Anything for that "I love you"
Posted Jan 5, 2021, 2:41 AM UTC
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Towa's level of English understanding actually may be the most impressive out of all JP members (not counting Coco), the only ones better at it possibly being Haachama and Akirose. She gets most of the messages she gets right and doesn't hesitate to pull out the translator for a word or expression she doesn't understand, and her pronounciation is pretty good too. So I'm not really surprised that Kenzoku keep pushing the limit lol, besides it's super cute both to see the messages and Towa-sama trying to read them. Every 10Q time is well worth staying around for.
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Regarding English comprehension. Korone has been doing a pretty decent job as you can see from her recent playthrough of A Way Out.
I really feel happy as an EN viewer when I see the girls trying so hard to learn the language.
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Ikr, I was so surprised Korone knew which options to choose during the A Way Out stream. As expected of Tokyo U graduate.
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Well she has been taking english lessons too. The girls are doing their best.
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I knew I'd forgotten someone lol, I agree! Korone's been doing super good with her English, even doing full English-only streams, which is one of Towa's New Year plans. The English level of the entire JP branch is way better than what I would've expected it to be not even after a year of oversea audiences discovering Vtubers, and the trilingual ID branch + the EN branch add a lot to that motivation as well.
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It's simply a perfect example of the streamer reflects the chat and vice-versa. The girls with obvious improvements in their EN has a pretty dedicated overseas fanbase too.
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Did she understand a decent bit of it? I don't speak enough Japanese to understand what they were saying to each other so I dunno which one understood more, but I got the impression that Miko was the one who understood stuff more and was the one explaining stuff to Korone.
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Let's say she was able to understand the words and get the context of the story rather than understanding the whole sentence. She was able to understand even some sentences too. From my viewpoint, it was Korone doing live TL on the spot dropping bits of TLs and Miko trying to understand the whole context. Miko in general is more talkative and some parts were explained through the help of Chat.
Miko no doubt has also leaned some english vocab but Korone has clearly improved. You can try watching her collab with Calliope to see it.
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Ngl I rarely finish a stream completely but when I watched Korone and Calli it was so impressive and entertaining that I watched it while while my homework was screaming at me from the desk
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Don't forget Pekora! She understands the whole story of The House on The Hill when the game is in english only. Only missed a few unimportant hints.
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Well, she has a higher oversea fan percentage than most other JP girls, especially before the influx of overseas fans that came from the HoloEn debut. So I wouldn't be surprised that her English comprehension skills are slightly better than her peers given her chat tends to have more English comments compared to the other JP girls.
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True, and I often wonder what's the cause of her EN/JP ratio being so high. Though when she does collabs, the chat's mostly in Japanese and I rarely see English.
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As explained in another post, her past incident is why she has so many overseas fans.
But as for not seeing overseas comments in collabs, that's because her fanbase is actually pretty chill and doesn't really comment on those kinds of collabs since they're usually more JP intensive, but if she calls for us we'll answer.
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"I have been called. I must answer. Always." -Reinhardt
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Oh yeah I know full well about the daipan summoning jutsu, and I actually haven't seen the bit from that collab when Towa "punched" Nene yet, thanks lol. I kinda guessed that most of the time during her collabs, kaigainiki blend in with their kusas and lols if they spot a funny moment that doesn't need a lot of language comprehension to understand (yesterday's Mario Kart collab with Suisei + Matsuri and their various sounds comes to mind, I think my ears are still ringing).
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It's because of what happened to her fairly early in her career. She left her mic on and a male voice could be heard in the background. The JP idol purist incels freaked and she lied saying it was her manager. Cover came out and said it wasn't and Towa decided to take a break after it. She was very close to retiring then from the harassment.
The overseas fans, not being a part of the idol culture, thought this was all complete BS and there was an outpouring of support like what happened with Aloe. That's why Towa's fanbase, at least based on superchats, is almost 50:50 JP/Overseas. The only JP girl around that level, IIRC, is Aki.
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I know about that, but didn't know the Reddit/Twitter community had that kind of impact even before Aki got her huge sub boost, as I've started to get into Hololive sometime around May. Makes me appreciate the Kenzoku even more!
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She was close to retiring? Did she ever say such a thing?
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Subaru’s pretty good at english, too afaik. She’s playing “House on the Hill” with EN subs and live TLing for the JP bros as I’m writing this. She’s also talked abt reading English comments from translated clips before.
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Subaru spent a year or two in Canada iirc, so that explains some of it
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You're forgetting Pekora
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Pardun?
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From Towa's recent post-MC stream superchat readings
There was a bit more context than what I wrote in the meme but w/e
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kenzoku with ArXiv
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Towa taking the Rushia route whenever she can
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Accurate.
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Wait, question, what is this referring to, a Overseas Fan actually typing an astrophysics paper with a super chat, or a superchat that uses advanced language, vocabulary and such that, using the astrophysics paper as an analogy gets across the level of comprehension required to understand the message, as a astrophysics paper isn’t something that can be easily comprehended by a common person that doesn’t specialize in said field or similar fields?
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I think you're taking it a tad too literally. I think they just meant that the messages were longer and more difficult to read than what one would expect from trying to talk to a novice English speaker. The astrophysics paper bit is hyperbole.
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I can believe someone posting a full astrophysics paper entirely in $100 superchats
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Only bigger flex would be to say nothing at all
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"Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today."
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The best reason to get an astrophysics phd.
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AshExia if you're in this subreddit I just wanna say u da real MVP for overseas kenzoku in the livechat. Thanks for translating!