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Name: Inochi ni Kirawarete iru. (cover)
Origin: Enma Ruri

Glad it made it this far, and also glad the cover itself got acknowledged. Ruri here has been an extreme underdog among virtual singers from the start, and that's likely never going to change. Starting off as part of a 5-man unit known as the Uragaku Broadcasting Club, they were primarily based on a standalone virtual livecasting smartphone app known as REALITY. All their models are actually just from that program. She was the only one with the knowhow to actually make videos out of that, and as a result, the project died after about 8 months with their group channel having only gained around 320 subscribers and few videos. Ruri was one of only three who chose to continue activities, and one of only two who had established a solo channel on youtube at the time. Since she still depends on her REALITY avatar, she apparently edits all her videos herself on her iPad, so it's all a pretty grassroots approach.

You probably already know this, but this isn't exactly an unpopular song to cover. It's almost indisputably the most popular song from Kanzaki Iori (who nowadays is Kaf's producer) and even among vtubers there are at least 20 different covers out there with over 100k views and high praise. So me picking this one was a rather biased decision to say the least, but also pretty justifiable I feel? She's pretty great at changing pitch and this cover specifically reflected that really well. Also it was the first cover she uploaded after I subscribed to her channel, so there was that too. At the time, she only had around 90 subs, and I only found her because she had just been added to the newcomer category on a tracker website.

Even when I nominated it though, she was still only sitting around 370ish though. Since then, she got really fortunate to arrange an exclusive collab game stream with Fukuyamaster (who, I dunno if you've noticed, but he has around 86k subs so he's basically worlds apart) and a couple of others. Even that ended up demonstrating how humble her basic channel was, as they spent around 20 minutes having to figure out who was causing echo to come through on their discord call. But anyway yeah thanks to that, and also a submission to a song cover contest hosted by some other major vtubers, her channel has grown by about 200 subs since then, which is a minor miracle.

Oh yes, she's also still active on REALITY itself. Generally her streams on there garner up to 60 viewers, which really isn't too shabby for an unknown platform with maybe 3k users. It's actually a really easy to use platform. Simply having the app means making an avatar for yourself and then you can just stream with that, so it's easy to see why it's used, even if the streams aren't archived in any capacity. It also means most of her fans are virtual streamers themselves. Technically even I am now that I tested it, even if nobody watched. Due to how basic it is though, "streams" generally amount to glorified one-way skype calls, though viewers get to mess around by sending gifts (cosmetics) on stream. Ruri really embraces a lot of this stuff in pretty fun ways. People might put a moustache on her and she'll talk or sing in a low pitch until it wears off a few minutes later. Stuff like that.

Anyway if it's not obvious, she's probably my favourite, so of course I have other videos to rec. She actually posts covers on a weekly basis and it never ceases to amaze me what she does with them. The one I picked is hardly even a standout, even if it's probably still in my top 3 vtuber covers of that song (there have been a few extremely good ones since noms that even my bias can't overlook, including one from Kaf herself)

Anyway oops i filled this post too much so other recs in the next one