Brave Group



Brave Group, formerly Unlimited Inc. (株式会社Unlimited Kabushiki Gaisha Unlimited), is a Japanese company dedicated to the creation and production of animated content. They are widely (and infamously) known for being the managers and producers of the Game Club Project.

Overview
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.

Characters
The content of the following characters is produced by Brave group:


 * Game Club Project (ゲーム部プロジェクト)
 * Yumesaki Kaede
 * Sakuragi Miria
 * Domyoji Haruto
 * Kazami Ryo
 * Riot Music
 * Domyoji Cocoa (COCOA CHANNEL)
 * Ashizawa Saki
 * Matsunaga Iori
 * Nagase Yuka
 * Nagihara Suzuna
 * Aogiri High School Game Club (あおぎり高校ゲーム部)
 * Otodama Tamako
 * Minazuki Natsuki
 * Ishikari Akari
 * Tokyo Cinderella Story (東京シンデレラストーリー)
 * Natsukawa Mirei
 * Fujimiya Yuno
 * Nanase Mihiro
 * Claire's English Class (クレア英会話)
 * Teacher Claire
 * AyaHina Channel
 * Hiragi Ayaka
 * Asakura Hinata
 * Kinako's journal
 * YUIKA'S ROOM
 * Kazami Yuika

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.