Great vid, I highly respect Yuka Nagase even if I don't listen to her music as much as I did last year, but she expanded my interest on Japanese music a lot, so I'm always happy to see her improving and collaborating with such talented artists. It'll be cool if you hear Pepetterz stuff,, I think they deserve more attention...
Thanks for this tip - never heard of her before but I'll give it a spin. Not sure if it really will vibe with me since I'm not into Hyperpop or Glitchpop, but "After you" sounds pretty good as a starter. 🙂
No way, it's possible to have a VTuber album without Camellia on production anywhere /s I gotta listen to this later because as much as I love Wisp-X's Porter Robinson-esque album calling that my favourite VTuber album I've listened to feels underwhelming.
Tbf, her agency, Riot Music, also has mainline Vtuber units (Blitz wing, Meteopolis and Bakedol) with very "typical" JPOP/idol type of songs. In fact Riot Music's strongest talent isn't Yuka Nagase but Cocoa Domyouji, who is by far the oldest member of the agency and always play her role as the core of mainline part of Riot Music. Yuka's project and its uniqueness is only possible and financially viable by leveraging success of their mainline Vtubers. For better or worse, Yuka's project has been, is and will be a side project of Riot Music, which allows her to sing all sort of weird shits, and I saw it not so as a revolutionary indie project but as a clever diversification strategy by her agency in order to reach new untouched audience and cultivate many connections with various musicians for their future projects. By the way, Yuka herself is kinda weird girl in the first place, which reason why I believe that her project's uniqueness is partially come from the intention of herself, and, as I remember, she said that she was greatly influenced by Etsuko Yakushimaru, who is the lead vocalist of Soutaiseiriron, so I guess you can see where her style came from
Personally I don't think Yuka is a vtuber rather a utaite, who in many cases have used fake names and anime avatars while covering j-pop/vocaloid/anime songs.
There are several points where you refer to covering popular j-pop/vocaloid songs as a vtuber thing when it stems deep from utaite culture. There's a fair bit of overlap sure, but like vtuber/utaite/vocaloid culture are all pretty interconnected and all branch off each other
