Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 201, Section 198: The Great Demon King, the Ambitious One. Shimamura Yuna!
These foreigners' praise made Shimamura Yuna's fans ecstatic.

They actually wanted to praise Shimamura Yuna, but they didn't dare to say it.

I'm afraid of being scolded if I say it out loud, afraid that people will say that Shimamura Yuna's fans love taking out loans, or that Shimamura Yuna is a CJB (a derogatory term for someone who engages in illegal activities).

However, this boasting is not something we're doing.

That's something foreigners are bragging about.

This is something that people from so many countries around the world are praising together.

Americans are praising it, British are praising it, French are praising it—everywhere is praising it.

People's eyes are sharp.

Now that things have come to this, you can't still insist that it's just our Shimamura Yuna fans talking nonsense, can you?

You can't say we're just bragging, can you?

This is irrefutable evidence!
Our Shimamura-san is truly an international star!
If you disagree when your own people say Shimamura is awesome, then you can't disagree when foreigners say the same thing, can you?

As a result, many people began to express their feelings in the comments section of these videos.

[Sigh, foreigners are so direct. If you play well, they immediately call you the world's best top laner. They only care about performance.]

To be fair, since the year isn't over yet, it's hard to say what the results will be, but with Shimamura's current performance, calling her the world's best top laner isn't an exaggeration, is it?

[I still don't think CFO can beat GENG, but I'm optimistic about Shimamura's performance. I think there's really no one who can compete with Shimamura Yuna for the title of the world's best top laner right now.]

[It's true, right? Shimamura's performance right now is really phenomenal, isn't it? In the last two or three years, I feel like apart from Zeus in S13, no one can compare to Shimamura, right? I even feel that Zeus doesn't have the same impact on me as Shimamura right now.]

Personally, watching Shimamura's matches gives me just as much of a feeling as watching TheShy back in the day. TheShy was truly refreshing back then, and Shimamura gave me a similar experience.

Yuna Shimamura gives off such a wonderful vibe.

These fans in China are so lucky to have become fans of Yuna Shimamura, and lucky that they started following her even before she became so popular.

However, the more this topic is discussed, the more some Chinese fans feel it's a bit of a pity.

I just felt that way.
How can such a wonderful girl, who is also very friendly to her Chinese fans, not be Chinese?
It's like painting a dragon but not adding the eyes; it feels like it's missing a little bit of its soul.

So, everyone started to sigh.

[Sigh, if only Shimamura-san were really Chinese. Shimamura-san has won so much, only losing on one point, and that is her nationality.]

Actually, she didn't lose. In the Chinese market, Japanese girls are not a debuff. In fact, in the early stages of her hype, they can increase the speed at which she expands her influence. It just limits the upper limit of her influence. After all, outsiders can never compare to their own people, unless Shimamura has Nara or Shimamura Eileen.

Overall, Japanese girls are a double-edged sword in the country, with both advantages and disadvantages.

However, in the international market, Japanese girls are a pure positive influence.

After all, foreigners definitely prefer Japanese girls to Chinese girls.

This further demonstrates that Shimamura-san is still focused on marketing to her domestic fans. Some Japanese girls, if they can avoid the domestic market, will avoid it altogether; as soon as there's even the slightest hint of success, they immediately cut ties with it.

Some companies, despite having a much larger domestic market, will immediately abandon the domestic market if they can access overseas markets.

There's no need to explain what these people's backgrounds are.

But Shimamura-san, although she has opened a Twitter account, it seems that her old man is the only one using it, and she hasn't posted any messages in a long time.

Shimamura-san's live streams are all conducted in China.

For domestic audiences, Shimamura's sincerity speaks for itself.

[That's true, she's almost never done any promotion on foreign websites. If it were some other hostess VTuber, if she had her popularity on foreign websites, she would probably have run to foreign websites like a lapdog, and then reluctantly returned to broadcasting on Chinese websites after finding that she wasn't popular there.]

This has never happened to Shimamura-san before.

It's clear that as these posts and content from foreign websites are transmitted back to China, the mainstream opinion of Shimamura-san in China has now become one of "loyalty."

That's right, it's loyalty.

This loyalty isn't directed at anyone else, but at our fans in China.

No matter how many fans they have abroad or how popular they are on foreign websites, they maintain their original attitude in China and do not become indifferent to domestic audiences because of their popularity on foreign websites.

How could the audience not like her when she's so loyal?
However, some people have objections to this.

However, I feel that Shimamura Yuna is just indifferent to all the live stream viewers equally; all she cares about are the results and the competition.

Look at how many silly things she did in her early live streams, showing no regard for the audience.

He suddenly disappeared during a live stream, then didn't stream for ten days without explaining anything to his viewers.

Before that, he would stop broadcasting every few days, becoming the founder of the "one day on, one day off" model in the live streaming industry.

Also, when she first started streaming, she was full of energy and talked on and on like Da Sima every day, which was quite interesting. But during the period when she was about to stop streaming, she became completely dead. Every time I opened the live stream, she would play high-level games without saying a word. Apart from the leather suit hanging in the lower right corner, I didn't even know she was a female streamer.

They can't even be called streamers.

Have you ever heard of a broadcaster who doesn't say a word at all?

She's been criticized at least two or three times for her attitude during live streams, right? Have you seen her care at all?
Moreover, when she first announced her move to a professional gaming career, I guessed that she probably wouldn't be streaming much anymore.

I know that some of Shimamura Yuna's fans might say that Shimamura-san is busy, so she doesn't do live streams.

What, are you the only professional player in the world, and the only one who's busy? I see plenty of professional players who make time to stream every day. She started as a streamer and is still under contract with Bilibili, but she doesn't stream at all. She clearly doesn't care about streaming.

She isn't actually loyal to her Chinese fans; she simply treats all viewers as tools to achieve her personal ambitions.
They're all just tools. What's the difference between foreign and Chinese tools to her? They're all just things that waste my time and energy, dragging me down.

Of course, she treated everyone with the same coldness.

The person who posted this comment is actually a veteran player in Shimamura Yuna's live stream.

He had been following Shimamura Yuna since before she started playing professionally and was just a small-time VTuber.

At the time, he was angry every day because Shimamura Yuna didn't care about her live streams. In the end, none of his demands were met, and Shimamura Yuna transformed into a well-known professional player with an excellent reputation.

This really frustrated him.

I can't help but come out and slander Shimamura Yuna at this moment.

His slander wasn't entirely useless; indeed, many people shared the same sentiments as Shimamura Yuna's attitude towards her livestream fans, which resonated to some extent.

It's true, I really feel that Shimamura is one of the least concerned about fans among all the popular professional players. How many highly popular players would completely ignore their fans? Even Faker says things like "the championship belongs to the fans," but Shimamura seems to have never said anything like that.

Moreover, she has stated explicitly on several occasions that she uses live streaming as a stepping stone to pursue a professional career.

[Shimamura-san really is that kind of person; anyone who's been watching her streams knows that. As a streamer, it's definitely a flaw, but as a professional player, it seems like it has its merits.]

However, it must be said that Shimamura Yuna's previous lack of attention to live streaming did indeed resonate strongly with those who were questioning her at this time.

Everyone thinks she is a very self-centered person at heart.

He's someone who treats his fans like tools.

However, as some people have said.

For a streamer, not caring about or cultivating a fanbase is a black mark.

But for professional players, this is an advantage.

Moreover, what these people said is only half right.

Yuna Shimamura is indeed someone who intentionally uses her fans, yet doesn't seem to care much about live streams or interact with them.

Compared to some people who intentionally cultivate fans or even nurture the purity of their fanbase, she is indeed rather aloof.

But to say that she hates fans is a complete fabrication.

She always strives to meet the expectations of her fans in every competition.

Every time she sees her fans being slandered, she feels it's her fault for not doing well academically.

It's not that she doesn't care about her fans; she simply doesn't care about live streaming.

However, at this moment, this persona of 'not caring' and 'being pragmatic' will not become a negative tag for her.

On the contrary, it makes her seem cool.

After all, the winner is always right.

Strong people are cool no matter what they do.

That's right, that's the kind of feeling Shimamura Yuna gives off.

What, you're indifferent to your fans?
Is the company not paying attention to marketing?
Could this be considered a black mark?
Isn't Shimamura incredibly cool?
In order to make it onto the professional stage, he tried his best to please the audience during the early live streams.

However, once they enter the professional arena, they immediately stop paying attention to the viewers during live streams and no longer put in much effort for them.

Instead, they devote themselves entirely to their competition, resorting to any means necessary to achieve results.
Isn't this the typical character design of a villain in animation who is highly efficient and goal-oriented?

In addition, given Shimamura Yuna's previous revelation that all her family members had died, and her own struggle with depression, people can fully understand her motivation to achieve good results.

In an instant, the character of this beautiful, strong, and tragic villain was created.

Yes, the person who initially started the narrative that Shimamura Yuna didn't care about her fans actually harbored some resentment towards Shimamura.

But unexpectedly, his actions actually helped build up Shimamura Yuna's public image.

A beautiful, strong, and tragic young female villain—is there a cooler character design than this?
Then, in this situation, Shimamura Yuna gradually transformed into an ambitious persona on the internet, someone who was purposeful in everything she did and had a clear sense of purpose in everything she did.

She started doing live streams in the early days to attract fans.

Recruiting fans is a way to generate buzz for oneself, which makes it easier for the team to sign contracts.

After signing the contract, I stopped managing my fanbase because I needed to focus on the competition and didn't want to waste too much time on other things.

The reason for not interacting with foreign fans is that I feel it's meaningless for achieving results; it's better to practice more than to cultivate a fanbase.

In short, everything Shimamura Yuna did was purposeful; nothing she did was purely altruistic.

Her goal is to become a professional League of Legends player and a world champion. She's willing to do anything for that goal, and once she achieves it, she'll put all that aside.

Everyone imagined Shimamura Yuna coldly ignoring her fans, then saying like a villain, "After all, no matter how much I try to please you, it's of absolutely no use to my grades."

Doesn't anyone find this kind of ambitious family persona with a strong sense of purpose cool?
Of course it's cool!

That's so cool, so incredibly handsome.

Actually, this kind of persona sounds a bit far-fetched, and some people don't really believe it.

After all, this is a huge departure from Shimamura Yuna's previous persona.

Previously, Shimamura Yuna gave the impression of being a pure and innocent Japanese girl.

He doesn't get caught up in controversies and is humble. Apart from playing in matches, he rarely causes any off-field trouble. He says he doesn't stream much anymore, but he has never disgusted his fans or shown any disrespect to them.

After winning the championship last time, the content he did on his live stream was quite good, and he interacted well with his fans.

This sudden reversal of Shimamura Yuna's character, revealing that she's not a naive and innocent girl, but rather a deeply ambitious and cunning individual.
This has a bit of an unofficial history feel to it, and the unofficial part is just rubbish.

However, an unknown BILIBILI employee claimed that BILI offered Shimamura Yuna a raise to allow her to stream longer, but Shimamura Yuna refused, citing "streaming is too troublesome," and did not switch platforms to sign with other streaming platforms that offer higher salaries.

The timing of this revelation is too coincidental.

Furthermore, numerous details and testimonies from other relevant individuals have subsequently emerged.

'What he said is true.'

This aligns to some extent with the widely circulated theory online that "Shimamura Yuna is an ambitious person."

Putting aside everything else...
At least in order not to affect your energy for playing games, you're too lazy to even ask for a big contract, and you're too lazy to even deal with money, is that true?
Doesn't this prove that you're someone who's genuinely willing to sacrifice things for good grades?

It's still a bit of a stretch.

However, because Shimamura Yuna is so ambitious, she said that the contrast was too strong and it was really good for the show.

Everyone is willing to believe what they want to believe, and sometimes, whether the evidence is reliable or not is not important.

As a result, the related news spread very quickly.

Soon, a large number of works related to this appeared on Bilibili.

Basically, it involves photoshopping Shimamura Yuna's head onto classic scenes of ambitious villains from anime, and then changing the dialogue.

(End of this chapter)