- Has umapyoi with Tazuna - Almost has umapyoi with Light Hello
HOW DOES THIS MAN KEEP DOING IT???
Ah ok of this is all the same continuity I could understand him not wanting to cheat on Tazuna, but if he was single I would say come on, she looks so lonely...
Ah ok of this is all the same continuity I could understand him not wanting to cheat on Tazuna, but if he was single I would say come on, she looks so lonely...
The collection/series on Pixiv has this placed before they did the umapyoi, apparently. Although considering the name of the series I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up doing it (lol)
Announced in March 2022, she was seen in an in-game announcement of an upcoming web event outside of the game. Then there was a short "Vtuber introduction" video uploaded to the official game channel (the original video is now set to private).
There was a big backlash from the playerbase due to these reasons:
This Vtuber has absolutely nothing to do with Blue Archive. Irua and her concept (called "Panopticon Institution") had no relation whatsoever to any character or lore in Kivotos. In fact, the only mention of the game in the video (aside from a few game artworks seen in the background) was Irua saying "I was asked to play this game, Blue Archive, which I like", implying that she's not someone from the game in any way (unlike, say, Gold Ship from Umamusume running the Paka Tube channel).
The quality shown in the video itself. The visual quality of the Vtuber avatar was considered subpar, as was the content in the short presentation, which was considered to be a cringefest. And her attitude seemed to be off-putting for the players that were viewing the video. And as mentioned above, this video basically didn't talk about Blue Archive at all, as most of it was Irua self-advertising and bragging. Players saw this as a Vtuber using the game as a vehicle for promoting herself, rather than what should have been the other way around - a staff member (à la Hololive's former A-chan) that is there to share announcements about the game and make streams showcasing the game content. Even if some of the problems with the video were possibly because of a scripted character concept that wasn't the fault of the person behind the Irua avatar, people were getting mad at the game team that put this thing out.
Players were quite unhappy since what they expected was for the devs to spend time improving the game (Blue Archive in 2022 was still young, and had things to fix and significant issues), and for the players' monetary contributions to go towards reinvesting in the game. They felt that, instead, resources were being wasted on something like this.
In the end, the game development team scrapped this whole project less than a day after the video was released. Kim Yongha later said that he pitched the idea of making an original character instead of using Arona or someone else within the game lore. Of course, various other servers of Blue Archive have successfully deployed some form of Arona as the "official announcer" character - this includes CM Arcie's streams, done by the Vtuber form of global server community manager Arcie, who "dresses up" as Arona or Plana for streams.
(Apparently, the announcement picture for Irua also teased another Vtuber, to debut for the global server in April 2022, but plans for her were cancelled along with Irua before ever showing up. CM Arcie debuted in July 2023 and basically took over what would have been the unnamed Vtuber's role.)
Honestly, I don't know if it's even appropriate to tag this Vtuber as "irua_(blue archive)" since she has zilch to do with the game, so maybe someone might think it's better to change this to "irua_(vtuber)" or perhaps "irua_(nexon)". (Although, Lani - the Korean server Vtuber for Counter:Side, which is set to close in August - does use the tag lani_(counter:side).)
Oh, sorry, I didn't notice the circles. Even knowing they're there, I can still barely see them. Orange blends a bit too well with the rest of the image.
You know, they both have something in common: Killing disturbing entities and revealing themselves to be even bigger, ridiculously overpowered monsters than what they kill as their stories progress.
You know, they both have something in common: Killing disturbing entities and revealing themselves to be even bigger, ridiculously overpowered monsters than what they kill as their stories progress.
And most importantly, they're shaped like a friend.
I love the fact that these two canonically hate each other. And let's not forget that Mash is such a sweetheart that she gets along with some of history's biggest monsters and scumbags.
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