VIRTUAL TALENT ACADEMY



VIRTUAL TALENT ACADEMY (バーチャル・タレント・アカデミー, stylised in uppercase) is a Talent Training Project for those who aim to be "Virtual Livers" (バーチャルライバー Bācharu Raibā), or Virtual YouTuber (VTuber).

VIRTUAL TALENT ACADEMY is managed by ANYCOLOR Inc. (formerly known as Ichikara Inc. until May 16, 2021), the same company who also manage NIJISANJI.

VTA is a project from ANYCOLOR to train amateurs to be vtubers with streams and other areas in the VTA official channel until they graduate after all lessons are done to be either a liver in NIJISANJI or to go to other agencies.

The academy students will have their relay stream on VTA official YouTube channel every Thursday and Friday starting from 15.00 JST lasting for 30 minutes each students.

Background
The project started when they advertised the audition on 18 June 2021 that run until 5 July 2021. VIRTUAL TALENT ACADEMY was officially announced through VTA Official Twitter on 1 November 2021 along with the announcement of the first wave academy students.

2021
On 1 November, VTA announced the 9 names of academy students along with the schedules of their first streams.

On 4 November, Umise Yotsuha, Misono Satoshi, Shikinagi Akira, Suzumiya Sonata, and Kaburaki Roco held their first streams.

On 5 November, Ponto Nei, Fuura Kanato, Amagase Muyu, and Watarai Hibari held their first streams.

2022
On 16 March, Anycolor Inc. announced that Ponto Nei, Amagase Muyu, and Umise Yotsuha would be graduating from Virtual Talent Academy and debuting as Livers in NIJISANJI as the first livers to debut in the branch in 2022 and the first graduates in VTA.

Trivia

 * The kanji pronunciation on the academy students' names are unusual (commonly referred in Japan as "kira-kira names"), making many Japanese people having trouble reading it, notably Lauren Iroas from NIJISANJI. In one of his stream, he was checking out the VTA members and completely misread all their names.

Official Channel

 * バーチャル・タレント・アカデミー - Official YouTube Channel

Website

 * ANYCOLOR Official Website (Japanese)
 * VTA Audition Page (Japanese)

Twitter

 * @VTA_ANYCOLOR - VTA's official Twitter (Japanese)

Hashtag

 * #VTA応援中 - General tag