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Hatsune Miku, VTuber Suisei Hoshimachi perform opening pitch at pro baseball game in Japan [Video]

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 23, 2026
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Suisei throws smoke, some commenters throw shade.

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• Japan
• (anime • baseball • Chiba Lotte Marines • cool • crazy • funny • Hatsune Miku • HoloLive • Hoshimachi Suisei • Lotte • manga • music • sports • video • virtual idols • virtual YouTubers • vocaloids • VTubers • weird)

Hatsune Miku crosses over into the real world in Coolish videos with Hoshimachi Suisei[Videos]

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 12, 2026

These Coolish virtual idol videos are very cool.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • Coolish • food • Hatsune Miku • HoloLive • Hoshimachi Suisei • ice cream • Lotte • manga • music • Soh • sweets • video • virtual idols • virtual YouTubers • vocaloids • VTubers)

Crazy huge Hololive plushies for crazy huge VTuber fans are on the way【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 5, 2025

Hololive’s 3rd Generation stars are getting ready to take over part of your home.

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• Japan
• (anime • big plushies • crazy • Doqute • HoloLive • Houshou Marine • interior • manga • plushies • Shiranui Flare • Shirogane Noel • stuffed animals • Usada Pekora • virtual YouTubers • VTubers)

Japan’s original virtual YouTuber returns after a three-year hiatus with new music video【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 28, 2025

Welcome back, Kizuna AI.

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• Japan
• (anime • Kizuna Ai • manga • music • video • virtual YouTubers • VTubers)

As many Japanese elementary school kids want to be VTubers as schoolteachers in survey

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 30, 2025

VTuber passes YouTuber on list of jobs kids say they want to do when they grow up.

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• Japan
• (anime • kids • manga • society • survey • virtual YouTubers • VTubers • youth • YouTubers)

Japanese theme park’s Hololive art event: A fun day for sweaty otaku!【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 28, 2024

To clarify, that’s photos of the event, not the sweaty otaku.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • anime • COK • HoloLive • manga • otaku • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • theme parks • virtual YouTubers • VTubers • YouTubers)

Anime-style avatar waitresses, controlled by humans, now taking orders at Tokyo pub

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 3, 2024

Miraizaka has a futuristic new ordering system that it says AI can’t equal.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • crazy • izakaya • manga • restaurants • technology • virtual YouTubers • VTubers • weird)

Anime girl English teacher Ellen-sensei becomes VTuber/VVTUber and NFT

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 25, 2024

New Horizon star appears in “private English lesson” videos.

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• Japan
• (education • Ellen Baker • Ellen-sen • linguistics • New Horizon • Teaching English in Japan • Tokyo Shoseki • virtual YouTubers • VTubers)

Awesome life-size Hololive art panels take over Tokyo Dome City【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 20, 2023

Hololive City is a free art event filled with fun and photo ops for virtual YouTuber fans.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cool • HoloLive • Hololive City • otaku • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • Tokyo Dome • Tokyo Dome City • virtual YouTubers • VTubers)

The awesome anime and game figures of Japan’s Wonder Festival Summer 2023【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 2, 2023

Japan’s biggest and best figure and model show returns with VTubers, action heroes, and the kind of figure that makes us wish we had an extra two thousand bucks to spend.

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• (anime • awesome • cool • figures • Good Smile Company • HoloLive • manga • otaku • video games • virtual YouTubers • VTubers • Wonder Festival • Wonder Festival 2023 • Wonder Festival Summer • Wonder Festival Summer 2023)

Usada Pekora VTuber popup shop opens at Peko-chan House, our otaku reporter’s wallet takes a hit

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 30, 2023

Pekora meets Peko-chan, and this fan is powerless to resist.

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• (caramels • COK • food • Fujiya • milky • Peko-chan • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • sweets • Usada Pekora • virtual YouTubers • VTubers)

Virtual YouTubers in our world? Giant signs at Tokyo stations show Hololive talent and human fans

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 16, 2023

Gawr Gura and other Hololive stars now appearing in Shibuya and Shinjuku Station artwork.

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• Japan
• (COK • HoloLive • Hololive Production • Metro Promenade • Shibuya Station • Shinjuku Station • virtual YouTubers • VTubers • YouTubers)

85-year-old great-grandmother from Hiroshima is Japan’s newest virtual YouTuber/idol【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 10, 2022

And it’s all thanks to her “idiot grandchild.”

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• Japan
• (anime • elderly • Idols • manga • seniors • video • virtual YouTubers • VTubers • YouTubers)

Virtual YouTuber finds a way to shake hands with real-world fans, give them high-fives in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 20, 2022

A 2-D/3-D dream come true for Nightmare fans.

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• Japan
• (anime • clever • crazy • funny • handshake • handshake event • idol singers • Idols • otaku • virtual YouTubers • VTubers • weird)

Female virtual YouTubers are here to collaborate with Tokyo’s Kanda Myojin Shrine in a punny way

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 29, 2022

Hololive Production teams up with one of Tokyo’s most important shrines to provide a creative new method of support.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • Ayame Nikiri • collaboration • ginger ale • HoloLive • jinja • Kanda Myojin Shrine • miko • Mio Ookami • Sakura Miko • Shinto shrine • support • Tokyo • virtual YouTubers)

Turn your bad drawings into gorgeous anime and manga characters!

• Oona McGee
  Jan 26, 2022

Realtime 2-D character creation software is a game-changer for artists and non-artists alike.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • cool • cute • fun • illustration • manga • Pixiv • programming • Software • virtual YouTubers • VRoid Studio • VTuber)

Japanese hot spring charges almost 35 bucks for bucket of uncooked carrots, otaku likely to pay up

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 18, 2022

Virtual YouTuber cross-promotion gives fans a real-world memento.

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• Japan
• (anime • baths • carrots • crazy • food • HoloLive • hot springs • otaku • Raku Spa • sento • Usada Pekora • virtual YouTubers • weird • YouTubers)

Japanese art site Pixiv now lets you make your own 3-D model for free, and in English!

• Katy Kelly
  Nov 8, 2021

With a library of over 350 items, you can craft an original model even if you aren’t an artist! So we did.

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• Japan
• (3-D art • anime • cool • cute • fun • Pixiv • Software • virtual YouTubers • VRoid Studio • VTuber • YouTuber)

Netflix creates otaku virtual YouTuber who’s a bilingual Japanese/English sheep girl【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 28, 2021

Anime brand ambassador speaks two languages, is subtitled in 10 more.

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• Internet, Japan, USA
• (anime • Netflix • otaku • video • virtual YouTubers • VTubers)

Anime voice actress Megumi Hayashibara’s Lina Inverse will hold virtual VTuber concert

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 21, 2021

Slayers star takes virtual stage, with one more anime sorceress along for the fun.

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• Japan
• (anime • anime songs • anison • concerts • Megumi Hayashibara • music • Slayers • virtual YouTubers • voice actors • voice actresses • VTubers)

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