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VTuber Legend makes surprising reference to the anime School Days

The anime VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral After Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream (VTuber Nanda ga Haishin Kiri Wasuretara Densetsu ni Natteta) caused a sensation in the otaku community after its last episode aired, as one of its scenes referenced the popular anime «School days». specifically at the end of this story. This was something quite unexpected for fans of both VTuber Legend as of School days, who commented on the event on social media. If you'd like to learn more, we invite you to continue reading this note.

Otakus get emotional over School Days reference made in anime VTuber Legend

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Recently, the official report of VTuber Legend on Twitter/X (@vden_anime) shared with us a clip where we see two of the main characters, Awayuki Kokorone and Sei Utsuki where Sei mentions School Days and later, the two girls, with a cry of discontent, mention "Makoto," the protagonist of this anime they are referring to. To conclude this short clip, a clip of a boat appears, suggesting that it is the "Nice Boat" meme referring to the canceled broadcast of its final chapter.

For those who don't remember what this meme refers to, let's remember that in September 2007 the final episode of “School Days”; However, an unexpected event occurred, and a 16-year-old girl took her father's life in Kyoto. To avoid establishing a connection between this tragic event and a similar incident, TV Kanagawa decided to cancel the episode and instead broadcast 30 minutes of landscape footage with the song "Aria for the G String" playing in the background.

Clearly, this generated a lot of negative reactions from fans, but one internet user made a curious comment that said “Good boat” referring to a ship that appears in one of these videos. This event became a meme among School Day fans, especially those of Japanese origin. So this time, with the mention of an iconic moment from another anime VTuber LegendThe otaku community remembered the event with great fun, leaving their comments on the post shared on social media.

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In fact, the same official account of VTuber Legend When sharing this post, in the description, he wrote this iconic quote from "Nice Boat" along with the clip mentioned in the previous paragraphs. Some of the most popular comments from both franchises regarding this event were, "The moment I saw School Days, I screamed my heart out, hahaha." "Of course, I think they got permission too, but Makoto Makoto gets criticized even by other anime." "This season's anime is amazing in so many ways... Yes."

If you still don't know what it's about VTuber LegendHere we follow Yuki Tanaka, a 20-year-old girl who used to work at a company and now works at Live the top VTuber companies in Japan. Here, she has to play the role of a character named Awayuki kokorone, a beautiful and well-mannered girl who provides exactly this kind of content to her fans. Unfortunately, she's not very successful, and this is reflected in her low income.

However, his life changes when one night, after Yuki thinks he's finished streaming, he starts drinking a few beers and making rather crude jokes while watching videos of Live, but she doesn't realize that her followers are listening to everything she's saying and doing at that moment, so these clips of Yuki in this state suddenly go viral. She thinks it's the end of her career, but her manager surprises her by revealing that everyone at Live-On was waiting for Yuki to rebel and start letting loose on the streams.