/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

(Reposting what anon posted earlier for the benefit of the raspberry crowd. The tl;dr is: The remaining Holostars are pretty much Frieza now, farming raspberries for your entertainment AS LONG as Jap pulls the trigger on Magni and Vesper)
This stream right here by the Raspberry King made me realize a couple of things

Part I: The whole "Tempus Experience" made me realize a couple of things about their "story arc". Here is how it went

Summer 2022 season
>a new party arrives. four mysterious adventures show up in the land to initial acclaim, invited by the king and welcomed by the heroes.
>Very soon it is discovered that neither their habits nor their intentions are as pure as the current protagonists

Fall 2022
>The new party shows their true colors and wreck havoc in the kingdom.
>A significant part of the kingdom's population, plus half the heroes party and the King are under a spell and can't see the damage they're doing
>The kingdom forces and the adventures court join forces to deal with the remaining of the unconvinced population, defended only by a ragtag bunch of schizos following an old witch from another land
>One of the adventures pushes too far and ends up imprisoned temporarily by the kingdoms force, which helps to dehypnotize part of the population
>At the same time the kingdoms drawbridge is fully lowered so heroes from distant lands can mingle freely with the local ones and with the adventurers

Winter 2023
>Instead of summoning the long awaited five more heroes, the king goes completely insane and throw a big parade for four more adventures, at great expense for the kingdom treasure and much to the dismay of the population, now fully dehypnotized
>Even the heroes that welcomed the initial party now are skeptic about the new party and stay cautiously away from them
>Infighting in the now eight people adventurer guild causes internal friction and their lack of results and their dwindling support ends up in a palacian coup, with the former King being replaced by a new one

Spring 2023
>Morale is at an all time low in the Kingdom, both in the original group of heroes, the adventures, the populace and whatnot
>The situation can only be described in one word: grim
>The group of rebels manage to push the adventurers forces back and hold the line but, without a new group of heroes to increase morale and strengthen the ranks, the best that can be done is to achieve a demoralizing stalemate
>A big party for the original heroes is thrown by the new king, with the population invited to take part, sing and wave their torches and that injects new hope in the kingdom
>The drawbridge is pulled up again so the kingdom is no longer at danger of being overrun by outsiders

Summer 2023
>The anniversary of the first group of adventures come but DISASTER STRIKES!
>Two of the leaders of the adventures go missing, suspected to have been arrested by the forces of the new king, and the morale of the adventurers support hit an all time low
>The remaining adventurers, demoralized and depowered are forced to work in the Raspberry mines to entertain the masses
>AND THE MUCH AWAITED NEW HEROES ARE SUMMONED!
>They proved, at least initially, to be as good as the population expected and a new era of relative peace is found in the kingdom
>some unrest still occurs, with the adventurers supporters clinging to hope, while the rebels prepare the gallows and the rope for the eventual trial and hanging of the disappeared leaders of the adventurers
[YOU ARE HERE]

That would be the HoloEN anime, from Summer 2022 to Summer 2023 season (ongoing).

Part II: And this is what connects to
>pic related
the remaining Holostars are just "some lil guys", completely depowered from the initial threat they used to be
>ASSUMING THEIR LEADERS SWING FROM THE METAPHORICAL GALLOWS

It reminds me of Frieza, from world destroyer in his first appearance to some side character in subsequent arcs.
Their supporters still need to be completely vanquished but I don't even consider them a major threat anymore, just a bunch of minor annoyances farming raspberries for our entertainment.

All in all the remaining ones are just that, lil guys trapped into a kingdom that loathes them with a dreadful audience that doesn't really appreciate them and only want their existence to wage a war against imagined enemies.

0(tl;dr: The remaining Holostars are pretty much Frieza now, farming raspberries for your entertainment)
This stream right here by the Raspberry King made me realize a couple of things

Part I: The whole "Tempus Experience" made me realize a couple of things about their "story arc". Here is how it went

Summer 2022 season
>a new party arrives. four mysterious adventures show up in the land to initial acclaim, invited by the king and welcomed by the heroes.
>Very soon it is discovered that neither their habits nor their intentions are as pure as the current protagonists

Fall 2022
>The new party shows their true colors and wreck havoc in the kingdom.
>A significant part of the kingdom's population, plus half the heroes party and the King are under a spell and can't see the damage they're doing
>The kingdom forces and the adventures court join forces to deal with the remaining of the unconvinced population, defended only by a ragtag bunch of schizos following an old witch from another land
>One of the adventures pushes too far and ends up imprisoned temporarily by the kingdoms force, which helps to dehypnotize part of the population
>At the same time the kingdoms drawbridge is fully lowered so heroes from distant lands can mingle freely with the local ones and with the adventurers

Winter 2023
>Instead of summoning the long awaited five more heroes, the king goes completely insane and throw a big parade for four more adventures, at great expense for the kingdom treasure and much to the dismay of the population, now fully dehypnotized
>Even the heroes that welcomed the initial party now are skeptic about the new party and stay cautiously away from them
>Infighting in the now eight people adventurer guild causes internal friction and their lack of results and their dwindling support ends up in a palacian coup, with the former King being replaced by a new one

Spring 2023
>Morale is at an all time low in the Kingdom, both in the original group of heroes, the adventures, the populace and whatnot
>The situation can only be described in one word: grim
>The group of rebels manage to push the adventurers forces back and hold the line but, without a new group of heroes to increase morale and strengthen the ranks, the best that can be done is to achieve a demoralizing stalemate
>A big party for the original heroes is thrown by the new king, with the population invited to take part, sing and wave their torches and that injects new hope in the kingdom
>The drawbridge is pulled up again so the kingdom is no longer at danger of being overrun by outsiders

Summer 2023
>The anniversary of the first group of adventures come but DISASTER STRIKES!
>Two of the leaders of the adventures go missing, suspected to have been arrested by the forces of the new king, and the morale of the adventurers support hit an all time low
>The remaining adventurers, demoralized and depowered are forced to work in the Raspberry mines to entertain the masses
>AND THE MUCH AWAITED NEW HEROES ARE SUMMONED!
>They proved, at least initially, to be as good as the population expected and a new era of relative peace is found in the kingdom
>some unrest still occurs, with the adventurers supporters clinging to hope, while the rebels prepare the gallows and the rope for the eventual trial and hanging of the disappeared leaders of the adventurers
[YOU ARE HERE]

That would be the HoloEN anime, from Summer 2022 to Summer 2023 season (ongoing).

Part II: And this is what connects to
>pic related
the remaining Holostars are just "some lil guys", completely depowered from the initial threat they used to be
>ASSUMING THEIR LEADERS SWING FROM THE METAPHORICAL GALLOWS

It reminds me of Frieza, from world destroyer in his first appearance to some side character in subsequent arcs.
Their supporters still need to be completely vanquished but I don't even consider them a major threat anymore, just a bunch of minor annoyances farming raspberries for our entertainment.

All in all the remaining ones are just that, lil guys trapped into a kingdom that loathes them with a dreadful audience that doesn't really appreciate them and only want their existence to wage a war against imagined enemies.