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Ado
Ado held paid-member-only concerts on October 24 and October 25, 2026 at Yoyogi National Stadium First Gymnasium, her first ticketed fan club events, with tickets issued through TixPlus and face-recognition entry. No further Ado activity appears in the most recent stories.
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10h ago
Ado's coverage in this period is one story: a pair of paid-member-only concerts on October 24 and October 25, 2026 at Yoyogi National Stadium First Gymnasium. The dates are tied to her official fan site Ado no Dokidoki Himitsu Kichi, and tickets are issued through the TixPlus app, available only to members. Both shows use face-recognition entry. Ticket holders who can no longer attend are directed to the official resale service TixPlus Trade, open from October 9 to October 13.
The story describes a shift in how the fan club works. Until now it was a content channel. Routing paid tickets through TixPlus, adding face-recognition entry, and opening an official resale window turns it into a ticketing layer. The resale service is brought in to push back on unauthorized resale. Beyond those two dates, the cluster contains nothing else about Ado. Other stories in the same period concern other artists, publishers, and games, and do not mention her.
So the current picture is narrow and settled. Two shows at Yoyogi First Gymnasium, members only, ticketed through the app, entry by face recognition, resale handled through TixPlus Trade between October 9 and October 13. No further Ado plans appear in the stories provided.
Key facts
- Concert dates
- October 24 and October 25, 2026 ↗
- Venue
- Yoyogi National Stadium First Gymnasium ↗
- Audience
- Paid members only, tied to the official fan site Ado no Dokidoki Himitsu Kichi ↗
- Ticketing
- Tickets issued through the TixPlus app and sold to members ↗
- Entry method
- Face-recognition entry at both dates ↗
- Resale
- Official resale through TixPlus Trade from October 9 to October 13 ↗
Timeline
- Oct 14, 2026 Kadokawa's Young Ace Apologizes Over Unauthorized Character Designs
- Oct 14, 2026 Hasegawa Reveals Completed Sample Of Su-33 Flanker-D Kit From Ace Combat 8
- Oct 13, 2026 Masashi Kishimoto Returns With New Naruto Shadow Rising Manga
- Oct 11, 2026 FREEing Reopens Orders for Homura Akemi Bunny Ears Figure
- Oct 11, 2026 Marvel and Kadokawa Launch Five Manga on KadoComi
- Oct 11, 2026 Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond Pop-Up Store Runs At Shibuya109 From October 24
- Oct 11, 2026 Masashi Kishimoto to Launch Naruto: Shadow Rising Manga
- Oct 10, 2026 Romankey's 1/12 Super-Posable Female Body Mia Brown Skin Ver. Opens Preorders At AmiAmi
- Oct 9, 2026 Shadow Of The Road Delayed To March 2027
- Oct 9, 2026 All of Us Are Dead Creator Dong-geun Joo Talks Zombies And Adaptations
- Oct 9, 2026 Chiikawa Film Drops To #4, Star Detective Precure! Slips To #5 In Japan
- Oct 9, 2026 Kadokawa Shows Full Metal Panic Arbalest Test Shot At All Japan Model & Hobby Show
- Oct 9, 2026 Cities: Skylines Adds Mansions & Manors and Holiday Getaways on October 28
- Oct 9, 2026 Ado Sets Paid-Member-Only Shows at Yoyogi First Gymnasium for October
- Oct 9, 2026 US Labor Department Halts PERM Processing at Microsoft, Adobe and Six Other Firms
- Oct 9, 2026 Madoka Magica Walpurgisnacht Rising Sets North America Screenings For January 16 To 19
- Oct 8, 2026 Cities: Skylines Expanded Edition Heads To Switch 2 On October 29
- Oct 7, 2026 Kadokawa Releases Kokoro Make Cosmetica Volume 1 With Tomoe Shirayuki Obi
- Oct 6, 2026 MAYLA Reopens Pre-Orders For Madoka Magica Ear Objects Set
- Oct 6, 2026 MAYLA Reopens Pre-Orders For Madoka Magica Ring Set
- Oct 5, 2026 Veteran Writer Rik Godwin Joins Beyond Good and Evil 2 in Support Role
- Oct 5, 2026 Adobe's CREATOR KITCHEN Opens Season 3 With Kondo Haruki Returning
- Oct 5, 2026 Paradox Overhauls Crusader Kings III Religion In Free Crozier Update
- Oct 5, 2026 Acacia Casts Kana Hanaiwa as Aoba Kira in Magical Girl Norin Village
- Oct 4, 2026 Magia Exedra Opens Original Series Magical Girl Sorana Magica on October 4
- Oct 4, 2026 Mega Hobby EXPO 2026 Packs Akihabara With New Figures Under F-DASH Theme
- Oct 4, 2026 Sentenced to Be a Hero Game Reveals Second Teaser and Two Original Characters
- Oct 4, 2026 Bishōjo shika Inai Seitokai Novel Gets Manga Adaptation by Tarara
- Oct 4, 2026 Paradox Live Adds Team ILLGATOR For Fourth Season Arc
- Oct 4, 2026 Nia Liston Anime Adds Four Cast Members Ahead Of October 6 Premiere
Synthesized by Yomimono from the cited Yomimono stories below, each itself
sourced, then editorially reviewed. Every
fact links the story it came from.
Facts
- Announced
- paid-member-only concerts on October 24 and October 25, 2026 at Yoyogi National Stadium First Gymnasium · 2026-10-09
- Announced
- streaming a live gameplay session of 'Silent Hill f' on August 21 at 8 PM JST · 2026-08-19
- Noted
- Tickets are issued through the TixPlus app and go on sale to members. · 2026-10-09
- Noted
- The two dates adopt face-recognition entry. · 2026-10-09
- Noted
- Holders who can no longer attend are directed to the official resale service TixPlus Trade from October 9 to October 13. · 2026-10-09
- Noted
- Ado's songs are used in a bath product line. · 2026-09-07
- Noted
- appears in the documentary · 2026-08-29
- Noted
- streamed the game on YouTube · 2026-07-16
- Noted
- quote-reposted the comments, saying she was so happy. · 2026-08-20
- Noted
- It is her first time with the series. · 2026-08-19
- Noted
- She said she likes 'Higurashi no Naku Koro ni' and is looking forward to it. · 2026-08-19
- Noted
- produced by Ado · 2026-08-14
- Noted
- signed a contract with William Morris Endeavor · 2026-06-23
- Noted
- 2025 world tour drew over 500,000 people across 33 cities · 2026-06-23
- Release
- music_video · 2026-08-21 · 2026-08-21
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Oct 4
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Oct 4
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Oct 3
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Oct 3
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Oct 3
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Oct 3
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Oct 2
Cygames announced on October 2, 2026 that it has become a supporting sponsor of the ice dance team formed by figure skaters Shoma Uno and Marin Honda. The pair, known as Shomarin, formed the team in May 2026 and are training daily with the goal of competing at the 2030 Olympics in the French Alps. Cygames says it will back the two skaters' competitive activities. Uno is also a professional gamer affiliated with the VARREL esports team and appeared in a June 2026 commercial for Cygames' Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond. Honda works as a sports caster and actor and launched her own cosmetics brand, Luarine, in 2026. The team is scheduled to begin entering competitions in fall 2026.
Oct 1
Kadokawa and Marvel Comics have launched a joint project called MARVEL | KADOKAWA, announced at the MARVEL FANFARE panel at San Diego Comic-Con on July 25, 2026. The first wave will consist of five titles, with two confirmed so far. Spider-Man is drawn by tokitokoro, who previously worked on Jeff the Land Shark for Marvel Comics. Its protagonist is Haruto Hachidori, a male high school student living in Shibuya who suddenly gains spider powers and swings through the city while a shadow lurking beneath it begins to move. Spider-Gwen is handled by Ryusei Yamada, who drew Captain Marvel illustrations for MARVEL SWIMSUIT SPECIAL. Its story follows Gwen Stacy, a high school student and drummer in the band Mary Janes, who gains powers after a radioactive spider bite in a laboratory and protects the city as Spider-Woman. Both Japanese titles remain undecided. Both works will begin serialization on Kadokawa's KadoComi service within 2026, with collected volumes planned afterward.
Sep 28
Chapter 2, Episode 84 of the web comic Super Robot Wars OG: The Inspector - Record of ATX is now available on Dengeki Hobby Web. Titled Shadow Mirror 3, the episode shows Lemon recalling her past, when Vindel scouted her into the Shadow Mirror while she was developing the W Series. It also covers the unit's internal conflict and Vindel's rise to third-generation commander.