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Virtual Youtuber Kizuna Ai is playing Doki Doki Literature Club

Don Fluffles

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And it's as hilarious as you'd expect.

Her commentary on the MC's thoughts are especially brutal.


EDIT: I should explain Kizuna Ai. She is an internet personality who happens to be a CG anime character. She does a lot of comedy videos and Let's Plays of various games. Some of those game include INSIDE, RE VII, Mario Odyssey and some mobile games you wouldn't touch.
She was popular enough in 2017 to inspire a ton of copycats like Kaguya Luna and Siro.
Some extra videos for context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZckAmcA6Fw
 
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Ivan2Nguyen

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I thought this would be a great first run through of Doki Doki so I didn't have to play it, but it's translated into Japanese and, because of how YouTube subtitles work, they only sub what she says.
 
Silver-Streak

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Zukuu said:
Da fuck is a "virtual youtuber".
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If I understand correctly, the character is either a facial captured (or hand animated) character as the voice actor either plays or watches footage of the games.

From having seen a few of the older videos, originally her tone and mannerism of speaking was meant to be much more AI like, but has basically progressed over time.
 
Rand a. Thor

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Anime was a mistake, we have to go back, I don't want to be on this planet anymore, etc.

But seriously, I just saw an Anime Virtual Youtuber doings a leys play of an animesque Visual Novel. I should be tripping balls or some shit to even begin to handle this level of insanity.
 
Finaj

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I've always been confused by Kizuna Ai. Is she completely independent or is she just a 3D model that someone else is talking through?
 
Beartruck

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Just watched her Getting over it video. She ends up getting so frustrated that she turns to the live chat and asks them to think of things that make them happy, lol.

 
Kufkah

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Finaj said:
I've always been confused by Kizuna Ai. Is she completely independent or is she just a 3D model that someone else is talking through?
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Are you asking if she's a real person?!
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SliceSabre

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"Childhood friends huh? Why don't you two date already!"

THANK YOU

AI UNDERSTANDS SHIT SO MUCH AND I LOVE HER FOR IT
 
Hammee

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This is the future. We will watch video games play video games and we won't actually play the video games.
 
Aurica

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Does she have a decent size team? Surprising that her stuff gets completely translated into English. I didn't know that until today. I was confused why so many foreigners were watching her, because I thought they couldn't understand her haha.

She's pretty funny!
 
Krvavi Abadas

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Oh cool, a scarecam (But it's an anime girl!) LPer playing a horror game.

How boring, let me guess, tomorrow we're getting a Markiplier thread?
 
UltraJay

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AizĹŤ said:
Does she have a decent size team? Surprising that her stuff gets completely translated into English. I didn't know that until today. I was confused why so many foreigners were watching her, because I thought they couldn't understand her haha.

She's pretty funny!
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Subtitles are added by the community, other users. You can do it for pretty much any video.
 
Dice

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I love her! I'd watch anime again if it could script some of her candid stuff realistically. xD

EDIT: lol a lot of 'old people yelling at cloud' comments already.
Is this really any worse than the 200th teen shouting expletives at an FPS?
Exactly. It's better. :P
Give her a shot if you're even vaguely like watching Let's Players, she's actually pretty fun.
 
Zero-ELEC

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Ai is great. I always wonder how big the team behind the scenes is. It's it just the VA? Who did the modeling? What program are they using to map the models movements to the actress? How do the facial expressions get decided?

Fun to watch tho
 
Jom

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I wouldn't mind if all the youtubers were replaced by virtual ones. At least until the virtual ones also turned into racist garbage people.
 
Crayolan

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Zero-ELEC said:
Ai is great. I always wonder how big the team behind the scenes is. It's it just the VA? Who did the modeling? What program are they using to map the models movements to the actress? How do the facial expressions get decided?

Fun to watch tho
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I don't know what it's called but I know there's some easy to use program which overlays anime characters onto people and can even copy facial expressions. I've seen a handful of twitch streamers use it. All they'd probably have to do is make a model which works with the program.

Though AI's facial expressions are particularly good so it's possible they have their own more advanced program.
 
Starlatine

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i thought it was weird people watched other people play games, but now people watch AIs play with themselves

quick glance on the videos shows impressive animation/sync though. really curious about the program being used for this
 
Vex

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Starlatine said:
i thought it was weird people watched other people play games, but now people watch AIs play with themselves

quick glance on the videos shows impressive animation/sync though. really curious about the program being used for this
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This was my takeaway as well. I am fascinated at how smoothly this works. I looked up the other virtual youtubers and their stuff doesn't seem to sync as well.
 
Salamande

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Zero-ELEC said:
Ai is great. I always wonder how big the team behind the scenes is. It's it just the VA? Who did the modeling? What program are they using to map the models movements to the actress? How do the facial expressions get decided?

Fun to watch tho
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I wouldn't be surprised if it's just one or two people. Prices on mo-cap have come down a lot. I'd guess it's something like a Perception Neuron setup, which you can get for $1500 and provides full-body capture. You can do real-time tracking output to Unity or Unreal and have stuff like hand gestures and facial expressions either set up as hotkeys for live events, or added in cleanup. It's surprisingly easy and cheap to get going.

 
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