Vtuber Daiya Fortuna is the latest member of PixelLink to become an independent performer. She announced on social media that, with the help of Vshojo Vtuber Zentreya, she was able to purchase the IP rights from the company in order to continue to work under the name.
PixelLink, a Vtuber talent agency that started operating in November 2022, announced that the company would cease operation on March 31, 2025. This is due to the health issues of its CEO. As a result, every Vtuber the company represented would graduate. PixelLink stated that certain Vtubers, like Kanna Yanagi, Raki Kazuki and Chiaki Katsumi, would be able to continue using their IPs after the closure of PixelLink. Kanna Yanagi had her IP released from PixelLink on February 22, 2025, and the others are still finalizing the details of their release.
Daiya Fortuna was originally slated to graduate and begin streaming under a different identity, but thanks to Zentreya, she was able to gain the rights to her Vtuber IP. She announced her circumstances and went into further detail about everything in a YouTube stream on February 27, 2025. As a result of Daiya now being the sole owner of her IP, every piece of income and merchandise sales resulting from it will be going directly to Daiya Fortuna and her merchandise partners.
Here’s Daiya’s announcement. She also noted another Q&A session will appear in about a week that further explains her next steps.
As for Zentreya, she is known for her outreach and assistance to other Vyubers. She expressed interest in helping fund a new Vtuber’s debut back in July of 2024
As of now, PixelLink has not made any further comments about the negotiations with their other talent who are still negotiating the final release of their IPs. Graduation events will be held for all of the graduating talent until March 16th.
Published: Feb 28, 2025 10:30 am