PillowDear raises over $35k for charity

Welcome to another edition of A Week in VT, on a Monday! Let's try this new schedule, I might still write posts on Sundays but they would be scheduled for Monday from now on.

Anyway, this week felt quiet to me. So this will be a short one.

PillowDear and friends' charity event was a success

Self-titled "Wife" PillowDear (according to her Twitter banner) held her charity event, "Best Friends Fur-Ever", trying to raise money for the Best Friends Animal Society (BFAS) on September 14th, 2025.

The event mobilized 40 VTubers for 8 hours of content and raised a total of $35,315 USD, beating the original total goal of $25k.

Various milestones were set with rewards like picking Pillow's Twitter header, guaranteeing streams from Pillow or other participants, letting chat name a foster cat, a PillowDear animal-themed mascot, and at $25k Pillow will vlog her visit to a BFAS animal sanctuary.

The stream started with a small introductory chat, followed by an interview with BFAS, and then headed into collabs. Those include some chatting, karaoke, sharing cute pics of pets, playing an animal memory game, doing animal trivia, and a concert from Phoebe Chan, Hiyori Mokami, and Nini Yuuna.

Missed it? You can watch the VOD on Pillow's channel:

And you can donate anytime to BFAS: https://bestfriends.org/donate

And in short news…

(Re)Debuts
(doesn't include active talents getting new models)

• Mizuky Okami joins LAETA, a small Indonesian corpo, on 9/15. (@laetaofficial / YouTube Live)
• Hui Soteira from VCafeEnt, a small Indonesian corpo, debuted on 9/18. (@huisoteira)
• NIJISANJI (Japan) debuted a new wave, named "Suplare" [すぷれあ], on 9/19 with four boys: Sumeragi Reo [皇れお], Shinomiya Yuno [篠宮ゆの], Shirose Isumi [城瀬いすみ], and Hanago Tsubasa [花籠つばさ]. (PR TIMES)
• StelLive, a Korean group, debuted the first member of their new unit, "Everys" on 9/20: Sakihane Huya. (@StelLive_kr / Chzzk VOD / YouTube VOD)
• Irix Academy, a Japanese joint venture between UUUM and AKA Virtual, will debut their first generation on 9/25: Chikage Maru [千影 丸], Kuon Sena [久遠 星那], Saotome Touma [早乙女 燈真], and Mizuki Yuki [瑞木 ゆき]. (@irixacademy)
• Nyantasia!, a small Japanese group owned by Sanrio and ClaN Entertainment, will have two new members on 9/27: Nyamashuva Lutz [ニャマシュヴァルッツ] and Nyamalbelle Perle [ニャマルベールぺルル]. (@Nyantasia_v)

Graduations / Terminations / Leaving corpo

• Multiple Yorukaze talents are going indie as of 9/5: Liesl Sakimori, Ghani Wysteria, Felix Winston, and Hwong Desou. (@YkzProduction)
• Tuskimiya Ao [月宮あお] (Palette Project) graduated on 9/15. (@tsukimiya_ao)
• Erebus Grey was terminated from Bondlive EN, after "all the events that have occurred recently". One of them is lying about being friends with popular content creators (like Rachie, or Rinkou Ashelia (Lia) from Phase Connect), saying she was helping Ironmouse in her legal battle with VShojo, and generally being a stalker. (I usually ignore Bondlive-related stuff, but she was considered the "face" of it, and it now concerns other VTubers.) (@bondliver_en / @nyemerachimera)

Original Music

• La+ Darknesss (hololive) sings "Jumping in TIME" for the upcoming JRPG game MIRESI: Invisible Future. (YouTube / Game Website)
• Airani Iofifteen (hololive Indonesia) released an Indonesian version of her original song "Here I am" on streaming platforms. (@hololive_En / YouTube)
• hololive English -Myth- released their original group song, "Fortune Spinner". (YouTube)
• Yuko27, Indonesian indie, released her original song, "Fate Torns Between Two Sides". (YouTube)
• Ironmouse released her original song, "Hell Again". (YouTube)

In general

• The ASMR VTuber Awards 2025 were held on 9/13. (Twitch VOD Part 1 and Part 2 / List of winners)
• The Small VTuber Awards 2025 is opening their nominations on 10/1. Talents should have under 100cv and 10k followers, you can nominate yourself. (@ThePetrichoral)
• Goddess Order, an upcoming gacha game, is collaborating with hololive for events with Usada Pekora and Mori Calliope for the game's launch on 9/24. (@GoddessOrder_EN)
• The hololive production Official Shop will be applying changes to their login system and will no longer accept Shop Pay and PayPal as payment options, suggesting that they are moving away from Shopify. If you have pending orders, you should probably check your profile before 10/15. (Website)
• Shirakami Fubuki and Tsunomaki Watame (both of hololive) will voice characters in the upcoming game Etrange Overlord, with Watame also singing the theme song. (Side note: Shinichirou Ootsuka, character designer and illustrator for Re:Zero, is also working on this.) (@etrange_game / @etrange_game)
• Viora Weissheart (VOLs) held a karaoke relay of 24 VTubers, titled "The September Sadgirl Serenade". (YouTube Playlist)
• Shiina Asherah is hosting a virtual DJ party, "Cruise Night Club", on 10/4 and streaming it on Discord. (@shiinaasherah)
• Mint Fantôme is doing her first 3D live for her birthday on 10/1. (@MintFantome)
• BBC covered VeXpo during Tech Now. (YouTube / Catbox archive)
• Ex-NEXAS and C4TALYST member Moka Rokie is ending her live streaming activities and will only work on music. (@MokaRoki_ / YouTube)
• Veibae goes into indefinite hiatus after struggling for months to go live after she left VShojo and being reportedly falsely targeted. (@Veibae)
• Korean VTuber Myoya passed away on 9/16, as announced by her brother on Naver Cafe. (via @cheong_yul / Naver Cafe)
• People are still waiting for merch from the NIJISANJI EN x Smiley World collab, more than a year later. (@naku_goal)

And some light stuff

• Dokibird bought a nobility title and is now the Duchess of Sealand. (@dokibird)
• Jelly Hoshiumi (Phase Connect) is having a stronk. (@jellyhoshiumi)
• Gigi Murin didn't forget what day it was yesterday and streamed for 8 hours. It was an unarchived stream so there are only reuploads, or here's some highlights. She also released the "Carol of the Grems".

Closing words

And that's it for this week!
This was a very light edition, but that's bound to happen at some point, right?

See ya next week~