Guide to the Perfect Otaku Girlfriend: Roomies and Romance Volume, 2 by Rin Murakami

Author:Rin Murakami [MURAKAMI, RIN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-08-23T00:00:00+00:00

4

The following Saturday was my day off, so I lay around the house watching VTuber videos.

Emily Saionji, one of my favorite VTubers—who I’d recently learned was voiced by Elena, a girl from my school—had uploaded a new video, so I quickly went to her YouTube page to check it out.

Emily’s channel was still growing in popularity, but lately I’d noticed a change in the kind of videos she’d been uploading. Just recently, there had been fewer videos where she talked about her personal interests or played her favorite games, and a lot more where she tried out the latest trendy FPS or collaborated with other VTubers.

I was pretty sure that this was some kind of management decision aimed at earning her more subscribers. Personally, however, I thought her old videos were way better. I wanted to see Emily—or rather, Elena—talking about all the things she loved.

Her latest video’s thumbnail took me by surprise. It showed Emily next to a real person: an attractive man in his early 20s. Confused, I clicked on the video, which turned out to be a collaboration between Emily and a “real” YouTuber—some dude called Takaya.

The two of them were just chatting with each other, but, for an Emily Saionji fan, it was painful to watch.

I didn’t know much about the guy, not even whether he was supposed to be popular or not, but even I could tell that he was dumb, unlikeable, and without a shred of delicacy. He was making fun of the way she talked, asking her sensitive questions like, “Do you really like girls? I mean, real girls?” and making distasteful remarks about how her skirt was too short to properly hide her panties.

As a fan, I was furious, and I obviously wasn’t the only one feeling that way. The video had more than two thousand dislikes, compared to the less-than-fifty on any of her usual videos.

One of the most liked comments was this:

Out of all YouTubers, did you really need to collab with Takaya? The guy’s famous for being rude and knows nothing about VTubers! Emily’s producers obviously only care about raking in the views, not about her or her fans’ feelings!!!

I could definitely see why that guy was well-known for his rudeness. A single video was enough to tell. But I could also see what they meant about the producers: this video did have a lot of views, around twice as many as Emily’s other videos. There was also a substantial number of comments, including (many) negative ones that insulted Takaya and criticized Emily’s management.

This looked like a small-scale scandal. As a major Emily Saionji fan myself, I was also mad at Takaya and her producers. But, even more so, I was worried about Emily... and Elena.

I hope this isn’t getting to her too much...

I wanted to know how she was coping with the situation, but, despite having exchanged LINE contacts that day at school, we’d never actually messaged each other. There’s no way I could just message her out of the blue asking about something so delicate.

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