Community Happenings

[Kourai]

Kyo Kaneko will "stop streaming for a week to reflect on [his] actions and words". (post) (archive)


This suspension was for making a joke about going to Korea for surgery (haven't found a clip), and then refusing to apologise after Twitter outrage (clip below). (post) (archive)
The clip was also summarised in Korean. (post) (archive)

Spoiler: Copy of video

A sample of the Twitter outrage (post) (archive)

 

[Kourai]

Mito Entertainment is a Filipino Vtuber company which debuted in 2022 and has two gens of three talents each to date.

2023-11-11: Mito Entertainment terminated their contract with Ixora Sada, one of the talents from their first gen. Ixora announced an indefinite hiatus around a year ago to focus on her studies. Mito claims they have not been able to contact Ixora for months, and they are holding auditions to recast Ixora. (post) (archive)


Ixora was only active in 2022 between May and August, averaging 20-30 CCV excluding her debut. (post)

Ixora's last tweet on her corpo account was on 2022-08-17. The tweet was about being sick. Note that this was not necessarily the last contact she had with Mito. (post) (archive)

 

[Kourai]

2023-10-10: Production Kawaii dropped a trailer for a new, non-numbered gen, Hanamizuki. (post) (archive)

An hour later, Production Kawaii announced that "In response to ongoing harassment, stalking, doxxing, and threats against her personal safety, we have decided that it would be best to temporarily put our talent Isla Coleman on hiatus from her VTuber activities. Her safety is our number one priority." This currently appears to be unrelated to the new gen debuts per se. (post) (archive)

Isla Coleman's hiatus may be connected to an announcement on 2023-09-29 citing technical difficulties with her Youtube account. (post with embedded image) (archive)

The hiatus announcement is also reminiscent of Production Kawaii's announcement on 2023-04-17 that there were doxing attempts on Isla, approximately 6 months ago. (archive) (Reddit archive)

2023-11-14: Production Kawaii has announced that Isla Coleman will resume activity from today, with a brief mention of coordination with legal experts and law enforcement "in the relevant country". (post) (archive)

 

[Kourai]

Holostars EN has announced a new gen, ARMIS. (post) (archive)


The debut streams will be on 17 and 18 November PST, only one and two days after the announcement.

In a first for Cover, they are officially encouraging external debut watchalong streams. Conditions include only mirroring the video and not the audio. Monetisation is allowed if all conditions are met. (post) (archive)

 

[Gintoki]

Indie Vtuber Oimori Uni has gone into labor and is currently at a hospital.

For those who don't remember, she's the Vtuber who was possibly impregnated while having sex with her husband on stream. I will update this post when there are further developments.

Update: It's been over 24 hours since Uni was admitted at the hospital. The baby is being stubborn and not coming out. Doctors are telling her that she may need a C-section.


Update #2: Uni has successfully given birth. All is well.


Update #3: It's a boy.

 

[Hff201]

Idol Corp. talent Riro Ron has been terminated from the company for misusing substances on stream, meeting up with a fan in person, and engaging in a relationship with a manager.


Archive

 

[UberSoldat]

Erika Byakko and Cheri Lupina of VReverie are graduating. The linked thread also includes clues throughout to a potential corpo implosion.

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[reinigen]

Lucid, the company that briefly employed Roza Coatl, appears to be imploding

Looks like Lucid, the former corp of Roza Coatl is having a slight implosion atm.

Spoiler: A

 

[Seth]

Selen Tatsuki from NijiEN released earlier today a cover of the song Last cup of coffee by Lily Pichu. ( if someone has a reupload let me know i will add it to the post )

Reupload from youtube;


A couple of hours later, she tweeted that management privated the video in question without any reason given. She did encouraged people to reupload it.


Archive

She then tweeted on her PL account that she lost more than $15K on a recent project.


Archive

Nijisanji keeps proving to everyone why they are not a great agency anymore. Congrats

Edit: reupload got privated.
Thanks to @httn for sharing his links on the general.
Gofile

 

[Kourai]

Selen Tatsuki from NijiEN released earlier today a cover of the song Last cup of coffee by Lily Pichu. ( if someone has a reupload let me know i will add it to the post )

Reupload from youtube;


A couple of hours later, she tweeted that management privated the video in question without any reason given. She did encouraged people to reupload it.


Archive

She then tweeted on her PL account that she lost more than $15K on a recent project.


Archive

Nijisanji keeps proving to everyone why they are not a great agency anymore. Congrats

Edit: reupload got privated.
Thanks to @httn for sharing his links on the general.
Gofile

Selen has since tweeted that she has been in the hospital following an "accident" (post, includes archive). Speculation and concern is rife about whether Selen actually wrote the tweet, whether the tweet is cover for a stealth suspension, and about the exact nature of her hospitalisation if it is genuine.

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Idol Corp and Brave Group have jointly announced a strategic partnership (post, archive 1, archive 2). Brave's EN statement is available on their own website (post, includes archive). Brave Group currently manages several entertainment and Vtubing groups through its subsidiaries. These include VSPO, Riot Music, Studio Lara (HIMEHINA), and the EN/EU groups V4Mirai and Globie.

Idol has emphasised on their weekly blog that this is not an acquisition (post, includes archive). Meanwhile, Rin Penrose has made light of the announcement (post, archive).

 

[Stunned But Dumb]

Rushia cut from Vhoshow.

Nazuna (Rushia/Mikeneko) and Vshojo part ways

 

[Kourai]

Archive

A massive earthquake has struck Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan. A tsunami warning has been issued for Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa prefectures of the Japan Sea side of the country. People in these area [sic] must evacuate immediately.

If you see a bunch of cancelled streams on Holodex on 1 January 2024 JST, this was why. Many Vtubers residing in Japan (at least, those known to TVA members) have posted that they are safe.

 

[hylic]

https://archive.ph/7qNQg

Pomu Rainpuff from Nijisanji EN will be graduating on January 20, 2024

Thread: https://thevirtualasylum.com/threads/graduation-of-pomu-rainpuff.186/

 

[Hff201]

A Fresh Meat account on the Kiwi Farms by the name of kolibri_ has posted a substantial dox of several Phase-Connect talents, including both previously known and new information. This dump appears to have been posted exclusively on KF, and there is speculation about the source of the leak.

Discussion begins here. EDIT: Dedicated thread.

 

[Kourai]

Phase Connect has announced a new gen of 5 JP members who will debut 27 January 19:00 JST. Discussion thread.

Phase Connect Official on X: "🚨[INCOMING]🚨 We are coming to Japan! @kannagiloki @kokoromomemory @grampico_ @ayaseyuu_ @kaminariclara_ Follow us on our Official JP Twitter for more updates! @PhaseConnectJP #PhaseConnect #PhaseConnectJP https://t.co/Na

ghostarchive.org

 

[DrStupid]

Kawa Entertainment is dissolving their Vtuber management branch to focus solely on their Vtuber Merch branch. They're releasing their 6 talents from their contracts and they'll continue as indies.



Asylum post
Kawa tweet - archive

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

Cover just terminated Yozora Mel's contract

Spoiler: Twitter Announcement

Announcement Regarding Termination of Contract with Yozora Mel | COVER Corp.

COVER Corporation is a next-generation entertainment enterprise that shares content that is uniquely Japanese with the rest of the world—principally through hololive production.

cover-corp.com

Janny Jambalaya made a discussion thread already:

Termination of Yozora Mel

https://cover-corp.com/en/news/detail/20240116

thevirtualasylum.com

Archive of announcement:

カバー株式会社 on X: "[Announcement] Announcement Regarding Termination of Contract with Yozora Mel https://t.co/7JlkvQgAID" / X | Ghostarchive

ghostarchive.org

 

[Seth]

On january 26, Mafumafu made a
Long blogpost about him getting abused by his ex-spouse. It was believed to be Rushia/Mikeneko.

On january 28, Rushia/Mikeneko made a Response, confirming she was indeed married to Mafumafu.

Relevant thread and discussion

MikeNeko Fiasco Thread - 2022 strikes back as MafuMafu and Rushia were married and divorced since her termination - Ongoing Defamation Suit

mike cat and mafu mafu actually married during rushia incident. They got into marital trouble last year? any japanese language fluent people could do proper translation? :smugselen: edit: god damn mike cat always delivered. it is not even Feb yet!

thevirtualasylum.com

 

[Seth]

On february 1st, Nijisanji EN announced the graduation of their talent Kyo Kaneko,

Official tweet


Relevant thread and discussion

Evil racist Nijisanji rejects DEI and embraces white supremacy (aka Kyo Kaneko graduation thread)

Niji subverts all expectations yet again Archive

thevirtualasylum.com

 

[ADWInmate]

Selen Tatsuki has been terminated by ANYCOLOR as of the 5th of February

Official Tweet:

Archive 1
Archive 2

Spoiler: Related Response

Related Response:

Archive

Archive of her Channel

Discussion Thread

Termination of Selen Tatsuki

Clock me if necessary. e: also... https://www.nijisanji.jp/en/talents

thevirtualasylum.com