Sepreth

Discord shut down a nine-year-old To Love-Ru server and suspended dozens of members.

The bans reached people who never posted or shared files, according to affected users and the former server owner.

Discord pointed to safety-rule violations over adult illustrations of the series, some of them AI-generated.

Appeals from passive members were rejected and the permanent blocks stayed.

A study estimates that hololive VTuber Juufuutei Raden’s audio guides for the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art generated around 36 million yen in regional spending.

The museum paid 1.54 million yen for the guides covering its Rodin collection and other exhibitions.

Hitotsubashi University associate professor Tetsuya Aoki and museum staff found about 34 percent of visitors came because of Raden.

Most were from outside the prefecture, many were first-timers, and their lodging rate was more than double other visitors.

Researchers linked roughly half of the 70 million yen in total local spending to those extra visitors.

The gap between a modest fee and the estimated impact shows how the collab reached audiences the museum usually misses.

A Japanese TV debate found that 70% of men in VR environments use anime girl avatars to socialize.

The discussion on ABEMA noted that in VRChat the outfits have more variety and it makes forming friendships simpler.

Some build romantic connections with other people also running female avatars. These are known as “osato.”

One man in his late 30s has stuck with the same cute girl look for seven years, never swaps his male voice, and logs as many as 15 hours.

He says he only wants to be the version of himself he prefers, yet seeing his real face in the mirror afterward is difficult.

The drop from that avatar back to the mirror is a steep one.

Watt Studio released new gameplay for Tsarevna, its ballet-inspired action game set in a dark Slavic folklore world.

The footage shows protagonist Swan cutting down monsters while staying en pointe, chaining air combos and spinning attacks.

Motion was captured from Bolshoi Ballet principal dancer Alyona Kovalyova.

Her sword can shift into a rain of daggers mid-fight, turning each encounter into a deadly performance.

The game is currently set for 2027 on Steam.

After hours in an empty room