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vtuber highlight #4:
Collectively, the entirely of 774inc.
https://www.774.ai/member
774 inc. is comprised of four separate groups. Originally starting off as two five-person groups in Animare and HoneyStrap, a lot has happened with them over time.

Animare's been through a lot as drama constantly seems to afffect it, but it still has some of the best vtubers. Two of the original five members got fired. An additional five debuted over the last few months, but unfortunately one of them just got booted a couple of days ago (Haibara Akane, who you can still see on that webpage). If it's not obvious, they have an animal-eared maid cafe theme. My favourite is Souya Ichika, the blue dog, notable for mainly just doing chat and karaoke streams and not ASMR. Hinokuma Ran, the dumb troll bear is pretty fun too, though her regular streams of games like PUBG aren't really my thing.

HoneyStrap are a much more tightly-knit group with only one retirement to date about 2 years in now (and they weren't even fired). Suou Patra is easily the most popular member overall (though Animare's leader Haneru gets way more donations), though really everyone in that group is good actually. A very grounded group, despite their appearances. I don't watch enough of them really.

SugarLyric exists. They're kind of like HoneyStrap except marketed as being "cooler". Not actually as edgy as their music and appearances make them seem. They've only been around a month so I don't really know what to make of them yet.

And then there's the VApArt group. They're the group designated to be like... a brand separate from upd8, which all of Animare and HoneyStrap were in at the time, that existing vtubers could join. The first 3 members all started off as independents, and they were honestly some of the best people they ever scouted. They also filled 3 totally different niches, with Ando Uge being a somewhat dedicated pro gamer, Camomi Camomi being an artist and Kanade Kanon being a bassist. These days, all the groups have split from upd8 and as a result they've ended up getting closer to one another, so there isn't as much of a push for finding unique niche vtubers like them. Instead they just recruit people fresh now and other groups like Animare have started getting existing vtubers in.

Each group has its own character proxy for their management named Nanashi (literally meaning 774). They also all have group channels, though most of them aren't actually used.

In any case, they all tend to collaborate with one another very regularly now, which is why this is a broad rec. They recently opened up a company-wide minecraft server and even the ones who don't even tend to play any games on their channels have been actively involved with it, which has been neat to keep up with.

Speaking of, here's a couple of streams finally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iS6wZqXCzk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dETzEc4KHq8

oh yeah for the record, most groups these days just play stuff like Apex Legends or ARK: Survival Evolved, neither of which I'm really that interested in, so 774inc is generally like a breath of fresh air since very few of them tend to at all.