Hololive General

[Piava]

Moona got a new Outfit:

 

[frz]

18 minutes clip of shion/polka yapping
- Shion kinda regreted not interacting with gen 2 more at the beginning, at most they make thumbnails together
- Unlike gen 1/gamers who had fubuki to resolve their shit, gen 2 was fumbling around on their own dealing with OBS and such and they were too timid to ask their senpai.
- Before debut, Gen 5 was actually told by their managers NOT to focus on branding as a group, in fear of their drifting apart/wanting to get popular individually later on. Gen 5 had an internal meeting and decided to not take that suggestion.
- Agreed that the dev_is approach (forming a group specifically for singing and dancing) would not fit them at all, Shion wouldn't join hololive if so. Polka would also struggle with it, but she knew she wouldn't be able to become an idol elsewhere (so she would still take a try at it)
- Gen 2/3 became idols despite not intending to and really good at it. Gen 4 is when there's a full shift toward idol shit.
- The most scared moment of Shion in hololive was telling subaru she's gonna graduate, she did a lot of mental preparation, and was fully ready to book it. Subaru actually accepted it well. Shion thinks she might have known about it beforehand.

extra tidbit not from the clip:
- One of the first people shion met offline was Aqua, Aqua was actually super talkative unlike her introvert image
- Polka avoided offline gathering altogether until last year when Flare started dragging her around and she's more open to doing it now
- Fuwamoco raid, confirming that they sync off-stream as well
- Shion Q: have you fought with a holomem. Polka: Not really, maybe I had some difference in opinions with Lamy early on, but we sat down and resolved it, but it only happened because we didn't know each other well back then.
- Question from deck: Do you want to be in a popular group who doesn't get along or a unpopular group that gets along well
+ Polka: the popular group. If it's work, I can give it all regardless
+ Shion: the unpopular group. It's more important to have fun.
- Before joining, polka was scared of catfights when you put so many women in close proximity, but nothing like that happened (to them that is, matsuri and rushia would like to object). It's actually easy to get along when you share interest in anime, manga and drama. When hanging out with multiple holomems, if you stop talking, someone will ask you if you are okay and people always make an effort to talk to the more introvert ones. Both Shion & Polka are on the getting asked side.

Bonus:
Liz trolling polka

 

[TKN_Lurker]

Well shit, what else does this thumbnail imply. If it's a graduation notice, it's a bit odd considering she mentioned she wouldn't be leaving so soon in a members stream. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

 

[Johnny Jambalaya]

[a]


https://cover-corp.com/en/news/detail/20250416-01
[a]

For the site header.

 

[Willemshaven]

holoRust Server 2025 - Introduction
Other recaps - PvE Phase recap - PvP Phase introduction
​

After about two and a half years, Rust returns to hololive. Since then, we have quite a few more holomems that could participate.
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Pekora's Annoucement stream with AZKi:


Translated information was taken from this clip and the hololive Fan Server Discord. The event will divided into two phases that will use different servers.

Phase 1: PvE

• The phase will last from April 19th, 19:00 JST to the end of April 28th.
• The server will run 24/7.
• The map seed is 649861369.
• PvP will be at an absolute minimum. PvP is allowed as long as the involved parties consent to it first.
• There will be a big event on April 24th.

Phase 2: PvP

• The phase will last from May 2nd, 19:00 JST to the end of May 4th.
• The server will run 24/7 with PvP time being around 2 to 3 hours.
• The first day will have no PvP
• There will be specific rules that "can" be broken, but doing so could come with its own risks.
• The winner will be who has the most kills, with collected player skulls as the tally.
• More details are to be announced.

According to Pekora, there are 40 participants (for at least the PvE phase). The event was supposed to wholly take place in May but was brought forward to allow the soon-to-be graduates Shion, Mumei, and Gura to participate.

The server will start in 1 hour and 19 minutes at the time of this post.

Spoiler: Scheduled streams

Miko


Anya


Vivi


La+


Matsuri


Moona (delayed)


Biboo


Pekora (what a thumbnail)


Kaela


Fubuki


Nene


Luna


Noel (related)


Haachama


Koyori


Shion


AZKi


Fifteen minutes later:
Ina


Thirty minutes later:
Su


One hour later:
Chihaya


Mio


Two hours later:
Subaru


Aki


Two hours and 45 minutes later:
Kobo


Three hours later:
Watame


Fifteen hours later:
Calli

EDIT: Added more.
EDIT 2: Added even more. I will no longer update this list.

Have this clip in the meantime:

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EDIT: Updated the information on the PvE phase.
EDIT 2: Corrected the end dates of the phases.

 

[SpringKusa]

First real Affiliate sighting dropped
Ame will be in Kiaras 3D Live

 

[tarkanoltr]

Kanata's second album announced in her 3D live:



And 1st sololive!


Like Polka's album there is also randomised Album insert covers:

 

[tarkanoltr]

 

[Poyoyo & Jill]

I still have no idea what Holoearth is supposed to be now. Is it a story driven open world game like Genshin Impact or just some AR sandbox game? And then we have a legally distinct version of Ghost from Destiny too as our guide/companion. This trailer just confuses me...

I know nobody will play it despite being free but you can just go to their official site and download it: https://holoearth.com/en/download/

Here is Ikko Fukkuda himself explaining the 3 cores aspect of the game on the latest update video and it has English subs:
1-Virtual Lives so you dont have to travel to see them
2-Avatar System for a social game aspect
3-Sandbox game (PVE for now)
The following Updates (1.0.0) include: Users being able to sell their own Virtual Items with their own designs and the Hololive Production official Shop opening in game (this should have been day one but ok i guess)
And then about updates they talked about for the Future:
-Holomem finally being able to use their own 3Ds for the game (another thing that should have been day 1)

-Tracking Mode like the one that Gook game has
-Kemomimi options for the custom avatars so you can create your own Pekora clone

- A mobile version with less features than the PC version
-New Concerts and Meet and Greets but this time instead of being a 3D Triangle you will be able to use your in game avatar
-More stuff for the Sandbox mode
-Collabs (The most WTF one)
Not a sign of this game having a story for now

Let me just say, it's going to be the main reason why Cover will go bankrupt if it doesn't sell well. They invested billions of yen in that project, it only has two options: it's a massive hit or a spectacular failure, no in-betweens.

It would be very depressing if that were the case. I just hope Yagoo has some backup plan if this NFT money pit 'game' blows up on itself. I would be very disappointed if some shitty side project is what will tarnish their reputation.

The game its free and sustains itself by their userbase purchasing cosmetics

 

[RiverBear]

Life sized Fuwamoco Statues


Figure release


Full Art with Advent.

 

[mismatch]

Mumei clarifying in this last member's stream that even though health issues were a part of the reason that she's graduating, the "stuff she can't talk about" (disagreements with management etc) were also a reason, and she's worried that people are overestimating those health issues and treating them as the only reason she's graduating.

She also said that this same issue is the reason she chose not to take Affiliate status, because it wouldn't feel right.

She mentioned what her last streams will be:

- Talk, call-in stream
- Short, pre-recorded 3d concert type thing (sounds like 30-ish minutes, 7-8 songs) produced pretty much entirely by Kanauru - not from the japan studio.

She said that although the graduation was planned for quite a while, the actual date came very last-minute. Since then she's been pretty much head-down working on stuff for it. Might account for the unexpected overlap between her and Gura's graduation dates - who knows what decision making goes into scheduling this stuff from the management side.

Some member vids will be made public, while others (including this stream) she will be removing. Archive shit while you still can!

Her 1-million wish was for another 3D outfit - something with long hair down that would be good for performing. Management kept extending the completion date until it ended up not mattering because she was graduating. She asked about an alternative when it became clear that it wasn't going to work out, but got told no.

She doesn't have her Gold play button - she was too scared that somebody coming into the house would see it, so she let management keep it.

She talked about the isolating effect that working for Hololive can have for someone who doesn't have friends or family nearby, and doesn't live in Japan. "Imagine trying to meet new people when you basically can't talk about the biggest aspect of your life." Says she feels like she hasn't been able to recover the progress she was making on her social anxiety that covid pretty much ended. She wants to focus on "getting back into society" after graduation.

Post-grad plans include lots of travel to visit family, spending more time outside, and future trips to japan to visit her hololive friends.

"Civilization duties" are going well.

Her career plans do not include an office job - what she's aiming for is something that will have her "out and about". She's very grateful that her time in Hololive has put her in a position (financially, presumably) to do volunteer work for a while. I'd bet on something like marine-biology fieldwork, myself.

 

[Willemshaven]

Other holomems eavesdrop on Pekora and Shion's last on stream conversation in holoRust. [The conversation itself]
EDIT: Longer version.


Translated segment of Shion's last chatting stream.


Longer version on her talking about happiness.


Summary of the stream:

FuzzyBrainy said:
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Shion had her last zatsudan a few hours ago. I thought I'd share some of the things she mentioned. (rough TL from shiocord)

• She enjoyed seeing people’s tweets about her original song - reading everyone’s impressions and interpretations.
• Yesterday was her final Rust stream. Pekora and Azki surprised her with a fireworks event as a farewell gift. She wanted to save everyone's messages/art from the event, so she downloaded them off-stream. Initially, she thought she'd just log out wherever since she won't be returning, but in the end, she walked all the way back to her house (which was pretty far from the event site) just in case Choco-sen (also playing Rust for the last time) decided to log in again. She didn’t want her to feel lonely with an empty house.
• She talked about a time when she went out to dinner with Pekora and Azki. They discussed how the Rust server wasn’t originally going to be ready in time, but they managed to speed things up just for her.
• She admitted she’s not great with large, time-limited group events since they can be a bit overwhelming (more people online all the time), but she wanted to join this one for a final chance to interact with holomems she doesn’t usually talk to.
• She thought she’d mostly be wandering around alone, maybe going on a few adventures with Pekora. But before she knew it, Choco-sen had moved into her house and started playing with her a lot. She wondered if Choco-sen only joined for her.
• She said she kind of wishes she had joined more group collabs before and regrets it a bit. But she also realized that if it weren’t for her graduation, she probably wouldn’t have joined this last one either, saying it’s a complicated feeling.
• For the last part of Rust, she had a drawing session with Subaru and Choco-sen. She thought it would be a quick thing but they became serious about it. Pekora wanted to talk to Shion once things settled down, but when she spied on them with a "hidden" camera (Peko immediately told them about it after setting it up lol), they were so focused on drawing that she decided to leave them be.
• She feels like she streamed every day this past month. She’s been ignoring feeling tired, afraid that if she stopped, she wouldn’t be able to start again. While she tried not to overdo it because everyone’s worried about her health, she really pushed through during the final week.
• She apologized to Shiokkos, knowing some prefer solo streams and others like collabs. She did so many collabs lately to make sure she had those final interactions with holomems, especially her kouhais who barely know who she is.
• While signing postcards, she’s considering watching Digimon (Brave Heart cover by Korone and Shion). Chat suggested One Piece, but she said it’s too long. She did some mental math to figure out how many years it would take to finish. She skips OP/EDs! Chat suggested 2x speed, but she doesn’t see the point, like "why watch it if you’re just speeding through?"
• Chat brought up pineapple on hamburgers (???). She said she’s never tried it and doesn’t get the appeal - she’d just eat the pineapple first, so then it’d just be a regular hamburger anyway.
• When thinking about her life on her deathbed, she said her happiest moment would probably still be the Shion in Hololive 4 years ago. Her goal after graduation is to create a new "peak" in life that can rival that feeling. She doesn't think she can do that here anymore, which is why she’s graduating. She reassures her fans they can find happiness too - but phrases it carefully, like “everyone find your own happiness”, because she doesn’t want people blaming her if they can't become happy or get angry at her when she said they'd be able to.
• She recalled when she first got the offer to join Hololive - at first, she thought it might be a scam. Back then, everyone (up to 3rd gen) kind of assumed it would only last around two years. She reminisced on how much Hololive has grown, and also got mindblown by how expensive the current studio is.
• She wants everyone to keep happy memories of her instead of being sad she's gone.
• When she first heard about going affiliate or the term "ending stream activities", she thought it was the same as graduating. She decided on a full graduation because she felt it would be cruel to make people wait for a return that likely won’t happen. But for some reason all of 2nd gen is convinced she’ll come back anyway—at least to play Uno lol. They kept saying they’d welcome her back anytime. Chat joked they could just meet up and play privately, but she playfully said, “2nd gen? Meet up? You really believe that’s gonna happen?”
• She told everyone not to believe everything they see on the internet since some rumors about her were floating around recently.
• She didn’t apply for the Switch 2. Said if she asked, her viewers would probably just give her theirs.
• She talked about the early memories OkaKoro mentioned on their recent streams:
  • Watching The Grudge with Korone at the studio
  • Doing Nagashi Somen with Okayu and Aqua
  • Noon-time Minecraft sessions, where people streamed Minecraft around noon and have another stream later in the day
• Someone in chat said 6.5 years flew by. Shion agreed the beginning and this last month went by quickly, but there were a lot of times in the middle where things were rough and it didn't feel like time was moving at all.
• She thanked everyone - fans and holomems - for finding her. She said, “Everyone’s probably going to cry tomorrow”... and then laughed! Chat said she’ll cry too, but she's giving herself a pep talk to hold back the tears until after the end - otherwise, it would mess up her singing. Chat joked about doing a graduation live but stream ends when Shion cries speedrun.
• She reminded everyone to check out her graduation merch since she won’t be around to plug it on the last day. She also hopes everyone listens to her original song at least once before the graduation live.
• She mentioned needing to return the work phone the company gave her.
• The thoughts of graduation starts to set in. She wondered if she’s the only one who still feels like it isn’t real.
• Topics toward the end (I'm just gonna list it here since she keeps on going back and forth with the thank yous and bantering with chat):
  • Asked chat if they had any last things to say and Shiokkos being Shiokkos, asked about her shampoo brand and the color of her pantsu, which she never answered
  • She loves the Shiokkos! (finally not shy about it anymore)
  • Prefers fries with BBQ sauce and nuggets with mustard.
  • Doesn’t wear socks at home. Playfully roasted a creepy chat comment: “You’re gonna regret that comment! You’ll look at it later and wonder why you were so creepy!”
  • Said she’ll never use Instagram.
  • Nani ga Suki brainrot. Still melons > Shiokkos, apparently - so chat spammed the red angry emote. She complained that it was the emote’s fault that her chat froze.

Thank you Shion! You're a kusogaki until the very end, I'll miss you!

(I'm aware the link to it got posted already.)

EDIT: Another translated segment talking about some regret of not engaging in more group collabs.


Shion's graduation concert starts in less than 30 minutes.

 

[Geese Howard]

As long as we're discussing management, here's 45 minutes of Astel talking about his experiences. I'd highly recommend watching it; he goes into a lot of detail about some of the disagreements he's had with them.

 

[Kazuma]

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

The last ride of the Small White Shark.

 

[Renmai]

Orange dingo man doing his outfit reveal, quick watch before the ENreco stream

 

[Shuba]

OOKAMI MIO 2ND ALBUM AND SOLOLIVE CONFIRMED

September 10th in Pia Arena MM, same place as Fubuki's live and Okayu's upcoming live for Hag Gamers Unity

She basically cried non-stop right after the announcement and then Subaru, Miko and Fubuki all read out letters congratulating her, which only made the crying worse. She has wanted this for so long man I'm so damn happy for her


And a new song from said album is premiering right now:

 

[Phantasm]

Marine has officially reached four million subscribers

 

[Shuba]

Earlier today, Mio, Miko and Subaru had a Hololive Consultation Session for the first time in a few years:

Basically, they roleplay as certain characters (this time, Subaru was Eren, Miko was Shuichi and Mio was Chiikawa), listen to a talent's concerns and will individually give their advice. After that, the talent that called in will who they think gave the best advice and award them a flower stamp. The talents that came mostly gave light-hearted, slightly comedic but genuine concerns.

Kanade wanted to know how to get Hajime flustered. Riona wanted to know how to speak up during huge collabs where everyone is excited and shouting. Polka's life is so busy and fulfilled (in a good way, like she went swimming earlier today and had a blast), she didn't really know how to devote time to streaming. AZKi was wondering if it's okay to keep degrading/insulting the Holos after Okayu's Minecraft trap and Laplus begging for it. FuwaMoco wanted more people to come to their maid cafe call-ins.

So nothing too serious until Korone came in. Essentially, she was feeling anxious about all the graduations and wondered if Cover was actually doing well. Now she prefaced this by saying that everyone she's met and talked to in management has been kind to her, including Yagoo. She knows they think a lot about the talents' well-being and health. The fact that she can work in Hololive is a blessing and something that makes her very happy.

But all the graduations back-to-back have made her very anxious and in addition, she recently moved to a new place in the countryside. Due to this, she hasn't really met up with anyone lately and has been feeling lonely, which makes her even more anxious. So she wanted to get MioMikoSuba's thoughts on this and how they feel. I also just wanted to mention that the vibes were so... interesting cause MioMikoSuba were still in character but were being entirely genuine with their responses. It was hilarious, thoughtful, wholesome and just weird as fuck in that way you could only really get with Hololive.

Spoiler: Subaru

Subaru:
She wanted Korone to think about the roads they've been on to get to this point. She said it'd be good not to think too much about the future and just focus on the next step onward. These current times are a result of all the "futures" they've crossed before after all. In terms of their activities, what they do now hasn't really changed from back then. So the best thing to do is to resolve yourself mentally and keep moving forward. Truthfully, the company doesn't really matter. What matters most is what the Holo members personally want to do, so it's best to believe in what you're doing and keep moving forward.

At this, Korone asked her if there aren't things she's anxious about regarding the company. Subaru said no. Even if there are things in the company to be anxious about, whether the talents can solve those things is a different matter entirely. So you just gotta pray that the company will work hard on those things. You can't ever know how the future will work out, so isn't it better to just do what you can in the present and keep moving forward? For Subaru, her priority will always be to ensure that her fans can have fun watching her streams every day.

Spoiler: Mio

Mio:
It makes sense to be worried when a lot of people quit at once. But after working in the field of Hololive and putting a lot of thought into it, those people have decided that a field somewhere else would be better for them and that's fine. But we are all individual people with our own goals, so there's no need to feel pulled in any specific direction by anyone else and start thinking of changing fields. If Korone has truly, carefully thought about this and starts thinking she doesn't want to be in this field anymore then that's okay but... Mio started crying a little and begged her to not go after this.

Spoiler: Miko

Miko:
Miko said Korone 's anxiety isn't just hers, but one that the fans have had as well. It's different for them though because as talents, they can see what happens internally within the company. They have interactions with staff and management and have done so for quite a long time. They've been here for so long, they've seen when the company has messed up and done things badly. They've also seen when the company has moved to fix those mistakes. Despite all of that though, there are parts of the company that even they don't know, which can lead to anxiety.

Essentially, they are talents, not company employees. Their own personal goals and what they decide to do are what will form their own road. Regardless of how the company looks like it's headed, it's s on them to form the world that lies ahead of them. So Korone's path should be her main focus. What she wants to believe in and the people she wants to be with (including the fans) are what matters most. Of course, you'll doubt everything surrounding you as you get anxious about the circumstances occuring. But in those times, you gotta look at the things you believe in, whether it's your friends or your fans. If you look at all of them and find the energy to keep doing your best, then you'll definitely discover many comforting aspects as well.

The worst thing you could do in times like these is isolate yourself and not talk to anyone. You'll start focusing on said anxiety and it'll reach a point where you start believing things that aren't even true. People lose focus on their sense of direction when they're alone, so it's best to talk to the other Holo members as well as staff. They could help you get a very different perspective on things. People may still decide that it's best to leave though and they have the freedom to do that. But sitting around alone and anxious is absolutely not good.

Korone admitted she hasn't hung out with anyone recently. Subaru said that it's best not just for Korone, but for all members, to meet up with her or others and have a party if they have any worries. And this means anyone, kouhais included. The other members will listen to you and talk it out. Mio thought about doing another chikuzenni party.

Miko told Korone to not even think about graduating as she would never forgive her. Korone clarified that she wasn't thinking about it at all, she's just been anxious thanks to everything that's been happening, including feeling lonely after her move. Subaru invited her to a party when she's free and Miko said she knows Korone will be fine after talking things out. Korone agreed as she hasn't had time to process her thoughts nor hear the thoughts of the people around her. So she was very happy she came today.


Korone actually had a stream right after this where she clarified some stuff in the first 10 minutes, though she banned any clips of the part:


Basically though, Korone knew this wasn't really a public topic. Subaru invited her to the stream in advance but doggo said that the company stuff was her only real concern and she didn't think that'd be okay to talk about on stream. Subaru said it was fine and wanted her to come anyways (you can tell cause when Korone's turn popped up, Subaru said something along the lines of "ah here comes a serious topic"). So Korone wanted to reassure her fans that she didn't just sprung this up on them outta nowhere.

She also said the company thing is truly her only real concern right now and she's doing fine otherwise. She apologized as she didn't really let her fans know how she was feeling at all until today. But she also said that she loves them and wanted them to remember what she said at the start of the consultation: About how she knows management and Yagoo care about the talents. She's even had a chance to talk with him recently and could still feel that as well as the kindness of the staff. She knows they truly put the talents first and feels very blessed to be in this situation, so she has no plans of graduating. She really enjoys these moments she spends as Korone so she has no intention to stop. But doing her move to the countryside, not being able to meet with other Holos and then her beloved friend Shion graduating. Everything just kinda built up within her at once and made that anxiety incredibly strong.

Korone knows that not everyone will like that she talked about this on MioMikoSuba's stream in public like that. This internal stuff like the graduations should be discussed delicately, but that's kinda how it ended up today. She made sure to properly listen to Subaru, Mio and Miko and appreciated how kind they were. She also felt a little bad about causing such a fuss and getting everyone worried. Even Polka hit her up right after cause she was concerned, but Korone wanted to reassure everyone that there's no need to worry. She hoped everyone could understand how she was feeling now and moved on to playing the game.

 

[Negzana]

Lui's new outfit looks great

She also appears to be releasing a new song cover and participating in some group event.