Nanato Nana’s VTuber nanda ga Haishin Kiriwasuretara Densetsu ni Natteta (VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream) light novel series will end with the release of the 10th novel. The news was confirmed with the release of the series’ ninth novel on July 20th, 2024.
Kadokawa published Nanato’s first novel in May 2021, with illustrations by Siokazunoko (Nee, mou Isso Tsukiacchau?). Fujisaki Roto adapted the novels into a manga in August 2023 in Kadokawa’s Comp Ace magazine, and Kadokawa published the manga’s first tankoubon volume on June 25th, 2024.
The novel series was also adapted into a TV anime, which premiered on July 7th, 2024. The anime can be streamed on Crunchyroll as it airs.
Twenty-year-old former wage slave Yuuki Tanaka now works among her idols: the streamers of Live-On, one of Japan’s top VTuber companies. As the gorgeous, polite Awayuki Kokorone, she delivers only the most ladylike content. Unfortunately, her subscriber count and savings are at rock bottom.
One evening, after Yuki thinks she’s ended her stream, she cracks a few cold ones—and more than a few crude jokes—while watching Live-On’s video archives. But her viewers hear it all, and clips of her bawdy, drunken commentary go viral overnight. Yuki thinks her career is over…until her manager reveals that everyone at Live-On has been waiting for her to snap all along and gives her free rein to drink on-stream.
Now free of all feigned purity, she jumps right into her new rowdy drunk character and is welcomed into the fold by her fellow Live-On VTubers, who turn out to be just as crazy as she is! With her views and finances skyrocketing, Yuki’s work—for the first time in her life—is actually fun!
