BanG Dream! Yumemita tagging

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So more fun.

The Mugendai Mewtype cast for BanG Dream! Yumemita have been active virtual youtubers for some time now. But they were (probably) always meant to get their own anime, which is now airing. This anime partially takes place in their real world, and partially in the VR space where they are also vtubers in-universe.

Their appearences are pretty much the same in either world, it's just a costume for the most part, but it does pose the question whether we want to keep the current vtuber persona tags as the main tags and imply the real-world tags to these, or swap them around and consider the vtuber variant a costume. Some of the real-world tags were already (Fuji Miyako (real) etc.) made but not implied for some reason, so I wanted to consider the possibility of swapping the tags or doing something else before requesting such an implication.


I personally wouldn't be against making the base character tags umbrella tags, and have both the real-world and vtuber version as a costume for that. They're not going to get a large number of costumes like some "proper" vtubers, but it's probably the best solution for searchability, and it means we don't have to invent a new status quo for this weird vtuber-anime-character setup.

BUR #63467 is pending approval.

mass update id:10375813 -> char:sengoku_yuno_(person)
create implication sengoku_yuno_(person) -> sengoku_yuno
mass update id:11177835 -> char:miyanaga_nonoka_(person)
create implication miyanaga_nonoka_(person) -> miyanaga_nonoka

These 2 exceptions I came across (post #10375813, post #11177835) depict the real-life person behind the vtubers (because they aren't anonymous in terms of their real-world faces.

Doing this via a BUR because I see 2 options, with upsides and downsides:

  • Imply the *_(person) tag to the base chartag:
    • Upside: It means sengoku_yuno will find all relevant images
    • Downside: It's not really a costume, nor does it look like them
  • Don't imply the person tag:
    • Upside: Doesn't mix their anime persona and their real-life persona, who don't look alike (the *_(virtual) and *_(real) persona do look alike)
    • Downsides: sengoku_yuno will not find all relevant images, and it will lead to post #11177835 looking silly, as if there is a missing implication:

Note that while they don't hide their faces, we only know the real people by their vtuber names, so there's no other place we could get a non-ambiguous name from.

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