Babiniku is an abbreviation of "virtual Bishoujo Juniku" or "virtual Bishoujo self Juniku" in Japanese. Also spelled as "virbiniku". It means wearing an avatar of a cute girl, or acting a virtual girl in a virtual space such as VRChat, or acting as a virtual YouTuber or virtual idol. They may change the utterance to a beautiful girl by using a voice changer or devise their way to utter, or use their local voice alone with using a 3-D model or illustration of a beautiful young girl. For example, if an adult male is incarnated, he is called "Babiniku Oji-san". Now the word "Babiniku" is often used as Babiniku Oji-san despite originally wearing a cute avatar by myself. In this case, the "incarnate" means "take the body ", which is different from the "incarnation" of the Christiancatechism.
Origin
In Japanese virtual YouTuber community, the performer is called tamashii, the character's picture or 3-D model is called nikutai, and getting the picture or 3-D model is called juniku in Japanese. The word "incarnation" is derived from what Mito Tsukino said when she got a 3-D model of herself. In the virtual YouTuber community, soul and body are often the same gender. On the other hand, at the end of 2017, "Virtual noja-loli kitsune musume YouTuber Oji-san", which is female in body and male in soul and voice, became popular. She revealed that her soul is male and showed that she can be a beautiful girl character even if she is male, while her appearance and voice remain male. There are also many virtual YouTubers and Babiniku VTubers who began to work after watching her videos. She created a sense of value that it didn't matter if the character was a guy inside as long as the character was cute. Going one step further, Babiniku is not only cute, but also enjoying the gap, which is the presence of a soul and gender mismatch, as one of their content as well. The difference between a normal virtual YouTuber and a babiniku virtual YouTuber is that there are many who admit to the existence of a soul. The difference between Nekama and Babiniku is also there are many who admit to gender mismatch. After the appearance of Noja-oji, popularity of incarnation has subsided except for some movements such as ARu-ko. At the end of May 2018, however, cartoonist The Helpful Fox Senko-san and illustrator Maki-hitsuji introduced a method of moving illustrations through live stream using software called FaceRig and Live2D, which quickly became popular among illustrators. With the help of the fact that many virtual YouTubers were originally illustrators, virtual YouTubers who declared themselves to be "male in spirit" eventually began to gather together and create a community.。In June 2018, a live stream of "Virtual Bishoujo Self Juniku Oji-san Joshi-kai One Night Jinrou" was held, and the title of this movie became the etymology of babiniku. Ma-oh Magurona, who participated in this live broadcast, is regarded as a leading figure among the Babiniku guys due to the high number of her subscribers to the channel and her cuteness.
"Hell"
The notion of "hellish" is often used to describe babiniku in a roundabout way. Actually, When Rimukoro, Maki-hitsuji, Magurona, and Natori Sana were asked "What is Babiniku?" in their interviews, and they all responded, "It's hell". The reasons for this are "they transfer us paraphilia", "deep dark side", and so on. According to Magurona, she titled "Virtual-Girl-Self-Incarnation-Guys Girls Party", which was originally meant to be "a hellish content where guys who have painted themselves and transformed themselves into cute girls get together and enjoy". Over time, the "self" fell out, and the meaning of "a man taking on the body of a cute girl and acting it out" appeared.
Vocalization
It is difficult to convert an ordinary male voice into a female voice by instrumental manipulation alone. It's necessary to keep the female-like voice by using the falsetto or a mixed voice. and the smaller the change in pitch and formant in the voice changer, the more natural the female voice will be. In addition, there are also Babiniku VTubers, such as Takehana Nohto, who speaks in female-like voices without using any voice changers. Not only the voice itself, but also the way to speak and intonation is involved in the femininity of the voice very much.
