Enigmatic Recollection is an “alternate universe” mission by the VTuber company hololive that’s onerous to explain, however one factor that turned clear is that it may be a robust point of interest for creativity.
Official artwork and music is launched, followers are impressed to make works of their very own, and even the abilities concerned get to flex their imaginations. The truth is, Half 1 of ENReco was an actual success when it comes to recognition and a focus, and a serious part of that is the improvisational role-playing concerned. What began out as a solution to play off a premise of amnesiacs in an isekai setting turned an opportunity to showcase how every taking part VTuber approached this open-ended “project.”
Inside that setting, everybody seemingly took on new personalities, however there have been a pair particular situations in Half 1 that turned out to be in any other case. Two of the women—specifically Nanashi Mumei and Shiori Novella—by no means truly misplaced their reminiscences.
I truly suppose this was actually intelligent on the a part of each ladies as a result of the choice to make this a part of their ENReco “characters” work with their respective lore in hololive.
It must be famous that “canon” is a really nebulous idea with a medium like VTubing, even placing apart the kayfabe facet of it. Not solely does base lore typically not match what the abilities themselves give you, however the “returned reminiscences” of ENReco are a variation of their very own (like how Kiara created a burger store as a substitute of specializing in hen). That mentioned, a take a look at the official profiles of the aforementioned two is an effective place to start out.
First, Mumei:
“The Guardian of Civilization, a touring owl who has borne witness to quite a few occasions.
Regardless that glimpses of previous reminiscences—seen and forgotten all through her countless journey—often floor, she is now a beautiful lady who relishes every day.”
Mainly, Mumei is meant to be essentially the most excessive instance of somebody who forgets greater than you’ll ever keep in mind as a result of she carries all of the reminiscences of civilization. Experiencing amnesia is only a frequent prevalence for Mumei, and it wouldn’t be shocking that she has some solution to recall her true id, it doesn’t matter what is inflicting the reminiscence loss within the first place. She had a built-in protection in opposition to no matter bothered a lot of the different ladies.
Subsequent, Shiori:
“Pushed by her thirst for information, Shiori Novella is “The Archiver.” She turns her favourite tales and treasured reminiscences into bookmarks and saves them.”
Furthermore, Shiori’s 3D showcase was all about how she travels to completely different worlds (fictional and in any other case) to gather tales, and her holo no graffiti debut reveals her extracting different individuals’s ideas as bookmarks. This means that she’s accustomed to the isekai course of, and that she additionally has some means to safeguard her thoughts when traversing planes. And given Shiori’s love of fiction and the way in which she encourages it amongst her followers, I’ve little or no doubt that she didn’t contemplate all this when deciding on her ENReco persona.
I don’t know what is going to carry via to the later components of Enigmatic Recollection. Nevertheless, amidst all the eye positioned on different storylines, I wished to attract consideration to one thing I particularly loved from Mumei and Shiori. You possibly can even see them each performing just a little suspiciously all through, as in the event that they have been merely feigning reminiscence loss. Mumei would always change her identify, for example, and Shiori appeared that she was simply “enjoying alongside” indirectly.
The tip consequence for every was a “revelation” that made me merely take pleasure in ENReco all of the extra. I don’t know what Half 2 will seem like, however I’m wanting to see what power the women and the followers alike deliver. And whereas we gained’t be seeing Mumei take part going ahead on account of her commencement, I can no less than look fondly again on the reminiscences she helped create.
PS: Simply final week, Koseki Bijou had a particular birthday stream that concerned her preventing her fellow hololive members to free them from being thoughts managed. Amongst them was Shiori, who instantly acknowledged Bijou after which pretended she didn’t. (Mumei was an ally and unaffected.) So on the very least, this immunity to reminiscence manipulation is just not a one-off factor Shiori.
