Shoto

Shxtou^[1](birthday: July 24), better known online as Shoto, is a Vietnamese-American independent VTuber who predominantly streams on Twitch.^[2]

Content

His first video was uploaded on September 30, 2020, and most of his videos consisted of highlights from his Twitch streams. A lot of his videos consists of popular game-content.

Collaborations

He has a number of collaborations with Luxiem and other Vtubers, as well as many other streamers. He has played Phasmophobia with Bao, Finana, Shiki and Reimu. Shiki, Shoto, Bao and Reimu have also played RAFT.^[3] He has played Valorant with Shu and Minase.^[4]

Bao calls Shoto her little brother and has taught him Vietnamese.^[5]

He has covered Summertime - cinnamons × evening cinema with yuureiyure.^[6]

Design

His illustrator is 粥^[7] and his rigger is Cetra.^[8][9] He shares his illustrator with Frost, girl dm, Senz, Nagi Quetzalli and Artemis of the Blue.

Lore

"From the demonic capital comes a young boy who bears the weight of the world and one cold night is birthed the true bane of all demons."

Shoto was born with magic powers and a God's blessing at the Bakumori village. Being Bakumori a place founded by demons, the people on it worshiped them and, as such, Shoto was taught the arts, techniques and history of Bakumori, for which he didn't seem to have much interest in at first, as he dreamt of following his father's steps and become a baker. Shoto didn't get to fulfill such dream as he would later become a demon slayer.

Treated as an outcast because of the God's blessing he had been given, Shoto had few friends while growing up. His best friend was a boy named Ether, who, besides being an outlander coming from another village in the North of Bakumori, also possessed magic, with no talent for it nor any God's blessing whatsoever. As they were complete opposites, they were also the only ones who could understand each other the best, being Shoto the one to teach him many things regarding magic mostly, they decided to leave the village together in the future.

One day, as per usual in the Bakumori village, the gate to the demon's realm opened in a common ritual that occurred in a full winter moon, yet the people of Bakumori was not greeted with wisdom or blessings, but an army that went out to kill relentlessly the people of the village. At that time, Shoto took Ether's hand and ran away from Bakumori and it's slaughtered people, thinking they would be able to make it out of it together at last. Their destiny, however, was to meet a mysterious demon that put a spell on Shoto, letting him in a trance, giving the demon the chance to stab them both, abandoning them after thinking they would eventually die in the cold of the night out in the woods. However, Shoto came back from the spell and tried to save Ether, pulling him along to a shrine where Shoto, being blessed by the Gods as he was, pleaded them to help him and his friend, to which a God responded by healing Shoto, yet letting Ether to die, eventually turning him into a cursed knife that would later become Shoto's company as he began travelling the world to fulfill his new goal to slay demons and avenge his friend.

Controversy

Falling out with Hiroshi Murasaki

Shoto and Hiroshi used to be friends. However on January 28, 2022, he tweeted "When Shoto unfollowed me for no reason, saying I was doing fanart he wasn't comfortable with (he liked'em before), I thought I made a mistake and apologized. Then he unfollowed Senz, some Nijis, and now even Merry, so I realized he's a conceited braggart w/ no respect for people."^[10]

However, their mutual friends, such as Dya Rikku, said that Hiroshi was overreacting and he shouldn't give social media follows a lot of importance.^[11] Senz stated "Please leave me out of this. Shoto is allowed to follow and unfollow who he wants, on twitter a follow does NOT mean friendship, I didn't take it personally at all, nor should you. You're allowed to be upset about what you want, you're your own person, pls leave me out of it".^[12]

Personal life

He is of Southern Vietnamese descent.^[13]

He is bisexual.^[14][15][16]

Quotes

• "As a bisexual, some days you just wake up feeling a lot gayer than other days. Anyone else get what I mean?"^[17]

Twitter hashtags

• #ArtoftheRogue - Fan art
• #Shxtou - Clips tag

Trivia

• He is 5'9" tall.
• His fans are known as "Guildies".
• He knows some Vietnamese but cannot speak it fluently.^[18]

References