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oh yeah speaking of vtuber merch i had some arrive yesterday (or er, the day before now)

https://youtu.be/c_IUlWSMfQk got this album with various (conveniently, all 5 of my favourite) members of Avatar 2.0 Project. None of them are really standout singers tbh (banana and shirabe are pretty solid generally) but they all did a pretty good job and had pretty good songs. Wonderful Weekend was my favourite!

I suppose it's worth mentioning that i got two albums from Choko, who recently redebuted under her own name as a vtuber. Her own album I Swirl (https://youtu.be/wikvYh-0PPc) was fairly standard denpa fare without any significant standout song in it (if I had to pick, it'd be the Capchii song Rai-Rai-Mirai), but the collab album with composer Rissyuu, Candy Panic Bomb (https://youtu.be/ofOLavTjKZg) was a brilliant shitposty mess of random troll rhythm game songs and would-be ones that was much more memorable overall. The highlight there, ironic as it is, had to be the overtly half-assed long version of Take.

Finally of note for vtuber albums, this arrived: https://youtu.be/-44oigNuiI0 ...which is the second single (or first mini-album, rather) for the StarBear unit in Re:AcT, comprised of Amakawa Hano and Himekuma Ribon. I liked the WUG-feeling standard idol songs in it, especially the titular one that had been used at the end of their 3D debut live concert a few months ago, though my favourite had to be the refreshingly fun stylistic departure of AmaHimeKawaKumaHanoToRibon (which was surprisingly again from Rissyuu).

Also i got a couple of artbooks. One from Camomi Camomi from 2018, detailing the progress she made working on her own 3D model at the time (Camomi's an artist who'd been using her Camomi moniker for quite a while before becoming an indie vtuber (since about... 9 years ago i think?)). And another from bikechari/charioki, another preexisting vtuber artist who happens to be the designer for a whole group of skilled indie creators (meche proche) that he's borderline part of. putting aside the professional singing/voice acting/composing/audio mixing/art/animation skills they bear as a group (plus good taste in games and sometimes skills to complement), they've also got some very cute and sometimes also very technically impressive designs (some with radical angles i'm impressed they made live2d models out of). his art is great and the artbook on them is no exception

Finally, also on a bikechari/charioki note, I got... https://youtu.be/IzIzkPW3K7U the "photos" shown in this video starring meche proche member Houri Mico. She actually wrapped all of them herself with a handwritten thank you note stuck to the front of it. The wrapping was pretty mediocre tbh and i'm surprised it made it in one piece, but that in itself is so endearing i haven't wanted to actually open it.