

There are also 5 VirtuaReal Star and 20 VirtuaReal Link livers on side projects from the VirtuaReal branch, who are independent VTubers not considered part of VirtuaReal per se and are only in a network partner system instead of being members of it, which is why none of those are listed on nijisanji's website. Īs of January 2022, there are 107 Japanese NIJISANJI members, 19 NIJISANJI ID members, 19 NIJISANJI KR members, 15 NIJISANJI EN members and 48 VirtuaReal members (a joint venture chinese branch between Bilibili and ANYCOLOR), totalizing 208 members in five different branches and markets. until May 16, 2021), the group started in Japan in February 2018 and has since 2019 expanded to other countries such as China, Indonesia, South Korea and English speaking markets as an international project. The term Liver, coined by mixing Japanese and English, is a heteronym for calling NIJISANJI's streamers.

NIJISANJI (にじさんじ, stylized in uppercase) is a group of mostly 2D-only Virtual YouTubers who are also known as "Virtual Livers" (バーチャルライバー Bācharu Raibā) when posting on sites outside of YouTube, such as NicoNico Douga, Twitch and Bilibili.
