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Virtual group PLAVE and being Kpop idol Vtubers : kpopthoughts

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For those who don't know, PLAVE is a virtual idol group who debuted with the single album Asterum with Wait for You as the title track. I first knew of them because their MV popped up as an ad and usually, I would skip, but the visuals of the opening scene was stunning that I stayed around to watch and found that the song was pretty good! Looking at the credits for the song, it listed PLAVE and surprisingly, El Capitxn as its composers. My interest was piqued more when I saw that they used 2D manhwa/webtoon style models unlike some of the more well known kpop virtual groups right now like MAVE and SUPERKIND. After looking into their channel more, they do lives and advertise themselves as vtubers. In that sense, they are more like Girl's Re:verse and also reminded me of Apoki or other vtubers under Hololive and Nijisanji which are also singers and not just streamers. Watched a little bit of their lives and their virtual models and the body tracking of their movements were impressive. It

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