Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 33, Section 32: Is Ghost King Yuna a girl?
Kujo Akari doesn't understand League of Legends, nor does she understand China.

But she understands anime and manga.

While surfing YouTube, she occasionally learned that many Japanese VTubers actually make money in China, and sometimes even do Bilibili-exclusive live streams.

Therefore, she believes that, at least in the realm of anime and manga, East Asian aesthetics should be universal.

It's not that live streaming is bad; in fact, Yuna Shimamura's real-life persona is quite adorable.

but.
She just felt that anime characters were more relatable and easier to grab people's attention than real people.

Especially for game live streaming, the two-dimensional characters feel more down-to-earth than the real-life characters.

With that in mind, she drew this character illustration.

The image of a white-haired, red-eyed vampire loli is considered a classic in Japanese anime, and could even be described as somewhat formulaic.

To prevent this character illustration from looking like the standard white-haired, red-eyed vampire loli, Akari Kujo added some of her own creative touches.

The most crucial element is the inclusion of Vladimir from League of Legends.

Simply put, she basically copied Vladimir's clothing design, and even retained Vladimir's clothing dimensions.

The final character design makes it look like Vladimir's daughter is wearing her father's clothes, with the clothes hanging loosely on her body, which looks quite cute.

Although this is only a first draft and has not yet been polished, it already has a preliminary charm.

Because she was very satisfied with her drawing, she immediately organized the manuscript and sent it to Shimamura Yuna via LINE.

Then he added: "[So? Do you think this is suitable for live streaming?]"

Meanwhile, Shimamura Yuna was playing games as usual.

During the few days that Akari Kujo helped her with her drawing, she herself was also busy.

Because she doesn't have a mainland Chinese ID card, and because it's not very convenient to broadcast on Bilibili overseas now, her initial plan to "earn money from Bilibili" is not as simple as she imagined.

Account issues alone are not easy to resolve.

Fortunately, she had some experience in this area, and after some trial and error, she finally managed to open an account.

However, shortly after she opened her account, she received a photo from Akari Kujo.

Then, upon seeing the picture, her first reaction was...
What is this?

She looked somewhat embarrassed.

Yes, she was in a dilemma.

But it wasn't because I disliked the other person's drawing.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that it's simply drawn exceptionally well.

The incredibly lifelike and adorable face, the oversized clothes with the sleeves drooping down giving it a youthful appearance, and the classic combination of white hair and red eyes.

You could say she's adorable in every way.

But precisely because of this, Shimamura Yuna could not accept it.

"Is it a bit much to make me wear such an adorable costume to act cute?"

Although she can now be considered half a natural woman, the memories of Shimamura Yuna from the past are not much different from her own; the two have essentially become one.

Even so, she still subconsciously tends to think in a male-centric way.

This leads to her having a slight psychological aversion to things like "acting cute," which is considered very feminine.

When she first started live streaming, she thought that she would just be like her previous life, not turning on her camera or doing any off-site business, and simply playing games.

Anyway, she's a Japanese girl, so as long as she plays the game well, people will naturally watch. Therefore, when she first saw this overly cute character illustration, her first reaction was, "This doesn't suit me."

But just as she was about to reply, her typing hand suddenly froze in mid-air and stopped moving.

"I'm streaming now for attention and to make money."

In that instant, reason prevailed over instinctive likes and dislikes.

"Objectively speaking, the character illustration that Akari designed for me is indeed very cute, distinctive, and easily recognizable, and it also suits my love for vampires."

'This is beneficial for live streaming.'

She tried to convince herself, but even so, she still couldn't help feeling awkward when she saw the character design.

Finally, after agonizing for a long time, she chose to kill the game with the most shameless remark.

'I'm cute as I am, so what's wrong with being cute?'

"I'm cuter than this costume. Using this costume for livestreaming instead of the super-beautiful 3D version reduces the pandering to otaku."

After shamelessly convincing herself of this, she finally replied to Akari Kujo with a message: 【Feels good.】

Let's use this for the live stream.

Akari Kujo simply replied with an "OK" emoji.

And that was the simple decision.
Two days later, an account named "Ghost King Yuna" officially started broadcasting on Bilibili.

The title of the live stream was "Genius Girl, the Highest Score Vampire Specialist in Zone 1".

For someone as eccentric as Shimamura Yuna, simply typing in that live stream title was a huge blow to her mental health.

In the past, whenever she saw people using phrases like "genius e-sports girl" in their titles, she would think, "What kind of amazing person would dare to put the words 'genius girl' in their live stream title?"

But now, she understands.

When you really want to make live streaming a success, there's nothing you can't do.

People always have to bow their heads to make a living.

Not only the live stream title, but her live stream room was also completely decorated with the help of Akari Kujo.

The leather suit in the lower right corner, the live stream UI that fits the vampire theme—everything looks so exquisite.

The only drawback is that the cute white-haired, red-eyed vampire is not in a Live2D state, but rather in a static state.

However, I heard that Akari Kujo is already helping her contact people to do LIVE2D, but it will take some time.

Although everything from the account and the title of the live stream to the content of the live stream was carefully designed.

However, Shimamura Yuna did not believe that 'making preparations would guarantee instant fame'.

She had done live streaming in her past life, so she knew that live streaming required building up popularity, and it was perfectly normal for not many people to watch at the beginning.

She was prepared for this first live stream to be completely offline and with no viewers.

She didn't even plan to speak during this live stream; she just intended to keep the screen recording running, edit some footage, and use it to attract viewers for her videos later.

However, to her slight surprise, on the day of the live stream, which she had no expectations for at all, someone actually sent her a bullet screen comment.

Is it Yuna, the vampire-playing Ghost King from Zone 1?

[It's a woman?]

P.S.: Daily request for votes and to keep reading!
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