Osori

[Ah, I don’t know, just f*ck]

I’m so happy

Finally, there’s a VTuber in Korea!!!

-Korean VTuber: one person

-But it’s a bit cringe when the character speaks in Korean

└Yeah, it’s somehow delicious when you hear it in Japanese, but Korean is somehow

└Sejong the Great: Argh!!!

-Ugh, weebs

-If you don’t like it, don’t watch it, you idiots, the honeybees are licking it deliciously

└Beeee (You too?)

└Beeee (Me too!)

The woman who watched the video uploaded on YouTube couldn’t close her mouth.

Natural movement.

Lovely expression.

And even minor details.

Everything caught her eye.

I can’t understand what she’s saying at all because the language is different, but I was immediately captivated by Osorin’s charm.

I can’t believe you can make Live 2D so smooth.

It’s like an animated character popping out and broadcasting.

At that time, the phone that was next to her rang with a call notification.

It was the president of her company.

-Yes, I saw it…. I can’t believe there’s someone who thinks the same thing as us. And in Korea

“It’s the same wherever people think. How’s the review?”

-…Tsuki, it’s probably the same as you think.

Ha, a sigh seemed to be heard from the speaker of the phone.

She imagined the president suffering with his head surrounded, and raised the corners of her lips.

“Besides, from illustration to movement. The quality difference is also severe.”

-This could make us look like a knockoff. It’s not the time to be complacent.

Switch the phone to speakerphone mode and enter Osorin’s YouTube, Tsuki read the comments made by Koreans using Google’s automatic translation.

Everyone seems to be having fun, but I couldn’t understand it at all in translated Japanese.

ジョンナ(Johnna)?

Isn’t this a curse word in Korea?

Is it similar to putting クソ(Kuso) in Japan?

The one that looks exactly like the katakana O (ヲ) was probably like www.

-Then it’s a relief… should I say?

“Just give up. We don’t have a patent. It’s natural for version 2 to be more advanced than the first.”

-It’s not a matter of development.

“That’s true.”

It feels like jumping straight to level 50 after level 1.

That’s how much difference there was between Tsuki’s modeling and Osorin’s modeling.

Well, what can we do?

There’s nothing we can do.

The language barrier is big.

We will target our market, and Korea will target Korea’s market.

Rather, if the cultures of both countries become active, there is a possibility that overseas inflows will increase.

Virtual Live, which started ambitiously.

Virtual, which was mainly a 3D video project, requires a lot of staff and equipment.

However, her company ‘Nanairo’ dramatically reduced the cost, instead using relatively inexpensive 2D modeling and facial tracking technology that can be done alone at home, and filmed live broadcasts, not projects.

Existing VTubers often had to do surveys or take a long time to communicate with viewers.

But live broadcasts read the comments of viewers immediately and react to them, so the reaction is bound to be good.

So, what was tried half-experimentally came back with a considerable response, and just when it was about to grow, there was a person who thought the same thing in a neighboring country.

From the company’s point of view, it was enough to make them lose their appetite.

“Hello. Thank you. Oppa, you’re handsome!”

There are no employees in our company who can speak Korean.

It was a project that was promoted with domestic use in mind from the beginning.

Tsuki continued to watch Osorin’s YouTube with a slightly regretful heart.

‘Certainly, the broadcasting culture is different from Japan.’

There are cases in Japan where broadcasters open YouTube channels and upload edited videos, but most of them focus on broadcasting, not YouTube.

But in Korea, it seems like they put more effort into YouTube as well as broadcasting.

‘Korean listeners don’t super chat much?’

Donation? It seems like that’s the same as Super Chat.

Ah, maybe the commission is high, so the actual income is low?

While I was imagining that, something that was shining at the edge of her gaze was caught.

The work mailbox of Tsuki’s account.

There was no notice to be sent from the company, so she was puzzled.

“President, did you send me an email?”

-Email? No, I didn’t send anything in particular.

“Then, what is it. Did it come from YouTube?”

She pressed the shining mailbox and checked the unread mail.

Title: To Hitomi Tsuki, I have inquiries about VTuber activities.

Ah, I’m sure this YouTube editor had that nickname.

Is it the same person?

But the Japanese written in the title is too fluent.

Maybe it’s a different person with the same nickname.

She thought that and opened the mail and read it.

-Ignore spam mail or mail that digs into your past life

“No, it’s not that….”

She copied the entire text of the mail to the president’s line and sent it as is.

“She wants to know the details because she wants to clip my broadcast?”