The comedy light novel series VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream is getting a TV anime adaptation this July, and a new trailer has been released along with information about the additional Japanese voice cast. Director Takuya Asaoka (Redo of Healer, Futoku no Guild) is helming the series, with studio TNK (Highschool DxD, Redo of Healer, School Days) producing the animation. The anime's story centers on virtual performers being chaotic and rowdy.
Deko Akao is in charge of the series composition while Reina Iwasaka is working on the character designs. The new cast additions are Sumire Morohoshi as Shion Kannar, and Ayaka Ohashi as Nekoma Hirune. You can check out the rest of the cast below:
Ayane Sakura as Awayuki Kokorone
Yu Kobayashi as Sei Utsuki
Saku Mizuno as Mashiro Irodori
Machico as Hikari Matsuriya
Sayaka Kikuchi as Chami Yanagase
What is VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream about?
The anime is based on the VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral After Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream light novel series written by Nana Nanato and illustrated by Siokazunoko. The series is published by KADOKAWA under its light novel publishing imprint Fujimi Fantasia Bunko. The light novel series began its serialization in May 2021, and there are currently seven volumes. It also received a manga adaptation by Roto Fujisaki, and it's currently ongoing in Comp Ace magazine.
The light novel is being published by J-Novel Club in English, and the pubisher shared the following description for it:
Twenty-year-old former wage slave Yuki Tanaka now works among her idols: the streamers of Live-On, one of Japan’s top VTuber companies. As the gorgeous, polite Awayuki Kokorone, she delivers only the most ladylike content. Unfortunately, her subscriber count and savings are at rock bottom. One evening, after Yuki thinks she’s ended her stream, she cracks a few cold ones—and more than a few crude jokes—while watching Live-On’s video archives. But her viewers hear it all, and clips of her bawdy, drunken commentary go viral overnight. Yuki thinks her career is over…until her manager reveals that everyone at Live-On has been waiting for her to snap all along and gives her free rein to drink on-stream. Now free of all feigned purity, she jumps right into her new “rowdy drunk” character and is welcomed into the fold by her fellow Live-On VTubers, who turn out to be just as crazy as she is! With her views and finances skyrocketing, Yuki’s work—for the first time in her life—is actually fun!
For more information about the upcoming anime, check out the official website of VTuber Legend.
