RE-Built Otaku Culture

Upheaval (series) is Upheaval Taming Daimoni is developed by AROH and owned by Imagine Hawaii. The series  Project Summary- "The Story is about a Highschool Student who spends his evenings saving the world and by day attends class to live the life of a typical teenager (Hawaii storytelling). The one who are up to no good are the corrupt adults with corrupted hearts and its up to you to change their mind. You enter the a whole world of the person that is their hearts through the spirit of each target with the stomach as the dimensional gate (na'au). Each person has a Daimoni that you aim to capture to add to your collection, but they have their own strengths and weaknesses. Collecting multiple daimonis with different abilities allow you to combine them to make custom ones taylors the type of lifestyle and combat style that you prefer. It is a time management simulator, when your not saving the world you are able to boost your skills by visiting "scene districts" withi...

The VTuber industry had a major rush of people coming to be V-Tubers and things played out till the end with everyone being a creator. But when everyone's a creator, what happens to value? it becomes a sort of paradox of sorts. First of all it's not about blaming V-tubers, the riggers, the artists, the personas. No, it's about this fundamental, seismic shift in power and value that the digital age brought. And when you look at VTubing, you see these exact same dynamics playing out, but in a whole new, animated dimension. The parallels to the music industry are just like seeing what happened before, happen again, its undeniable. The Sinking Sands of Gatekeepers: Who's in Control Now? The Largest-Vtuber Agencies jumped in with a lot of money and wanted Vtubers to go through them as a major talent agency, the lead guys were who decided who got signed, the contractors for the models and dictated what they would do. They controlled everything – the promotion, the exposure, t...

The "Wealth Gap" is Real: Just like in music, where a few superstars rake in most of the money, V-Tubing has a "corporate monopoly" that is add odds with the "superstar phenomenon" of indies. Large agencies are earning "more than all other agencies combined in terms of Super Chats," often "more than 10 times the profits of the next largest agency". This makes it incredibly tough for new, smaller talents to break through and build a sustainable income, but most just cant create content that can compete at the level the bar has been set at. Even if their content is fantastic. The rich get richer, and everyone else is fighting for scraps until they can reach the quality for a competitive edge against the rest. Otherwise they are in the small pond with the small fish. Here's where it gets interesting, while companies tend to have a huge initial draw from a character model and character rig that is amazing it can still lead to diminishin...

The Hawaii VTuber Dream, so the question is how to building a scene in paradise's paradox. The "VTuber Paradox" – is how the digital age has thrown open the doors for creators, but also created this insane, saturated market where value gets weird and the grind is real. We've seen the parallels with the music business, how the gatekeepers changed, and the struggles of both independent and agency-backed talents. But what happens when you take this global phenomenon and drop it into a unique, geographically isolated place like Hawaii? When there's no established scene, no local infrastructure, no existing "VTuber Indie Group"? That's where the paradox gets even more intense. The aspiration to build something from nothing, right in the middle of the Pacific. The Amplified Discovery Nightmare, old man shouting into the Pacific with his fist raised to the clouds. We talked about the "Discovery Nightmare" in the broader VTuber space – how hard it ...

Why the Past of Hawaii VTubers Holds the Key to the Future: Creators are both empowered and burdened, and how trying to build a scene in a place like Hawaii feels like shouting into the Pacific. There is the Hawaii VTuber Dream, but where is the records of who else tried to get there?  it is absolutely critical if you're trying to build something from the ground up: you gotta know your history. Now, you might be thinking, what history? you just said the Hawaii VTuber scene is non-existent! well you'd be right, mostly, but it still doesn't touch upon the quick generations that went in and went right out, because they may hold some answers. Even in a void, there are echoes and those are whispers of those who tried before, those who laid down tiny, almost invisible tracks, but they still have their stories that could be important. And if you're serious about the future, you need to dig up those stories. You need to understand the past, even if it's a past that seems to...

Hawaii is too Chill for Business Sometimes: so chill people can easily get comfortable, very comfortable, and let it become a lifestyle. If they are overly relaxed they may not sweat the extra effort to do something, they might not care about time slots as much, and be pretty flexible with their friends as to have a chill-mindset and see hanging out as an opportunity rather than a planned engagement as it can be seen as taking the fun out of it from their point of view. This sort of chilling without purpose can lead to a lack of definition and allows those who spend the time to define it under their perspective. When ideas are taken from Hawaii there isn't much repercussions or gathering to strengthen those ideas within Hawaii, but people tend to just let it go.  We Gottah Figure Out Hawaii's Business Problem for Creators: For example when Panda Express founder stole the idea of Patti's Chinese Kitchen, or when Annamillers and Yum Yum Tree were inspirations for Akihabara...

Persona:  The Anime-Persona is someone wants to show the story of the Character and is a real person behind a camera that makes people feel comfortable. This feels very real and online there are little, loose, or no repercussions often times for the-chat and that makes them feel all-in. Being in a chat is no substitution for real-life chatter, but the feeling-is-fulfilled (emotion) digitally and even the body knows its not real (reality), but the brain sure thinks it is (logic). So the real people forget that its reality and get lost in the content of vibing in the anime-world as is usually done when people go into a environment of complete fandom. The people who are being attracted like the same things, the algorithm sends them the same niches, and they are ultimately spending valuable time watching "Live" videos (On Screen), short clips (On a Mobile Device), and listening to their voice singing (Daily Commute). It comes to a point where even if the V-Tuber themselves knows ...

Hawai V-Tubers need a strong-foundation right through the door as the world of international content creation is a difficult place to enter. It's not only about rigid rules, but rather helpful strategies you can shape to your own needs and goals that still help an overall vision, while also maintaining your own based on organized categories of content, often separated by folders. People in Hawaii like to view themselves as their own, sometimes as warriors that are choosing to go down a road carrying more on their plate lunch than they even realize. It's no exaggeration to say most of us work a full-time jobs if you can find them with AI blocking people, clocking in and clocking out if you do, doing what we've got to do and feeling like a dried out pipikaula by the end of it all. Then we come home and jump straight into making videos, streaming, or trying to keep up with content. Sometimes, we're editing late into the night, squinting at the screen with tired eyes, wonde...

The Art of Bringing 2D to Life A Rigger:  The journey from a beautiful 2D illustration to a captivating, expressive VTuber avatar uses both art and technical skills and the look is on the outside while bones of the animation movements are on the inside. The "rigger" is a specialist who is really technical in making the essential controls and interactivity of camera to V-tuber actor to have control over their digital puppet. It is a really detailed and at higher levels an intricate process, it is less a rigid and depends on what the model is suppose to do, and the linear progression is both methodical and iterative at times. There is a lot of problem solving involved in figuring out what works for a rig and what doesn't. The Actor:  You can't just have a nice rig though; you have to know how to use the rig and give it life, because that's how it makes money. The way people move around and use the model through the motion controls shows the art of the rig, so withou...

Brand Member Consistency: Consumer Fatigue is something that hit post-pandemic with generations of V-Tubers coming on board with big names like: Hololive, Nijisanji, and V Shojo. These personalities in these companies may have not been big when they started, but they were big after joining an agency. It would make sense to go from Indie (Independent V-Tuber) as a smaller personality to go to a larger production house specialized in growing V-Tubers, until growing large enough to go solo again as a indie to go full circle. Eventually the collaborations between V-Tuber Agencies would become strong and generations were almost like "V-Tuber Groups" and that would make solo artists that were already big to join under their own "Independent Groups" that had a larger social-umbrella instead of a company-umbrella, but still kept their freedom to create as they want to. Companies noticed this and would start to offer a select few creators packages that would not limit their ...

Virtual YouTubers The Anime V-Tuber Blueprint is a collaboration of "Content" and "Tech" with "Fan Power". It originates from a International Version of Idol Creation in Japan that is still developing.  Talent Watch: The Agency is on the look out for talent and it can do it the traditional way like "Auditions" with shows like Brown Bags to Stardom being Hawaii's old way of doing it. Online personalities are the bread and butter and developing, crafting real entertainment skills (singing, voice acting, dancing, comedy), with a clear vision makes for a captivating world of the V-Tubers imagination and opinions.  Character Crafting: A Summary of what is needed to survive out there is: a sense of authenticity, storytelling with relatability, engaging with the chat, energetic enthusiasm as it is contagious, some humor, and a practitioner in charisma. A V-Tuber Agency or group of V-Tubers in a group help one another sharpen their persona, lore, and...

  V-Tuber Talent Management Company  (Agency) VTuber agency:  Think of it as a talent agency specifically for virtual stars. Their whole gig is to crank up a VTuber's visibility and production quality, letting the talent just focus on performing – bringing personality, singing, and dancing to life. V-Tubers (Virtual YouTubers):  are creators that use motion-captured avatars to create content. Motion-capture can be done by a Motion-Capture Camera that has its own Motion Capture System. VTubers are a step into the Fictional and Real life at the same time merging worlds to represent the future of 2.5D content creation (2D appearance with 3D animation). It gives anyone the opportunity to shine with a Interesting-Avatar that is well drawn to industry standards often set by top V-Tuber Agency's. This takes out the IRL cultural and physical barriers that traditionally defines entertainers and opens up the world to a well constructed and controlled fictional realm. Imaginati...