// 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, …
- Historical and Social Inevitability of VTuber Culture
The Inevitability of the Birth of VTuber Existence
This question multi-dimensionally explores why the existence called VTuber, which emerged in Japan in the late 2010s, appeared 'inevitably'.…
- 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…
- Motivations for Becoming a VTuber and Desires for Self-Realization
What Are You Seeking When You Think You Want to Become a VTuber Yourself
This question deeply explores what desires or wishes lie at the root when one thinks 'I want to become a VTuber myself.' Going beyond superf…
- 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 Streams and the Sensation of Loneliness/Empathy
When You Sense a Lonely Person Behind the Stream
Sensing a lonely person behind the stream refers to the experience during a VTuber live stream of imagining the human loneliness, fatigue, o…