Anycolor announced that the Nijisanji Japan Vtuber Naruse Naru will graduate on August 31, 2024. He debuted in VOIZ back in June 2018, meaning he was with the company for over six years.

Here is the official Anycolor notice about Naruse Naru deciding to graduate. While he will depart from the company on August 31, 2024, fan letters will be accepted until September 30, 2024. Also, as is customary for a Nijisanji Vtuber graduation, we will see the social media account close once he does graduate and videos could be archived. 

Naruse Naru also took to social media to talk about his decision to graduate from Nijisanji. In his statement, he noted that he will still be a part of Vsaikyo 2024. That is the yearly Vtuber Apex Legends tournament. Naru is part of the D.D. Dogs alongside Nijisanji’s Harusaki Air, Cover Holostars Vtuber Rikka, and FENNEL’s Miki "Pinotr" Tsurumaki. That is being held August 24, 2024. 

Most recently, Naru has been playing Apex Legends during streams. He was known for playing games primarily. However, he would also occasionally perform covers of songs as well.

Naruse Naru will graduate from Nijisanji on on August 31, 2024, and he will still be in Vsaikyo 2024.

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The official Sonic the Hedgehog X (Twitter) account has revealed the Shadow the Hedgehog collaboration outfit for Korone. There will be merchandise of her, including an A4 clear folder of her posing with Shadow.

Like Korone’s past Sonic outfit where she’s wearing a hoodie that resembles the blue hedgehog, the Shadow the Hedgehog outfit puts Korone in a black hooded jacket and red sneakers. Her hair is black as well, and she has red eyes. She’s wearing asymmetrical socks in the Shadow outfit, but that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Shadow and is more a fashion choice from her designer.

If you pre-order Sonic X Shadow Generations from certain vendors, you’ll be able to get exclusive goods of Korone in her Shadow the Hedgehog outfit. Amazon will offer an acrylic keyholder. Hanekoto, who was the main artist for Minato Aqua’s game Aquarium, drew this Korone. Meanwhile, if you purchase from Geo, you’ll be able to get a clear folder of her posing with Shadow. The Sonic Team from Sega drew this one.

Inugami Korone is one of the top Hololive VTubers, debuting in 2019 as part of GAMERS. As of the time of writing, she has over 2.1 million subscribers on her YouTube channel. As an official Sonic the Hedgehog ambassador, she has often appeared in events or collaborations with Sega to celebrate or market the blue hedgehog.

Sonic X Shadow Generations will come out on October 25, 2024 for the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, and Windows PC via Steam.

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Hololive VTuber Inugami Korone has shared on her X (Twitter) account the boss character she designed for Lords of Exile. Many of her fans have expressed happiness that they guessed right due to the monster having many design aesthetics Korone likes.

Korone revealed the monster in a QRT of her original Tweet from February 2024, when she announced that Lords of Exile is available to purchase. She revealed that she'd secretly backed this game's Kickstarter and that she also designed one of the bosses in it. Korone then ended the Tweet, inviting players to guess which one she had made. On May 31, 2024, she acknowledged that she was late with the reveal and then showed the correct answer.

Lords of Exile is a retro-looking game that uses an 8-bit aesthetic and a linear-level design. It’s an action and platforming game in which you play as a cursed knight who seeks revenge. There are eight levels in total, with various items and skills you can obtain in order to make your journey easier. Korone tends to play retro games on stream, so her backing of Lords of Exile on its Kickstarter may not have been a surprise.

Lords of Exile is available on the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, and Windows PC via Steam.

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The next Hololive Valkyrie Connect event begins on May 17, 2024, and we now know all four Vtubers who will be a part of it. People will be able to collect playable versions of Hakui Koyori, Ookami Mio, Sakura Miko, and Yukihana Lamy. 

Koyori and Lamy were the first two characters revealed worldwide. You can see that announcement from May 8, 2024, as well as their official in-game art, below.

Brief videos appeared from both after that happened. Here’s the Koyori one:

And here’s the Lamy introduction:

Miko and Mio’s art and appearance showed up on May 10, 2024. Here is how their designs will look in-game.

Additional videos introducing them also appeared. Here’s the one starring Miko:

And here is the one starring Mio:

There were two Hololive Valkyrie Connect crossover events prior to this one, each with four Vtubers from the company involved. The first one from 2022 included Kiara Takanashi, Ninomae Ina’nis, Laplus Darkness, and Usada Pekora. A second one appeared in 2023. In that event, Nanashi Mumei, Ouro Kronii, Sakamata Chloe, and Houshou Marine appeared in the game.

Valkyrie Connect is available for PCs and mobile devices, and the next Hololive event with playable Vtubers begins on May 17, 2024. 

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Cover announced on the Hololive social media account that the visual novel game starring Kureiji Ollie will be slightly delayed. Days with Ollie will now launch on April 22, 2024 on Steam. 

This is an incredibly minor delay. The original launch date for the title is April 19, 2024. The new one is only three days later. No explanation was offered for the launch being pushed back.

Back on April 18, 2024, Ollie apologized in advance for some grammatical issues. She noted that she found some in the first chapter when playing the demo.

Ollie also noted that her collab streams involving the game will be rescheduled and she won’t be around at launch due to undisclosed personal emergencies. She did express that she is “fine,” so people wouldn’t worry.

In addition to starring in her first game, Vtuber Kureiji Ollie will soon be appearing at an event alongside other Hololive members. A concert will be held at Dreamhack Melbourne 2024 on April 27, 2024. Hakos Baelz, Calliope Mori, Houshou Marine, Tokoyami Towa, and Pavolia Reine will also perform. 

The next Hololive Vtuber game Days with Ollie will now launch for Windows PCs via Steam on April 22, 2024.

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Kay Yu, the primary developer of fan-made Survivors-like Holocure, announced a new Hololive game called Holo X Break that will feature Vtubers from the 5th and 6th generations in Japan. The developer also confirmed that update 0.7 for Holocure is still in development.

Based on the screenshots and trailer, Holo X Break appears to be a side-scrolling beat-em-up in the vein of River City Girls, which developer Kay Yu worked on as a key animator. The developer's other work credits include Mushoku Tensei, Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War, and Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp.

The game's plot will follow the Hololive Vtuber agency's Momosuzu Nene, Omaru Polka, Shishiro Botan, and Yukihana Lamy as they attempt to rescue the company's CEO from Secret Society HoloX. While it is currently unknown what platform Holo X Break will release on, the previous game was only available for PC via Steam and Itch.io.

You can watch the trailer of the game in the tweet below, or catch the Japanese language trailer here.

Here are the first four screenshots from the new Hololive game that Kay Yu shared with us on social media:

Kay Yu's previous game Holocure came to Steam in August, 2023, after approval from Hololive owner Cover Corp, alongside update 0.6. The developer also explained how to get save data from the previous version to transfer to the Steam version, for those who were already playing.

Holo X Break will launch sometime in March 2024, though platforms at this time are unknown. Holocure is immediately available through Steam and Itch.io.

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Hololive Vtuber Inugami Korone revealed that she helped design an enemy boss for the indie action platforming game Lords of Exile. The Vtuber shared the news on through her official social media account, and then revealed she “secretly backed” the title on Kickstarter.

Korone was able to design a Lords of Exile boss thanks to the Boss Designer reward tier in the game’s Kickstarter campaign, which was available for 1,400€ (or approximately $1,509). The Vtuber encouraged fans to try and find the boss. Additionally, Inugami Korone shared a hint in a follow-up post about the boss that she designed for Lords of Exile, saying that it is a "small boss."

Here is the original post:

Lords of Exile is a retro-inspired 8-bit action platforming indie game in the style of classic titles like the original Castlevania games, as well as more recent ones like the two Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon games. The game was developed by solo developer SquidBit Works.

In other Korone related news, the Vtuber shared on December 2023 a Sonic the Hedgehog comic that she drew as Sonic Ambassador titled “Fast Friends Forever.”

Lords of Exile is immediately available for the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam.

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There’s a new Hololive video game, and this time it’s a visual novel called Snowed In that actually involved work from Hololive Advent member Shiori Novella. She worked on it alongside independent Vtuber Pending and other individuals and released it for free online via itch.io.

Shiori’s contribution to the game was the script, which she worked on with Pending. She contributed some voice acting for it too. Pending was also involved as a developer. The art is from ekao and Sayowl, with ekao doing Shiori’s sprites and Sayowl working on the key art. 

Snowed In can be played in any browser on any device. It involves the player spending time with Hololive Vtuber Shiori Novella and spending an evening together after a snowstorm hits. Since the plans to go to a restaurant end up canceled, the player and her decide to make due and spend time together at her home.

This isn’t the only Hololive visual novel that’s coming straight from Cover or is official. There’s also Minato Aqua and Entergram’s AQUARIUM, which appeared worldwide, and the Holostars Doppelgangerone. Both of those are paid games, however.

Snowed In is available now in browsers on PCs and mobile devices. Shiori’s last stream was a Lethal Company collab with the other members of Hololive Advent.

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