Thread 101558066

No vtuber company booths at AX, not a single one. Is the boom period over?

>>101558066 (OP)
I'm surprised homoverse hasn't made their own TCG yet considering how much Bandai makes from theirs

>>101558066 (OP)
No big announcements at Offkai either

>>101558066 (OP)
Gacha games going hard

>>101558066 (OP)
I keep getting jumpscared by beyblade still being a thing

>>101558066 (OP)
>644
That's Mosobox's logo. Their merch is 95% vtuber stuff
>634
Geex+ has vtubers in its ranks like Arielle and Onigiri
>242
SenpaiSquad might as well be the VShojo booth. They go everywhere together.

>>101558066 (OP)
>PC and Gacha
ok

>>101558066 (OP)
Nah like >>101558475 said a lot of vtuber groups/corps are just piggybacking off of other people's booths

>>101558066 (OP)
Phase should have been there instead of OffKai and you know it.

>>101558752
phase likely couldn't afford it.
AX is probably fucking expensive

>>101558779
Fishman throws stupid money, he could have done it. Only needs a small booth anyway.

>>101558703
To be fair VShojo and Senpai Squad have always been together. I assume SenpaiSquad has better capabilities for frequent moving of merch around to take advantage of con season and they partnered with VShojo back in like 2021 and have worked together at literally every convention VShojo goes to. Them being here is pretty much the same as VShojo having a booth.

>>101558475
>Mosobox has vtuber merch
>Check their site
HOOOOLY

>>101558066 (OP)
Last year Hyte was the Dokibooth. Her pc case will probably be there too since apparently it was so popular they brought it back multiple times.

Though one of these days I half expect to see her at the bamco booth. The official bamco account is often in her chat because she keeps streaming the weird debuff games that nobody else will like Sandland or Synduality. They even put a little skin of her in the latter.
I swear she's had like 5-6 bamco sponsorships in the past like year and appeared on the official bamco youtube once or twice as a caster for something.

>>101558066 (OP)
Isn't pic related from last year's anime expo?

>>101558066 (OP)
Anime NYC is the big con now.
HoloEN revolves their calender around New York now

>>101558475
There is no vtuber company booth, is OP's point.
Plenty of booths selling vtuber merch, but no Holo booth operated/rented by Cover, no Phase booth, no booths for any Brave Group agencies, etc. The Senpai Squad booth may effectively be a Vshojo booth wearing Groucho Marx glasses, but it is not officially a Vshojo booth.

Obviously there was never gonna be a Niji booth this year, but that's probably besides OP's point.

>>101558066 (OP)
From last year only Cover and Anycolor are absent. Dokibird and Vshojo are going to be there doing stuff

>>101559052
>Phase
Phase never attended AX, they can't afford it. For the rest it's probably a business choice.

>>101559271
Phase attended in AX in 2022.

>>101559325
I stand corrected, they probably invest everything in offkai now.

Vshojo is just piggybacking Senpai Squad and has something with their JP branch planned, Hololive has nothing to promote right now, and Nijisanji was humiliated last year.

>>101558066 (OP)
It's over...

>>101559052
What do they even gain from it? Exposing the business to people in other fandoms will just hurt their reputation not find new customers

>>101558066 (OP)
it will truly be over if no one shows up for Comiket

>>101558066 (OP)
Yes

>>101558066 (OP)
This looks boring in general. Are these the only companies that think its worth going? What happened to AX?

>>101567405
AX is the biggest anime-focused mostly corporate ran event outside of Japan Expo. It's got a bunch of corporate panels, advertising, and announcements. How none of these companies that have anime at their roots are here to promote to general anime fans is crazy to me.

>>101558066 (OP)
>anime con (industry focus)
>two weeks after Offkai
OP is a drooling retard

>>101558066 (OP)
Anime NYC is the con to be in the west now. New York gets all the big hololive concerts for a reason. It is the con and city with prestige.

If it weren't for the Dodgers night, hololive is done with LA in general.

>>101559046
>>101576504
t. coping holofans

>>101558475
OP Status?

>>101578198
Los Angeles is a lesser than town compared to New York. Always has been.

Not necessarily related to AX, but to be honest I've been more shocked by the diminishing popularity of Vox Akuma than of anyone in Hololive. Wasn't he one of the biggest VTubers ever?

The boom three months ago

>>101558216
Why would there be? Offkai is shit

>>101581305
Not really. There was a time when he was on the rise to match some of the holo talents, but it was effectively a 3 month period in the summer of 2022.
Then he insulted Sonny's mother in a joke that offended his chinese fanbase, and they dropped him, starting his slow decline.

Then the black stream dropped and he lost everything he had left in one swell foop.

>>101575965
A lot of Western "anime fans" are just Redditor types who latch onto anything popular, in this case FotM Crunchyroll dubs. They will invest in anything really cool and trendy that's put in front of them. Vtubing has the opposite effect of scaring off anyone who sees it, it's like the new MLP.

>>101587721
I really wouldn't be surprised if the only vtuber-related things they know are ironmouse and Nijisanji from last year's scandal.

And even Ironmouse is probably a stretch