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Hololive
>Flare celebrated her birthday on 4/2. The merch sold out in 10 minutes.
>Suisei's newest single, BIBBIDIBA, enters the JP Billboard Hot 100 at #27, beating her previous record of TEMPLATE (#97) and GHOST (#99), but not the overall vtuber record (Tokyo Shandy Rendez-vous @ #21).

Nijisanji
>Kuzuha, Salome, and Kanae will be part of a collaboration with ASAP CLUB, an energy drink.
>NijiPuppet will release their next wave of merch on 4/4, consisting of Ex-KR members. Anon says "There's still Koreans in the company?"
>Luca's Birthday merch for 2024 includes a signed charm, with a distinctly different signature. This corroborates previous elements of Raziel's document, but does not outright confirm their full contents.

VShojo
>Matara Kan is scheduled to host a panel at OffKai Expo.

Phase Connect
>Himemiya Rie is suspended from Twitter (formerly "X (formerly Twitter)") due to her April Fools' prank of pretending to be Hatsune Miku. This was previously reported in the April Fools' roundup.
>Fujikura Uruka celebrated her birthday on 4/1.

Small Companies
>VERSEn integrates its talents into VEE.
>MaiR of ALIVE MUSIX reaches the crowdfunding goal for her national tour.
>MAHA5, an ID corp, announces a gaming peripheral collab with Fantech.
>Nekoyama Sena of YumeLive will debut a new model on 4/6.
>Neo-Porte announces the rescheduling of the 3D Debuts of their 1st Gen talents. They will take place on 4/14, 4/20, and 4/21.
>Shibuya HAL of Neo-Porte is announced to be on the 22nd episode of AWA Stage.
>VReverie, known for losing 6 talents in 3 months, announces a new generation of 5 vtubers, to the confusion of everyone.
>Socks Vtubing Agency CEO Florkofcrows did a Twitter AMA. Indicates that they will be releasing a trailer, among other important details. Readers are advised to look into the AMA for full details.
>AMPTAKxCOLORS, a JP vtuber group, announces an affiliation with STPR Inc, a JP entertainment company.

Indies
>Zou Kageno will be publishing a "Vtuber Ghost Stories" book, featuring Norio, Inari Iroha, and Kazuya Seto.
>Olivia Monroe, notable ballerina and pink woman, was hospitalized on 4/1 due to an issue of extremely low blood pressure. She has since returned home and will be seeing a heart specialist. She is expected to return to streaming later this week.
>Uwo's Lab, formerly known as uwu_to_owo, debuted his official Live 2D Model on 4/1.
>Juniper Actias will be debuting her new model on 4/5.
>Kitanya, known for being "here" (maybe also /here/), is retiring her current "Hero" Tanya model, and will be debuting a new "Feesh" Tanya model next week. This is a normal occurrence, as Kitanya changes her model roughly once a year.
>Mint Fantome will be having her return stream on 4/4.She will also attend OffKai, in Matara's panel.
>Beribug launches her first merch line with V-Oshi.
>OniGiri had a collab with Petra of NijiEN.
>Shindigs, notable vtuber overlay creator, is interviewed by PC Gamer about his overlays and the stuff that other people make on the internet.
>Chiroru, a JP vtuber fan of the Hanshin Tigers (a JP baseball team) reaches 110k subscribers.
>Bao announces she will be attending VeXpo.
>Aogiri High School closes their official FANBOX, and replaces it with a Ci-en account. If you don't know what Ci-en is, it's FANBOX but for streamers.
>kyOresu, a semi-notable EN vSinger, announces she will be debuting as a vtuber on 4/20.
>Hoshikage Lapis, a JP indie, wins the V-TIPS virtual triathlon, and the prize of a 3D Model.
>EVREN, an ID indie circle(?), announces that Neisa Voetius (a former ID indie) will be joining them as staff.
>MomatCookieBox will debut 4/4 @ 9p ET.

Other
>Mahjong Soul hosts a vtuber tournament for its 5th anniversary
>Legal Mindset, a legal youtuber, announces that he has been hired by idol Corp to consult their talent contracts, and offer suggestions to make the contract benefit the talent more.
>DLsite announces suspension of VISA and MasterCard payment processing.
>Loli Kami Requiem, Cunnytopia National Anthem, hits 90m views.

Local
>/#/ releases their monthly round-up of tables and charts for the month of March.
>A /wasp/ discord leak reveals that members of that discord (consisting only of female vtubers) are responsible for various raids, attacks, and other schizo activities on multiple threads.
>Yubicraft celebrates their 3rd anniversary, and plans festivities for this weekend.
>NASFAQ confirms big mooner is REAL, and Lui is the buy of the day. Mori also takes a dive just before her birthday live.
>VGTC organizers are investigating the possibility of moving the event up to June.
>Ogey Calibur Tournament sign ups open; will close on 4/19, or whenever all slots are taken.

Corrections
>In our April Fools' coverage, Hachi, a JP vSinger, was mistakenly identified as an indie, despite being signed with RK Music.

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