Neo-Porte



Neo-Porte (ネオポルテ), is a Virtual Talent agency produced and founded by CR Ojiji (Crazy Raccoon Pro-Gaming Team CEO), soraru (utaite), mafumafu (utaite), and Shibuya HAL (VTuber).

The name "Neo-Porte" was mafumafu's idea. It holds the meaning of "new" and "gate". Neo-Porte is also previously known as "merise" (ミライズ) until 27 February 2022 when the company rebranded before the debut of their first generation talents. Despite the rebranding, they kept their previous slogan, "Shall we draw your future map together?" (新しいキミの未来図、共に描きませんか？, Atarashii Kimi no Miraizu, Tomo ni Egakimasen ka?).

CR Ojiji is in charge of overseeing the agency management and it will be separate from Crazy Raccoon; mafumafu is in charge of overseeing sponsorship and music production; soraru is in charge of overseeing events, merchandise production, and music production; and Shibuya HAL is in charge of overseeing general streaming activities of the talents.

As of June 2022, the agency has 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube.

2021
The agency was announced to public for the first time on Shibuya HAL's stream on 23 October 2021. The official website was launched during the stream and the official Twitter account was created in the same month.

The founding members are Shibuya HAL and Shirayuki Reid.

2022
On 27 February, it was announced on Shibuya HAL's stream that "merise" will be rebranded to "Neo-Porte". Since they were a new company, might as well starting new again with the rebranding before new talents debuted. They also announced that there will be 6 members, 3 males and 3 females, of the 1st generation who will be debuting around the end of March. All their background music written by mafumafu, and if they have a cover song to sing, soraru will personally do the mixing.

On 18 March, Neo-Porte announced their first generation members debut. Aruse Inu on 21 March, Hizuki Yui on 23 March (originally scheduled on 22 March ) , NaYuta on 23 March , Yozuna Niu on 24 March , Tentei Forte on 25 March (originally scheduled on 26 March ) , and Minase on 25 March. Along with the debut announcement, it was also announced their participation in Shibuya HAL's Apex Legends "VTuber Most Cooperatitive Tournament" Season 4.

On 25 March, following the debut of first generation members, it was announced that Shirayuki Reid and Shibuya HAL would also have their debut streams as Neo-Porte's generation 0 members on 27 and 28 March respectively.

On 4 September, Neo-Porte announced the second generation audition.

On 30 November, Neo-Porte released the teaser for its second generation, "Quattro", with four silhouettes of the members.

Trivia

 * Neo-Porte's corporate mark is "🔳" (black rectangle with white border).
 * One of the biggest reason of the rebrand was because the dentist mafumafu had chance to go to was also named "Merise".

Website

 * Neo-Porte's Official Website (Japanese)

Twitter

 * @NeoPorte_info - Neo-Porte's Official Twitter (Japanese)

Merchandise

 * Neo-Porte's Official Merchandise Store on Booth