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https://kakuyomu.jp/works/16818093085137406727/episodes/16818093086036257075
Konatsu Mio is currently working as VTuber Asahina KOnatsu, affiliated with an agency.
However, she was not originally affiliated with an agency…..she was not even a VTuber.
At first, she was streaming on a streaming app dedicated to V-livers, which allows streaming with a single smartphone.
The reason she started was because she thought she might be able to become a different person there.
It was around that time–when Mio was in the second year of junior high school.
She was bullied in middle school and stopped going to school. Mio believed that the reason she was bullied was because she hid her feelings and could not show her true feelings.
While she was shut in her room and unable to do anything, Mio spent her days watching VTubers’ videos. While she could not accept anything else, she was strangely able to watch VTubers’ videos.
Eventually, she decided she wanted to do her own streaming and commissioned an illustration. That was probably the first active action she took after she stopped attending school.
However, Mio did not have the necessary equipment for streaming, so she first decided to use an application that would allow her to stream as a VTuber with a single smartphone.
Mio, who often watched VTuber videos, had heard about the app through advertisements.
[A dream V-liver app that allows you to become a new you in the virtual world !]
Perhaps she was moved by such a catchy copywriting.
On the day the requested illustration arrived, Mio immediately decided to stream it. When she uploaded a single picture as data, it moved according to the movement of her mouth and eyes on the screen.
“Wow, it really moved……amazing.”
The image of VTuber moving in the device it was as if it was really her alter ego. The name she gave to her alter ego was Asahina Konatsu.
When she opened the stream, several viewers came into the frame. Unlike a regular VTuber’s stream the streaming app displays the icons of the viewers in the frame in the upper right corner of the screen. This allows you to see who is currently in the frame.
“Wow, many of you came to visit me. Thank you～”
When Mio spoke to the viewers, they began to make their own comments.
Nice to meet you.
Your voice is so cute !
Hello～
“Eh, cute? Thanks, I’m embarrassed~”
As she talks in the stream, Mio realizes. Here and now, the self that was frightened at school is not here. She has truly become a new person in the virtual world.
Mio must have had the qualities to show her abilities in this kind of situation. Mio, who plays a completely different self in the virtual world, might not be recognized as the same person by those who know her in the real world.
To that extent, Mio had become a different person in the virtual world.
Mio continued to stream every day. The day flew by because she was having so much fun.
One day, however, when Mio was streaming as usual, she saw Kumada and others in the frame. A new viewer named Kumada came into the slot for the first time.
“It’s nice to meet you, KumadaTsan～thank you for coming to watch the stream.
Mio spoke to the first-time viewer, but Kumada ignored her and suddenly began to tell her a saga in the comments.
I talked back to the old man who came to lecture me at school today.
He is a so-called self-talker.
“I-I see…….”
He was scared to death when I gave him a little bit of a shove.
Despite Mio’s reluctance, Kumada continues to talk nonsense about himself without reading the air.
You might think that you can just ignore such harmful viewers. However, it is not so easy in streaming apps.
Unlike famous VTubers in general, there are only a few viewers in the frame. Even the most common VTubers usually have about 20 listeners in the same frame.
If you compare the relationship between livers and viewers in the famous VTuber’s streaming to an artist on a large stage and an audience in the audience seats, the relationship between livers and viewers on a streaming app is at most like that of a teacher at the podium and students sitting in a small classroom.
In other words, the distance is close. It is difficult to ignore comments from the audience. Of course, there is a point that the close distance allows them to get along well, but when such harmful viewers appear, the air in the frame instantly deteriorates.
In fact, many viewers have left the frame since Kumada’s self-talk started.
Of course, there are ways to block or warn such harmful viewers, but Mio, who had just started to stream, did not have that level of skill.
At that time, Mio remembers herself at school, when she only smiled affectionately at those around her and could not say anything. She began to be bullied, and everyone left her alone.
(I knew I couldn’t change even here……)
Just as she thought this, an effect appeared on the screen to interrupt Kumada’s comment. One of the viewers had sent a gift.
A gift is a kind of money that viewers can send using their points during the stream.
The name of the viewers who sent the gift was Kiritani Kou. Moreover, the gift was a high point gift that could only be sent with a charge, and it appeared on the screen for a long time.
Literally, Kou’s gift physically interrupted Kumada’s comment.
“Wawawa, Kou san ! Are you sure you wanna send me such an expensive gift~?”
<Kiritani Kou> I always enjoy listening to your stream, so this is my thanks for that !
The audience, who had been silenced by Kumada’s appearance, began to comment, starting with Kou’s comment.
I’m the same as you.
I’m rooting for you !
I don’t need a guy who talks about himself in this section.
The flow has changed.
Let’s leave aside at this point that there are many quirks in the comment section. Literally, the flow has changed due to the effect of Kou’s gift and the comments.
In addition, Kou’s gift of a large sum of money also put Mio’s stream on the rankings in the app, where only the high point-earning subscribers are displayed.
This brought in many first-time viewers, and her delivery had an unprecedented number of ties.
Kumada had completely disappeared from the frame. He must have felt uncomfortable, turned red in the face, and ran away.
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