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, Mugen Live, VSPO! and Palette Project.

With all of its subsidiaries, they have over 7 million subscribers on YouTube, with VSPO! having 5 million out of those.

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
On 22 March, a new project was teased during Re:Volt 2022 live event held at LINE CUBE SHIBUYA. The new project was left unnamed at the time.

On 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.

On 22 July, Brave Group announced a sub-label project under the Riot Music music label named, "Meteopolis". Similar to Blitz Wing, it will comprise of already existing Riot Music members, Suzuna Nagahara and Miona Sumeragi. Along with this, two teaser trailers for the project were posted on both Suzuna and Miona's channels and Suzuna's YouTube channel has been renamed "Meteopolis from RIOT MUSIC" and will function as their joint YouTube channel from then on. They also announced that they will be gradually reuploading Miona's pre-exisiting YouTube videos to the new channel over the course of the following months and her channel will be deleted/archived afterwards.

On 17 November, Ashizawa Saki held what would become her final stream on her main channel as later that day RIOT announced on its Twitter account the termination of Saki's activities due to a breach of contract. RIOT also announced that various accounts associated with Saki would be deleted on 31 December.

2023
On 16 January, Brave Group announced the transfer of its VTuber group Aogiri High School managed by its subsidiary CreateRing Inc. to entertainment and content creation company viviON. The IP transfer would take effect on 1 April 2023.

Riot Music
A music agency under brave group. they call their artist as "Virtual Artist." The first generation member is Domyoji Cocoa. Cocoa, Saki, and Iori are also part of a sub-label under Riot Music called "Blitz Wing" that formed on 29 April.

Meteopolis
On 22 July 2022, Nagihara Suzuna converted her YouTube channel into a joint channel with Sumergi Miona under the name "Meteopolis", a sub-label project under Riot Music.

Game Club Project
Original group in the agency that was dissolved after some controversies.

Tokyo Cinderella Story
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 17 January 2020.

Folia
Folia is a virtual idol group. The group end its activities on 31 October 2019.

Tiny Band Story
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 16 November 2020. the YouTube channel was created on 2 June 2020 and the first video was posted on 25 December 2020.

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

Aogiri High School
Originally a spin-off of 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.