DINOvember Part 4: EXTINCTION
I ended up being a day late on this one, not that anyone really cares, as I started the week off looking for some interesting currently active dino tubers but found that most of them either have too little information available on them, because they stream infrequently on Twitch where all of their shit gets deleted, couldn't find much to comment on, or discovered them too late in the week. Instead I got dragged down the rabbit hole that is inactive dinosaur vtubers. As it turns out, much like real dinosaurs, some of the most interesting dino tubers are already dead so that's what I'll be covering for the finale of this month long journey. I've listed these from what I find least interesting to most interesting and spoilered for length. Hang on to your butts this is going to be a long one.
Sujisaur
https://nitter.it/SujiSaur
Sujisaur is a Brazilian Velociraptor vtuber. Like many of these indie dino tubers, she is an artist that made her own model. The model is a little odd, the mouth moves when she speaks and it blinks and floats around from side to side rather than reading her movements but it has a certain charm to it. She also may or may not have created the art for some other indies' models, either that or she simply made the reference sheet. Apparently, she would sometimes stream with her boyfriend, Mikuna Karyuu, who is also a Velociraptor vtuber, pictured here in a drawing she made:
She is currently on hiatus due to health complications. Her last archived stream on twitch was from 5 months ago and her last health update on Twitter was earlier this month.
Chippiepuff
https://nitter.it/chippiepuff
Chippiepuff is a Triceratops (dragon?) vtuber. Obviously the reference sheet used here isn't identical to what is on screen during her streams but this is what I found. Design and color are pretty good but the placement of the nose horn is a bit awkward. She made and rigged her own model as well as those of some no view vtubers. Her model is a little janky in some places but I have been spoiled by watching Juniper so I might be biased. Her final stream was in September and in the one stream archived from 10 months ago she said she was applying to corporations so maybe she got picked up by some micro corp. I find it a bit odd how she advertises that she is 19 and has autism on a lot of her stuff, especially since one of the main things she did aside from art was ASMR. I guess becoming an ASMR vtuber at 19 is better than opening up an onlyfans at 18, but not by a wide margin. Probably more interesting than Chippiepuff herself was what I found out from watching her stream. Remember that one guy with a lisp that thought he was a wolf from that otherkin documentary Jim did a stream on? Well, I guess they're trans now, not that that is much of a surprise. Also I found a new friend for Daniel:
Ranasaur
Kera Tsuno
Taya Rex
https://nitter.it/TayaRex
Alright here is where the real interesting stuff begins. Taya Rex is a German T. rex vtuber who was part of a trio released by the now defunt German vtuber company PITAPAT. As you can probably tell, her art was done by Ayamy, making her siblings with Yozora Mel from Hololive and fellow prehistoric creature Shabel Tonya. Let me raise my argument for why I think you guys would like her in the form of these two images:
In all seriousness I think these convergences on our ancestral iconography are probably just coincidence. Like many of the others listed, she streamed on Twitch so most of the record of what she did is gone, but there are some collabs she did with other vtubers that have survived including one with that intersex chick that is apparently popular on 4chan.
There is an interesting contrast in her manner between both of these collabs. In the first she gives off "protect this gremlin" energy, similar to Yuni when she collabed with Juniper though probably not as strong and definitely not as awkward. The second, in contrast, is more like a calm interview. I really like her energy especially when she is in gremlin mode. Also she manages to make German sound cute, which is commendable on its own. She is the only dinosaur vtuber I could find on the vtuber wiki, where she is described as a metalhead which is cool, though the only band mentioned is Slipknot so, meh.
One of the things I find most interesting about her is the downfall of her company and how quickly it seemed to happen. Her career as a vtuber only lasted from May of 2021 to October of that same year and the company PITAPAT was dissolved 2 days after her and her two genmates' graduation. How the company fell so quickly is a complete mystery to me as they had enough influence and money to get Mel's artist and Taya herself was even on a panel of German vtubers with Kiara, which should have gotten some eyes on the company:
The irony is not lost on me that the German vtuber agency folded after a few months while the Jewish corp run by a known scammer recently showed itself to be a strong contender in the small corpo scene.
Mizuno Kanbase
https://nitter.it/k_mizunon
Finally, we have Mizuno Kanbase (or Kanbase Mizuno, I don't know how Japanese names work) the Japanese Triceratops girl. First of all, I just want to say that I absolutely adore this design, everytime I see it I find more tiny details that I love about it, easily among the top ten of my favorite vtuber designs. Her name also literally translates to "triangle face" which is a cute nod to Triceratops which translates to "three horned face". Most of the information I have on this vtuber comes from using Google translate so I'm not sure how accurate it is. She was a part of a trio of vtubers known as Kamomiru Corp. All three members are based on the three colors of the chamomile flower with Nogino Tsumo representing white, Amami Eru for green, and, of course, Mizuno as yellow. Clouds and frogs make sense for white and green respectively but I don't see the connection between Triceratops and the color yellow, but I definitely won't complain. I wish I could say more about Mizuno here but all of her videos are unlisted except for two playlists on her channel, one for songs and another for collabs, so none of her solo material survives so far as I am aware. Of course this material is all in Japanese which makes it even harder to get a read on her personality but I guess she has a pretty cute voice. Here is the only song that she sang solo:
I'm not sure how I feel about it but I will say it is definitely impressive that she seems to sing exclusively in high notes. She started her vtuber career on November 14, of 2020 and graduated August 16 of this year. Also her bithday was on 9/11, nice. It seems that Kamomiru Corp no longer exists. When I looked them up all I could find were feminine hygiene products and an Italian graphic design company. Her two genmates are still around though, with Tsumo now affiliated with a company called Qube and Eru sharing a channel with who I assume to be her artist and rigger. Tsumo now has 4k subs but barely gets double the views of Eru who is at around 500 subs, slightly less than Mizuno's dead channel. Interestingly all of both Mizuno's and Tsumo's tweets from before Mizuno's graduation announcement seem to be deleted, or at least I couldn't find them on Nitter, but Eru's tweets go back much further, though I haven't checked how far, and she even reposted art of the trio together leading up to Mizuno's departure, which I can only assume coincided with the company's termination. Obviously something happened here, likely involving Mizuno and Tsumo specifically, but I have no idea what it could have been. The unlisting of her videos while her genmates continue their careers makes this all the more suspicious.
Damn, that took a long time to research and type out. Hope you guys liked my stupid little rabbit hole. As a follow up to some of the previous entries in this series Saurawr will be debuting her model sometime in the Spring of 2023, Lopho Lee applied to be the Guiness World Record holder for the largest collestion of dinosaur toys, and Moryu Gao took a break to recover from lasik eye surgery. I'm genuinely curious if anyone checked out any of the vtubers I posted over this month. As for me, I might occasionally check in on Moryu, Dinosaurolophus and Saurawr. Probably Lopho Lee as well, he is the only one I found who actually fits what I expected/wanted from a dinosaur vtuber despite the annoying voice and atrocious model. No Metokur stream to link this time, though apparently he will be streaming tomorrow, so I guess I could check in on Pippa, who should be streaming by the time I'm done writing this.
EDIT: spelling
I ended up being a day late on this one, not that anyone really cares, as I started the week off looking for some interesting currently active dino tubers but found that most of them either have too little information available on them, because they stream infrequently on Twitch where all of their shit gets deleted, couldn't find much to comment on, or discovered them too late in the week. Instead I got dragged down the rabbit hole that is inactive dinosaur vtubers. As it turns out, much like real dinosaurs, some of the most interesting dino tubers are already dead so that's what I'll be covering for the finale of this month long journey. I've listed these from what I find least interesting to most interesting and spoilered for length. Hang on to your butts this is going to be a long one.
Sujisaur
https://nitter.it/SujiSaur
Sujisaur is a Brazilian Velociraptor vtuber. Like many of these indie dino tubers, she is an artist that made her own model. The model is a little odd, the mouth moves when she speaks and it blinks and floats around from side to side rather than reading her movements but it has a certain charm to it. She also may or may not have created the art for some other indies' models, either that or she simply made the reference sheet. Apparently, she would sometimes stream with her boyfriend, Mikuna Karyuu, who is also a Velociraptor vtuber, pictured here in a drawing she made:
She is currently on hiatus due to health complications. Her last archived stream on twitch was from 5 months ago and her last health update on Twitter was earlier this month.
Chippiepuff
https://nitter.it/chippiepuff
Chippiepuff is a Triceratops (dragon?) vtuber. Obviously the reference sheet used here isn't identical to what is on screen during her streams but this is what I found. Design and color are pretty good but the placement of the nose horn is a bit awkward. She made and rigged her own model as well as those of some no view vtubers. Her model is a little janky in some places but I have been spoiled by watching Juniper so I might be biased. Her final stream was in September and in the one stream archived from 10 months ago she said she was applying to corporations so maybe she got picked up by some micro corp. I find it a bit odd how she advertises that she is 19 and has autism on a lot of her stuff, especially since one of the main things she did aside from art was ASMR. I guess becoming an ASMR vtuber at 19 is better than opening up an onlyfans at 18, but not by a wide margin. Probably more interesting than Chippiepuff herself was what I found out from watching her stream. Remember that one guy with a lisp that thought he was a wolf from that otherkin documentary Jim did a stream on? Well, I guess they're trans now, not that that is much of a surprise. Also I found a new friend for Daniel:
Ranasaur
https://nitter.it/RanaRAWRXD
https://nitter.it/RawrsomeGALart
Ranasaur is a Carnotaurus gal or a gyaru kyoryu if you are a fan of Japanese alliteration. No videos for this one as there don't seem to be any of her, save for one Amongus collab with a bunch of other dinosaur vtubers where you can't even hear her speak. With no videos and no debut date listed on her Twitter I have no idea if she is retired, pre-debut or just a vtweeter. She seems to have a model, which she, just like the previous entires, made herself. The concept is pretty solid and there are parts of it that I really like but it is just a little bit too gaudy for my taste, though I suppose that is kind of the point. If she is a vtweeter at least has an edge on the others by frequently posting the art she makes. Examples here:
She's pretty good and does drawings of both dinosaurs and other vtubers which is pretty cool. Usually you don't get stylized artists that are good at both character and creature drawings unless they are full blown professionals, and even then they typically specialize in one or the other. Despite not streaming she seems to be very active in the dinosaur vtuber micro community often retweeting and doing art for them. Her throne is linked on her Twitter, though, which does look kind of bad if she doesn't stream.
https://nitter.it/RawrsomeGALart
Ranasaur is a Carnotaurus gal or a gyaru kyoryu if you are a fan of Japanese alliteration. No videos for this one as there don't seem to be any of her, save for one Amongus collab with a bunch of other dinosaur vtubers where you can't even hear her speak. With no videos and no debut date listed on her Twitter I have no idea if she is retired, pre-debut or just a vtweeter. She seems to have a model, which she, just like the previous entires, made herself. The concept is pretty solid and there are parts of it that I really like but it is just a little bit too gaudy for my taste, though I suppose that is kind of the point. If she is a vtweeter at least has an edge on the others by frequently posting the art she makes. Examples here:
She's pretty good and does drawings of both dinosaurs and other vtubers which is pretty cool. Usually you don't get stylized artists that are good at both character and creature drawings unless they are full blown professionals, and even then they typically specialize in one or the other. Despite not streaming she seems to be very active in the dinosaur vtuber micro community often retweeting and doing art for them. Her throne is linked on her Twitter, though, which does look kind of bad if she doesn't stream.
Kera Tsuno
https://nitter.it/KeraTsuno
Another Triceratops and no videos for this one either as she streamed on Twitch so all of her content has been nuked. Her last tweet was December of last year with nothing seeming to lead up to her retirement other than taking a break that September due to some IRL events. I like this design, it's pretty cute. Her Twitter bio lists her as a retired paleontologist, though this is likely just part of the character lore, as scientists seldom really retire and she is definitley too young to retire anyway. In reality she is a cosplayer and sometimes streamed herself making her costumes. She does seem to have a genuine passion for dinosaurs though, and was even more active in the dino tuber community than Ranasaur is now, often promoting dinosaur vtubers when they debuted and collabing with them, drawing little personalized "compy head" icons for them, similar to what Tenma does for Phase Connect collabs. Her streams seem to have mostly been Monster Hunter, vehicle simulator/tank and ship warfare games and Genshin with some dinosaur games, art and costume making streams interspersed throughout. From what few, very brief clips I saw on Nitter her voice seems unusually deep which makes her a bit questionable to me. I don't know, here is a picture of her cosplay, you can judge for yourself.
Another Triceratops and no videos for this one either as she streamed on Twitch so all of her content has been nuked. Her last tweet was December of last year with nothing seeming to lead up to her retirement other than taking a break that September due to some IRL events. I like this design, it's pretty cute. Her Twitter bio lists her as a retired paleontologist, though this is likely just part of the character lore, as scientists seldom really retire and she is definitley too young to retire anyway. In reality she is a cosplayer and sometimes streamed herself making her costumes. She does seem to have a genuine passion for dinosaurs though, and was even more active in the dino tuber community than Ranasaur is now, often promoting dinosaur vtubers when they debuted and collabing with them, drawing little personalized "compy head" icons for them, similar to what Tenma does for Phase Connect collabs. Her streams seem to have mostly been Monster Hunter, vehicle simulator/tank and ship warfare games and Genshin with some dinosaur games, art and costume making streams interspersed throughout. From what few, very brief clips I saw on Nitter her voice seems unusually deep which makes her a bit questionable to me. I don't know, here is a picture of her cosplay, you can judge for yourself.
Taya Rex
https://nitter.it/TayaRex
Alright here is where the real interesting stuff begins. Taya Rex is a German T. rex vtuber who was part of a trio released by the now defunt German vtuber company PITAPAT. As you can probably tell, her art was done by Ayamy, making her siblings with Yozora Mel from Hololive and fellow prehistoric creature Shabel Tonya. Let me raise my argument for why I think you guys would like her in the form of these two images:
In all seriousness I think these convergences on our ancestral iconography are probably just coincidence. Like many of the others listed, she streamed on Twitch so most of the record of what she did is gone, but there are some collabs she did with other vtubers that have survived including one with that intersex chick that is apparently popular on 4chan.
There is an interesting contrast in her manner between both of these collabs. In the first she gives off "protect this gremlin" energy, similar to Yuni when she collabed with Juniper though probably not as strong and definitely not as awkward. The second, in contrast, is more like a calm interview. I really like her energy especially when she is in gremlin mode. Also she manages to make German sound cute, which is commendable on its own. She is the only dinosaur vtuber I could find on the vtuber wiki, where she is described as a metalhead which is cool, though the only band mentioned is Slipknot so, meh.
One of the things I find most interesting about her is the downfall of her company and how quickly it seemed to happen. Her career as a vtuber only lasted from May of 2021 to October of that same year and the company PITAPAT was dissolved 2 days after her and her two genmates' graduation. How the company fell so quickly is a complete mystery to me as they had enough influence and money to get Mel's artist and Taya herself was even on a panel of German vtubers with Kiara, which should have gotten some eyes on the company:
The irony is not lost on me that the German vtuber agency folded after a few months while the Jewish corp run by a known scammer recently showed itself to be a strong contender in the small corpo scene.
Mizuno Kanbase
https://nitter.it/k_mizunon
Finally, we have Mizuno Kanbase (or Kanbase Mizuno, I don't know how Japanese names work) the Japanese Triceratops girl. First of all, I just want to say that I absolutely adore this design, everytime I see it I find more tiny details that I love about it, easily among the top ten of my favorite vtuber designs. Her name also literally translates to "triangle face" which is a cute nod to Triceratops which translates to "three horned face". Most of the information I have on this vtuber comes from using Google translate so I'm not sure how accurate it is. She was a part of a trio of vtubers known as Kamomiru Corp. All three members are based on the three colors of the chamomile flower with Nogino Tsumo representing white, Amami Eru for green, and, of course, Mizuno as yellow. Clouds and frogs make sense for white and green respectively but I don't see the connection between Triceratops and the color yellow, but I definitely won't complain. I wish I could say more about Mizuno here but all of her videos are unlisted except for two playlists on her channel, one for songs and another for collabs, so none of her solo material survives so far as I am aware. Of course this material is all in Japanese which makes it even harder to get a read on her personality but I guess she has a pretty cute voice. Here is the only song that she sang solo:
I'm not sure how I feel about it but I will say it is definitely impressive that she seems to sing exclusively in high notes. She started her vtuber career on November 14, of 2020 and graduated August 16 of this year. Also her bithday was on 9/11, nice. It seems that Kamomiru Corp no longer exists. When I looked them up all I could find were feminine hygiene products and an Italian graphic design company. Her two genmates are still around though, with Tsumo now affiliated with a company called Qube and Eru sharing a channel with who I assume to be her artist and rigger. Tsumo now has 4k subs but barely gets double the views of Eru who is at around 500 subs, slightly less than Mizuno's dead channel. Interestingly all of both Mizuno's and Tsumo's tweets from before Mizuno's graduation announcement seem to be deleted, or at least I couldn't find them on Nitter, but Eru's tweets go back much further, though I haven't checked how far, and she even reposted art of the trio together leading up to Mizuno's departure, which I can only assume coincided with the company's termination. Obviously something happened here, likely involving Mizuno and Tsumo specifically, but I have no idea what it could have been. The unlisting of her videos while her genmates continue their careers makes this all the more suspicious.
Damn, that took a long time to research and type out. Hope you guys liked my stupid little rabbit hole. As a follow up to some of the previous entries in this series Saurawr will be debuting her model sometime in the Spring of 2023, Lopho Lee applied to be the Guiness World Record holder for the largest collestion of dinosaur toys, and Moryu Gao took a break to recover from lasik eye surgery. I'm genuinely curious if anyone checked out any of the vtubers I posted over this month. As for me, I might occasionally check in on Moryu, Dinosaurolophus and Saurawr. Probably Lopho Lee as well, he is the only one I found who actually fits what I expected/wanted from a dinosaur vtuber despite the annoying voice and atrocious model. No Metokur stream to link this time, though apparently he will be streaming tomorrow, so I guess I could check in on Pippa, who should be streaming by the time I'm done writing this.
EDIT: spelling
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