Bottom-tier voice actress wants to become a big star on VTuber.

Bottom-tier voice actress wants to become a big star on VTuber.

Author: meaqua remnant party

lyks Z

Introduction:

Shimizu Tomo, nineteen years old, is a time traveler.

However, he did not travel to another world, but instead arrived in Tokyo in a parallel world in 2019.

She's a rookie voice actress who just started out, and her savings aren't even enough to pay next month's rent.

Forced by the need to make a living, I had no choice but to participate in the recruitment interview of Nijisanji and become a virtual YouTuber.

"The reason I chose to become a VTuber is for three things—to make money! To make money! And to fucking make money!"

In order to earn more money, he took advantage of trending topics, sponsored his own meals, engaged in fraudulent activities, and even reverse-translated popular songs from Douyin (TikTok).

But why are we all getting closer instead? I really didn't intend to create a love triangle!

This book may contain the following: peaches, holding hands, a disordered timeline, and plagiarism of songs and plot elements.

Volume 1: Chapter 1 New Voice Actress Shimizu Toru

Tokyo, the Toden Arakawa Line, is one of only two surface tram lines in Tokyo.

Because of the cherry blossoms along the way, it is also known as the Cherry Blossom Tram, with Waseda as its final stop.

The route passes through Higashi-Ikebukuro 4-chome, Kishimojin-mae, and Omokage Bridge, all filming locations for a certain well-known band's anime.

It was early March, and the early cherry blossoms along the roadside were in full bloom, as beautiful as a Makoto Shinkai animation.

Inside the tram, several girls dressed in JK uniforms were whispering to each other as they watched a boy across the street leaning against the window, engrossed in his phone.

"His teeth are white, he must be a boy, right? His features are so delicate!"

"If you want to know, just go up and ask. Remember to get my LINE number while you're at it."

"I...I don't dare! Just looking at him makes my heart race. If our eyes meet, I'll faint!"

"Kimo, you two are acting like crazy women right now, but you are really pretty. Are you some Johnny's artists who haven't debuted yet?"

"Right? I think he's even better looking than Fumiya Takahashi and Shunsuke Michieda!"

Although the group tried their best to keep their voices down, the small size of the carriage and the close proximity meant that the person at the center of the conversation inevitably overheard some of it.

Shimizu Toru turned his head slightly to look at the car window, where a face was reflected in the glass that he still didn't quite recognize, even after almost two months.

How should I describe it? If you booked a plane ticket directly to Chengdu, you could make a fortune just by selling hooks.

If everyone was truly created by the goddess Nuwa, then this face must have taken her a lot of effort; it's definitely at the level of a graduation project.

Because his features are too delicate, and he is not the typical handsome man with strong features, he even looks somewhat like a girl.

While it may not reach the point of being depicted as a man but actually being a woman in anime, if she were to wear a wig, put on some makeup, and have a slightly slender figure, she would practically be a natural-born Southern Liang saint.

It was precisely because of this that the original owner was bullied throughout junior high school, which led to her becoming increasingly withdrawn and obsessed with anime and manga, turning her into what some people call an otaku.

After joining the anime club in his first year of high school, he learned about the story of Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, the "One God," online, and developed a longing to become a voice actor.

So after three years of self-studying voice acting and working for half a year in his hometown of Nara Prefecture to save up living expenses, he came to Tokyo last September to pursue his dream.

Unfortunately, I'm Entprise, the agency he most wanted to join, did not have any plans to recruit new talent at the time.

Instead, because of her outstanding looks, she was exceptionally accepted by her parent company ARTSVION and subsequently entered Nikkan Radio for professional voice actor training.

As is well known, new voice actors in Japan usually have to rely on part-time jobs to support themselves when they first enter the industry, let alone a trainee who has not yet made his debut.

The original owner was the same; she had to undergo various training sessions during the day and could only work the night shift at the supermarket, sleeping at most six hours a day.

Years of sleep deprivation led to his sudden and fatal accident two months ago, allowing a former Dongda University employee who was injured by the Universiade on his way home in 2025 to be resurrected.

Although he was called a corporate slave, Shimizu Toru was actually still an intern at the time, and there was nothing he could do because of the poor economic climate.

He has been out of school for two years, but he hasn't even had a dedicated workspace for a total of 100 days. The rest of the time he's either delivering food, driving for others, or even acting in short dramas.

Living off one's parents?

He couldn't eat a single bite. Although he didn't grow up in an orphanage, his parents divorced and remarried when he was in junior high school. He even earned his living expenses in college by working as a game booster and mobile game grinder.

This body is similar, but at least he has a pair of loving grandparents who are in their early sixties and still in good health, farming in a village under the jurisdiction of Gosho City, Nara Prefecture.

That's good. At least we don't have to worry about running out of rice in a few years. A bag of three-year-old rice costs four or five thousand yen. The fact that the Japanese didn't hang those agricultural cooperatives on streetlights shows their compassion.

After transmigrating, the first thing Shimizu Toru did was change the original owner's hairstyle, which was exactly the same as the male protagonist's when he first appeared in "Horimiya".

Her face, which could have scored 99 points, was almost ruined by that terrible hairstyle.

Secondly, I quit the night shift at the supermarket, a lousy job that didn't pay much and often left me feeling frustrated.

With his stunning good looks—enough to attract three talent scouts in ten minutes just walking the streets of Shibuya—even if he were to work as a host in a nightclub, he'd be on par with Roland, Japan's top male host!

However, Qing Shui Tou still didn't want to sell his body until he was completely desperate. So, after some careful consideration, he took advantage of his bilingual skills and became a middleman.

To put it simply, it involves buying merchandise in Japan and reselling it to wealthy anime fans at Tokyo University to make a profit. Although it's not possible to make a sale every day, it's still better than being a lowly cashier and offers more flexible hours.

However, the money earned from this purchasing agent business is not much. After deducting monthly expenses, I can only save a few tens of thousands of yen.

Secondly, it won't last much longer. Once Genshin Impact is released next year, Japanese players will have to find ways to get help from people at the University of Tokyo to buy the grain.

For ordinary people who are reborn, the easiest way to get rich quickly, compared to lottery, stock speculation, or the World Cup, is through the currently popular Bitcoin.

It's a pity that the Shimizu Tomo came a few years too late. If I had bought ten thousand of them when this thing first came out, I would have never had to worry about food and drink for the rest of my life.

Although Bitcoin is currently at a low price, less than $4,000 per coin, it is expected to surge to its highest price of the year—nearly $14,000 per coin—by ​​the end of June.

What kind of profession allows him to earn his first pot of gold in a short period of time?

At first, Shimizu Toru couldn't understand it, since highly profitable industries are all criminal offenses, until one day he saw a senior voice actor watching virtual YouTubers on his phone in the lounge.

Suddenly it dawned on him: "That's right, I can become a costumed character!" With his ability to create memes that was years ahead of its time, earning tens of millions of yen a year would be no problem at all!

Then, when Shimizu Toru returned to his studio apartment and Googled it, he discovered that it was actually a parallel world.

Because he only found Nijisanji, but not a certain Shiichi-haku, he initially thought it was just a company name change.

As a result, none of the characters like the scumbag fox, the dog, and the onion maid could be found on Google, but the original three teams from the World Three Boxes vs. PO had already appeared.

I was so excited about Shimizu Toru back then. I thought I could learn from those entertainment novels and start with a full-title masterpiece.

Another search revealed that Jay Chou, David Tao, Guo Donglin, and Wang Erge were all listed, indicating that the path to becoming a superstar was stillborn.

At the time, Shimizu Toru didn't even have enough money for next month's rent, let alone the money to customize a suit and start his own business. So he had no choice but to go for the Nijisanji interview.

He finally managed to beat other competitors and become the voice actor by virtue of his multi-voice advantage, but the illustrator immediately tore off his mask after seeing his appearance.

They forcibly changed the original athletic boy, Shindou Raito, into the androgynous beautiful boy, Yuu Toru, and naturally, the character model and everything else had to be redone.

Fortunately, I can finally make my debut today. Nijisanji is a big and powerful company, so I hope I won't be stuck with monetization like some Japanese maids... right?

Volume One: Chapter Two - First Marriage

Toru Shimizu originally lived in a studio apartment with poor soundproofing, but after passing the interview with Nijisanji, he moved to Ikebukuro.

It's that enclave of the University of Tokyo where they say, "This is the west exit of Ikebukuro, so stop asking all sorts of questions in Japanese."

Unlike Yokohama Chinatown, where so-called Chinese restaurants like Tianjin rice and ramen are everywhere, and after three or four generations, people can no longer speak Chinese.

Looking around, you see signs for Yang Guofu Malatang, Haidilao, and Jue Wei Ya Bo in simplified Chinese characters. Ikebukuro, where even the waiters can't speak Japanese, is the real Chinatown.

These authentic Chinese restaurants, which later appeared on the TV show "Monday Late Show," are mostly concentrated on two or three streets, totaling about a hundred or so.

They flocked to open shops here, partly because there were many international students in Ikebukuro, and partly because the rent was cheaper than in other parts of Tokyo.

As for the specific reasons for the cheap rent, it's not convenient to say. As for things like "all-amateur-style club" or "JK uniform temptation," Qingshui Tou doesn't understand them at all and isn't curious about them at all.

He lives in Ikebukuro simply because there are many small supermarkets run by people from the University of Tokyo nearby, where the same fruits, vegetables, and meats are almost half the price of those sold by locals.

The business owners don't grow and sell their own vegetables. Instead, they buy in bulk and accept defective products to drive down prices, focusing on low profit margins and high sales volume.

I bought a bag of four onions for 79 yen each, which is cheaper than in China, and a bag of two carrots for 120 yen each—one of them was cracked, but it didn't affect its edibility.

I bought another pound of pork belly and a bottle of fermented bean paste. I simply stir-fried some pork belly with onions and some scrambled eggs with carrots in water, and that solved my dinner problem.

I wouldn't say my cooking skills are great, but they're cheap and healthier than the original owner's daily meals of discounted bento boxes.

After communicating with the staff for a while, he started his first distribution at 7:30 sharp.

Today's Nijisanji, while no longer possessing the terrifying ability to boost popularity of newcomers who debut years later and instantly earn Gold Shield, is still a force to be reckoned with.

However, it has been a year since the first generation members such as Tsukino Mito and Higuchi Kaede officially debuted, and the three major divisions of the previous main division, Gams, and SEEDs were integrated three months ago.

Including Meiji Tota and Chitose Kuon, who debuted in January, Nijisanji is already a large company with more than sixty VTubers.

Other companies can't even manage for a year, let alone VSPO. It has been operating for six years, and even with its two overseas branches, it still can't gather forty people.

Coincidentally, at the same time as Shimizu Tomo, in less than a week, Otogihara Eryo went from a pure Cinderella at her debut to a grumpy monkey king.

Therefore, as soon as the broadcast started, the number of simultaneous viewers reached more than 2,000. In an era where 5,000 simultaneous viewers are considered an excellent result and 10,000 simultaneous viewers are considered top-notch, the start was already quite good.

Compared to other members of Nijisanji, Shimizu Toru's suit is of exceptionally high quality; anyone who didn't know better would think he had it custom-made at a high price.

There are three different hairstyles alone. He even consulted with the artist mom specifically for the Tokyo University market.

He changed one of the wolf tail mullet hairstyles, which was the same as his real-life hairstyle, to white hair, which only became popular a few years later.

The initial hairstyle is similar to the black-streaked bob in Genshin Impact's Tina, except that the bangs are cut in a slanted straight line, adding a touch of heroic spirit.

"Good evening~ Nice to meet you, I am Toru Hanyu, a new VTuber from NIJIJI."

Like many others in the company, Toru Hanyu's character is a seventeen-year-old high school student, but his clothing is not the usual school uniform.

Instead, at Toru Shimizu's suggestion, she was set up as a transfer student from Tokyo University, so the costume is more similar to Green Fairy, with a strong Chinese style.

The upper body is a white short-sleeved shirt with gorgeous patterns, while the lower body is a horse-face skirt commonly worn by women in the Ming and Qing dynasties, to fit the androgynous character of Toru Hanyu.

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"I am a second-year high school student who just transferred from China to Virtual Tokyo. As you can see, I am undoubtedly a boy."

With a face that looks like a woman but is mistaken for a man, Shimizu Toru's business voice is slightly higher than her natural voice, sounding somewhat like a girl with a magnetic voice like Yuhi Lily or Kisaragi Rei, striving to fully embody her persona.

The scene, which was initially arranged in formation and filled with comments of "Nice to meet you," suddenly changed.

[Huh? A boy?]

【Hideyoshi? 】

[No matter how you look at it, she's definitely a girl, right?]

Knowing full well the importance of character design and how to stir up discussion, Shimizu Toru deliberately emphasized, "I (bokuwa) am a boy! I just look a little bit delicate!"

[Slightly? Extremely!]

[Your voice is lovely, it's our first time meeting, Suki~]

"Ahem, you guys almost steered the conversation off course. Let's continue."

Pulling the pre-prepared personal information to the center of the screen, Shimizu Touka cleared her throat and said, "Height 172cm, weight 63KG, birthday is August 4th, hobbies and special skills are playing games."

As someone who doesn't talk much, the path of casual conversation is clearly not suitable for him. Coincidentally, he's quite good at playing the mainstream games that will be available in the next few years.

He knows everything about FPS games like PUBG, Apex Legends, and Valorant, as well as mobile games like Genshin Impact and Honkai Impact 3rd, and even popular multiplayer online games like Ark: Survival Evolved and Monster Hunter.

In addition, it won't be long before the game department, which had a great hand but played it terribly, ruins itself, and this immense wealth is rightfully his.

After introducing the basics, Shimizu Toru began to show off his skills. Noticing a few scattered Chinese comments in the live chat, he immediately switched the language:

"Good evening, friends from the University of Tokyo. Nice to meet you all. My name is Toru Hanyu. You can call me Toru-nii. Welcome all sliced ​​men to make barbecue."

He'll definitely be going to Bilibili, but now's not the time to open a personal account yet. Let's wait and see.

Shimizu Toru's fluent Chinese was clearly unexpected, even though he had just mentioned that he was a transfer student from the University of Tokyo.

But these kinds of things are just for show. It's good enough if he can say thank you or hello xiaolongbao. Nobody expects him to actually speak Chinese.

What surprised the audience even more was that after his self-introduction in Chinese, he gave an English introduction in which there was not a trace of Japanese accent.

Goodness, proficient in three languages ​​at the same time, is this still the V community where everyone is well-educated?

This is not the era a few years from now, when companies will establish overseas branches one after another and trilingual broadcasters will be commonplace.

But in reality, Shimizu Tomo's English was far less good than they imagined; he just took a shortcut.