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>Akihabara Games Main Store will host a Magical Girl Holowitches pop-up shop until 3/15.
>Hololive and Abema tease a new event to take place at the Ariake Arena from 9/26 and 9/27.
>Hololive Meet announces that Shiori Novella will be in attendance at Color Fiesta.
>Hoshimachi Suisei will appear at CENTRAL FEST 26, at the Red Brick Warehouse stage on 4/5.
>Kori-Ojou announces "Dear Diary", a concert on 3/7, held in Palm Harbor, Florida.
>Maid Mint x Ayamy collaborate for a maid cafe at Cafe ASAN near Akihabara, from 3/7 to 3/22.
>Offkai Gen 5 announces Daiya Fortuna, Juan Unagi, KSON, Saiken MD, Lazuli, and Promisu EN as guests.
>Oshi Vision announces Bonnie Barkswell, Laphi, Xiulan Long, and Lucks Shi as guests.
Other
>A JP Job Recruitment Agency is accused of ripping thumbnails of various vtubers, altering them with AI, and reposting them as recruitment ads.
>A number of indie vtubers corroborate numbers indicating that they are losing 100+ real viewers in every stream since Twitch updated how they tally viewers.
>Amarynn hosts a Valentine's Day Karaoke Relay.
>As a tie-in for "Ichijōma Mankitsu Gurashi!", Marika Belltree debuts on 2/17.
>BeeMorningVT, an indie, is arrested for possession of CP. As a follow-up, most indies and artists with any connection to him have issued statements distancing themselves from him.
>General GEEGA announces the opening of a sponsorship-centric company running "Sponsor Bot" custom software.
>Impersonators of Neuro-sama have begun attempting to hijack her music.
>Luminaris launches a cram school, where all of the teachers are vtubers.
>Pyro Pups Center announces that there are fake signed Sinder V-Cards on sale on eBay.
>Some tweets to EU audiences are being shadowbanned, particularly by users that post sensitive content.
>The Korea Times announces that PLAVE, a Virtual K-Pop Boy Band, has become the first virtual idol to sell more than 1 million copies, with their 3rd EP, "Caligo pt. 1".
>Tokyo Noir Familia, a GTA RP group, releases a group cover of "I Want It That Way".
>Tomoe Umari announces that she will be sponsoring the Offkai Gen5's Artist Alley.
>VTuber Nook moves to a new URL.
Obituaries
>Fionna fon Engels announces that her husband of 8 years has passed as of 2/12.
>Miyashiro Edamame, JP indie, announces via posthumous tweet, that she has passed away as of 2/19. Cause of death is stated to be acute myeloid leukemia.
>VGenerates' CEO, ValidityXP, announces that Keiga King (previously known as Pemobu) has passed away as of Spring of 2025, with the news only being publicized now due to poor contact with family. The exact circumstances of Keiga's death are not clarified, but it is assumed that it was related to the Chronic Granulomatous Disease Keiga was receiving treatment for.
