Creators and companies in possession of absurdly popular anime franchises have finally realized the existence of the virtual YouTuber trend, as the Sword Art Online Twitter announced that Asuna will now be serving as one while also hawking future Sword Art Online products that fans can buy.
Her videos may occasionally be uploaded to the Aniplex YouTube channel, which may unfortunately be blocked for those who reside in the barbarian lands – Asuna however will mostly be active on Twitter.
The tweet introducing Asuna to the world of Virtual YouTubers (with speech synthesis being used for her voice and Live2D for her movements):
Asuna will supposedly even respond to user requests on Twitter, merely requiring the inquirer to add “#宣伝隊長アスナへリクエスト” to their tweet (trolling bound to become its top purpose).
omg at least get the voice actress for christ sake.
Technically it’s her voice. Very technically.
And technically it’s s♥♥t. Very shitty.
Why is it this robot-like voice instead of the real voice actor?
Not enough budget I guess. It seems virtual youtuber become a really cheap way to advertise stuff in japan.
Because Haruka Tomatsu time cost a lot.
First the whores, now the voice actors. Robots are stealing our jobs!
They missed a huge Opportunity by not using the real voice actor come on now people xd.
Hiring people costs money. Voice acting is the next target of our job-stealing robots.
Well, you can tell it’s a synthesizer alright. It’s not that terrible either as the technology has gotten better as of late.
As the OP said, it would be pretty entertaining to see what the trolls may get back in responses lol
Asuna fucks Agil