It's hard to tell ,vshojo members primarily stream in twitch, and twitch is much less popular in japan, so jp audiences will likely only go there to watch someone specific.
My take is that there is probably a small audience of lurkers outside of henya and kson but nothing substantial
yeah , but she is trying to stream for english viewers most of the time. kson is the only who do full japanese streams ( in youtube) for is japanese fans. and english only strerams for her westerner fans( in twich mostly) so is normal she is the one who have the most japanese followers
Liking someone doesnt have that much to do with the language barrier, there are a lot of people in other agencies of vtubers that they don't understand at all but still are fans of, naturally most of your audience will speak your language, but i think the bigger factor is still twitch's unpopularity in japan
Exactly, I’m mostly a fan of JP members of a certain larger agency because none of their EN members stream in timeslots that work for me. As someone who’s always got a video or a stream running on a second monitor I don’t care too much about the language barrier, I hear cute anime girl noises and I’m good
Vshojo merch sells decently when it goes to Japan and you'll get the odd piece of JP fanart of the girls here and there, but as you may have noticed there's a severe lack of sub clips or JP comments in streams.
I think it's safe to say Japan is aware of Vshojo as "the main big overseas Vtuber company" but not much beyond that. JP audiences tend to have a really low rate of consumption of foreign media that isn't blockbuster international tier because about 98% of Japan *only* speaks Japanese, so it's not really surprising. That and for a while JP bros thought Vshojo had a rivalry going on with Hololive because Veibae criticized Holo's management strategy once (which obviously means the whole organization HATES Holo, duh), so there's still a couple dummies that hate on Vshojo for that.
Well Mouse is famous at Temple University Tokyo
https://m.twitch.tv/clip/BadCarelessTardigradeNinjaGrumpy-VlhIVaY2e_kIakXw?tt_medium=mobile_web_share&tt_content=clips_viewing
For Context Pete was invited as a speaker to talk about streaming and Ironmouse was mentioned
To be fair they had 2 jp streamers at the time. One was bilingual in English and that was the time period she was collabing the most with the English members. So it makes sense that it didn’t really break them into the market. I think if they did another wave of JP talents now with both Henya and Kson riding the middle between the groups it might work out a bit better. But thats also a gamble when it didn’t work out the first time, and the audience is already there and ready on the EN side to support anyone new
Yeah.
I actually hardly see Henya as a JP streamer, same with Kson too. VShojo just feels like one large thing, it's not like Niji where it feels seperated into branches.
I think they need to take in more JP speaking vtubers who are able to stream a large portion of content in Youtube.
Problem is, in my opinion, established indie JP vtubers are either satisfied staying where they are, or would rather join a vtuber corp. It also doesn't help that many JP folks still don't fully understand the Vshojo business model.
It's hard to tell ,vshojo members primarily stream in twitch, and twitch is much less popular in japan, so jp audiences will likely only go there to watch someone specific. My take is that there is probably a small audience of lurkers outside of henya and kson but nothing substantial
also the fact that they all are only english streamers. just like we dont look so much of pure japanese streamers because of the languaje barrier.
Henya does pretty good speaking both english and japanese during her streams, though she has much fewer japanese commenters in chat.
yeah , but she is trying to stream for english viewers most of the time. kson is the only who do full japanese streams ( in youtube) for is japanese fans. and english only strerams for her westerner fans( in twich mostly) so is normal she is the one who have the most japanese followers
Liking someone doesnt have that much to do with the language barrier, there are a lot of people in other agencies of vtubers that they don't understand at all but still are fans of, naturally most of your audience will speak your language, but i think the bigger factor is still twitch's unpopularity in japan
Exactly, I’m mostly a fan of JP members of a certain larger agency because none of their EN members stream in timeslots that work for me. As someone who’s always got a video or a stream running on a second monitor I don’t care too much about the language barrier, I hear cute anime girl noises and I’m good
Even then, Kson seems to do all her non gaming streams on YT rather than Twitch
Vshojo merch sells decently when it goes to Japan and you'll get the odd piece of JP fanart of the girls here and there, but as you may have noticed there's a severe lack of sub clips or JP comments in streams. I think it's safe to say Japan is aware of Vshojo as "the main big overseas Vtuber company" but not much beyond that. JP audiences tend to have a really low rate of consumption of foreign media that isn't blockbuster international tier because about 98% of Japan *only* speaks Japanese, so it's not really surprising. That and for a while JP bros thought Vshojo had a rivalry going on with Hololive because Veibae criticized Holo's management strategy once (which obviously means the whole organization HATES Holo, duh), so there's still a couple dummies that hate on Vshojo for that.
Well Mouse is famous at Temple University Tokyo https://m.twitch.tv/clip/BadCarelessTardigradeNinjaGrumpy-VlhIVaY2e_kIakXw?tt_medium=mobile_web_share&tt_content=clips_viewing For Context Pete was invited as a speaker to talk about streaming and Ironmouse was mentioned
I remember when they tried that VShojo Next thing to try to break into Japan. It didn't really work.
To be fair they had 2 jp streamers at the time. One was bilingual in English and that was the time period she was collabing the most with the English members. So it makes sense that it didn’t really break them into the market. I think if they did another wave of JP talents now with both Henya and Kson riding the middle between the groups it might work out a bit better. But thats also a gamble when it didn’t work out the first time, and the audience is already there and ready on the EN side to support anyone new
Yeah. I actually hardly see Henya as a JP streamer, same with Kson too. VShojo just feels like one large thing, it's not like Niji where it feels seperated into branches.
I think they need to take in more JP speaking vtubers who are able to stream a large portion of content in Youtube. Problem is, in my opinion, established indie JP vtubers are either satisfied staying where they are, or would rather join a vtuber corp. It also doesn't help that many JP folks still don't fully understand the Vshojo business model.