Fan-chan blogja - Hungarian webcomic/blog/virtual avatar experiment (2010)

If you ever wondered what would VTubing looked like without the "tube" part, then let me introduce you to "Fan-chan blogja" (Fan-chan's blog).

It's a webcomic/blog hybrid, although the blog part gets downplayed later on in favor of a now unfinished story line.

While other virtual avatars (and even a kind of VTuber existed in the form of a Super Sonico clip) did exist, one thing elevates out of them (and likely even the early Eilene experiments) is the no fourth wall, and the ability of talking with at least two of the characters through MSN messenger, at least with one on a forum, and all of them though e-mail. They supposedly had "real names" and even an "accidental face reveal" for Zoyi/Fan-chan, however the face reveal turned out to belong to a lesser known model. However it helped me to track down the author (there were fake social media accounts under the "real names"), or at least one of them. The real scope of the team behind the project isn't known, nor the author seem to give up his anonymity, so I won't share that info. Supposedly multiple people worked on it besides the author, but that's not something I can validate. I don't even know if the person pretending to be Zoyi was either the author or an actual girl, and I don't want to accidentally leak info (how do I say... sometimes I'm seeing ghosts... might be due to the fact that some people share her sense of humor, mannerisms, and age...). I will however say that it had production issues due to the author's school and work.

I can try to translate it to English if there's enough demand. Some page used to have official English translation, but I don't think it had any kind of Japanese translation, so don't expect it to be the basis of modern VTubing, the main influence of Kizuna Ai, or the main originator of Delutaya's love for green triangles.