VShojo Members: The Full Roster Explained
Imagine the biggest VTuber agency in the West admitting on camera that it spent over half a million dollars of charity money, then vanishing in 72 hours flat. That is how the story of the VShojo members actually ended in July 2025, and it is even wilder than it sounds. This was the chaotic, unfiltered, meme-drenched agency that proved you did not have to be based in Japan to run neck and neck with Hololive and Nijisanji.
So now everyone wants the same thing: the full breakdown of who the VShojo members really were, who left, who stayed until the bitter end, and how a charity subathon turned into the scandal that torched the whole company. We are going to walk you through every name on that roster. The founders, the fan favorites, the early departures, the Japanese branch, and the $500,000 disaster that finished it off. Grab a snack. This one is juicy.
Who Are the VShojo Members?
Let us set the stage first. VShojo launched on November 24, 2020, founded by Justin “theGunrun” Ignacio, Phillip “MowtenDoo” Fortunat, and Daniel “Apek” Sanders out of San Francisco. Ignacio was not some random guy either. He was part of the team that helped build Twitch, so this was a founder who understood streaming from the inside out.
The pitch was simple and kind of genius. Instead of the strict, heavily managed idol style that Japanese agencies used, VShojo let its talents keep their own intellectual property and do basically whatever they wanted. That meant the VShojo members could swear, get horny on main, run wild in collabs, and act like actual streamers instead of polished idols. Fans ate it up.
By 2022 the agency had raised $11 million in funding, and by 2024 people were listing VShojo right next to Hololive and Nijisanji as one of the big three VTuber agencies on the planet. If you are new to all this, our guide to what a VTuber is will bring you up to speed fast. At its peak the roster carried around 17 talents. Let us meet them.
The Founding VShojo Members
The original November 2020 launch class is the stuff of legend. These are the seven names that built the brand from absolutely nothing.
- Ironmouse was the beating heart of the whole thing, a Puerto Rican powerhouse with an operatic voice that could shatter glass.
- Nyatasha Nyanners brought a decade of internet meme history and that infamous switch-flip voice.
- Projekt Melody came over from a very spicy corner of the internet and became an overnight phenomenon.
- Zentreya ran her streams entirely through text-to-speech and still became Twitch’s most-watched VTuber.
- Apricot the Lich (Froot) was the artist and the calm chaos gremlin rolled into one.
- Silvervale brought the cozy wolf-girl energy that made her a comfort stream for thousands.
- Hime Hajime rounded out the early crew as the resident goofball princess.
Veibae joined shortly after in April 2021 and shot straight to the top thanks to her blunt, no-filter British attitude. She is usually counted as part of the classic lineup even though she was not there on day one.
These founding talents did not just build a company. They built a whole vibe that indie VTubers still copy today.
Ironmouse: The Ironmouse VTuber Everyone Loves
You cannot talk about this roster without starting with her. The Ironmouse VTuber phenomenon is one of the greatest underdog stories in streaming history, no exaggeration.
Ironmouse has common variable immunodeficiency, a condition that keeps her mostly homebound and frequently in and out of the hospital. She turned that into a superpower. Streaming became her window to the world, and her fans, the Mouse Rangers, showed up in force. In her September 2024 charity subathon she stayed live for 30 days straight and blew past Kai Cenat’s all-time Twitch subscriber record, climbing over 321,000 active subs and topping out above 326,000. Let that sink in. A VTuber who rarely leaves her home became the most-subscribed person on Twitch, even if only for a while.
She poured that energy into the Immune Deficiency Foundation, raising staggering amounts of money for the cause closest to her heart. We wrote a whole feature on why Ironmouse is one of a kind if you want more on her journey. Keep her name locked in, because she is the person who ends up blowing this entire agency wide open later in the story.
Projekt Melody and Nyanners VShojo: The Icons
Two more founding talents deserve their own spotlight, and both of them shaped the Nyanners VShojo and Projekt Melody VShojo eras that defined the agency’s early identity.
The Projekt Melody VShojo run was wild from the jump. Melody first popped up in 2019 and made her name streaming on Chaturbate of all places, which made her one of the most talked-about VTubers online before she ever touched an agency. When she signed with VShojo in November 2020, she dragged a massive, curious audience along with her. Her 3D anime hacker-girl aesthetic and her genuinely sweet personality turned the Projekt Melody VShojo era into one of the group’s biggest draws. Curious about the person behind the model? We broke down who Projekt Melody really is in a separate post.
Then there is Nyanners. The Nyanners VShojo story goes all the way back to 2012, when she posted “PomfPomfPomf,” a cursed little parody song that became a permanent internet artifact. She spent years trying to distance herself from that early meme content, and her VTuber debut let her fully reinvent as a sweet catgirl who could snap to a deadpan drawl in a heartbeat. The Nyanners VShojo years made her one of the most beloved members of the entire group before she stepped away in 2023.
VShojo’s Later Members and the Japanese Branch
The agency did not stop at the originals. Over the years the roster ballooned.
On the English side, later additions included Haruka Karibu, GEEGA, Kuro, Matara Kan, Michi Mochievee, and singer AmaLee (Monarch), who signed on in early 2025.
In July 2022 VShojo went international and launched a Japanese branch. The headliner was Kson, a giant name in Japan with a past life plenty of fans already knew, alongside Amemiya Nazuna. Later came Henya the Genius, a wildly popular Japanese talent with a cult following that treats her like royalty.
Then in November 2024 the agency debuted VShojo NOVA, a fresh four-member Japanese idol-style unit: Akatsuki Hotaru, Hestia Happiness, Okamoto Nagi, and Yutori Peke. NOVA even launched a record label called UNIVOLT with Universal Music Japan in July 2025, which is honestly heartbreaking timing given what happened days later. Every one of these talents was building something huge right up until the floor dropped out from under them.
Following the VShojo Twitter Drama and Departures
Here is where the story gets bumpy. If you have ever spent time watching the VShojo Twitter timeline during a controversy, you know the fandom does not miss a single frame.
The first big wave hit in April 2023. Within one single week, three of the biggest names on the roster announced they were leaving to go independent. Silvervale and Veibae confirmed they would not renew their contracts on April 26, and Nyanners followed on April 30. Veibae said flat out that the new contracts “didn’t make any financial sense” to her. Nyanners insisted her exit had nothing to do with drama between talents and that the decision was fully her own. The VShojo Twitter feeds lit up, fans panicked, and everyone started wondering if the agency was already in trouble.
At the time the company kept its cool and reloaded with new talent. But looking back with everything we know now, those 2023 departures were the first crack in the foundation. Several of those former members later hinted that money problems, locked behind NDAs, were the real reason all along.
The next hit landed in mid-2025 when founding member Zentreya announced on June 27 that she was leaving VShojo for “new opportunities and a new adventure,” effective July 11. Losing the agency’s most-watched Twitch VTuber stung hard. But nobody, and I mean nobody, was ready for what came three weeks later.
Zentreya’s own announcement of her departure:
The $500,000 Charity Scandal That Ended VShojo
This is the part everyone remembers. On July 21, 2025, Ironmouse dropped a video titled “Why I Left VShojo,” and it detonated the second it went live.
The video that started the collapse, straight from Ironmouse’s official channel:
In it she said the agency owed her a large chunk of her own money, and worse, that VShojo had failed to pass along more than $500,000 raised for the Immune Deficiency Foundation. Much of that came from her 2024 subathon, which pulled in around $515,000 for the charity through Tiltify. Because the money flowed through VShojo, the agency was supposed to hand it straight over. A full year later, it still had not.
For a woman who has spent her whole career fighting an immune disorder and championing that exact charity, this was the ultimate betrayal. The reaction was instant and brutal. Over the next 72 hours, nearly every remaining talent publicly resigned. Froot, Projekt Melody, Kson, Henya, Haruka Karibu, Michi, AmaLee, the NOVA girls, all of them walked. Former members came forward with their own stories of unpaid revenue stacking up for months.
On July 24, 2025, CEO Justin Ignacio admitted the charity money had been “spent by the company,” confirmed VShojo had run out of cash to pay talent, and announced it was ceasing operations. The agency that helped reinvent Western VTubing was dead in three days.
The silver lining? Ironmouse immediately launched her own independent fundraiser for the Immune Deficiency Foundation, and her fans rallied so hard it blew past $1 million in about two days. The VShojo members may have lost their agency, but every single one kept their model and their community, and most are thriving as indies right now. Not a bad ending for the talent, even if the company earned every bit of that fall. If you want more background on how huge this agency once looked, check our old take on why fans thought VShojo might overtake Hololive.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who were the original VShojo members?
The founding VShojo members from the November 2020 launch were Ironmouse, Nyatasha Nyanners, Projekt Melody, Zentreya, Apricot (Froot), Silvervale, and Hime Hajime. Veibae joined a few months later in April 2021 and is usually counted among the classic lineup too.
Is VShojo still active in 2026?
No. VShojo ceased operations on July 24, 2025, after the charity scandal caused nearly every talent to resign within three days. The former VShojo members are now independent creators, and most kept their models and are still streaming.
Why did Ironmouse leave VShojo?
Ironmouse left because the agency owed her a large amount of her own earnings and, most damning, failed to deliver over $500,000 that fans had raised for the Immune Deficiency Foundation. Her July 2025 video triggered the mass exodus that ended the company.
Why did Nyanners leave VShojo?
Nyanners announced her departure on April 30, 2023, to go independent. She said the choice was entirely her own and not tied to any drama with other talent, though the later scandal suggested money issues were a recurring problem behind many exits.
Is Projekt Melody still a VShojo member?
No. The Projekt Melody VShojo run ended in July 2025 when she resigned alongside the rest of the roster during the collapse. She went back to streaming as an independent VTuber, just like she started.
Where can I follow the former VShojo members now?
Most of the former talents post updates on their own VShojo Twitter and X accounts and personal channels. After the shutdown, each talent moved to their own independent socials, so following them individually is the way to keep up.
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Wrapping Up
And that is the full roster. The VShojo members came in loud, reshaped Western VTubing, and went out in a blaze of drama nobody saw coming. From the Ironmouse VTuber run breaking Twitch records to the Projekt Melody VShojo and Nyanners VShojo eras setting the tone in the early days, this crew left a mark the whole scene still feels today. The agency is gone, but these talents are very much alive and streaming. Go show your favorite ex-VShojo member some love. They earned it!
