Title: My Favorite V-Tuber is Scary IRL Vol. 1
Author: Riyo Yorima
Publisher: Square Enix
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Publication Date: February 24, 2026
The Story
A delivery boy for Eatza Delivery App delivers some food to a giant mammoth of a woman who has a death glare that could destroy nations; however, there is something he realizes on a subsequent delivery, and she thanks him for the food… she has the same voice as his favorite V-Tuber, Fuwari Hanae. Suddenly, she orders more and more food, and one time when he goes to deliver it, she offers him money to be a conversation partner!
The problem is that when the cameras turn off, she has severe social anxiety, and she cannot talk to strangers, or any other human, for that matter. The delivery boy is also in the same boat, but not to her level. He can hold a conversation, but he just prefers not to because he used to be teased for being scrawny as a kid.
What forms here is a bond between this woman and the delivery boy as he does his best to help her overcome her anxiety. The manga ends with her going through her first test… a midnight konbini run! Can she handle it?
Characters
Well, now… this is a very unique situation. When I got to the end of the first volume, I had to try and think about what the characters’ names were… and I drew a blank. Then, it hit me… they were never named at all… and best of all… I didn’t notice it one bit because the story pulled me in so much that I didn’t need to know what their names were.
Since the big girl is, presumably, Fuwari, I’ll just call her that to make it easy, but Fuwari is a shut-in because the last time she tried to interact with the world was when she tried out to be a voice actress. While there, she didn’t get the part, and she heard a lot of people making fun of her size behind her back. This hurt her to the point where she never wanted to interact with the outside world again. Through her stream’s chat, she opened up about her problems, and they encouraged her to pay someone to be a conversation buddy. Since she primarily eats through the Eatza app to avoid human contact at a grocery store, she picked the delivery boy as her target, but her lack of communication skills made every conversation super awkward!
The scowl she wore wasn’t meant to be intimidating, though. She was concentrating hard on how to hold a conversation. Once you realize this, you really feel bad for her, and it’s that emotional attachment to her that makes her so endearing as a main character.
As for the delivery boy, it’s kind of him to keep the fact that he knows she’s his favorite V-Tuber from her. Seeing how she is, he must know that if he spilled the beans, it would cause her a tremendous amount of stress, but he supports Fuwari so much that he made a vow to help her out, no matter what. One would think this would be creepy because it would be an instant excuse to be close to his idol, thus breaching that creepy boundary of a parasocial relationship, but he genuinely cares and wants to help her, which gives this a wholesome vibe to it.
Final Thoughts
This was surprisingly really good for a first volume. At first, I thought from the title it would boil down into a generic comedy of him meeting his V-Tuber idol in real life, only to realize that she was a foul-mouthed, scary person, but it went in a direction that I never saw coming. Instead of falling into expectations that the title would lead you to believe, you end up with a sweet and endearing story of two introverts helping one another out, except one of those introverts has it way worse than the other.
Fuwari is sweet and kind, despite her looks, but she’s also super nervous, and that makes her clumsy. That, of course, leads to a few tropish comedy moments, but they are done very well… such as when she practically knocks him out by hitting him in the back of the head with her, um, right-most supple asset. There were a few overbearing moments, though, such as when she invited him inside and revealed that she bought a futon specifically for him, so that he could spend the night. Of course, there was nothing scandalous about it as she just wanted to spend more time with him and have him around as a conversation buddy, but the execution of it was so awkward, you couldn’t help but see the scenario as anything else but a potential seduction ploy.
It’s misunderstandings like that which serve as this series comedy aspects, and while they are nothing we haven’t seen a million times before, for some reason, they just work here. Another thing that just works is not naming the characters. Again, as I mentioned, I never felt as if I needed to know their names. The story itself took care of everything that I wanted to see from these two, and that is something that is very hard to accomplish, so my hats off to Riyo Yorima for being able to pull that off! In fact, I hope they never get named until the very end when they get together. It would be another great comedic moment where they confess, and suddenly go. “By the way, what’s your name?”
We’ll see how it goes, but so far, this has been a great read, and I want to see more!
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