Uyet Survey Finds 67% of VTubers Face Mental Health Issues
The finding tracks how many streamers keep working through poor health, which puts the spotlight on continuing-activity awareness rather than on the illnesses alone.
KAI-YOU, PANORA
VTuber
Gundam Ace November Issue Bundles GUNDAM x Hololive Cover
The cover illustration and feature pull the hololive production roster into Gundam Ace's monthly lineup, a magazine whose pages stay largely Gundam-focused, so the collaboration is the issue's sales hook rather than another serialization slot.
Dengeki Hobby Web
HIMEHINA Trading Card Vol.2 The World of Parallels Announced
The trading card line is being timed to the final two shows of a world tour that the company describes as the first solo one-man live tour in VTuber history as of March 2026, so the merchandise release doubles as a test of how much of that touring audience converts into physical collectible sales.
Brave group, PANORA
Nanahapi Adds Hoshimu Shalon As Sixth Generation Member
Nanahapi has framed itself around talent-side happiness and entertainment work beyond streaming, and adding a sixth-generation member who arrived from indie activity tests whether that pitch holds for performers who built an audience on their own.
MoguLive
Tobariku Male VTuber Project Sets Debut Stream Relay For September 26
Tobariku's streams will carry hidden clues the audience is meant to chase, so the project is selling four personalities and an ongoing puzzle at once rather than four separate channel launches.
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Shinkai Fest 2026 Completes Lineup With AZKi, YuNi, Fuji Aoi, Moemi
A 100-artist, two-day bill with early-scene V-singers anchored to a single Shibuya hall shows the event slotting into the seasonal calendar as a recurring venue-bound fixture rather than a one-off stream.
KAI-YOU, PANORA
Cover Corporation Reveals Odekake hololive TV Anime Title And 29 Talents
The reveal closes a tease that ran on an abbreviation alone, but it still leaves the schedule and the studio unnamed, so the announcement carries the talent roster and almost nothing a viewer can plan around.
Anime Corner, OtakuKart Anime
Kizuna AI And Tokoroba Hold VRChat Collab After Tokyo Game Show Cancellation
A convention cancellation removed the stage the two were booked for, and the stream moved the planned collab into VRChat itself, where Kizuna AI has been running in-world projects since her July escape run.
KAI-YOU
Ninomae Ina'nis Releases MV for Abyssal Hymn, Closing Out re:VISION Story
The MV completes a story Ninomae Ina'nis has been building across seven songs since "VIOLET" in 2021, and she has pointed fans at the language each song is sung in as the way to read it.
KAI-YOU
OffKai Expo Gen 5 Draws More Than 9,200 Across Three San Jose Venues
OffKai's move into the Civic and South Hall, plus a Western solo debut for HIMEHINA, shows the convention scaling its venue footprint and its booking ambitions at the same time.
VTuber NewsDrop
REJECT Debuts VTuber Capla Libras With First Stream Set For September 22
REJECT is an esports team with a large roster of title divisions and a history at the Esports World Cup, so a streamer recruit under its own name moves the organization further into talent management beyond competitive play.
PANORA
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy Says Vtubing Is Still At An Early Stage
The person running the platform where much of this activity happens is now publicly betting that Vtubing's cost barrier, not its audience, is what holds the category back.
Inside
Idol Manager: Virtual Venture Puts V-Streamers in Charge at Tokyo Game Show 2026
The series that made its name mapping the idol industry's business side is now applying that same agency-management loop to the streamer economy, which turns the demo's money-gated hiring and four audition budget tiers into the story itself.
4Gamer.net
Monimoni DX Takes the Stage at Tokyo Game Show 2026
The lineup at the GALLERIA booth shows how far a two-person Twitch radio project can travel into a major trade show's programming.
Inside
PANORA's VTuber Research Group Runs Eight Episodes, Bar V-Ken Opens September 28
PANORA is converting an eight-episode video conversation into a recurring members-only gathering, which puts the outlet's VTuber coverage into a real-world venue rather than a feed.
PANORA
Street Fighter Movie Dub Cast Talks Ryu, Ken, and Chun-Li at Tokyo Game Show 2026
A Capcom-adjacent game director publicly vouching for the film's fidelity to Street Fighter II's moves is the kind of endorsement the live-action adaptation needs to win over a Japanese audience that has watched this franchise stumble on screen before.
Inside
Kawakami Sangyo Brings Wider ONE-Z And Laplus Air Purifier To TGS2026
Kawakami Sangyo is treating the show floor as a demo space for the practical parts of soundproof rooms, texture, assembly, and how much noise they actually block, while the Tokyo Game Show booth also becomes a venue for testing Laplus Darkness and Sharp collaborations still short of a product release.
4Gamer.net
ONLive 2026 Returns to Pasig with Expanded Local VTuber Roster
ONLive, which began in San Juan City in 2023 and moved to Quezon City in 2024 before settling at the Bayanihan Center, continues as a physical venue for local VTubers to reach audiences beyond their streams, and the 2026 edition adds new participants to its main stage segments.
VTuber NewsDrop
NanoShinku Sets "Starlight Tribute" Live For October 17 And 18
NanoShinku is spreading a single live across a solo-part relay and an all-member collaboration block, which lets 774 Inc. sell three separate tickets plus a premium tier instead of one show.
PANORA
Aki Rosenthal's ARK Camp Wraps Three Days With 27 Hololive Talents
The event shows Hololive's large collaborations moving toward short, team-based formats as individual talent schedules grow harder to align, and it leans on Rosenthal's long association with ARK as the organizing hook.
Inside
Hololive's Ollie Stars In Ollie Ninja Slash On Steam
The 250 yen price puts a holo Indie action game at impulse-buy cost the same day it is announced, a low-friction way to attach a game to an existing VTuber audience.
Inside, Game Spark
National Gallery London and Hololive VTuber Raden Juufuutei Team for Pop-Up Store
A British national museum lending its collection to a VTuber goods line is an institutional endorsement of the talent's curator credentials rather than a standard character tie-in.
ASCII.jp, PANORA
Nijisanji's Sara Hoshikawa Taps HoneyWorks for Anime Ending Theme
A long-running studio-level collaboration between a Nijisanji member and HoneyWorks now lands on a TV anime ending theme, pairing a light novel adaptation with a vtuber voice the song was written to fit.
KAI-YOU
Hololive Reveals Asobi Mawari-tai Unit With Four Members
A four-member generation with a shared play-first premise and staged two-night debuts is Hololive's first addition to its Japan lineup since FLOW GLOW in November 2024, so the rollout's timing and structure are the parts worth tracking.
Denfaminicogamer