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Here's the round-up for today.
Hololive
>Calliope Mori returns to streaming on 5/27 @ 9p ET, following her knee surgery. She announces a new album, "PhantoMime".
>Holostars JP & UPROAR!! release a collab MV of an original group song: "Kaleido Parade" on 5/25, celebrating Holostars' 5th Anniversary.
>Gavis Bettel, Machina X Flayon, Banzoin Hakka, and Josuji Shinri will have their 3D showcases and a follow-up 3D collab in June.
>Cover's Q4 Investor's Meeting Transcript has been released, in both Japanese and officially-translated English. Readers are advised to read the report in full themselves. An extremely abridged summary of the report indicates that Cover still considers itself in its "growth phase", does not feel that expanding their talent roster is currently the best path of growth going forward, and will be continuing experiments with Holoearth and other projects. They still expect to grow about 20~30% for FY 2024.
Nijisanji
>Alban Knox announces that he will be going on an extended hiatus "to pursue personal projects and growth". There is no confirmed return date, but he is expected to resume activities in late September/early October. He intends to pursue singing classes, Japanese study, and other aspects he intends to overhaul, to be "the Alban he should've been from the beginning".
>Tsukino Mito, Kuzuha, and Sasagi Saki will have a collab in KNIVES OUT, from 5/31 to 6/13.
VShojo
>StreamCharts reports that Michi Mochievee is the #1 Indonesian streamer on Twitch, with 907k watch hours. The next-highest ID streamer had roughly 24k watch hours reported.
>Matara Kan interrupts Wrestletuber 2024 as an additional surprise competitor.
Phase Connect
>Phase Invaders celebrates their 1 year anniversary. In addition to the expected merch drop, a group cover of "Party!!" and a short video celebrating the anniversary are also released.
Other Corpos
>Lua Asuka of Production kawaii announces a free solo live concert on 6/9. The setlist will include 2 new original songs. The preceding week will consist of a number of event streams celebrating her birthday.
>The Inside Sisters, a trio of vtuber correspondents for Inside Games magazine, announce that they will transition to independent talent under new names, but will retain their existing channels.
>Harry, CEO of NEXAS, removes the 11 months in 2023 he spent as AnotherBall's Growth Lead from his LinkedIn profile. For those unaware, AnotherBall is the parent company of AniLive, the app used by NEXAS to stream to iOS devices.
>Chiaki Katsumi of PixelLink, reaches 10k subscribers on Youtube.
>Shirahoshi Awawa of Varium returned from hiatus on 5/27.
>vα-liv, the Idolm@ster vtuber group, will appear at FUURYUFES 2024, on 6/22.
>Aogiri HS will have a collaboration with Village Vanguard, a JP bookstore specializing in "nerd merch", from 6/1 to 6/23.
>VESPERBELL, a group under RK Music, announce their 4th Anniversary Live, taking place on 6/23.
>Lilia of Algorhythm JP announces a 3-track EP in celebration of her birthday on 6/21. One of the tracks will be selected by fan vote.
>Yuko Yurei of idolEN announces her graduation on 5/31, following a 5-day marathon stream that started 5/27. Her donothon goals will be fulfilled, with some scheduled for release after her graduation. Reason for graduation is not clarified, just that it is "respecting her wishes".
Indies
>Omi_VT, an EN indie, releases a duet cover of "Nobody Loves Me" with VShojo's Michi Mochievee.
>Lord Aethelstan announces he will depart from MSM Talent after he concludes his current sponsorship obligations.
>Aruvn, an EN indie commonly theorized to be the 4th leaked member of NijiEN's Krisis wave, states he will be addressing "some narratives about [him] that happened a year ago" following OffKai Expo.
>Mikeneko's single, "World End", ranks #1 and #4 in the Philippines and German iTunes stores, respectively.
>Leon Daihyou, a notable JP indie, hosts LEAGUE OF LEON, a competition in League of Legends, on 5/27.
Other
>Merryweather and Buffpup defeat Lucy Pyre and Shylily in the Wrestletuber 2024 Day 2 Opening Match.
>Wrestletuber 2024 concludes, with Gavis Bettel of Holostars EN winning the tournament, then immediately losing it to Unnämed, a surprise entrant, due to a countout. However, Dokibird confirmed on Twitter that they will recieve a belt as a consolation regardless. Wrestling enthusiasts note that belts cannot typically change hands due to a disqualification (such as a countout).
>RK Music opens vSinger auditions from 6/1 to 6/30. Applicants must live in Japan and speak Japanese.
Local
>Lord of the Board 3 has announced that sign-ups will open on 5/31 @ 12a ET, and will be open for 2 weeks.
>VGTC Sign-ups close on 5/31 @ 11:59a ET.
Obituaries
>Warumono, a small Indonesian indie, was pronounced deceased on her Instagram account on 5/22. The report was confirmed by their vtuber mama. No specific cause of death was declared, but Warumono had previously been struggling with long-term stomach troubles.