// Disciplines
Performance Studies
6 topics
- VTuber Identity and Self-Presentation
Swaying Between Character Setting and One's True Self
This question deeply explores the sway, conflict, or harmony that arises between a VTuber's 'character setting' (the fictional personality, …
- VTuber
Are the Character and the Person Inside the Same Person?
Are the VTuber character and the 'person inside' who performs it the same person? Or should the character be treated as an independent exist…
- Virtual Idol vs Real Idol Emotion Comparison
Are Emotions Toward Virtual Idols the Same as Toward Real Idols?
Real idols have physical bodies and can be met directly at live events. Virtual idols (VTubers), on the other hand, consist only of avatars …
- VTuber Support and Self-Fulfillment/Self-Projection
Does Cheering for VTubers Fulfill Something Within Yourself?
This question deeply explores what is being fulfilled within yourself through the act of supporting VTubers (watching, super chats, merchand…
- Transformation of VTuber Fandom and the Emotional Cooling Process
What Changes When the Passion for a VTuber Cools Down
This question deeply explores what and how things change in the process when the intense passion, attachment, and emotional investment once …
- VTubers and the Imagination of Non-Embodied Identity
How Do We Imagine an Existence Without a Body?
This question deeply explores how we construct mental images of, direct emotions toward, and form relationships with existences that lack ph…