There are a shocking variety of official hololive Vtuber manga collection on the market! Magical Lady Holowitches and HoloX Assembly are amongst them. The factor about a few of these, nevertheless, is that context can matter. It helps in case you have an concept who the Vtubers behind the characters are, particularly within the case of the one based mostly on Secret Society holoX. Holoearth Chronicles Facet:E Yamato Phantasia, which Square Enix released exterior Japan, is completely different. Whereas it does assist if who of us like Fubuki Shirakami, Mio Ookami, and Ayame Nakiri are, the way in which it’s dealt with and execution means it really works simply as effectively when you’re completely unfamiliar and on the lookout for a collection that just about has a Touhou sort of vibe and includes kami defending a rustic.
Editor’s Observe: There will likely be some gentle spoilers for the primary quantity of the Holoearth Chronicles Facet:E Yamato Phantasia Hololive Vtubers manga under.
Yamato is a land wherein kami and people reside in a symbiotic relationship. The people generate and assist preserve aura. Kami want that vitality with a purpose to develop and develop their energy. They, in flip, use their powers to guard the people who reside alongside them. For instance, they could use their skills to take away Stigma, destructive aura, from people to guard them from corruption and transformation. Nevertheless, whereas there are kami who’re benevolent and air the neighborhood, yokai that absorbed aura will use it maliciously and trigger corruption and dissent, feeding off of the chaos. Fubuki and Mio are two such kami, and Holoearth Chronicles Facet:E Yamato Phantasia follows as we watch them use their skills to help in every day incidents on the town in addition to participate in a kidnapping case with malevolent yokai behind it.
One purpose Holoearth Chronicles Facet:E Yamato Phantasia works so effectively even in case you have no concept who the Hololive Vtubers Fubuki and Mio are is that the collection is extra loosely based mostly on the idea of who they’re, slightly than the precise people. The Holoearth Chronicles collection is a spin-off and alternate actuality. There could also be some character traits mirrored right here and the character designs match, however that is a wholly authentic story that additionally occurs to contain “them.” It’s the identical purpose why the sport Fubuki: Zero in on Holoearth, which relies on the identical premise and situation, would work for anybody.
One more reason is that the Holoearth Chronicles Facet:E Yamato Phantasia manga is unbelievable at establishing Fubuki and Mio as authentic characters. Whereas the primary few pages do begin in medias res, with Fubuki and Mio within the midst of combating the oni Ayame, it instantly goes into a brief story establishing who Fubuki is as a personality. It exhibits how she’s a Kami, that her position is to defend Yamato, particularly the city proper close to her shrine, and that she is going to take away destructive Stigmas from folks that would make them behave hurtfully and even flip into monsters. On the identical time, it exhibits she’s a down-to-earth gamer who is kind of informal, to the purpose the place she would possibly overlook her very crucial sword at Mio’s place or desire on the spot udon to the recent, do-it-yourself sort.
The premise additionally implies that the Holoearth Chronicles Facet:E Yamato Phantasia is extra about build up these two characters, their friendships, and their skills as they tackle conditions to assist the folks of Yamato. Whereas there could also be references to the actions and lore for the Hololive Vtubers within the manga, similar to Fubuki’s Oruyanke mascot showing or her being mistaken for a cat slightly than a fox, that is fully self-contained. We miss nothing if we don’t watch them. That is all in regards to the private growth of those two characters based mostly on the performers. And, frankly, the event of them is kind of good. Particularly Mio, her backstory, and her powers as soon as her and Fubuki head off on a mission to avoid wasting lacking youngsters.
I additionally talked about it felt Touhou Mission like earlier, and I really feel like that’s one more reason it really works. Shrine maidens who’re younger girls with supernatural powers coping with yokai? A setting impressed by a extra historic sort interval in Japan? Whereas this can be a Hololive Vtuber manga, it may provide extra of a supernatural monster-of-the-week, incident-resolving ambiance to it.
The Hololive Vtuber vibes are robust in Holoearth Chronicles Facet:E Yamato Phantasia, sure, however the manga can be tremendous accessible. The characters and story are dealt with in such a manner that you simply don’t want any expertise with the performers to take pleasure in it. It could actually assist with some inside jokes and references. However it’s a extremely well-handled, stand-alone undertaking.
Quantity 1 of Holoearth Chronicles Facet:E Yamato Phantasia is offered now, and Square Enix will launch the second quantity of the manga impressed by Hololive Vtubers Fubuki Shirakami, Mio Ookami, and Ayame Nakiri on December 2, 2025.
