Reality is stranger than fiction my friend

It really is🤣

Captured it perfectly. ANIME EVERYTHING.

God got tired of our vanilla bullshit and decided to instal anime mods in real life.

@@E.h.a.n Fictions aren't allowed to be strange because it's not realistic. Reality doesn't give a shit lol.

also helps that ohtani is a massive fan favourite in general. hes got people who dont even care about baseball talking about it (or at least him).

I mean they probably expected the attendance. Its the demand of the merch that they didnt expect.

​@@darudesandstorm7002 I mean I'm outside of the sphere of baseball talk but I know about him!... mostly because of his translator's infamous gambling problems but still...

and it was AX weekend

I mean the Dodgers kind of have one of the highest attendance rates already in the MLB so, I feel like they knew it would be packed regardless

i mean it's dodger's game with anime girls, who can be mad with that ?

​@@rejakecapNijisisters and haters of Gura. And some boomers.

@@ElizabethRoseMonadoSword Gura has haters? well figures as she is popular so there is always hipsters/contrarians

​@@Jop3liusyea not just gura, they hate Vtuber n anime stuff They who are not at the event and not even a baseball fans They are mad about Vtuber n anime girl in a sports event

​@@ElizabethRoseMonadoSwordthey didn't see the light... (???))

Dodgers pilled their A game after listening to the blue talking shark

*_And they won after that_*

Got motivated and won the game

I read this with a viking accent I don't why

@@utoislife4600 You just made my comment a whole different cinematic ahh movie line....

Baseball players are famously superstitious, wouldn’t be to suprised if all three got a fat dono at some point

Is the third one a true home run? At 3:44 the ball clearly bounces off the field and then over the wall, which is a Ground Rule Double, not a home run.

​@@legitpancake4276you can see the ball in the air from 3:40 and it hits the foul pole, which counts as a home run

@@toms7219 Thanks for the clarification, I wasn’t aware hitting the foul pole was an automatic home run.

He's clearly a chumbud and couldn't let his oshi down after the stretch. 😂😂😂

I'm sure the Dodgers fans at the field had good ole fun with them. But as an introverted weeb, the secondhand embarrassment I feel just by looking at them is staggering😭 I'm happy for them, but I still can't get myself to watch through the whole thing after multiple tries. Like when Fubuki interviewed Jared Leto.

​@@Jiyoon02When some universes collide, you can't help but feel the heat. in this case, the cringe

Not everyone did; the people that stayed in line 💀

@@Jiyoon02 tbf the awkwardness during fubuki's interview with jared leto was entirely jared's fault. fubuki was very professional, enthusiastic and friendly, and she did especially well - it's the obvious discriminatory attitude coming from the a-lister movie star that made the interaction cringey. dude just froze up like he refused to acknowledge that it was happening, that it was such an alien experience to him that a 2d anime waifu is trying to talk to him and ask him questions. if he didn't want to be there, he could've refused, y'know? if he willingly put himself there, the least he could've done was play the damn part. you don't have to feel secondhand embarrassment because there is absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about. the people who judge with a condescending eye, looking down on the weeb crowd who's just having genuine fun are the ones at fault.

@@ethanfreeman1106 Ryan Reynolds would've handled it beautifully

*Que Dodgers fans showing up in full Gura Merch

​@@starhawk3657the ultimate form😂😂 of humanity😂😂

@@potatoxgaming9466 "GURA, GRANT THE DODGERS STRENGTH AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!"- Soon to be Chum buds

Maybe the Dodgers' comeback win here will encourage future Vtuber or even anime/manga/etc. tie-ins in the future.

Must watch Gura, Suisei and Pekora in order to guarantee success.

Bro would be the most confused guy in that stadium XD

"Is... is that guy 'Hololive'? Is that his name?"

@@fluidthought42 The CEO himself: Yagoo Hololive

​@@standard-carrier-wo-chanAbsolute cinema ✋️ 😶 🤚

This just confirms that anime is another normie domain, it's so over for outcasts like nerds

Aside from the thirteen knights there was that one streamer friend of Sora's that helped out that one Christmas stream as well.

@@Vintasticvin who?

Don't forget A-chan as well!

​​@@KyraWSit's Siro, she sometimes collab with Sora if you watch her channel.

Hololive is so good that i can't even watch them anymore, if anything irl happens to these girls im gonna feel like it happened to my own family and feel useless not being able to do anything about it

This has Hatsune Miku at Coachella energy

That legit happened at a national sports event, ikr

That's the thing about hololive, the CEO puts in the effort, and every employee gives it 110% too. There are one or two we hear about that did something rotten, but by and large it's a company that treats people well and they give it their all in return.

WW2 🇯🇵「kamikaze! banzai!!!」 🇺🇸👏💣💣 2024 🇯🇵「野球とVtuberのコラボをしませんか？」 🇺🇸「はい」

It's totally understandable since US is the one who helped shape modern Japan, which was not their first try. The first try was the Imperial Japan before that. Remember, it was an American battleship that opened these Feudal Islands that has locked themselves up for centuries.

@@evenstarelectricrailway3281 "Open... the country. Stop... having it be closed."

But they would be glad to know that they were brought together by baseball.

@@danielkingston5731ngl I got hyped up by the Ohtanimania when I was in Japan last year

And god And us😊

​@@Nyartatouille*We have the power of God and anime at our side!* -The dodgers, probably

@@krunken_isokRAAAAAH

And Japan’s best player Ohtani

power of friendship

As is customary, the man had to go see for himself how his little project was doing. I think he left that game rather pleased.

​@@LuckySevenSamsonDude is genuinely so humble. I believe he does this at every event, whenever there's a live event there's always a bunch of Twitter posts about seeing him. What a man.

I think Yagoo did this promotion as an excuse to come to America and watch Shohei

@@urbainleverrier1 he was at anime expo for a little while too, sadly i missed him, sadge

God damn Chinese cartoons in my baseball

@@Oh-Ben tf are these looney tunes doing on the screen

Depend whether they hate anime or not

At least I don’t see any hate comments in Dodger’s channel. So would assume they didn’t hate it.

​@@bakacdazYou think they go outside of Facebook? lmao

This, gentlemen, is what we call culture.

That's a Major League Baseball tradition, it happens at every game. They play "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" after the top of the 7th inning and the crowd is supposed to sing along. So they would have done so even without a celeb like Gura singing it. That being said, it sounds like she nailed it.

@@douglassun8456 Is the 7th inning the final one? I'm not american so I don't know shit about baseball.

​​@@pezdispencer113 Nope, there's 9 innings, but there's a tradition called the 7th inning stretch where there's a short break for fans to get up and move around during the middle of the 7th inning. It goes back a century, and is usually accompanied by music, with the crowd singing along to take me out to the ballgame being common.

@@TheKillerStove ah, so basically an intermission.

You are the first person to make that joke correctly. Thank you.

Or people will just not bother trying to get any merch, figuring that they'll end up standing in line forever, never getting a chance to buy anything or that if they do manage to get to the front, everything they'd want will be already sold out. Then they come away with nothing AND miss the entire event. I love that they are trying to do more in the US market, but Cover has seriously GOT to stop underestimating the demand here.

​@@PseudowolfI am sad about limited time Gura birthday merch. The current one is okay but I really wanted that bowl and trident fork.

Tl note: cake mean tasty

Honestly they might have had a faster line if it was two shirts per person instead of 10. 10 seems like a lot

It was my first baseball game... ever. First one I watched in full in the stadium.

@@darkevilazn thats awesome the vibe must have been great

I highly recommend a game. Grab some friends and spend a day outside, eating junk food and watching a game. Most tickets are surprisingly cheap, and there’s also probably a minor league team in your area that’s got even cheaper tickets.

@@sleepingbee8997 Yea the minor league games are super fun. Everyone really gives it their all in the minor leagues.

Same (except I did go to a minor league game once)

Hololive has big stuff happening all the way to Sora's Anniversary as I understand it. There's the "World tour", there's the Kings Theater in NY, there's probably something happening with the stars. There's god knows how many more cons they're going to. Calli was estimating she was going to be busy non-stop straight through to November as far as she knew

⁠@@EndoftheBeginning17what on earth is all this hololive?? Sora? Yayooo??? Are they singers or from a show or something??

@@shingtome2179 There is a bit to unpack with this so I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible Hololive a project started by Cover corporation, a Japanese based KZfaq entertainment company with an emphasis on technology (originally it was a tech company). It started with a yong woman that wanted to be a virtual Japanese Idol, which was a new thing back in 2017. The CEO, nicknamed Yagoo, (full name Motoaki Tanigo) saw the potential and started auditioning KZfaq streamers to work for him in this new start-up and now boasts over 80 talents from around the world. Not all start out as singers, but all of the talents if they don't sing, train to sing as well as dance, as they do put on performances. He tends to hire talented people, they usually have a skill that is somewhat uncommon. The three talents at the Dodgers stadium are his top talents: 1. Gura (that's her first name as the naming is in Japanese) is the most subscribed to VTuber in the world - She's cracked at lots of Rythym Games 2. Usada Pekora was the most watched female streamer in the world last year and top 4 for 4 years running - a Minecraft pro with the nickname of war criminal bunny (she likes to build traps that the other talents can then act out as their character dies, hilarious content 3. And Hochmachi Suisei is the copanies top singer with several albums through Universal Japan (I think that's the company) - cracked at Tetris and Mario Kart When not doing performances the lot of them stream on KZfaq There is so much more but I could literally spend a few days and I am not even all that well versed, just the highlights - it is literally a rabbit hole of lore and memes, so many memes

@@shingtome2179 hololive Production is a branch of Cover Corp, and it specializes in V-Tubers that utilize the company's VR and AR software to both stream on KZfaq (mainly)/Twitch (sometimes) and to perform concerts akin to traditional idol culture in Japan. The branch has many subbranches for the different regions it operates in, including hololive (in Japan), hololive Indonesia, hololive English, holostars (a branch for the male V-Tubers), and holostars English. Tokino Sora is the first V-Tuber from hololive Production, and she helped build and grow the program for a long time. Yagoo (a nickname for Motoaki Tanigo) is the CEO of Cover Corp, but he's very hands-on when it comes to planning and supporting the talents that exist across all of hololive Production. tl;dr, they're V-Tuber idols that entertain and perform both in-person and online, using VR and AR tech developed by Cover Corp.

​@@shingtome2179It's a japanese agency of streamers but each talent interpret their own character instead of showing their real faces. Like they play videogames, talk with the fans, sing, do concerts etc. Yago is the big boss of the company.

Yeah. The limit is 10 shirts I think. They could have limit it to 3 pcs 1 gura 1 pekora 1 suisei. But there is always a first for everything.

@@kuyalouie946 live and learn, live and learn...

A couple people on reddit that stood in line forever said that they still have tons of boxes of merch leftover and that it was mainly the one single tent that couldn’t sell/distribute them fast enough. apparently they are looking to throw that away now?

@@silversunnybunny It's prob an oversight from the stadium overseers itself, they just underestimated how good it would sell. I don't think Hololive would settle for ONE booth, since they can coordinate merch for their local events

​@silversunnybunny and throw away money??? EOs always baffle me. They couldn't send out 1 person to check the line and confirm the need for another booth??? I don't think Yagoo would approve throwing out merch even! Maybe they can sell it at another event? I know its special merch but it seems like such a waste. They could do a raffle maybe?

he also raps and slaps

one slaps baseballs

bruh I had to do a double take with your comment before his name popped up on screen.

Guess what? There's two Will Smiths in the MLB currently. A catcher and a pitcher

Is the third one a true home run? At 3:44 the ball clearly bounces off the field and then over the wall, which is a Ground Rule Double, not a home run.

the opening of a gate to the hololive rabbit hole

“Yabe”-Yagoo as he’s now being flooded with calls from the MLB to do more of these

It'll go to an even more heights, support and don't let the negativity in.

Bro vtuber is just Miku with consciousness 💀

@@KABLAMMATSwhy are you here if you’ll just make remarks like that?

​@@KABLAMMATS so?

@@KABLAMMATS okay? Did i ask

the colorless one??

I at this point don’t care about Nijisanji anymore. Their CEO reeks of rich kids who only manage to make bank with the help of their rich parents’ safety net, nobody drops out of university and suddenly have money, and hasn’t acquired the necessary skills and experience to lead a company with empathy and compassion. Those points are why we are witnessing the fallout of Nijisanji right now. I’m still pissed off at their dissolution of a successful Nijisanji ID branch, and now they dropped the ball bloody hard with the fallout of Selen Tatsuki and all the talents they dismissed out of lack of compassion. So to me, Nijisanji did not exist in my mind share, let them do their own thing, I won’t acknowledge whatever they are doing right now, I’m more than content to stay on Hololive and other smaller VTuber companies because when you have companies like WACTOR, VReverie and NEXAS, Nijisanji can be considered among the “villains of VTuber companies” and you can safely ignore them in both your future auditions as a corporate VTuber talent, and as a fan who wants to support ethical treatment of their talents.

It would had been cancelled before it can happen. NijiEN has proven these days that it cant pull off fan events these days without a major screwup. Even so, why would Tamago come down and be shamed in the first place? And dont beat around the bush, it you want to call out NijiEN to compare with HoloEN just do it, why be so secretive when its that obvious.

​@@alfredong6850 people want to forget niji they want it to be like voldemort He-who-most-not-be-named.

@@Zack_Wildfire On contrary, people should know what is going on in NijiEN to discourage others or naive tourists from watching them. Identification is necessary, there is no shame involved, especially since they are facts not speculations.

Antis are a loud minority. Always remember that.

​@@JanitorAntisocial irl is not Twitter so people can't say nothing since they're not hiding behind a screen

Always remember, Twitter and Reddit are not real life.

@@Zack_Wildfire That's a good point. I've never seen an anti commit to their hatred in person before.

true the anti guys are the ones that never stray from their screens and ironically go "touch grass" to everyone. They are the very loud minority that enable all the rot that we deal with in the west and companies are slowly realizing that pandering to the overly loud minority is causing many of them to tank in sales with things. I could go on but they would likely cry and get my stuff censored again.

Gave me Bladerunner vibes, super cool

Plus, it's Gura, Pekora, and Suisei. They basically picked Hololive's version of Destiny's Child. That was always gonna blow up.

Which one? Lisa Blackpink or LiSA?

​@@bakacdaznot the blackpink one

Does black pink do solo concerts?​@@bakacdaz

​@@hanakuso1999if I remember correctly, yes she does

😂

Sacrifices must be done my friend it had to be done

I still rooted for the Brewers, but I was crying.

Between your team or your waifu. Twas an easy choice. JK btw.

Thank you for your sacrifice.

Imagine seeing your oshi on the enemy team. Couldn't be me

This is an Old Japanese trick. Back in the day they wanted to boost ticket sales, so they up and coming actresses, models, and idols come out to through the first pitch, then take pictures with the fans. But i never thought we'd see it catch on in America with vtubers.

@@LP-tf7cy Not just an old Japanese Trick, that's been done in NA for a very long time.

​@@LP-tf7cy using cute girls has been a marketing tactic since forever ago

​@@EndoftheBeginning17 But not with cute anime girls... nobody really wants to see Local Politician Man throw the first pitch

Why are you guys into these vtubers who look and act like children?

Interesting thought and good questions ngl.

Yeah, I hope they weren't embarrassed by it.

​@@_Jay_Maker_ embarrassment is a guaranteed feeling for some people hearing squeaky childish voices in a sports game attended mostly by big men, but they'll manage.

​@@_Jay_Maker_ If they're embarrassed, then they're probably a bunch of boring, mediocre folk anyway, so nothing was lost.

Any natural man is instinctually defensive of the meek and pure

Could either be a wholesome experience or a cringy one depending on the reaction tbh.

I heard the limit was 10 per person. Way to high. Should have been like 5. I know families get fudged a bit, but that's WAY too much leeway for resellers. Hell, regular fans were buying the max 10 with the intention of keeping a few for themselves and selling the rest just because they knew they could make money.

You forgot the part where they put anime girls in baseball That was pretty bad too

Hitler hosted the olympics once, its not that uncommon for war criminals to be attending sports events

@@traphimawari7760 lmao. I mean, poor Hitler, you can't really compare him with the war criminal Pekora is

​@FR0ZeN_FoCUS Pekora is guilty of war crimes. Hitler is guilty of crimes against humanity. Hitler still pales in comparison to Pekora's crimes though.

Hecklers will be hecklers.

The best timeline, obviously.

More like your dad watching K-ON, and him being even a bigger fan than you ever could.

Dumb Chinese cartoons smh

Then Will Smith hits 3 home runs and now that 50 y/o shows up in a Gawr Shark hat every game for the rest of Will's carrer at the Dodgers 😂

Daddy, chill.

Me too, bro. Me too... 🤧 Let's hope they do better next time, cause I'm sure they'll be back after how successful this was!

Thankfully Dodger stadium doesn't have a roof so the stink couldn't become trapped. lmao

Bold of you to assume to think the smell is better before the holofans came

@@dabasil Nah, lets be real here, anime fans are the ones that are stinky. lol

@@32-bitcloud I didn't say they weren't stinky, pretty sure last time they took a bath is in a mud pit

@@dabasil That would explain the swamp ass smell. lmao

Ay who is the woman at your profile pict?

I won't be surprised if they find yacht-boi's body with a self-inflicted wound. . . With an axe embedded at the back of his head, *and that yacht still clenched up his ass.*

Yacht man swimming in shark waters.

The shark demands sacrifice

Niji: NBA merch collab without even going to America Hololive: how about we have a night at a MLB stadium and a game

@@adriannash2705 oh, and yagoo is there too!

Baseball fans and players are super superstitious so you know damn well someone will be wearing a Gawr hat at every game 😂

Hot as hell. But great farming season

Always been my favorite team, don't understand these characters tho

Sana is Forever !

My knees... they are bending on their own. orz

Am i blind i don't see it

@@celebrimbor1279the man with the blue shirt holding a Sana plushie I think

@@guzzuanim ah thanks i thought it was something else

Ha

Lol, lmao even

**insert "cat laughing while pointing at you" meme**

viva Pekora amigoooo

Same for a certain birb XD she just keeps winning as well Hololive is cooking good too Jesus wish I could have attended TwT

They deserved it, they listened to their fans

lol non-Dodgers fans always get confused by his name being announced. 😂

So Gura saved the day

Yeah, for real. The team scores when Gura sang was 5-4, and after that it went 8-5. The Holo buff is real!!

@@Oujiii *4-5 to 8-5.

Why does the first sentence sound condescending (might be wrong word) lol

They really got the "I have the power of anime and God on my side" buff didn't they. Got 4 uncontested points, that's crazy.

You were off by a couple seconds but yeah

knowing how AnyColor stocks is still higher than Cover, it's probably true. their main objective for this is probably 'Exposure'. the single tent for the merch says it all.

Well it's extremely hard to collab with so many great brand like holo did. They now collab with practically any entity like government, video games, food, physical store and now sport team. It most likely happened because the management doesn't often make unfavorable deal with other party unlike some black company 😂.

They're not there for the money. They want the exposure. And they got it.

The exposure they where looking for was proof that they are a big draw. After this Cover has all they need to prove they are not a risk, but a draw.

@@litlsteps8486 That's the difference between a company run and owned by people that strictly want to see the little lines and numbers that represent money to be high and one that's run by somebody that actually seems to care about those that got them there.

Nah, the fans enjoy seeing whatever crazy event goes on during the day no matter how bizarre or unknown it may seem. lol 😅

why? If anything they probably thought it was a tie-in with some children's cartoon or something.

lmfao

Why? Is having fun wrong now to you puritans?

@@ikmalkamal5830 no fun allowed 😤

@@ikmalkamal5830 It's just a prank bro. 👀

​@@ikmalkamal5830 Yes.

Hey maybe after how good this went they might look into it but maybe with different livers

hi mr. punks

@@Meepergon hello Mr Meep

@@adriannash2705 I can only pray