{"rewrite":{"id":"r_b439950c52a5676d2f8ccd17","clusterId":"c_2030fa45fab953a1e05e2d1c","slug":"asterisk-vtuber-music-event-returns-after-6-years-at-virtual-sanrio-puroland","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"ASTERISK VTuber Music Event Returns After 6 Years at Virtual Sanrio Puroland","summary":"Up Land, the operator of VTuber agencies including .LIVE, will hold \"*ASTERISK in Virtual Sanrio Puroland\" on Saturday, December 12, 2026, six years after the original *ASTERISK online live in 2020. This edition happens inside Virtual Sanrio Puroland, the permanent virtual theme park Sanrio runs on VRChat, with 10 VTubers split across two shows. The first show features Dennou Shoujo Shiro, Carlo Pino, Tooboe Kyan, Zakuro Shiro and Yoshika. The second features Kagura Suzu, Mokota Mememe, Gurenbatsu Maru, Kagura Nana and Jinsei Tsumiko. Performers come from .LIVE and Vpi plus four VTubers outside Up Land. Sanrio and its subsidiary Gugenka, the XR company, are cooperating on the production. Part of the park will be rearranged with an *ASTERISK theme, and an original stage built for the day will be installed. Some performances will use outfits from wearverse, Up Land's metaverse apparel brand. Tickets for viewing inside VRChat and separate online streaming tickets are planned, with prices and sales dates to be announced on the official X account and the special website.","whyItMatters":"The 2020 *ASTERISK ran as a streamed video event; staging the revival inside a Sanrio-run VRChat park with a physical-company subsidiary producing it puts a corporate VR venue, not a streaming platform, at the center of a VTuber live.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe 2020 edition ran on December 30 and brought together 11 VTubers, among them Dennou Shoujo Shiro, Mokota Mememe, Inuyama Tamaki and Hanabashi Kyou, crossing agency lines. Six years later the lineup keeps that cross-agency shape: 10 performers across two shows, drawn from .LIVE and Vpi plus four VTubers from outside Up Land.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst show: Dennou Shoujo Shiro, Carlo Pino, Tooboe Kyan, Zakuro Shiro and Yoshika\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSecond show: Kagura Suzu, Mokota Mememe, Gurenbatsu Maru, Kagura Nana and Jinsei Tsumiko\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVirtual Sanrio Puroland opened in December 2025 and runs around the clock, 365 days a year, reachable from anywhere. For this event part of that world is redressed in *ASTERISK style, and a stage built for the day sits inside it. Gugenka is producing the event alongside Up Land, with Sanrio cooperating.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStreaming tickets exist so people without a VRChat setup can watch on a PC or smartphone, the same way a regular online live works. Up Land describes the revival as rebuilding *ASTERISK on a new stage, VRChat, at larger scale than 2020. Some sets will use wearverse outfits, and the company has not said which VTuber wears which. wearverse is a VRChat apparel brand that Up Land plans to extend from clothing into avatars and worlds.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"ASTERISK's return puts 10 VTubers inside Virtual Sanrio Puroland, with Sanrio and Gugenka co-producing. The venue partnership, not the six-year gap, is what makes this edition different from the 2020 online live.","twitterPost":"ASTERISK returns inside Virtual Sanrio Puroland, with Sanrio and Gugenka co-producing. The venue partnership is the new part, not the six-year gap.","threadsPost":"ASTERISK's comeback runs through Virtual Sanrio Puroland, and Sanrio and Gugenka are co-producing. Ten VTubers across two shows, with wearverse outfits on some performances. The Sanrio partnership is the part that separates this from the 2020 online live.","newsletterBlurb":"Up Land is bringing *ASTERISK back on December 12, 2026, this time inside Virtual Sanrio Puroland on VRChat instead of as a plain online live. Ten VTubers split across two shows, with four from outside the company's own agencies. No ticket prices yet.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"KAI-YOU\",\"url\":\"https://kai-you.net/article/96932\",\"title\":\"VTuber music event \\\"ASTERISK\\\" returns after 6 years; Den-nou Shoujo Shiro and others to perform live in Sanrio's VR space\"},{\"source\":\"PANORA\",\"url\":\"https://panora.tokyo/archives/160973\",\"title\":\"Appland to Hold VTuber Music Festival \\\"*ASTERISK\\\" at Virtual Sanrio Puroland on 12/12, Revived for the First Time in 6 Years\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":11369,"outputTokens":1499,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792768032,"createdAt":"2026-10-23T15:01:54.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-23T15:06:05.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T15:06:05.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_2030fa45fab953a1e05e2d1c","canonicalTitle":"VTuber音楽イベント「ASTERISK」が6年ぶり復活　電脳少女シロらがサンリオのVR空間でライブ","representativeArticleId":"a_668bb703fe4cb0f4851b55b8","sourceCount":2,"writtenSourceCount":2,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":false,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Virtual Sanrio Puroland\",\"VRChat\",\"*ASTERISK\"],\"studios\":[\"UpLand\",\".LIVE\",\"Sanrio\"],\"people\":[\"Dennou Shoujo Shiro\"],\"type\":\"event\",\"domain\":\"vtuber\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-23T12:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-23T13:06:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T15:06:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"KAI-YOU","url":"https://kai-you.net/article/96932","title":"VTuber音楽イベント「ASTERISK」が6年ぶり復活　電脳少女シロらがサンリオのVR空間でライブ"},{"source":"PANORA","url":"https://panora.tokyo/archives/160973","title":"アップランド、「Virtual Sanrio Puroland」にてVTuber音楽の祭典「＊ASTERISK」を12/12に開催　6年ぶりの復活開催"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Virtual Sanrio Puroland","VRChat","*ASTERISK"],"studios":["UpLand",".LIVE","Sanrio"],"people":["Dennou Shoujo Shiro"],"type":"event","domain":"vtuber","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":["*ASTERISK in Virtual Sanrio Puroland is scheduled for Saturday, December 12, 2026.","The event is the first *ASTERISK since the original online live on December 30, 2020.","Virtual Sanrio Puroland, the venue, is a permanent VRChat theme park that Sanrio opened in December 2025.","Up Land organizes the event with cooperation from Sanrio and its subsidiary Gugenka, and plans separate VRChat viewing tickets and online streaming tickets."]}