VTuber Hoshimachi Suisei Debuts New Song ‘Moonlight’ in Surprise Shibuya Show

Hoshimachi Suisei surprised passersby in Shibuya, Tokyo on Monday (Sept. 30) by appearing unannounced at Udagawa Crank Street in Center Gai for a compact set promoting her upcoming new single.

With over 2.4 million subscribers on her channel, Hoshimachi Suisei is a virtual YouTuber affiliated with hololive, home of many popular VTubers including Usada Pekora and Houshou Marine. In Jan. 2023 she made headlines by becoming the first VTuber to perform on THE FIRST TAKE, a popular YouTube channel featuring one-take live performances by famous artists. That same year, she dropped her second album, Specter, which was produced by a team of cutting-edge creators including Ayase, Tomoya Tabuchi, Tatsuya Kitani, and Nanahoshi Orchestra (aka Takashi Iwami) and reached No. 10 on the 2023 year-end Billboard Japan Download Albums chart.

Hoshimachi’s surprise Shibuya performance follows her recent sudden revelation of plans for her first-ever concert tour through a livestream on her channel and the Shinjuku Alta Vision. The virtual star kicked off her mini-set with “BIBBIDIBA,” her latest viral hit, and followed up with “Stellar Stellar,” the track she chose for her THE FIRST TAKE performance. She then premiered a new song called “Moonlight,” written by the sought-after music producer Natori, and announced that the accompanying music video would be released after the show and that the new track would drop the following day (Oct. 1) on digital platforms. She then responded to calls for an encore from the crowd that had gathered and performed “Starry Jet” from her first album Still Still Stellar to wrap up her first-ever street gig.

Hoshimachi Suisei is set to appear on the TBS program CDTV Live! Live! on Monday, Oct. 7 to perform “BIBBIDIBA” and “Moonlight” on TV for the first time.