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>Roberu hosts his second Solo Talk event on 8/3 and 8/4.
>Pekora breaks the record for highest CCV on a Vtuber gaming stream at 168k, with DragonBallZ: Kakarot. The previous record was also held by Pekora: a 137k CCV stream of Fate/Grand Order.
>GamesRadar interviews holoIndie.
>Nikkei Entertainment interviews Yagoo regarding his upcoming global expansion plans.
>The Bushiroad Card Game Festival for 2024 will include a demo of the Hololive OCG.
>HoloEN Announces a collab with Earth Defense Force 6. Kiara, Gura, and IRyS will appear as DLC Recruiters.
>Mio goes on break due to health concerns.
>Kronii, Ina, Towa, and La+ will take part in the hololive Campus Festival in Korea. When prompted for an interview, an anon wearing a Bibi hat replica simply wagged his eyebrows for several minutes, while sporting a goofy faux-smug grin.

Anycolor Inc
>A chinese attendant of Virtual Rhapsody describes how she was ushered out of her Luca Meet & Greet with less time allowed than her ticket paid for, with staff compensating attendees with 2 randomly-drawn badges of female talents.
>VShojo talent Michi Mochievee describes a "previous employer" that offered to deduct a portion of her pay from each month to cover Michi's tax obligations. However, this employer covered their own taxes with the skimmed funds instead, resulting in Michi receiving a hefty bill from the Indonesian government after not paying taxes for 2 years. As a result, Michi was not able to cover her various medical and mental expenses for about 6 months. Readers confused why this story about a VShojo talent is in the Nijisanji section are advised to do your damn reps.
>Tsukino Mito will unveil a new 3D Outfit on 5/3 @ 8a ET.
>FalseEyeD, known dramatuber, reveals that in 2023, Nijisanji pressured Weebcon (a Texas-based convention) to force False to take down a joke tweet of unknown nature. The source claims that Niji threatened to make it very difficult and/or impossible for Weebcon to book JP VAs and other Japanese guests in 2024 were it not to be taken down. Weebcon has since allegedly cut ties with Nijisanji entirely.
>Official Illustrations for the Nijisanji X J1 League collab has been released, and the online goods lottery has been opened.
>Nijisanji's online store suffers a catastrophic bug which causes payment information displays and voicepack purchases to be randomized, leaking addresses of random people in the system to other puchasers. Additionally, the random voice packs include terminated talents, such as Zaion Lanza and Selen Tatsuki.

VShojo
>The VShojo X Nikke 1.5 Anniversary Music Special will be hosted by Geega and Connor on 5/4 @ 7p ET. It will feature Nikke vocal tracks covered by Zentreya, Mel, Hime, Ironmouse, and Matara.

Phase Connect
>Himemiya Rei releases her second original song, "Last Page".
>Hime also confirms that her first EP project, "Atelier", will be releasing "soon".

Small Corpos
>KemoV releases their first single "Kemono no Kodou" for a limited time.
>Puwapuwa Popura of Aogiri High School reaches 100k Youtube Subscribers.
>A new VSPO talent, Yuuhi Sendo, will debut on 5/2 @ 5a ET.
>Five talents of V4Mirai are confirmed as guests of OffKai Expo.
>Coyote of KemoV is confirmed as a guest at OffKai Expo.
>Re:AcT received a bomb threat against Hanabasami Kyo's live, scheduled for 5/4.
>Project VOX announces they are seeking auditions for male Virtual Idols, local to LA.
>MyHolo TV announces it will become inactive for a one-year restructuring period, effective 5/31. Karrot and Liola will transition to indies, while Liliana and Lunaris will keep using the company IP under a revised contract. Merch will continue to ship as expected for orders in May.
>Tamaki Inyuama announces he will be going on hiatus from streaming activities in May due to the ongoing treatment of his vocal cord nodules.
>Kotoha of AiceClass announces that she will be singing the OP for “The Healer who Was Banished From His Party, Is, In Fact, The Strongest”.
>Kotoha and Hanon (also of AiceClass) also announce they will be featured in the next HoneyFest in June.
>Izanami Kouen will graduate from AiryPro on 5/31.
>Tenhi Terrace will also graduate from AiryPro on 6/29.
>Beatrice Kumano of Mewlive will hold her first Sololive on 7/12.
>RK Music of REALITY Studios will debut 3 new artists this month, with the next teaser scheduled for 5/14.
>Reina Sun of Production kawaii announces a Solo Concert for her birthday, which will be free to attend.

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