VTubers, or virtual YouTubers, are the latest in Japan’s virtual entertainers. They have seen increasing growth in the country in the past few years – and Sony Music Japan is predicting they will go global.
TOKYO, May 10 Mayu Iizuka sheds her soft-spoken personality and starts cackling, screaming and waving wildly in a makeshift studio in Tokyo as her avatar appears on a livestream before hundreds of fans. Virtual YouTubers like Iizuka, who voices and animates a character called Yume Kotobuki,.
Mayu Iizuka sheds her soft-spoken personality and starts cackling, screaming and waving wildly in a makeshift studio in Tokyo as her avatar appears on a livestream before hundreds of fans.