Brave Group



Brave Group, formerly Unlimited Inc. (株式会社Unlimited Kabushiki Gaisha Unlimited), is a Japanese holding company dedicated to the creation and production of animated content.

The company currently owns VTuber groups RIOT Music, Aogiri High School Club, Mugen Live, VSPO! and Palette Project.

With all of its groups, they have 5 million subscribers on YouTube.

History
Unlimited Inc. was created on 2017 with goal of creating an array of animated characters and animated content. They took advantage of the advent of the Virtual Youtubers (in particular 3D models) for the conception and production of characters and series based on the same technology. Their first successful project and most memorable is the Game Club Project, an ensemble of characters who make content around videogames with a combination of livestreams and episodic videos.

2021
On 18 September, it was announced that Sakuragi Miria and Teacher Claire would be transferred to Highway Star, a talent agency under Bandai Namco Arts.

2022
In 7 June, Brave Group announced the acquisition of Virtual Entertainment Co., Ltd., the company behind VSPO! and MateReal Co., Ltd., the company behind virtual idol group Palette Project. Although the business management department and system department would be integrated, the business operation would be operated independently with the discretion of each company as before.

Riot Music
A music agency under brave group. they call their artist as "Virtual Artist." the first generation member is Domyoji Haruto's (Game Club Project) little sister Domyoji Cocoa but due to the original voice actress leaving her character has been rebooted under Riot Rusic.

Aogiri High School
(あおぎり高校, Aogiri Koukou), formerly Aogiri High School Game Club )あおぎり高校ゲーム部, Aogiri Koukou Gemu-Bu), is a spin-off of the Game Club Project.

Game Club Project
(ゲーム部プロジェクト) one of the first VTuber groups that the company has produced with 4 members at the start. Due to the multiple controversies the group was disbanded, leaving only Sakuragi Miria as the remaining active member of the group. She then moved to Highway Star, a talent agency under Bandai Namco Arts, to focus as a singer under the music label Acro.

Tokyo Cinderella Story (東京シンデレラストーリー), an adult's story about her love life hobby and sharing her own love life story in the form of videos along with her is her love life friend. Her aim is to get a boyfriend that makes 50 million yen a year. they also post romance related topics. The series ended it's activity on January 17, 2020.

Tiny Band Story (Taiban,タイバン！), a story base around four members of light music club from beat high school, they form a band to enter and win in the live festival in addition to the anime, they will also do various activities such a radio program, live programs and events a well as song covers and original songs. the anime was announced on November 16, 2020. the youtube channel was created on June 2, 2020 and the first video was posted on December 25, 2020.

AyaHina Channel a channel focus on the daily life of these two, occult stories, gaming streams, singing covers and more. they also have a sub channel related with a virtual pet as it's focus.

Claire's English Class (クレア英会話, Claire Cruller) a channel featuring an english assistant language teacher vtuber that helps teach japanese viewers learn english in a Two-way communication, she also does native singing, daily native english conversation, and gaming streams.

YUIKA'S ROOM a ASMR focus channel that also does some gaming and singing covers at the side. Its host, Kazami Yuika, is a sister of Kazami Ryo from Game Club Project.

Controversies
After one year of activities, on 5 April 2019 the success of Unlimited with the Game Club Project was immediately overshadowed after it was revealed the staff mistreated and harassed the voice actors, which make them resign. Later on the same month the management of Unlimited apologized and a reorganization of the production took place. Unlimited separated the management of the company from the direction of the voice talents and the cast resumed activities.

Eventually towards the end of 2019, all the original cast of the Game Club Project along with the original voice of Domyoji Cocoa left Unlimited. . Since then all the channels produced by Unlimited were affected by massive unsubscriptions and a decrease of views per video. The main Channel of the Game Club Project had a net loss of 30,000 subscribers within a week after the departure of the original voice of Damyoji Haruto and since then, they have been suffering a steady loss of subscribers and views, to the point right now Unlimited is unable to reach the same levels of views they used to enjoy before the 2019 mistreatment scandal exposé.

This situation forced Unlimited to switch the goal of their company to "vtuber content" to "character driven content", to the point of calling their characters "CTuber", a self-made portmanteau of Character Youtuber (キャラクターユーチューバー kyarakutaa yuuchuubaa). This move was received with contempt and plain mockery from fans on Twitter, imageboards and community sites in both Japan and the Western Hemisphere.