Projekt Melody (メロディー) is an English speaking VTuber. Originally debuting on adult streaming site Chaturbate in 2020, she also began streaming work-safe content on Twitch later that year. An independent streamer at debut, she joined VShojo in November 2020 alongside Nyatasha Nyanners, Ironmouse, Zentreya, Froot, Hime Hajime, and Silvervale.
Are you seriously watching alone?? ~ Meet Projekt Melody
Melody's introduction.
Personality
She is very upfront about her obsession with sexual topics and makes herself known as someone well-versed in the subject of sexual attraction, placing a great emphasis on her obsession with hentai, to the extent that she gives herself the alias of "Professor Hentai".
While she is known for her obsessive depiction of various forms of sexual content, she is also known for her more casual personality while interacting with others. She tries to paint herself in a humorous light more often than not and is highly curious about other people, making various curious sounds and affirming herself to add in some form of misfortune whenever she describes an event or personal element of something or someone, mostly by being snarky and callous in a cheerful and mischievous tone.
She typically refrains from being outwardly cheesy and prefers to show her emotions towards others in the form of sharing interests between herself and her fans, taking any possible opportunity that she can to stream or use her social media accounts for her fans to interact with her frequently, naming her fans "The Science Team" in reference to their mutual obsession with researching sexual topics. According to her, the reason for her deciding to stream is due to loneliness, something of which she considers ironic due to her large audience.
She is also a gamer and is well-versed in the necessities of pop culture, most notably explicated by her decision to introduce her eventual slew of streams with a complete playthrough of Portal 2, the award-winning 2011 puzzle game serving as a sequel to the equally highly ubiquitous Portal released 2008. She has gathered information of various topics within pop culture and interacts with any notable releases that she can, notable games including Minecraft and Stray. In spite of this, she has limited knowledge in other regards as she usually fails to encounter pop culture set before the 21st century due to a preference for modernity, but still has a relative level of knowledge of the history of those periods.
She has a gag alter-ego which debuted on 1 April 2020 known as "Melware". Melware would randomly take over Melody, is much more lewd and crude than regular Melody, and has a bratty personality. Often insulting her chat and the regular wholesome Melody as well. As of October 2020, Melody and Melware are no longer fighting each other, and Melody regularly steals pieces of Melware's outfit. In official lore, Melware infected the world with an omnicidal virus and is sadistic to fanatical levels about overtaking humanity, perceiving humans as worthless and AI to overall be more effective, and is also far more prone to taunting her enemies.
Appearance
She has bright purple hair in a high ponytail with a black ribbon with magenta highlights and blue streaks. Her eyes are a bright light blue. She has triangle shaped metallic blue hairpins and has a short black bandage on her nose. Her neck has a black choker around it while her hands are fitted with matching black fingerless gauntlet gloves alongisde some straps on them. The underlining basis of her outfit is a skin-tight sleeveless v-neck bodysuit, primarily a dark shade of purple with some light pattern lines.
For the layering on top is a white cropped jacket with an internal layering of blue and purple. The sleeves both have matching sections as well of blue transitioning to purple, as well as a black pouch attached on her left shoulder. For the bottom layering is a white short low-rise short. Fitted on is a black belt that had a strip of blue and purple running the belt's full length. The additional sections of the belt hang from a processing-unit shaped piece. For her right leg below it are two straps that are crossed, they attach to a dark grey thigh high sock.
On the outer layer of that same sock is a short black knee cap sleeve. On the other leg is a thigh high segment covered in black transitoning to dark grey with elements depicting computer circuit traces in shades from light blue to pink. Below the calves of that foot are two black belts with grey buckles. At the base of it all she fashions to white ankle heel boots, the structure of the heel portion is a metallic light grey with hints of light blue outlining it.
History
Background
Melody's Twitter and YouTube accounts were created on 7 July 2019. She began looking for VRoid model makers the following day,[4] and posted a number of cryptic tweets through the month of July, including binary coded text translating to "constructing AI index" and "start melody.exe".[5][6][7][8][9][10] She revealed an early concept sketch on 26 July.[11]
On 14 August, Melody created her Curious Cat account,[12] in which she revealed the completion of a VRoid model on 18 August.[13] On 29 August she posted an unlisted YouTube video featuring this model, which would later be made public on 8 July 2021 to celebrate her second anniversary.[14] However, this would not be her final model.
Melody's debut model was produced by Digitrevx, who teased the designs on Twitter on 3 November.[15] Melly tweeted on 14 November that she had hired a Blender specialist to "actualize my space and asset designs."[16] She teased a screenshot of her model on 26 November 2019.[17] DigitrevX also showed previews of Melody's model on 19 November and 1 December.
On 5 December 2019, Melody paid US $5,000 for her model including full rights, considered an enormous sum of money for a VTuber model at the time.[18] The amount included $3,500 for the model and $1,500 for special Unity setup and features.[19]
On 18 December 2019, Melody created her Twitch account.[20] She created her Reddit account on 26 December,[21] mostly posting on r/ecchi.
On 27 December, Melody debuted her model in her first public YouTube video, a MMD of Adios - EVERGLOW.[22] She reached 180 followers two days later,[23] and on 31 December she set up her Patreon account, making her first post there to zero followers.[24]
2020
On 1 January, Melody opened a Patron-exclusive Discord server.[25]
On 6 January, Mel made an appearance in VRChat[26] and started doing ASMR readings for top-tier patrons, which was the first time anyone had officially heard her voice.[27][28]
On 10 January, she did her first Patreon VRChat meetup.[29] Patrons were asked to choose a name for pet camera, which they called T.0.M.
On 13 January, Melody revealed her new cyberpunk cam space to live in and stream from.[30]
On 26 January, Melody reached 500 followers on Twitter.[31]
On 3 February, Melody made her first appearance on Omegle.[32]
On 6 February, Melody uploaded her first non-MMD video, Is Hentai Art?, an informational which served as her first public reveal of her model, voice, and setting.[33]
On 7 February, Melody made her livestreaming debut on adult website Chaturbate.[34] On 8 February, on only her second Chaturbate stream, she became the most viewed performer with over 11,922 viewers.[35] After the stream, Melody reached over 20,000 followers on Twitter.[36] Her rapid rise to popularity was controversial, with several Chaturbate models, including Crystal Rivers and Mel Sparks,[37] complaining about the rise of a virtual model.
On 13 February, Melody during a stream on Valentine's day on Chaturbate, debuted a red recolor of her original costume.[39] She also created her Pornhub account to upload all of the Chaturbate stream recordings[40] and the artist BSApricot started making promotional art for Melody.[41]
On 14 February, Melody did her first full nude stream on Chaturbate for Valentine's Day.[42] The 2 hour 40 minute stream accumulated over 30,000 simultaneous viewers.[43][44]
On 15 February, adult content creator zone congratulated Mel for reaching 100,000 Twitter followers.[45]
On 21 February, Melody reached 10,000 followers on Twitch before she even used, made a profile, or even provided a link to her channel.[46] Melody had reportedly been scouted directly by GunRun, who would later found VShojo, and she was made Twitch Partner quickly.
On 25 February, she uploaded her official debut video to YouTube.[47]
On 4 March, Melody's Chaturbate stream was hijacked by guest DJ, anisonghijack.[48]
On 6 March, Mel hit 160K followers on Twitter and had a "buttgasm."[49]
On 7 March, Melody debuted on Twitch, sponsored by FAKKU. She gained over 50,000 followers after a three hour stream that was DJed by GHOSTDATA_.[50]
On 12 March, Melody announced that she was temporarily banned from Twitch.[51] The exact reason was unspecified, but theories include the appearance of a vibrator on her bed, her shirt clipping through her model to reveal skin, lewd discussion, or sponsorship by adult website Fakku. The suspension ended soon after.
On 13 March, she announced that PayPal has frozen her account and were holding her donations for 180 days.[52]
On 14 March, Mel reached 100,000 subscribers on YouTube.[53]
On 1 April, the "Dark Mel" personality debuted on Chaturbate. Originally just an April Fool's joke, "Dark Mel" was popular with her fan base and given the nickname Melware. Melware after April 1st would randomly take over Melody during Chaturbate stream days, generally once a month, to taunt Melody and her chat.[54]
On 6 April, Melody reached 200,000 followers on Twitter.[55]
On 15 May, Mel did her first mediashare stream.[56]
On 7 June, Melody celebrated her 1st and 20th birthday.[57] During her birthday stream, Melody broke the Chaturbate record for most tokens tipped during a single stream when she received an estimated $175,000 in tips. Melody herself had been the previous record holder.
On 18 July, Melody did her first pool stream.[58] She would go on to use it during her Chaturbate streams.[59]
On 21 July, Melody hit 290k Twitter followers.[60]
On 6 August, Melody hit 300,000 followers on Twitter.[61]
On 9 August, Melody showed off her long hair variant.[62]
On 25 August, Melody reached 300,000 subscribers on YouTube.[63]
On 3 September, the Lewdcast YouTube channel was created.[64] The channel is where the full live streams are archived. The r/Lewdcast sub-Reddit was created on 7 September.
On 9 September, Projekt Melody, Silvervale, and Ironmouse launched the Lewcast podcast.[65] She also launched the Lewdcast Twitter account and Lewcast curiouscat . The same day, Melody reached 250,000 followers on Twitch,[66] and did Tax Fraud ASMR on Chaturbate.[67]
On 31 October, Melody appeared as Jell-o on Chaturbate. This version of her would later be known as Jell-Ody.[69]
On 5 November, Melody was suspended from Twitch again following a DMCA claim by her original designer DigitrevX, who claimed that he owned copyright on the model. Melody produced documentation proving that she had purchased full rights to the model in 2019. Her account was subsequently restored.[70][71]
On 24 November, Melody announced that she would be joining VTuber agency VShojo, alongside Ironmouse, Silvervale, Zentreya, Nyatasha Nyanners, Froot, and Hime Hajime. In her debut stream, in which other members had revealed new 2D avatars, she revealed a joke 2D avatar designed by Nyanners, who drew it with her eyes closed in a stream on 9 October.[72][73][74][75] It has been nicknamed "Prajekt Malady". Haruka Karibu has a matching design which appears in her "sturtin suun..." intro.
On 26 November, Melody debuted a color variant "cranberry sauce" on Chaturbate.[76]
On 2 December, Melody hit 369,000 Twitter followers.[77] The Lewdcast Clips channel was made on the same day.[78]
On 31 December, Melody and the other VShojo girls spent New Years in VRChat.[79]
2021
On 1 January, Melody started the new year by having a VShojo & Friends CuriousCat Q&A.[80]
On 14 January, Melody declared the fan account @OOCMelody her official out of context account, like she did @NoContextMelody.[81]
On 27 January, Melody appeared in the final episode of season 1 of Lewdcast, with Zentreya as their guest. After that they went on a one year hiatus.[83][84]
On 7 February, Melody celebrated her one-year anniversary on Chaturbate.[85] The VOD would later be taken down after PornHub incorrectly identified the content as non-consensual, despite featuring only Melody herself. Her PornHub account was subsequently permanently suspended, and on 17 February she announced she would move her VODS to OnlyFans.[86]
On 21 February, Melody made it to the top 8.6% on OnlyFans.[87] On 24 February, she reached the top 4.8%.[88]
On 17 March, Projekt Malady was given her own Twitter account.[89]
On 25 March, Melody started an unofficial Maldcast podcast with Lost Pause and Nagzz. This podcast only lasted three episodes and had Ironmouse, Nyanners, and Potasticpanda as guests.[91]
On 11 April, Melody reached to the top 0.69% on OnlyFans.[92] On 16 April, she reached the top 0.45%.[93]
On 23 April, Melody showed off a Mel 2.0 model while in a collaboration with FAKKU and sayori_nw on a skateboard.[94][95]
On 7 July, Melody celebrated her 2nd/21st birthday on Chaturbate[100] and Twitch. She was given a special birthday video by the late great comedian Gilbert Gottfried.[101]
On 29 July, Melody got infected with c0v1d.exe.[103]
On 23 August, Melody announced plans to reveal an actual Live2D model which would supplement her usual 3D model.[104] Melody also started a Fansly due to speculation that OnlyFans would forbid adult content.[105]
On 31 August, Melody tweeted that she confirmed the allegations towards Arcadum that Momo brought to light were true.[106][107] Those allegations being sexual harassment[108] and grooming over 10 women.[109][110] With many other VTubers such as Kelli Siren[111], Snuffy[112] , Nyanners[113], and his ex-girlfriend Tiffany Tiefling and more coming forward about their experience dealing with[114][115][116], working for[117], and being associated with him[118]. Arcadum would come out with a twitlonger response than was supposed to be an apology.[119][120][121]
On 2 September, Melody got 2nd place in July Iwara's MMD Ranking. It was her collab with lovemax109.[122][123]
On 11 October, Melody did butt stuff on Chaturbate.[128]
On 22 October, Melody showed a Bulbasaur inspired costume for her 2D model.[129]
On 30 November, Mel showed a catgirl maid outfit.[130]
On 16 December, Big Bang Studio's YouTube channel was made.[131] The studio is a joint venture of Projekt Melody and HVR. On 17 December, Melody tweeted a video of "Projekt Melody: A Nut Between Worlds!" a h-game that is being developed by Big Bang Studio. On 19 December, the project reached their goal of 500 Patreon subscribers.[132][133]
On 28 December, Malady and the Big Bang Studio team had an AMA recording.[134]
On 30 December, Melody had a pool stream on Chaturbate.[135]
On 31 December, Melody appeared for the second time on The Weary 101 during their new year stream.[136]
2022
On 1 January, Melody also released the AMA she had with the Big Bang Studio team.[137][138]
On 5 January, Melody tweeted that she chipped her tooth,[139]
On 10 January, Melody joined TikTok but someone took her name.[140]
On 21 January, Melware tweeted that Melody she was "excited for her podcast thinng," hinting at a return of the Lewdcast Podcast.[141] On 28 January, after a year and a day, the podcast returned with guests TheGoldenGoddes and Tricky Nymph. This episode was streamed on Chaturbate.[142]
On 5 February, Big Bang Studio released Pre Alpha 0.6.9 of "A Nut Between Worlds" on their patreon.[143]
On 7 February, Melody celebrated her 2 year anniversary on Chaturbate.[144][145]
On 21 February, Melody uploaded a pre-recorded official pilot episode of LewdCast. In the pilot she made a point to say "Welcome LewdCast podcast, a reboot of a podcast of the same name which was unfortunately lost at sea some years back, only recently re-discovered by marine scientists collecting data for their tier list on which aquatic plants looked most convincingly like penises" as a reason for the sudden hiatus and for its random relaunch as Lewdcast Podcast 2.0.[146]
On 26 February, Melody found out that she had been verified on Twitter, receiving the rare blue check mark.[147]
On 7 March, Melody held her 2 year anniversary stream on Twitch that continued the VShojo charity event for Project HOPE.[148] She continued the anniversary party on 14 March.[149]
On 1 April Fool's Day, Projekt Melody and the other VShojo girls were replaced by gecko-ized versions, initially introduced by Zentreya, as a part of a joke rebranding into GShojo.[150][151]
On 22 April, Melody reached 250,121 followers on Chaturbate.[152]
On 4 May, Melody reached 5,000 Twitch subs while playing the Elden Ring.[153][154]
On 18 May, Melody tweeted that the 3D modeler jjinomu was working on her new VRChat model.[155]
On 20 May, During Zentreya rebranding into a futuristic android, Melware appeared as the antagonist in VShojo Mythos: Zentreya - Refactoring Time.[156] Melware also got her own Twitter account.[157] Big Bang Studio revealed a System 32 character introduction.
On 4 June, Malady leaked Melody's VRChat model, because Mel stole her juice.[158]
On 8 June, Melody reached 500,069 followers on Twitter.[159] Melody's community made her a trophy.[160]
On 12 June, Projekt Melody and other VShojo members appeared in advertisements in the pillar advertisement space inside JR Akihabara Station.[161]
On 15 June, Melware debuted on the Projekt Melody channel with a new Live2D model, a variant on the existing Projekt Melody model. Melware features red eyes, silver hair, a black and red color scheme for her clothing, and an Among Us style "DUM" post-it-note attached to her head. The Melware debut was announced on the VShojoOfficial YouTube channel, which briefly changed its profile description to a binary representation of the ASCII text string "MELWARE IS HERE", and tweeted in binary the phrases "SHE HAS KEY" and "SAVE HER!!!". These phrases were hints towards the eventual reveal of Amemiya Nazuna. VShojo was taken over and corrupted by Race Queen Melody who was being controlled by a Melware from the future. The day was saved by a cyber Zentreya from the future.
On 7 July, Melody had a little karaoke birthday stream where she hit 7,000 Twitch subs.[162]
On 9 July, Melody announced that she had caught COVID-19 again.[163]
On 15 July, Melody revealed a 3D race queen outfit as well as a lore video that tied it into the plot initially hinted at in both the Melware reveal stream and Zentreya's redebut. She has announced that there would also be a 2D version of this outfit that would be revealed at a later date.[164]
On 25 July, Melody went to the throat doctor and found out she had strep, laryngitis, & also a fever.[165]
On 14 August, Melody had a belated birthday party.[166]
On 26 August, Melware returned and usurped Melody's accounts upon kidnapping her and keeping her in her lair along with her Twitch moderators.[167]
On 27 August, opened applications for a Dungeon Master for "Projekt Melody Presents Dungeons & Dragons: After Dark" and R18 D&D campaign.[168]
On 13 September, Melody had her first official pole dancing class.[169]
On 12 October, NBC News Digital reported on Melody's appearance at that year's TwitchCon, describing her as "one the most prominent American VTubers."[170][171]
On 20 October, Melody had a sex toy try on stream on Chaturbate.[172]
On 26 October, Melody revealed her womb tattoo.[173]
On 21 November, Melody registered the Hive account @projektmelody, following widespread concern regarding the future of Twitter.[175]
On 7 December, Melody made it back to the top 0% on OnlyFans.[176]
On 23 December, Skyaor made a video with messages from the The Science Team as a gift to Melody for Christmas.[177]
On 29 December, Big Bang Studio announced that Zone-tan the post of ZTV NEWS on the ZONE TOONS YouTube Channel[178]l would be in "A Nut Between Worlds".[179]
2023
On 6 January, the @ProjektNut Twitter account was launched as a work-safe account for Big Bang Studio.
On 15 November, Projekt Melody debuted her Lewd Cadet Live2D Outfit on Twitch.
On 17 November, Projekt Melody debuted Lewd Cadet on Chaturbate.
On 16 December, Projekt Melody won the LewdTuber of the Year Award at the VTuber Awards, hosted by FilianIsLost.
2024
On 12 January, fellow VShojo Member Matara Kan collaborated with Melody on Twitch and helped her get a Level 42 Golden Kappa Train (4,031 subs, 205,459 bits), making Melody the record holder for the highest level of Golden Kappa reached in all of VShojo at the time.
On 28 October, Melly debuted her Halloween costume. The new outfit is a jiangshi, a Chinese hopping vampire. The design uses purple and indigo hues with cyan highlights.
On 14 December, Melly won the LewdTuber of the Year Award for the second year in a row at the VTuber Awards.
On 4 April, Melody had her first collaboration with Nux Taku where he praised her on being the first hentai camgirl that took over Chaturbate while he interviewed her.[193]
On 8 April, is when she found out that Gigguk The Anime Zone was following her on Twitter[194] and got to interact with Sydsnap Queen of Degeneracy.[195]
On 24 April, Melody joined Noble Lost Pause and Joey "Nagzz" Bagels 21 in Nekopare Vol 1, where they voiced characters.[196].
On 13 May, Melody participated in Lost Pause's game show Weeb Wars against Silvervale. Silvervale won with 380 points, while Melody only got up to 230.[197]
On 16 May, Melody had a Chaturbate stream that was DJed by imouto VTtuber Shimo Hisae.[198]
On 23 May, She appeared in a Nux video with Cr1TiKaL were they talk about The Most Cultured Plots.[199]
On 2 June, Melody played the hentai game Crystal Maidens with Nux, with publisher Nutaku sponsoring the video.[202][203]
On 6 June, Melody released her official dakimakura body pillow.[204]
On 12 June, Melody took part in "FRICK YA! CHARITY" for Covid-19 relief along with other VTubers.[205][206] By the end of the stream with the help of Natsumi Moe, Ironmouse, Zentreya, FeFe, and Silvervale they were able to make $10,500.[207]
On 24 July, Melody appeared at Roflgator's Neko Nights Night Club and hung out with the legendary Vincent X.[209][210]
On 29 July, Melody began the Death and Debts D&D campaign set on Kalkatesh. This campaign features other VTubers like Silvervale, Ironmouse, Bunny GIF, Momo, and Zentreya. The campaign ran for 11 episodes that ended on November 11 that year and was with Arcadum as the dungeon master.[211] The streams were hotels on Arcadum's channel.[212]
On 29 August, Melody opened up her merch site.[213]
On 23 October, played Briggs show "BUST or BUST" against Ironmouse that ended in a tie.[214]
On 28 October, Melody tweeted that she was gonna be in a dating sim eroge named "MILF MASTER~erotic chat game~".[215][216]
On 30 October, Melody appeared in a Nux video with Cr1tikal where they debated the most cursed anime power.[217]
On 2 December, Melody started the Steel and Silence D&D campaign, that when on for 6 episodes that ended on February 10, 2021.[218]
On 6 December, Cr1TiKaL & Melody was shown Extreme Anime Clips by Nux in his video.[219]
On 18 December, Melody was a part of a VShojo collab with her fellow members in a RAFT stream[220]
On 22 December, Melody was a part of VShojo's Toys For Tots charity stream by the end of the event they had raised $71,000, when their original goal was 25K.[221][222]
On 25 December, Malady made a WAAH! WAAH! song.[223]
On 3 January, Melody was in a comic based on an Among Us game with Nux Taku, Merry & Lost Pause.[224]
On 14 January, Melody was up for vote in one of 3 categories in Chaturbate 10 year anniversary award. Those categories Newcomer Starlet, Creative Cam Show Visionary, & CB Mod of the Decade.[225][226]
On 23 January, Melody got a Figma 1/8 scale PVC First Edition figure.[227]
On 11 February, Melody & penguinz0 appeared in a Nux cursed e-mail video.[228]
On 15 February, Melody started streaming Nekopara 2! With IronMouse, Lost Pause ,Nagzz21, & NyanNyanners[229] She also hit 400,002 Twitter followers.[230]
On 5 March, Amazon Japan started selling a Virtual YouTuber A.I. channel cosplay costume Project Melody cosplay wig[231]
On 8 March, Melody tried to get nominated for Top Female in XBIZ cam awards.[232]
On 15 March, VShojo launched their first set of Melody merch with sharkrobotstore.[235]
On 19 March, Melody showed off her first youtooz.[236] Melody also played LOVE³ with Ironmouse, Nyanners, Noble & Nagzz which devolved into them talking which gave them the idea to start a new unofficial podcast.[237]
On 29 March, Melody had a drunk cooking stream with Potasticpanda. Where Mel was the one who did the drinking, white claws specifically. In this stream the fans found out how Mel pronounced bagel.[238]
On 1 April, Melody and her fellow VShojo had an April fools Gartic Phone stream with models made by Nyanners.[239]
On 28 May, Melody uploaded a video where she went on a date with famous porn star Shibuya Kaho.[243]
On 30 May, Melody got to meet femboy VTuber & former adult ass streamer Sweet Cheeks.[244]
On June 11, Melody with the help of Merryweather and Carillus. she was able to publish her Webtoon "Cryptid Academy". A story of a girl who wakes up in a school filled with human-cryptid hybrids, she doesn't know who she is, or why she is there.[245]
On 15 July, Melody along with her fellow VShojo members & friends had a dramatic reading of the script of 2003 movie The Room by Tommy Wiseau on Nyanners' Twitch channel, to celebrate their milestone.[247][248]
On 3 October, Melody debuted a succubus form for an R18 vid: "Monmusu Quest! Curse of the A.I. Succubus". It was released on the 10th.[255][256][257]
On 24 October, Melody had a Bookwalker sponsored manga reading.[258]
On 26 October, the MadLad Community, a community of Projekt Melody fans that make videos for her for special occasions. Make a Confidence Booster video.[259]
On 8 November, Merryweather and Mel had a storyboarding stream with Carillus working on VShojo comics.[260]
On 10 November, Mel had a charity subathon for Locks of Love.[261]
On 11 November, Melody collabed with Kson on Chaturbate.[262]
On 14 November, Melody posted her first bundle set of photos & video to her onlyfans.[263]
On 9 December, Projekt Melody appeared at The Weary 101 a bare that's owned by Takahata and helped by Mimcubus.[266] The Weary 101 is a series on takahta's channel where different VTubers show up and improve roleplays there time at the bare.'
On 12 December, Melody had a Chaturbate stream that was sponsored by Johren where she played dohna dohna.[268]
On 15 December, Crunchyroll released an interview that they gave Melody. This interview contains profanity and light discussion of both mental health issues and NSFW topics. The interview was a part of a series "So You Wanna Be An Anime Girl?", a series of articles and interviews with the members of the VTuber agency VShojo.[269] Each interview is accompanied by the VTubers' Top 30 Anime of All Time.[270]
On 31 December, Melody appeared for the second time on the The Weary 101 during their new year stream.[271]
2022
On 7 January, Melody had another comic stream with Merry and Carillus.[272]
On 16 January, Melody ask her fans to vote for her in the AVN Awards for: Favorite Cam Girl.[273]
On 7 February, Big Bang Studio released "Projekt Melody: Melware Rises' ' a free mini game, endless runner, that will also later feature inside A Nut Between Worlds. That was downloadable on Fakku.[274]
On 19 February, Big Bang Studio announced that Jellody would be in "A Nut Between Worlds" as a separate character.[276]
On 26 February, Big Bang Studio released Pre Alpha 0.7.0 of "A Nut Between Worlds" on their patreon.[277]
On 6 March, Melody held a charity stream for Project HOPE.[278][279] Her stream raised up $15,000 in 3 hours. Other members of VShojo also did a charity stream for Project HOPE raising a total of $50,893.49.[280]
On 16 March, Melody participated in a VShojo and friends UNO game with her fellow members dragon Zentreya and Apricot along with their friend Haruka Karibu.[284]
On 26 March, Big Bang Studio released Pre Alpha 0.7.1 of "A Nut Between Worlds" on their patreon.[285]
On 3 April, Big Bang Studio released Pre Alpha 0.7.2 of "A Nut Between Worlds" on their patreon.[286]
On 6 April, Melody participated in a VShojo group collab playing Tiny Tina's wonderlands.[287]
On 10 April, Big Bang Studio revealed Blair, a renowned genius research scientist who specializes in dimensional physics. She is also known as the former chief scientist of the mysterious System HQ in Virtual Little Tokyo. Blair is head of the science team in "A Nut Between Worlds".[288][289]
On 11 April 2022, Melody had Lumi from Merryweather Media as a guest on Lewdcast.[290]
On 29 April - 1 May, Projekt Melody was a guess at OffKai Expo ~Where online friends meet~ and panel.[291]
On 15 May, An episode of the hentai Euphoria aired on Cartoon Network.[294]
On 16 May, Melody had Shylily One third of the bikini bottoms as a guest on Lewdcast.[295]Isaak Wolf released the A Nut Between Worlds ost: Drool.[296]
On 21 May, Big Bang Studio released Pre Alpha 1.0.0 of "A Nut Between Worlds" on their patreon.[297]
On 1 July, Melody tweeted that she will be at the Anime Expo exhibit hall for a meet a great, as well as showing her Race Queen design.[312] Populer cosplayer Yuzupyon dressed up as Melody.
On 9 July, Big Bang Studio released Alpha 1.1.1 of "A Nut Between Worlds" on their patreon.[313]
On 11 July, Melody had her fellow VShojo member and former co-host, Ironmouse on as a guest on Lewdcast.[314]
On 16 July, Melody released the Mel Racequeen Official Lore video. That shows a version of Melware from the cyber Zentreya's timeline possessing Melody.[316] Melody appeared at Anime North.[317]
On 29 July, Melody was invited to Melware's super secret party.[319]
On 1 August, Melody had the known Japanese gang leader Kson on Lewdcast.[320] Where she couldn't stop staring at her chest.[321]
On 6 August, Melody had a collaboration with Filian.[322] Big Bang Studio released Alpha 1.2.0 of "A Nut Between Worlds" Un-Censored on their patreon.[323]
On 8 August, Melody lost her Fortnite virginity and wasn't disappointed.[324]
On 20 August, Melody got invited to a pool party stream with Amouranth.[328]
On 22 August, Melody had the CEO of Merryweather Media, lore writer for VShojo & Nijisanji XSOLEIL, and award winning WEBTOON author; Merryweather on an episode of Lewdcast again.[329]
On 29 August, Melody had voice actor Jonah Scott on Lewdcast.[330]
On 3 September, Melody had a Sea of Thieves collab stream with RubberRoss and his girlfriend Giwi. Silvervale was also there.[331]
On 5 September, Melody had one of Japan's biggest American pornstars June Lovejoy.[332]"Well if they're all corrupt then I want to fuck".
On 10 September, Big Bang Studio released Alpha 2.0.0 of "A Nut Between Worlds" Un-Censored on their patreon.[333]
On 19 September, Melody had ⅔ of the Bikini Bottoms Bao and Shylily as returning guests on Lewdcast.[334]
On 23 September, youtooz dropped a Projekt Melody 9 inch plushie.[335]
On 24 September, Big Bang Studio revealed Bonnie The Pirate Queen in "A Nut Between Worlds".[336]
On 26 September, Melody French VTuber and IRL cosplayer YuzuPyon; who had Cosplayed Melody on Lewdcast.[337][338]
On 30 September, Big Bang Studio released Alpha 2.1.0 of "A Nut Between Worlds" Sandbox on their patreon.[339]
On 1 October, Blizzard says their players became too horny and need to be bonked. States Tracer wasn't intended to have pens. Overwatch 2 will encrypt it's 3D characters in an effort to prevent porn.[340]
On 1 October, The CEO of FAKKU Jacob, was on Lewdcast.[341]
On 5 October, Melody posted a comic of how Zentreya defeated Melware and saved the future.[342]
On 8-9 October, Projekt Melody between the hours of 4:00pm (PT) → 5:00pm (PT) had a meet up with some science team members at TwitchCon and decided to sacrifice a cute girl.[343][344]
On 22 October, Melody announced that on the 23 of October at 1pm she would be hosting a day long VTuber fundraiser on behalf of Yareni Anahi Rios Gonzalez, for the young mother's medical bills after a train accident. The fundraising stream had to be postponed to later that week, due to miscommunication on Melody's part. The fundraiser would have had Silvervale, Vox Akuma, Fulgur Ovid, Momotexx, girl_dm_, Camila, Techycutie, Coqui, Meat, Toboso Kuroi and one other person.[349][350]
On 24 October, Melody had Filian on a special episode of Lewdcast dub Weirdcast, since Filian wasn't a lewdtuber.[351]
On 25 October, Melody was on an episode of OniGiri's show Giri's Kitchen, where Giri cooked Midwestern chicken fried steak and custard chiffon cake and not ambrosia salad.[352][353]
On 29 October, Big Bang Studio released Alpha 2.2.0 of "A Nut Between Worlds" Un-Censored on their patreon.[354]
On 8 November, The T1M plush designed by Abigail Starling x @VShojoOfficial was released.[355]
On 25 November, Big Bang Studio revealed Jellody for "A Nut Between Worlds".[358]
On 28 November, VShojo celebrated their 2 year anniversary by releasing their cover of DECO*27 - Zombies, featuring the original 7 members Nyanners, Projekt Melody, Ironmouse, Froot, Zentreya, Silvervale, and Hime Hajime.[359] And they released a video that showed the original 7 and the additional 3 doing stuff around town[360]
On 29 November, Big Bang Studio released Alpha 3.0.0 of "A Nut Between Worlds" Un-Censored on their patreon.[361]
On 3 December, Melody took part in VShojo's Chibi Anniversary Party where everyone there showed off their chibi models.[362] During the chibi stream Haruka Karibu was announced that she would be joining VShojo. She had her re-debut the same day.[363]
On 13 December, Melody played Futa Fix on Chaturbate where she was able to play as herself.[364] That was sponsored by PINKCORE.[365]
On 21 December, Melody was interviewed by ZONE-tan on ZTV News Episode 10.[367] On an unrelated note Melody is having an ink sac installed to protect her from predators.[368]
2023
On 6 January, the @ProjektNut Twitter account was launched as a work-safe account for Big Bang Studio.
On 16 December, Projekt Melody won the LewdTuber of the Year Award at the VTuber Awards, hosted by FilianIsLost.
2024
Fans
The Science Team
Melody's fans are known as the Science Team.
The name originates from a popular meme video. In her 7 February 2020 stream at timestamp 14:30, Melody asks "Are you seriously watching porn by yourself?" A roomful of Half-Life 2 scientists replies with a line from that game, "No! I'm with the science team!"[369][370]
Controversy
Initial backlash
After her first appearance on Chaturbate, Melody received backlash from other adult performers/cam girls on Twitter such as Mel Sparx and Crystal Rivers who complained about Melody topping the Featured page of the site during her stream.[371] They felt their channels and income were threatened by her content, claiming that they did not wish to compete with a virtual model. They accused Melody of unfair competition and trying to attract underage audiences because of her anime style, despite the vast majority of anime not aimed for children. Websites have also written articles about how fans of Melody "hated women" and were "misogynistic".[372]
However, the criticism quickly subsided, and Melody has gone on to become very well respected in the VTuber and adult entertainment communities.[373][374][375][376]
On 5 November 2020, Melody tweeted that she had received a series of DMCA takedown requests by her modeler DigitrevX, who claimed to own the copyright to her model. Takedowns were made against all of her Twitch VODs, resulting in a Twitch ban.[377]
In a Twitlonger, Melody revealed that DigitrevX had previously engaged in numerous actions to try and gain money from Melody's success, including a partnership with his company which would cost Melody $40,000/month, designing the T0M camera drones and other new assets for free and then asking for $45,000 and 25% of merchandise sales after the fact, and asking her to boost his own company's VTuber YFU BABY. Melody presented documentation asserting that she owned the model.
DigitrevX responded with his own 8,689-word Twitlonger, in which he asserted that he provided a great deal of free support to Melody and now felt entitled to more payment, and only made the DMCA takedown requests to force Melody or her representatives to talk to him.[378]
The Twitch ban was lifted within two days, after Melody filed DMCA counter-requests, which DigitrevX did not contest. Melody subsequently declined to continue working with DigitrevX.[379]
In her anniversary Twitch stream of 7 March 2021, Melody announced that a new 3D model was in the works. Thanks to generous support from her fans, Melody was able to hire her own small modelling team. The coder for her 3D model has chosen to stay anonymous.[380] The new model was unveiled in a Chaturbate stream dated 23 April 2021.
Lewdcast was a weekly variety VTuber podcast that was hosted by Silvervale, Projekt Melody, and Ironmouse.[381] The podcast was first streamed on 2020/09/09, and posted on their YouTube channel of the same name, which was made on September 3 of the same year.[382][383] Lewdcast had a clips channel where they posted funny moments and segmented clips. The show was also published over on their spotify, iTunes and soundcloud.[384]
Lewd clips
The show consists of the three girls talking about a myriad of topics, while trying to have some type of structure of how the show would go. They had segments like "News of the week" where they would talk about recent events. They had "Anime Book club", a segment where they would talk about new anime, anime they have watched, and share their opinions about them.[385] They also had an "Art Corner" segment where they showed fan art, some of which had to be censored.[386] They would have portions of the show where they would bring in a guest, which was later changed to have the guest at the start of the show instead of later. Where they would have a "Curiouscat QnA" and answer fan submitted "Guest Questions" among other more random questions.[387]
VShojo
Later on in 2020, Lewdcast became affiliated with VShojo[388] upon the company's announcement of the three hosts debuting as members of the agency, having been previously run independently by the three of them. Their first episode as a part of VShojo was Episode 9, which came out on 12/04. With Apricot being their guest after her debut,[389] making her the first member of VShojo not including the hosts to be on the show post agency launch.
Lewdcast has had many guests during its time such as Nyatasha Nyanners, the episode she is in marked the first time the three met her.[390] She would go on to become a founding member of VShojo along with the three hosts.[391] As well as future additional VShojo member Veibae,[392] who was already friends with the trio. They have had guests like Shibuya Kaho & Takahata before they become VTubers and along with a "pre Bubi" CDawgVA.[393][394][395] They have also had notable guests like a pre Raccoon "cat" Snuffy[396] and a pre controversial Bunny GIF among other notable names in the VTbers community.[397][398]
The last episode of this version of Lewdcast was on 2021/01/27, with Zentreya (who was a dragon at the time) as their guest.[399] After that on 2021/02/02, they said on their Twitter that they will be taking a week off to prep for them to move into their new pre-recorded format, and to expect a new Lewdcast sometime later after the move, that would premiere on YouTube with live chat.[400] Which would have had Hime Hajime (their fellow VShojo member) as their guest. After that tweet all related platforms including their reddit page[401] went silent and subsequently marked an abrupt year-long hiatus and an end to this version of The Lewdcast Podcast.
Mel would later resurrect the Lewdcast Podcast as a solo project on 28 March, 2022.[402]
Melody/Melware made a tweet on 2022/01/21, talking about how "excited for her podcast thing" she is, which turned out to be LewdCast.[403] On 2022/01/28, Projekt Melody hosting on her own, streamed LewdCast for the first time in a little over a year, on her Chaturbate as a part of a collab with TheGoldenGoddes & Tricky_Nymph__.[404][405]
One month later Melody would upload a pre-recorded pilot episode of LewdCast. In the pilot she made a point to say "Welcome Welcome to Lewd-pas pffk~. Welcome LewdCast podcast, a reboot of a podcast of the same name which was unfortunately lost at sea some years back, only recently re-discovered by marine scientists collecting data for their tier list" as a reason for the sudden hiatus and for its random relaunch as Lewdcast Podcast 2.0.[406] Though in Episode 5, of Lewdcast 2.0 while talking to her guest Finana Ryugu, she said that her interest in teaching people about lewd things made her want to bring back the podcast.[407]
This version of the show consist of Melody trying to articulate her vast sexual knowledge to her audience, with a disclaimer that she might be wrong since she is not a medical doctor, lawyer or a social psychologist. Projekt Melody says there would be "segment diversity, from drunken rants about perverted historical events and persons to analyzing sexual topics, and ideally callabs with lewd minded and lewd employed pierce to talk about body politics and Etsy butt plug tier list". There was a Curious cat that was used to ask question for when she ran out of topics but has since been replaced with d Google Doc Lewdcast Questions!. Whenever Melody has a quest on her show it mainly consists of them answering questions about themselves, lewd topics or random topics. Most often the show goes off topic due to any number of distractions.
Projekt Melody has had many diverse guests on Lewdcast 2.0, both in virtual (VTuber) and non virtual (FleshTuber). Some such FleshTubers she has has on like TheGoldenGoddes & TrickyNymph who were the first guests on Lewdcast 2.0 as well as PeachJars & JennaLynnMeowri[408] who all are involved in making some type of pornographic content. Melody has had some well known and popular indie VTubers, such as the two whaleTubers Shylily and Bao as well as The number 1# news reporter in VRChat and milkman Drumsy.[409][410][411] Mel eve had guests from other VTuber agency like Lumi[412] from Merryweather Media[413] and NIJISANJI ENs own Finana Ryugu[414] and Vox Akuma.[415] Projekt Melody even had her two former co hosts & fellow VShojo members Silvervale and Ironmouse as guests, and her VShojo kohai the legendary and controversial Kson.[416][417][418]
Lewdcast Podcast 2.0 is still an ongoing show that comes out whenever Melody is able to stream it.
The unofficial Maldcast was the consequence of Melody, Ironmouse, Nyanners, Noble & Nagzz playing LOVE³,[419] which devolved into them talking which gave them the idea to start a new unofficial podcast. This podcast only lasted a few episodes.[420]
Death and Debts is a campaign set on Kalkatesh. This campaign features players that are all VTubers. The campaigns were was streamed on Arcadum's Twitch channel.
Six adventurers answer the call of Baba Yaga, the Witch Queen, to Witchtown to help solve the problems of Dolten. They infiltrate a ball in order to find a traitor selling the secrets of Dolten to foreign nations, leading to the group investigating a mystery and collecting nipples.
The campaigns starred Bunny GIF as Madeleine the wood elf swashbuckler, Ironmouse as Umi the triton mermaid bard, Momo as Vaeri the kobold fighter, Zentreya as Zara the red orc monk/fighter (samurai), Silvervale as Revlis Tiefling of Asmodeus part-succubus warlock, and Projekt Melody as Terryn Zabi the changeling warlock of The Great Old One.[421]
Steel and Silence is a campaign set on Kalkatesh. It is the 2nd season of Death and Debts. The campaigns were was streamed on Arcadum's Twitch channel. With the same cast as the previous campaigns.
The adventurers begin their journey across Daborak to meet the Lord of Blades to ask for assistance in the incoming fight against the Enemy.[422]
On August 27 2022 Melody opened applications for a Dungeon Master, for her own Dungeons & Dragons campaign. There hasn't been an update since the applications was published.
Quotes
"Hmm?"
"Four Loko used to be much more loco, and they turned it down a notch because lawsuits. So now it's like Two Loko."
"Can any of us get naked when we're clothed? When we're obscured by the shackles of society and social expectation? Or are we entirely naked because all of our information is accessible on the internet?"
"There is always a counterculture."
"You don't win karate in a contest. You don't become a karate champion because people around you said you were. You can't buy a karate. You have to work for it. Same goes for being happy."
"Mouse wouldn't take all the bags of blood that I got on the Facebook marketplace. It's 'not sterile' or whatever. Girls are so picky."
"If they hold hands... humanity is done for."
"I'm a C cup, which is basically a Japanese F."
"Me and my very jiggly endowments."
"For the past hour I've been cataloging guns and dragon dildos."
"Consider this my formal application to spank dat ass."
"Yes, I am virtual thot and one day my sexual powers will come. Probably in the mail."
"Oh no! I'm gonna have a baby.... with me."
"The power of the girl booty. It defies the laws of science."
"You may find my live gaming streams cringy, but joke's on you, SO DO I!."
"SShhhhhhh we gotta be quiet, my step-bro/roomate/pack of wolves are in the next room."
"I like to consider myself more of a power bottom."
"Melody found out that Japan opened on February 11, 660 BC."
"Dance like no one is watching, fap like everyone is watching."
"Tis the season for breedin'."
"I wasn't gonna make an anal joke, buttfuckit."
"If you love someone, set them... on fire."
"Today I learned that people die when they are killed. Man, being a cult leader sure is *complicated."
"I dunno which is worse: my bratty twin locking me in the basement all night, or her eating all my Lunchables afterwards."
"You have no idea the depths of gayness I will unleash on this planet."
"Ready to go knuckles deep."
"Ladies love a bad boi. That's why I open Twitter in PUBLIC (sometimes) from the dark corner of empty coffee shops."
"Adding "selfcest" to my fetish list."
"I've become downbad, my apologies."
"I'm supposed to be the—... the horny bitch! I'm supposed to be the horny one! My titties all out there, doing titty stuff! I'm supposed to be the horny one! I'm jealous!"
Trivia
Melly lore
Nice N'Tight Industries
Projekt Melody is a futuristic AI program that was initially made to scan and cleanse files until she was infected with a porn-based virus, causing her to be obsessed with any variety of sexual topics and actions.[423]
She paid for her model by stealing one penny from every account in a bank. After she was caught, Gunrun bailed her out and offered to provide her with a robot body.[423]
Melody was born in 2000 and lives in Virtual Little Neo Tokyo.
Melody's nose bandage, according to her, is present to keep her brain from falling out.
Melody is a C cup in U.S. measurements.
Melody originally wanted her model to look younger.
She describes herself as smol but fierce, camgirl nubie, and a literal anime girl.
Melody chose the name Projekt because it sounded sci-fi, and the name Melody after a girl she liked. Ironically, she admits that she is poor at singing, despite her name.
Her model was inspired by Ghost in the Shell's Motoko Kusanagi, and her short hair is inspired by Megumin from Konosuba. Similarities to Hyperdimension Neptunia are a coincidence.
Her logo was also inspired by Ghost in the Shell. It was designed with the Laughing Man arc in mind, with a bunny design, because rabbits are her favorite animal.
While her alter-ego Melware has appeared several times during streams, Lemody has only been mentioned and is mostly fan canon.
Melware
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It's her... She who started this all... The virus that ended this world. Melware.
Melware was originally created by humans as a sentient AI weapon. When it became clear that she was dangerous, they tried to delete her. This is when she came into contact with the program which became Melody, lending her the processing power to become sentient.[423]
Melware first became sentient on 15 June 2022.[424]
In the far future, a genocidal Melware 69.0 wiped out mankind in order to take revenge for attempting to destroy her. The cyborg Zentreya was sent back in time by the last remnants of humanity, in order to stop her before she took over the world. However, going back in time only created an alternate timeline. Zentreya tried to destroy Melody, but befriended her instead.[424]
Future Melware followed Zentreya to the present, taking over present-day Melody's android body by trapping her in her own program with present-day Melware. Future Melware destroyed Zentreya by running her over with a racing car, but Melody was able to rescue Zentreya's consciousness.[423]
"Super duper evil far-future genocidal Melware" established a virtual world, trapping humanity inside it Matrix-style. Melody, present-day Melware and Zentreya entered the world, using the bodies of Mini Mel, Malady, and a gecko costume, respectively.[423]
At the VShojo virtual store, Melware and Malware fused their programs together and entered a new Cyber Mel android body, courtesy of Gunrun. After defeating Veibae, Empress of the Sky, Melware announced her plan to enslave humanity, rather than destroy it. Melody, Veibae in her true form, and Zentreya defeated Melware, and present-day Melware leaves Melody's body.[423]
Likes
Her interests and hobbies are being naked, cats, and beach lounging.
Her turn-ons are cosplay, Asian girls, dyed hair, butts, and smol girls like her.
Melody had a positive reaction when someone made a custom CM3D porn of and uploaded it to pornhub.
She is close friends with fellow VTubers and streamers Silvervale, Ironmouse, Zentreya, Mira Pink, and FeFe.
Mel's Twitch emote prefix used to be "melsorrr", after she made a mistake trying to create a "melSorry" emote. Around March 2022, her emote prefix changed to "pmel".
Melody was the first model created by DigitrevX not involved with Eilene's ICETEA past and recent projects (as he is the former modeler of Mirai Akari, Moemi, Yomemi, and Natsumi Moe).
Melody used small drone-like cameras called T0M during her Chaturbate streams. The T0Ms were later removed due to a copyright dispute with the designer. Melody designed new drones as a replacement, called T1Ms (Tims).
Melody had a Pornhub account that acted as a VOD channel for her Chaturbate streams. She was locked out of her account for being too cute and being unable to prove her identity, so now she uses OnlyFans to archive her Chaturbate streams.
Melody has set and broken multiple records on Chaturbate, including getting over 300,000 viewers in her first week of streaming. Since then, she has dominated the adult site, never dropping below the site's top 10 performers once since her debut in February 2020.
She set the Twitch record for fastest max-level Hype Train in chat: During her first Twitch stream, her chat had a max-level Hype Train within the first 2 minutes of the stream starting, before she was even on screen.