hololive’s La+ Darknesss is now a printed manga creator! As an anime blogger and a Plusmate, I needed to write about it.
Shoujo manga journal Hana to Yume is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. As a part of the festivities, they printed an interview with La+ of their 14th challenge of 2024, whereby the holoX chief talks about a wide range of matters associated to shoujo manga. On prime of that, she additionally acquired the prospect to script a manga, with artwork by Chitose Shiki. We’ve seen manga about hololive skills, however by no means an formally printed work by one.
The one-shot work is titled The Knight-themed Streamer Who’s My Oshi Is Truly My Male Glasses-Sporting Coworker!? As is implied, it’s a couple of lady who discovers that her meek coworker is her favourite on-line character. It’s a humorous and all too becoming matter for a VTuber to be writing about. La+ in some ways has the tastes of each an outdated man and a younger lady, and it manifests on this cute story.
As for the interview, listed below are some highlights:
- La+ is a voracious reader. She usually reads 40 volumes of manga and different books each month. Even when she has a busy month, she’ll nonetheless examine 20.
- Regardless of seeming like somebody who could be extra into shounen, half of her studying is shoujo manga. She thinks Hana to Yume can enchantment to guys and ladies alike.
- What she’s into can change, however just lately, she’s been into extra typical shoujo romances.
- Yazawa Ai is how she acquired into manga—Nana and Paradise Kiss, particularly. Yazawa’s work made her need to grow to be a designer, which she has studied. La+ truly nonetheless does style design. (In her informal outfit reveal stream, she talked about designing the complete outfit from head to toe. Beforehand, she had additionally talked about that she’d in all probability be a designer if she hadn’t joined hololive.)
- The title that acquired her studying Hana to Yume was Ouran Excessive College Host Membership. Kyouya (who she refers to as “Kyouya-sama”) is what kickstarted her love of glasses. (Usually, La+ describes herself as being into glasses reasonably than glasses characters.)
- After Ouran, the massive Hana to Yume titles that drew her in additional have been Yona of the Daybreak and Snow White with the Crimson Hair.
- What she appears to be like for in main feminine characters differs between shounen and shoujo. Within the former, she desires ladies who’re super-talented and very cute. In distinction, she prefers very regular and common shoujo heroines.
- Her favourite at the moment operating Hana to Yume titles are It Takes Greater than a Fairly Face to Fall in Love and Tamon’s B-Aspect.
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