Nijisanji Releases Promo Video for NIJISANJI 7 Colors Card Game
The first look at NijiNana's card text, attributes, and traits leaves the rules reveal as the next scheduled beat before the October 7 program.
4Gamer.net, Inside
VTuber
REJECT Launches Official Fan Club With VTuber Ticket Priority
REJECT is routing priority access to its most in-demand events through a paid club while keeping YouTube Membership and the corporate REJECT Supporter program as separate services.
PANORA
VEID Opens TikTok VTuber Group Audition
The audition tests whether a VTuber business can be built around TikTok LIVE first, with VEID supplying the 3D models and studio rather than expecting applicants to already own a streaming setup.
MoguLive, PANORA
Yuki Sakuna's Sakunabirth Sets March 11 Release Date
Sakunabirth brings a VTuber-led production to Nintendo Switch and Windows retail channels on a fixed date, and pricing pre-orders through the talent's own store alongside nationwide retailers, a distribution route that treats a creator's shop as a primary sales front.
Denfaminicogamer, KAI-YOU
EchoVerse Adds Illustrator Kiseki Hiiro And Video Creator Iza Saraba
EchoVerse's roster now covers illustration and video as well as singing, and the department store is attaching the new creators to a sake crowdfunding campaign that turns its first original song into a physical product.
MoguLive, PANORA
BALUS Launches Agency Business For Individual VTubers
BALUS is separating agency work from streaming income: it takes on corporate deals and 3D production while letting talent keep the money their own channels earn, a split that individual VTubers usually have to weigh against signing away a share of that revenue.
MoguLive, PANORA
Nijisanji Unit MECHATU-A Sets First Real Live For October 10
MECHATU-A's live adds an eight-member male unit to Nijisanji's real-venue slate, and the ticket structure puts team-specific liver cameras and a venue fixed-point camera alongside the main stream.
PANORA, Nijimen
DOVA-SYNDROME Becomes OpenTracks As Free BGM Service Looks Overseas
The rebrand under TRACKS Inc. turns a long-running Japanese free BGM library into an internationally positioned one, and the agency deals give it a foothold with VTuber outfits whose stream soundtracks it already supplies.
VTuber NewsDrop
VTuber Auditions Open Across 30+ Agencies in October 2026
The roundup's own framing notes that VTuber numbers have reached the tens of thousands since Kizuna AI appeared in 2016, so the audition slate now functions as a crowded entry market rather than a scarcity signal.
MoguLive
VTuber Asano Ruri to Appear at Keio University's Mita Festival
A university student organization booking a VTuber for its campus festival shows the format moving from commercial venues and conventions into student-run programming.
KAI-YOU, PANORA
Tenku Rino Transfers From VEE to Specially After Agency Shutdown
The transfer was disclosed during the final 3D live of a shuttered agency, so it doubles as a signal of where VEE's remaining talent may land.
KAI-YOU, PANORA
FAV Gaming Adds Chinami Sourin as First Player in Women's Fighting Game Division
A VTuber label and a competitive team are sharing one player under two names, which tests whether an online persona can carry a separate offline identity in fights game events.
KAI-YOU, PANORA
Brave group Overhauls Management As It Enters 10th Fiscal Year
The promotions put the heads of IP Production and IP Platform and Solutions into senior executive roles at the same time the company creates group-wide legal, HR, and IT posts, a structure built around VTuber IP rather than the individual agencies under it.
Brave group, KAI-YOU, PANORA
REALITY Releases VMC Protocol Feature for Full-Body Tracking
REALITY's VMC Protocol support moves full-body tracking from April Fools' trial to a standard app feature, though the free window is temporary and paid provision is planned.
MoguLive
ZIZAI To End Liver Agency I-LIVE Operations On September 30, 2026
The agency that ZIZAI built around IRIAM's early liver community is closing, with post-closure activities left to each liver to decide individually.
MoguLive
DJ RIO Steps Down as REALITY Representative After Eight Years
REALITY is handing its public-facing communication to a product and community manager while a sitting director takes the presidency, so the founder's exit changes who speaks for the app rather than only who signs off on it.
MoguLive, PANORA
Nene Amano Will End VTuber Activities On October 12
A first-generation kawaii member closing her run less than two years after the production's dissolution leaves the former roster's independent careers as the remaining trace of the brand.
MoguLive
Echo Lab Selects Some First Generation Members as Auditions Continue
Echo Lab is filling its inaugural cast and taking new applications at the same time, which means the final size of the first generation may not be settled until after the October 31 cut-off.
MoguLive, PANORA
Pinfinity And Cover Launch AR Pin Collection For Hololive -Justice-
Merch partnerships that push a full unit rather than a single talent are how Cover keeps a 2024-debut generation selling between concert and song releases, and the serialized cap gives the set a resale floor the individual pins lack.
hololive production (EN)
GALLERIA Renews Kagura Nana Collaboration PCs With Six Models
The refresh keeps a V-artist name attached to a hardware line that already existed, so Thirdwave is selling continuity of the collaboration rather than a new partnership.
4Gamer.net, PANORA
HIMEHINA Bubblin' Memories POP DINER Opens At SHIBUYA109
The menu is built from the world tour's city stops rather than from the two members alone, which turns the cafe into a record of a run that has already passed through Taipei, Seoul, and San Jose and ends in Tokyo in October.
Brave group, PANORA, Nijimen
k4sen-Produced VTuber Brand UltraLMTM Names Six First-Generation Members
UltraLMTM's Patch-style operation, borrowed from online game updates rather than talent-agency calendars, is the structural feature that separates this debut from a standard VTuber generation rollout.
KAI-YOU, Inside, MoguLive, and 1 more
Hakos Baelz Sets First Solo Concert REGALIA for December 1
The ticketing splits venue sales between ZAIKO on the English side and Lawson Ticket on the Japanese side, so buyers face different application routes and fee structures depending on which page they land on.
hololive production (EN), hololive production (JP), PANORA
RIOT MUSIC and Culture Entertainment Plan Three-Day VRChat Festival ESPERA
RIOT MUSIC is scaling from a single permanent VRChat world into a multi-day ticketed festival with an outside entertainment partner, which tests whether virtual-space music events can draw paying audiences beyond free community gatherings.
Brave group, KAI-YOU, PANORA