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Hololive’s Houshou Marine released a new song, and it topped 1.6 million views in a short span of time. On 5ch’s Nanimo Jikkyo G board (a general live-commentary board), users reacted with surprise to reports that she funds the entire production herself, while others were skeptical about whether the song is truly popular.
Already at 1.6 million views!
Source: m.youtube.com / Original article here
What people said
She's really putting in the work.
Doesn't Hololive management not cover the cost of the music videos?
Then again, when you think about a middle-aged woman (obachan) being made to play this character, that's already sad enough on its own.
Even calling her an "auntie," she's still probably 10+ years younger than the average age on this board (nanG).
Is this board seriously nothing but old guys…?
She's just playing an "old hag" character — there are plenty of real old hags posting right here.
Look who's talking, old man.
Right now it seems like it's mostly Marine's own fans listening to it.
If it hits like 10 million views, then it's the real deal.
Even accounting for her loyal fanbase, 1.6 million views in such a short time is still pretty impressive.
Yajuu Senpai really is something else, huh.
Is this a rivalry between two "females"? (a running joke referring to Yajuu Senpai as female)
Well, she clearly knows there's demand for that sort of thing.
Who's the top girl in Hololive?
The one with animal ears.
The elf one.
You get the rest, right?
Hanabatake Chaika?
There's like two of them with pointy ears 😡
The Matsuzaka generation or the "Handkerchief Prince" generation is the mainstream (age groups named after famous baseball stars Daisuke Matsuzaka and Yuki Saito, popular in the mid-2000s).
No, the mainstream is the KK-combo generation (Kiyohara & Kuwata, the legendary PL Gakuen baseball duo from the 1980s).
Around 23.
She herself has said 31.
Based on calculations after her identity leaked, she's estimated to be 32–34.
"Gets stuck singing" lol
She pays for the lyrics, the music, and the MV all herself, commissions everything herself, and produces it all herself.
Huh, I'm not really a fan so I didn't know that, but you sure know a lot.
T-then how old is Pekora's "mommy"…?
We can't go any further than that.
Considering Pekora has two much older brothers, her mom being over 60 is basically confirmed.
She did streaming on Niconico too?
She started back in high school, and kept streaming on the side all through her years as an office worker and as a manga artist.
Wait, that's the first I'm hearing she was ever a manga artist.
She's made games too, you know.
Apparently she had a serialized manga in Kirara (a magazine known for cute-girl slice-of-life series), but it ended quickly.
Background and Key Points
Houshou Marine debuted in August 2019 as one of Hololive’s third-generation VTubers under Cover Corporation, the Tokyo-based agency that produces virtual YouTubers with live 2D/3D avatars voiced by anonymous performers. She plays a boisterous “pirate captain” character and is one of Hololive’s most commercially successful talents, regularly ranking among the group’s top earners via merchandise and superchats. Original songs are a common promotional tool across VTuber agencies, but production costs — composer, lyricist, arrangement, and a music video, often built in MMD (MikuMikuDance), free 3D animation software widely used by fan and semi-pro animators for VTuber content — are typically absorbed by the agency or bundled into a talent’s budget. The claim circulating in the thread is that Marine instead commissions and pays for these elements herself, which several posters treated as notable dedication.
The thread doesn’t agree on much beyond that: some read 1.6 million views in a short window as clear proof of popularity, while others insist it’s just her existing fanbase engaging and that only a number an order of magnitude higher (10 million) would prove broader reach. The comparison to an AI-generated meme song (2.3 million views) underscores that view counts alone are a weak popularity signal, since audience composition differs wildly between organic fan content and a fan-funded original.
What outside readers likely miss: no one in the thread actually confirms Cover’s official stance on who funds Hololive music videos — it’s asserted, not sourced, and the “usually lower-tier MMD creators work with her” comment suggests her videos aren’t premium in-house productions, which cuts against the idea that this is a lavish vanity project.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Nanimo Jikkyo G) thread “Captain Marine’s New Song Is Actually Blowing Up ❤.”
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