#secret society holox

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Koyori: Honestly, fuck viruses. They’re not even alive, they’re just strands of punk DNA that go around fucking us normal and God-fearing organisms up.

Koyori: You don’t even have a nucleus, you bacteriophage-looking horizontally-transmitting RNA clump.

Chloe: Sounds like somebody has the sniffles~!

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Waifu WIP-tober Day 9: Takane Lui from Hololive Gen 6: Secret Society holoX

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[MV] Secret Society holoX - Labyrinthine Labyrinth

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Cleaner and Intern of Secret Society holoX! by タツナ

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I have a lot of thoughts about the premise(?) of Hololive -Advent-*, the newest set of Hololive VTubers, which is weird, because in the end, there's not much to it. (And that's the problem.)

*That's not me, that's how their group name is consistently formatted in, like, video descriptions and stuff. I don't know why.

All five of them are escapees from The Cell, which is...I'm not sure what it's supposed to be. On one hand, Nerissa and Bijou are in there because they're supernatural anomalies who put people in danger by being around them; on the other hand, Shiori and the Abyssgard twins are there because they angered "the gods" by discovering forbidden knowledge and being annoying. The Cell is kind of an SCP-Foundation securing-dangerous-anomalies thing, kind of a prison for people "the gods" don't like, and VTuber lore just isn't substantial enough to make those two tropes feel like a single thing instead of two tropes.

The next problem is, in my opinon, more significant. It feels like Cover is trying to make absolutely nobody in this premise come off as truly unsympathetic. (I don't know if they're actually trying to do that, but that's what it feels like.) Now obviously, they don't want the VTubers to come off as unsympathetic monsters; they range from completely innocent girls deemed threats to the world, to annoying brats.

But at the same time, plenty of details paint the Cell as not being so bad. First off, there's the SCP vibes. Bijou is a jewel whose luster (shininess) drives people into violent conflict over her, and Nerissa's singing could drive the world mad. Something needs to be done about their anomalous properties, and while locking them up is obviously wrong, it's at least a sympathetic motivation.

Second, the Cell seems pretty comfy. This may just be a consequence of needing to explain why a bunch of prisoners know about anime and Minecraft and Twitter, but it still serves to dilute the Cell. If the prisoners are treated well, it's not much of a prison.

Which leads into problem 3: The escaped-prisoners thing is barely even an aesthetic. Which isn't inherently a problem; look at HoloJP generation 3, aka Hololive Fantasy—a necromancer, an elf, a knight, a rabbit, and a pirate. Not much there, but that's not a problem, because AFAIK they didn't try to make a big deal out of it.

But HoloEN puts more effort into the lore of its generations, because Anglophone fans respond well to it or something. This usually works fine, and I think that's because Hololive Council and Tempest picked themes that don't require much support or consistency. A bickering council of divine beings and an adventuring party are both simple ideas, ones that would be suited to an episodic slice-of-life anime or fantasy vlog channel or something. Their divine council/adventuring party things are as superficial and undeveloped as Advent's prison escapee thing, but they fit the vibes and rhythm of VTubing.

A bunch of criminals who just escaped prison? Not so much. That premise has conflict baked into it. There's an antagonist, a clear goal (avoid going back to jail), all sorts of stuff. There's necessary worldbuilding; you can't escape from prison if there isn't a prison, and you can't have a prison without laws and someone to enforce them. And it's hard to make this mesh with a typical VTuber thing.

To make this work, I feel like Cover would need to go in one of two directions.

One would be to drop or de-emphasize the "prison escapee" angle. I'm thinking something along the lines of HoloX, the JP branch's evil secret society. Just as HoloX trying to take over the world is in the theoretical future, you could put this hypothetical generation's prison escape far enough in the past to be less significant. They're not on the run from whatever authorities are in charge of The Cell, they're just vaguely renegade people doing slice-of-lifey renegade things.

Two, commit to the bit. Make the Cell a place where "the gods" or whomever stick people they don't like, make it unpleasant, build VTuber personas and backstories within the constraints of that backstory. It would be different, it would be unfamiliar, but it would be unique.

I want to end this on a positive note, so I'll say this: In the abstract, the Cell is a fun idea. If nothing else, it's a fun fanfiction idea. I would read a fanfic about Holomems escaping the Cell for reasons other than the novelty of VTuber fanfiction.

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HoloX Meeting Vol. 1 is a cute debut but doesn't quite stand out

HoloX Meeting Vol. 1 is a cute debut but doesn't quite stand out #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel #manga

When a job offer arrives from a company she never applied to, Sakamata Chloe is naturally suspicious, but she can’t say no to the generous salary. Her new workplace is the Secret Society holoX, where fellow members Takane Lui, Hakui Koyori, Kazama Iroha, and their leader La+ Darknesss strive to achieve nothing short of world domination! (If they ever manage to scrounge up the funds, that is.)…

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Secret Society holoX icons!

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Secret Society holoX icons

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So Secret Society HoloX is gonna debut 

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La+ Darknesss, Dance, and True Power Levels

La+ Darknesss, Dance, and True Power Levels

Since her debut, Hololive’s La+ (pronounced Laplus) Darknesss has become one of my favorite Virtual Youtubers. Her premise states that she’s both a mighty demon whose power has been sealed off, as well as the founder of Secret Society HoloX, an organization with designs for world domination. In practice, however, La+ comes across as a cheeky and overconfident brat. It’s within this context that…