ASTERISK VTuber Music Event Returns After 6 Years at Virtual Sanrio Puroland
The 2020 *ASTERISK ran as a streamed video event; staging the revival inside a Sanrio-run VRChat park with a physical-company subsidiary producing it puts a corporate VR venue, not a streaming platform, at the center of a VTuber live.
Key Facts
- *ASTERISK in Virtual Sanrio Puroland is scheduled for Saturday, December 12, 2026.
- The event is the first *ASTERISK since the original online live on December 30, 2020.
- Virtual Sanrio Puroland, the venue, is a permanent VRChat theme park that Sanrio opened in December 2025.
- Up Land organizes the event with cooperation from Sanrio and its subsidiary Gugenka, and plans separate VRChat viewing tickets and online streaming tickets.
Reporting from 2 sources: KAI-YOU, PANORA.
Up Land, the operator of VTuber agencies including .LIVE, will hold "*ASTERISK in Virtual Sanrio Puroland" on Saturday, December 12, 2026, six years after the original *ASTERISK online live in 2020. This edition happens inside Virtual Sanrio Puroland, the permanent virtual theme park Sanrio runs on VRChat, with 10 VTubers split across two shows. The first show features Dennou Shoujo Shiro, Carlo Pino, Tooboe Kyan, Zakuro Shiro and Yoshika. The second features Kagura Suzu, Mokota Mememe, Gurenbatsu Maru, Kagura Nana and Jinsei Tsumiko. Performers come from .LIVE and Vpi plus four VTubers outside Up Land. Sanrio and its subsidiary Gugenka, the XR company, are cooperating on the production. Part of the park will be rearranged with an *ASTERISK theme, and an original stage built for the day will be installed. Some performances will use outfits from wearverse, Up Land's metaverse apparel brand. Tickets for viewing inside VRChat and separate online streaming tickets are planned, with prices and sales dates to be announced on the official X account and the special website.
The 2020 edition ran on December 30 and brought together 11 VTubers, among them Dennou Shoujo Shiro, Mokota Mememe, Inuyama Tamaki and Hanabashi Kyou, crossing agency lines. Six years later the lineup keeps that cross-agency shape: 10 performers across two shows, drawn from .LIVE and Vpi plus four VTubers from outside Up Land.
- First show: Dennou Shoujo Shiro, Carlo Pino, Tooboe Kyan, Zakuro Shiro and Yoshika
- Second show: Kagura Suzu, Mokota Mememe, Gurenbatsu Maru, Kagura Nana and Jinsei Tsumiko
Virtual Sanrio Puroland opened in December 2025 and runs around the clock, 365 days a year, reachable from anywhere. For this event part of that world is redressed in *ASTERISK style, and a stage built for the day sits inside it. Gugenka is producing the event alongside Up Land, with Sanrio cooperating.
Streaming tickets exist so people without a VRChat setup can watch on a PC or smartphone, the same way a regular online live works. Up Land describes the revival as rebuilding *ASTERISK on a new stage, VRChat, at larger scale than 2020. Some sets will use wearverse outfits, and the company has not said which VTuber wears which. wearverse is a VRChat apparel brand that Up Land plans to extend from clothing into avatars and worlds.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.