Starting as a Manga Editor-Chapter 135: A Character from What Game?

Su Deqiang was a bit confused.
Is this some kind of new voice actor experiment?
Before he could react.
Rin Tohsaka in the video suddenly leaned forward, her elegant face pushing close to the camera, as if she’d noticed the lens: “Huh? What’s this? Hmm… you over there, junior!”
“…?”
Su Deqiang instinctively raised his right index finger and pointed at himself.
Me?
Wait, no.
This is a video.
Realizing how dumb he looked, Su Deqiang quickly put his hand down.
But the lifelike Rin Tohsaka in the video didn’t stop. Instead, she placed one hand on her hip, looked straight at the camera, her voice clear and full of energy, carrying her signature haughty tone, pointed right at the screen, and said, “Yes, I mean you. You’re a Master too, right? Tell me what’s going on.”
Su Deqiang: “……”
No.
That motion, that demeanor, that expression, that reaction, that scene.
AWSL…
At that moment, a bullet comment popped up.
Probably because the video had just gone live, there weren’t many comments yet, but this one must’ve been among the first and so it stood out.
“Woke up too hard, saw a living, breathing Rin Tohsaka!”
Su Deqiang saw the comment and also felt like he’d woken up too hard…
He hesitated for a moment, then chose to refresh the page and replay the video.
Sure enough.
A flood of dense, overwhelming comments surged out.
All freshly posted.
“？”
“Not a voice actor?”
“Holy sh*t! It’s Rin Tohsaka! Alive!”
“Huh??? Playing it like this?”
“That performance, unbeatable!!”
“Hahaha, is this what they call breaking the fourth wall? No way! Who’s the genius?! They got a game character to play the new version of the game?”
“Whoa… so this is the voice! Totally matches the first impression! Who’s the voice actor? Sounds amazing.”
“……”
Clearly.
This thing caught everyone off guard!
Everyone thought the mysterious guest would just be some voice actor…
No one expected… Avalon Studio to play it this way, letting a game character appear directly!
This guest really was mysterious enough!
They outright said it in the promo! Said it was Rin Tohsaka and delivered Rin Tohsaka!
But…
Huh?
Players stared at the lively Rin Tohsaka on screen, stunned and surprised.
What is this, game visuals dropped straight into a video?
Wait, this actually works!?
But seriously though, she’s so cute!!!
She called us junior…
Can’t deny it.
Players really dig this stuff.
If it’s just a voice actor, they might watch and that’s it.
But you throw in a game character, and not just any, but a black stockings bishoujo that everyone loves—that hits different.
Like, how does this game company get players so well!?
At the same time.
Looking at the flood of bullet comments, Su Deqiang finally felt the reality of it. He watched Rin Tohsaka on screen, who had lowered her hand and muttered, “Forget it, it’s just work anyway, as long as I get it done, this is all the Clock Tower’s fault,” his eyes full of awe.
And the video officially started.
To be honest… it was just a regular game promo video.
Besides the intro and a bit of lore, emphasizing Rin Tohsaka’s ‘relationship’ with the player.
They used the setting of the Clock Tower from the TYPE-MOON universe to justify Rin Tohsaka appearing in the video, which made it a bit more reasonable, but the rest was just straight-up game promotion.
Rin Tohsaka’s image quickly shrank into the lower right corner of the screen, while the main focus shifted to the game footage.
But Su Deqiang… or rather all the viewers, felt different!
Even though deep down they knew someone was playing the role.
It still felt like… a character from a virtual world stepped out and started interacting with them.
After all, Tang Yao strictly followed the character setting to the letter.
There was no sign of someone playing pretend—it was pure virtual YouTuber level… No other VTuber even comes close; they still need to create a character. She didn’t even need that.
In that moment.
The person playing the game, in the audience’s eyes… was Rin Tohsaka!
Because when she drew the Moon Goddess Craft Essence, she’d shout, “How can they put something like that on the card!?” looking all flustered, and even closed the gacha screen way faster.
When she saw the Graceful card with Tokiomi Tohsaka on the cover, she fell silent, looking totally downcast.
And when it came to the Book of False Loyalty with Shinji Matou as the main character, her reaction was even more direct.
“Disgusting.”
When she dropped that line and swiftly deleted the Craft Essence from the game menu.
Su Deqiang couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
The experience it brought! Was just so unique! Unlike watching real celebrities or streamers.
The audience already knew all about the character’s setting, her backstory—it gave them an incredibly strong… sense of familiarity and companionship.
She’s the female lead of a fantasy battle series, a character known for her courage and complexity.
She’s got tons of auras—school’s untouchable flower, heir to the Tohsaka mage family, daughter of Tokiomi Tohsaka, a mage with top-tier magic talent, always composed and graceful.
But in the video, she showed every bit of what makes her an ordinary girl. She got confused, she had her own ups and downs, got shy over the Moon Goddess card art, got quiet over her dad’s card, and openly showed disgust when she didn’t like something.
And then.
When the video hit the later stage, during a new version level, and she couldn’t clear it due to the wrong Servant setup.
Rin Tohsaka in the lower right corner even made a super embarrassed expression.
When that classic “Meme Face Rin” showed up.
“Eh……”
“Hahahahaha……”
Su Deqiang couldn’t help but laugh out loud, refreshing the page again.
She’s just too adorable!
Sure enough.
Even though not much time had passed, the comment section was overflowing!
“Hahaha, broadcast fail!!”
“That meme face killed me!”
“Her reactions are sooo cute!!!”
“I love that expression! Why isn’t it in the game?!”
“Screenshot! I’m gonna post this every time I hear something I don’t wanna hear!”
“Hahahahaha, that reaction was too real!”
“……”
Barely twenty minutes.
Su Deqiang refreshed the page twice, and there was no lack of comments at all after that.
Which meant… everyone watching the video was dropping bullet comments!
He glanced at the comment count—it had only been a few hundred earlier.
But now… it had passed ten thousand!
In under twenty minutes!
Shows just how fired up the viewers were!
In the latter half of the video, it was mostly new stages and event previews. Since it involved a new version, of course they couldn’t show everything, but it was still super entertaining.
Because Rin Tohsaka in the video kept roasting game mechanics, the devs, even the production staff.
And every roast hit the mark!
At least all the jabs at game systems and plot points were spot on.
When the game mechanics that players usually complained about came out of the character’s mouth… it was just hilarious!
Way more fun than anime commentary tracks! I mean, even commentary tracks have to be careful not to say anything that might hurt disc sales.
But Rin Tohsaka? She had zero filter—she even said stuff like, “As everyone knows, the Holy Grail War is held in secret, so blowing up cities and stuff is totally normal.”
When she made those comments.
Bullet comments exploded.
That sharp tongue of hers was just too cute!
And it didn’t feel like something a random character would say, so clearly the person behind it was both a fan and a player, otherwise they wouldn’t know this much!
Su Deqiang wore a silly grin the whole time, until the video ended, the game footage faded out, and the full-body character image appeared to say goodbye while promoting the game’s Observer Route.
Only then did he snap out of it.
How much of the game content did he even remember?
Basically nothing.
In the latter half.
He was too focused on watching Rin Tohsaka in the corner—her expressions, her roasts…
So he watched it again.
And those twenty minutes… felt so long.
By the time he finished the second round, his face was practically stiff from smiling.
“That was really a surprise… so fun. This format is just too fun!”
Su Deqiang rubbed his sore cheeks, still feeling like he hadn’t had enough.
He looked more closely and realized… the video was actually uploaded by an individual UP主!
He clicked in.
The UP主’s name was Rin Tohsaka… and in just thirty minutes, the account had gained nearly a hundred thousand followers! Thirty minutes! And the comment and like counts were growing insanely fast!
Clearly, at least the FGO players were loving this video!
Is this considered a debut as a UP主?
Su Deqiang gave an unsurprised smile and clicked the video again, scrolling to the comments. The top-liked comment had over ten thousand likes:
“Woke up too hard, saw a living Rin Tohsaka!!!”
Below it were thousands of replies:
“So much fun!”
“Her expression when she failed just now had me howling.”
“I’m a 6’2” dude rolling on the bed like a maggot…”
“Rin: Disgusting. Delete it!”
“Wifey wifey!!!”
“Avalon really gets players! I wanna know if there’ll be more videos like this! The account’s already up, why not post a few more?”
“I want more! Give me more videos like this! Next time bring in Dumb King! I wanna see her meme face and hear her roast people!”
“Even I’m a girl and I’m crushing on her, she’s too cute! Wait, not a player—is this a character from a mobile game?”
“……”
All sorts of messy comments, all positive.
Su Deqiang liked them all one by one, then exited and looked at the second top comment—one that really piqued his interest.
“Who is the voice actor? Anyone know? The acting is amazing! The voice is beautiful too! But I can’t tell who it is! Doesn’t sound like any big-name VA, but the skills are so good! And the second half was obviously improvised—not something an ordinary VA would dare do! She even roasted Avalon and ANF, saying the top tech guy in FGO is bald, and that the ANF lead is indecisive…”
“And maybe I’m just imagining it, but during the second half, her voice started to sound kinda soft and girly—don’t tell me it’s someone from Avalon themselves?”
Hundreds of replies followed:
“It’s true, there was a soft part—probably forgot she was playing a character while roasting, got carried away. But seriously, the whole thing was amazing!”
“Rumor has it Avalon’s boss is a woman. Someone claimed to be an insider the other day. Said she’s a total bishoujo and even voiced the video herself [doge face].”
“Dream on! You think the boss is voicing this, and is also a gorgeous girl? Come on! If that’s true… I’d cling to her leg immediately! But I bet it’s a gruff dude.”
“Count me in! Rich lady! Gorgeous girl! And can do voice work? Who wouldn’t want to cling to her!”
“Hahaha, stop dreaming. But seriously, amazing VA work! Give us another video like this!”
“……”
Seeing all this, Su Deqiang casually gave it a like too, also curious.
Setting aside the speculation.
There had to be a voice actor behind this character.
But even as an old-school otaku, he couldn’t tell who it was.
The performance was so good, she should be at least somewhat famous.
Maybe a rising star VA.
As for the Avalon boss?
Haha, yeah right.
He laughed to himself as he shared the video in one of his usual group chats.
Good stuff needs to be shared.
Since ANF’s redesign, sharing videos had gotten a lot easier.
And at the same time, many others were doing the same… not just in chats, but across social media too.
This video format was really something new.
Before long.
People started asking.
“Who is this?”
“Game character?”
“A character from what game?”
The video started spreading.
And on the site, the view count… began to soar!
……
At the same time.
Avalon Studio.
Tang Yao’s pretty face was slightly flushed as she stared at the comment section under the video, especially the second top comment… her whole body tensed, wishing she could crawl into a hole.
Because it wasn’t just the viewers.
Everyone at Avalon Studio was also secretly watching her during work hours…
Because they’d kept it such a tight secret, no one in the entire studio had seen the video in advance.
So.
Except for Cai Quan.
They were seeing the mysterious collab video for the first time, just like the public…
Except unlike the audience, they weren’t wondering who the voice actor was—Avalon’s staff were already full-on AWSL…
Can’t be helped.
Tang Yao in real life didn’t talk in that tsundere tone like she did in the video!
That contrast!
Was just too cute!
“Boss.”
At that moment.
Chu Yuxin walked over, holding some concept art: “There’s something…”
“Hm? What is it?”
Tang Yao took a deep breath, forcing herself to stay calm as she looked up, only to see Chu Yuxin’s gaze fall on her tightly pressed, shapely legs.
Clearly, she remembered some of the players’ comments.
Tang Yao slightly shifted her pressed-together, plump and curvy legs, utterly defeated.
If I’d known, I wouldn’t have done it!!!
Seriously!
Why were they so eager to watch the video!? They could’ve at least waited until I got off work to flee!