Beyond the big agencies, Japan has thousands of independent ("kojin-sei") VTubers streaming to tiny audiences — singing, gaming, chatting, drawing. No manager, no marketing team, just one person and their avatar. Finding them early means your support truly reaches them.
This site discovers new channels every week from public YouTube data. Every channel listed here has fewer than 10,000 subscribers. Your one subscription genuinely changes their day.
Tips for non-Japanese speakers: "utawaku" (singing streams) and gaming streams need little Japanese to enjoy. Auto-translated live captions on YouTube help a lot. A simple comment in English is almost always welcomed — many indies dream of overseas fans.