Kamishiro Taishi

Kamishiro Taishi (神代大使) is a professional translator who wants to share the joy and how-to of Japanese to English translation. As a Translator VTuber, his content mainly consists of language learning streams, translation streams where he shows the process of translating a book and a translation-focused talk show. He is also a prolific real time translator of various Japanese VTubers, such as Kiryu Coco and Kson.

Taishi had an alter ego, a brother named Kamishiro Yoshiaki (神代義明), whose streams focused on various fun things like gaming and music performance. Taishi and Yoshiaki later combined into one single Kamishiro Taishi.

Background
Taishi started his YouTube channel with a stream on 2 August, 2020 where he translated a chapter from There Was No Secret Evil-Fighting Organization (srsly?!), So I Made One MYSELF! (commonly shortened to Secret Org) by Kurodome Hagane. However, it's not until his translation stream on 13 September 2020 that his live2D model first appeared.

2021
On 25 January, Kamishiro Yoshiaki, Taishi's brother and alter ego, started his first stream using his own, separate channel from Taishi's.

On 31 May, Taishi announced that Yoshiaki's streams would move to Taishi's channel going forward.

On 26 September, he streamed the first episode of TLTalk, a talk show that "aims to introduce people involved with translating—such as translators and software developers—with a focus on those tied to Hololive and vtubers in general."

He organized a large live-translator collaboration for the hololive Sports Festival 2021 held on 6 November, where he arranged various volunteer live-translators taking turns translating all 7 related channels for 5+ hours.

On 9 November, he finally made a formal "debut stream," 14 months after he started activity on YouTube.

2022
On 26 February, Taishi held a redebut and monetization stream where he introduced his model 2.0, said to be a fusion of Taishi and Yoshiaki.

Fans
He calls his fans "Consuls" as a counterpart to himself being an "ambassador."

Trivia

 * Taishi is a prolific real time translator for Japanese VTubers and has worked on over 170 streams.
 * He is a fan of Kiryu Coco and used to focus on live-translating her streams. After Coco's graduation, he still translates a variety of events from hololive members.
 * He's also a fan of Kson and often live-translates her streams.
 * During one of her GMMF streams, Kson suddenly called Taishi up on voice call. It took him, who was live-translating the stream at the time, completely by surprise.
 * His given name, "Taishi," means "ambassador."
 * His alter ego's name, "Yoshiaki," means "righteous" and "bright," but the kanji can also be read as "gimei," which means "false name."
 * Taishi was the translator of the official English release of Secret Org. However, as the title's publication got cut off after the second volume in Japan despite the author, Kurodome Hagane, still working on the series in web novel form, he decided to fan-translate the rest with Mr. Kurodome's permission. Taishi has been consistently live-streaming his progress over the years and releasing the finished chapters on his own website.
 * He often does gaming collaborations with Crispy Flippers.

Media

 * Taishi Ch. 神代大使 - YouTube channel
 * @KamishiroTaishi - Twitter account
 * @kamishirogimei - Alternate Twitter account
 * Taishi Translations - Official site
 * Discord

Twitter hashtags

 * #Taishing - Stream talk
 * #TaishiArt - Fan art

Donation

 * Ko-Fi