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Mori Calliope & KAF - EXPO 2025 Virtual Osaka Healthcare Pavilion "Eudaimonia" - VIRTUAL LIVE free portion starts 30 minutes in. I was informed also this is only up for 24h total (about 15 from time of posting), so watch it soon if you're interested.

You ever think when Yagoo signed Nerissa, he knew he was getting her entire family in the bargain?

>You ever think when Yagoo signed Nerissa, he knew he was getting
>her entire family in the bargain?

And the best part is, he only has to pay one of them!

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Nodoka-san hasn't been gone for even a full week and already a window is smashed at Hololive HQ.

The second cour where did that term come from? I had never heard it until this year of Gachiakuta was just announced, at which point Calli was finally able to reveal that she did the opening theme. She's live right now, talking 75 words per second about how excited she is, and how it doesn't seem real yet. If you didn't know, Gachiakuta is her favorite manga and now anime.

--G.
I guess it unseated Berserk in that capacity?
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Technically 'cour' has seen use since like back to 2011ish in English fandom but it's definitely felt like it's gotten more prominent over the past few years. Totally did have someone try and front that lots of people were actually using it back then and no they weren't lol. I was in the random anime blogs and AnimeSuki and other places, people just used season.

The Animanga Wiki says it's attested as far back as 2007, but their sources aren't obvious from the footnotes.

As an aside, this is the thumbnail Calli used for the stream above:

And just because of the white background, many people in chat were gesturing feebly from their fainting couches in protest of the multiple heart attacks it gave them.

Now, leaving aside for the moment the fact that being Calliope Mori is literally the keystone of her entire career, which is thundering along great guns at the moment: what kind of psychopath would choose that as the pose for a graduation announcement stream's thumbnail, then title the stream "let's celebrate"?

I understand that a lot of us are scarred from the first half of this year. I am too. But jeez, guys. You gotta do something about that context blindness.

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>I understand that a lot of us are scarred from the first half of this
>year. I am too. But jeez, guys. You gotta do something about that
>context blindness.

I guess it's a sign of how out of the loop I've been of late that I saw the thumbnail and just assumed it was yet another karaoke stream.

There's a part of me that genuinely believes that Calli will be the last of the "old breed" to go. And that the only appropriate way to end her graduation stream will be with her turning off the lights as she closes the door behind her.

>There's a part of me that genuinely believes that Calli will be the
>last of the "old breed" to go. And that the only appropriate way to
>end her graduation stream will be with her turning off the lights as
>she closes the door behind her.

Like the last scene of Babylon 5, with JMS cameoing as the guy who throws the lever to shut down the station before it's demolished.

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HoloEN Promise 2nd Anniversary Concert Promise2U

Pros: Some great song choices, amazing choreo, Bae being her usual explosive self, my favorite song from Persona 5, really cool virtual stage.

Cons: Really weird intermission skit, some of the lighting effects were way too bright.

Overall: Great show, will rewatch. Probably skip the skit. Your mileage may as always vary.

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>Cons: Really weird intermission skit, some of the lighting effects
>were way too bright.

I just want to know, when responding to the ad for "massage therapist to massage idols' feet while they sing while wearing a 3d tracking suit for a skit", was the therapist thinking "this is so weird I have to try" or "pfft, this isn't even the weirdest thing in my books for the week"?

also, do you think Cover has to pay a "Gigi Murin premium" to hire people now?
"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

>I just want to know, when responding to the ad for "massage therapist
>to massage idols' feet while they sing while wearing a 3d tracking
>suit for a skit", was the therapist thinking "this is so weird
>I have to try" or "pfft, this isn't even the weirdest thing in my
>books for the week"?

I'm gonna guess B, because Tokyo.

>also, do you think Cover has to pay a "Gigi Murin premium" to
>hire people now?

What is that, and how does it relate to the Biboo tax?

--G.
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>HoloEN Promise 2nd Anniversary Concert Promise2U

Upon reflection, I'm mildly bemused by the people in chat saying "Promise forever 6", just out of my own pedantry. Like, I know what they're getting at, but Promise never had six members. It was formed long after Sana graduated.

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I guess they're just treating Promise as an officializing of CouncilRyS. IRyS was an unofficial Council member before Sana's Important Rescue Mission.

Himemori Luna Birthday 3D Live

Fuwawa wants you to buy McDonald's (in Japan)

Watame is voicing Sweetia in Etrange Overlord

Tokoyami Towa 2nd Live (Free Portion)

Haachama will be taking a break, pretty much as expected after that last meltdown stream.

>Haachama will be taking a break,
>pretty much as expected after that last meltdown
>stream.

Somewhere in Japan, some fucking trog is feeling a sense of pride and accomplishment, and I hope he gets cancer of the cock.

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>Somewhere in Japan, some fucking trog is feeling a sense of pride and
>accomplishment, and I hope he gets cancer of the cock.

So say we all.

*sigh*

Everybody stay calm, it's just Lui being a dork.

Koseki Bijou 3D LIVE

>Koseki Bijou 3D LIVE

And her new original song, "ROCK IN!"

--G.
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Lamy birthday 3D

HoloEN is having a big, heavily hyped collab with Twitch and I am NOT there for it. I really hope this is a brand deal that goes away as soon as it's over, because... no. Not Twitch's UX. Not even for them.

(Also, tonight some of them are playing Among Us over there, which to me sounds like the... which circle of Hell is it where you're immersed in a lake of shit? That one.)

--G.
Wikipedia's summary of Inferno says it's one of the sub-zones of the eighth
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Yeah, basically none of the girls have any plans to actually stay there, but Twitch has put them on the front page for a promo thing, and a couple of them do have plans to occasionally do certain things there because it's just easier than doing them on youtube (Watchalongs are supposedly pretty easy there, because I guess there's integration so you can sync with the streamer? I think somebody mentioned that once.)

Every single one of the girls made it clear that there's zero plans to actually switch or anything, but that they might do some pick up grinding streams or something, likely because the nature of Youtube doesn't really favor guerilla streams like that. They can always export twitch streams to youtube afterwards.

New developments in the shocking controversy involving Gigi and Calli!

LAST EDITED ON Nov-23-25 AT 10:16 AM (EST)
 
Edited to confirm info

It isn't graduation, but Raora jumpscared us with the White Thumbnail of Doom this morning about something serious. It's a hiatus for throat surgery.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

>It isn't graduation, but Raora jumpscared us with the
>White Thumbnail of Doom this
>morning about something serious. It's a hiatus for throat surgery.

After a certain other pink lady permanently injured herself Pushing Through™ an illness, I just hope she's serious about waiting as long as medically necessary before coming back. Recovery from surgery is no joke under any circumstances, but this particular type of surgery is, based on what I've read, especially sensitive to patient behavior post-op.

--G.
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>After a certain other pink lady permanently injured herself
>Pushing Through™ an illness

In fairness, it would take elephant tranquilizers to keep Calli down for as long as she needed to stay down.

>I just hope she's serious about
>waiting as long as medically necessary before coming back.

A fan already put together a Cone of Shame pic for Raora, it'd be funny if she actually had one on return.
In all seriousness though, hoping the same thing, and hopefully her friends and Hololive coworkers remind her to stay down until she's fully healed.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

As long as she heals up half as well as Suisei did after this same thing, I think she'll be fine.

Raora reports that the operation went well and she's now resting. It appears Kiara's on the case.

--G.
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holoX 4th Anniversary 3D LIVE

Some kind of collab with the Monogatari series announced

Apparently Hololive has a new CEO now.

So Kronii held a press conference to respond to the pet-play allegations, by which I mean she threw her manager under a bus.

>So Kronii held a press conference to respond to the pet-play
>allegations, by which I mean she threw her manager under a bus.

Meow.

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Kronii has lost it, Egon. What have you got left?

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>Kronii has lost it, Egon.
>What have you got left?

So, do we go with Into the Kroniiverse or The Kroniiverse of Madness?

When an in-depth discussion about killing yourself with the Lemonade That Kills You isn't the most worrying thing Kronii says in a day . . .

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

Having gone for literal decades without learning much of anything about the Dragonball franchise, beyond finding its fanbase so annoying in the mid-'90s that I banned even mentioning it around here for a few years, I decided what the hell, I might as well watch Calli play Dragonball Z: Kakarot.

To quote Carl Sagan in Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time, "Robo, I think I'm insane now."

--G.
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>Having gone for literal decades without learning much of anything
>about the Dragonball franchise, beyond finding its fanbase so
>annoying in the mid-'90s that I banned even mentioning it around here
>for a few years, I decided what the hell, I might as well watch Calli
>play Dragonball Z: Kakarot.
>
>To quote Carl Sagan in Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond
>Time, "Robo, I think I'm insane now."
>
>--G.
>or measurably stupider

As someone who never got into the franchise when it first became big in Western otaku circles but remembers the guys (and some gals) in my class who did, learning that Calli is a long-time fan does not come as a surprise.

>As someone who never got into the franchise when it first became big
>in Western otaku circles but remembers the guys (and some gals) in my
>class who did, learning that Calli is a long-time fan does not come as
>a surprise.

She's not, though, or at least she claims she knew no more about it than I do before she started playing the game. (People in chat keep saying things like "oh, this was way gorier in the anime. And took 25 episodes." :)

She's reacting to it very differently than I am, though. She seems to be very much on board with its ridiculousness. Me... well, I rode that train for as long as I could take it. I never thought I'd be nostalgic for the storytelling coherence of Elden Ring...

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>She's not, though, or at least she claims she knew no more about it
>than I do before she started playing the game. (People in chat keep
>saying things like "oh, this was way gorier in the anime. And took 25
>episodes." :)

Huh, coulda sworn she'd said something about being a fan, but perhaps that's the neurons misfiring from lack of sleep. Or maybe it was someone else, because my lizard brain insists there was somebody who identified as a fan in HoloEN.

>She's reacting to it very differently than I am, though. She seems to
>be very much on board with its ridiculousness. Me... well, I rode
>that train for as long as I could take it. I never thought I'd be
>nostalgic for the storytelling coherence of Elden Ring...

Yeah, that was why I never got into the franchise when it first became popular back in the mid/late-90s, because while others were oohing and awing to the fights that took half a season to conclude, I was reading Gunnm and watching fandubs of Evangelion. But I can also remember never understanding my cousin's fascination with "professional" wrestling, so perhaps there's a pattern there...

Being entirely fair to Dragonball, it makes more sense when it isn't broken up by filler (Either as time killer things in the anime, because the series and manga were going pretty much side by side and 12-20 pages of manga goes a lot faster than a 22 minute episode, or to actually, y'know, be a game).

I can't think of any Dragon Ball game that is as coherent a story as even the TV show, let alone the original manga, just because it can't hit everything beat for beat (And there's a certain amount of abridging for what they *do* actually replicate pretty closely).

Games based on an anime series aren't meant to be the way you actually consume the story, they're meant to be a way to relive and interact with the story you're already invested in. I expect that's the same with books. I know it is with western movies, for sure.

>I decided what the hell, I might as well watch Calli
>play Dragonball Z: Kakarot.
>
>To quote Carl Sagan in Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond
>Time, "Robo, I think I'm insane now."

I thought I would never see her play a dafter game than this... and then she played Asura's Wrath.

--G.
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LAST EDITED ON Feb-08-26 AT 12:40 PM (EST)
 
Calliope Mori AS Asura in

ANGRY DAD

(I couldn't find a small enough picture of the Simpsons reference I'm making)

But seriously, Asura's Wrath is friggin' breathtaking, and I wish it were on Steam.

This time of year I will always think of Nanashi Mumei. A truly Superb Owl.

>This time of year I will always think of Nanashi Mumei. A truly Superb
>Owl.

weep, weep for lost owl

--G.
"I'm not dying!" - Nanashi Mumei, 2025, in response to the chat filling up with "fly high Mumei" during her last stream
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Tonight, Raora revealed her newest Live2D outfit. It's a maid costume. I think it's based on the maid costume she doodled during a drawing stream, like... a year ago.

A few weeks ago, she revealed a different outfit she designed, this one as part of a collab with Monster Hunter. It's based on the MonHun monster Rathalos (which immediately resulted in it being nicknamed "Raothalos"), and... is also a maid costume.

Does anyone else in Holo have two different maid outfits? Or two costumes they designed themselves? I feel like this has to be some sort of milestone.

--G.
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Beeg cat means beeg wardrobe! Especially when it's costumes she's...

...

maid herself

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i await your booing with the usual anticipation

>Beeg cat means beeg wardrobe! Especially when it's costumes she's...
>
>...
>
>maid herself

YEAAAAHHHH

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> Does anyone else in Holo have two different maid outfits?

Well, she's gone now, but I think Aqua might have...

> Or two costumes they designed themselves?

I'm glad they're letting the girls do more work for the company than just be talents, if you get me. Ina, Callie, and Sana always had Other Things they were doing art-wise, and Callie was able to do the art for her videos a couple of times, but now they're letting them just straight up work for each other.

I seem to recall Raora having done actual vtuber design work before, so it'd make sense she'd be the one to have multiple self-made outfits already, knowing how to break it up for ease of rigging and whatnot - after a quick lookup, yeah, she designed....eight vtubers, including herself. (Her not-Raora self, that is.)

I don't think anyone else in the company has anywhere near the same level of vtuber design experience she has.

>I don't think anyone else in the company has anywhere near the same
>level of vtuber design experience she has.

Which is particularly striking considering she's both aphantasic and color-blind.

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"What's your other class?"
"Also Maid."