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Yoyogi Animation Academy VTuber Courses Dominated by Male Students

Yoyogi Animation Academy Vtuber Courses Dominated by Male Students

In December, Yoyogi Animation Academy announced new “Virtual YouTuber courses” in partnership with Nijisanji’s parent company Anycolor, which would supposedly shoot them to success, and it seems the male-dominated VTuber audience showed up en masse to try to reach the stars.

The report on the first year of VTuber courses comes from a female VTuber named Mei, who decided to join in order to see what was being taught, as she was skeptical whether such a course could even help overcome the gap in natural talent as well as the saturation of the current market.

What she found was that the VTuber course was actually a rebranding of the Academy’s previous Youtuber course, which had been folded into the curriculum under a new name. When she went to her class, she found out that the class was full of men except for her (likely spurred by the large male demographic of VTubers and the subsequent low rate of success of male VTubers in the market).

The lecturer explained that the course was not meant to help people become VTubers but rather equip them with the skills to be successful as a virtual streamer. To that end, the curriculum consisted of 90-minute sessions of classes on basic skills, acting, video editing, singing, vaguely defined “streaming skills,” and self-producing.

She ended off by saying that while she would continue in the course for now, it was questionable whether the money for the course (3 million yen) would be better off spent on an actual model for debuting streaming activities while using the extra money for consultation services instead.

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