Odeholo: What We Know About Hololive's First-Ever TV Anime

VTuber anime crossovers are not new, there have been concerts, guest appearances, and the occasional music video with real animation budget behind it. What Cover Corporation just announced is bigger than that. Hololive is getting its own television anime, and the agency spent its 10th anniversary reveal deliberately refusing to say what it actually is.

What was actually announced

During the "hololive Next 2026.9.7" special livestream, Cover and Kadokawa confirmed a new anime project under the codename Odeholo, positioned as one of the flagship projects marking hololive's 10th anniversary. It is described as the agency's first-ever TV anime, a meaningful distinction for a VTuber talent agency whose media output has mostly lived in streams, concerts, and short-form animated content up to this point.

Animation is being handled by Studio KAI, the studio that has quietly built a strong reputation inside the VTuber space by producing a run of official hololive music videos and animated shorts. Handing them a full TV series is a vote of confidence that this is meant to be a real production, not a novelty tie-in.

Why nobody will say what "Odeholo" means

Here is the part that has fans actually invested: Cover has not explained what "Odeholo" stands for, what it adapts, or who the story follows beyond a handful of confirmed talent attached to the reveal. The teaser leaned into the mystery on purpose, framing the abbreviated name as a puzzle for the community to speculate on rather than a placeholder waiting to be explained away in a press release.

That kind of drip-feed reveal is a familiar hololive marketing tool from concerts and merchandise drops, but doing it for an entire anime series raises the stakes. It also means there is genuinely nothing solid yet on genre, format, or episode count, so treat any theory floating around social media as exactly that.

Who is attached so far

The clearest signal about the project's shape is the talent confirmed for the next reveal: Momosuzu Nene, Omaru Polka, Yukihana Lamy, and Shishiro Botan are set to appear in a dedicated Odeholo special stream on September 23 at 8:00 p.m. JST (7:00 a.m. EDT), broadcast on the official Odeholo YouTube channel that Cover stood up specifically for this project.

Whether that quartet is voicing characters, playing themselves, or hosting the reveal as talent rather than cast members has not been clarified, but their inclusion is the strongest hint yet at what kind of hololive fan the project is being built for.

What this means for hololive's anniversary push

Cover has spent the past few years steadily expanding hololive beyond streaming, concerts, mobile games, merchandise lines, and now a television anime. Landing an actual TV anime slot for the 10th anniversary signals that Cover sees animation as a legitimate growth lane for the brand rather than a one-off gimmick, especially with a dedicated animation studio attached instead of a work-for-hire shop doing a quick tie-in project.

It also puts hololive in a strange but increasingly common lane alongside properties like Love Live! and Idolmaster, virtual talent brands that eventually get folded into traditional anime pipelines once the underlying fandom is large enough to support it. Ten years in, hololive clearly qualifies.

What to watch for on September 23

The September 23 stream should answer the basics that are currently missing: what Odeholo stands for, whether it is an original story or adapts existing hololive lore, what the announced talent's actual roles are, and ideally a premiere window. Given Studio KAI's track record with hololive content, expect the visual pitch to lean into the kind of high-production music-video aesthetic the studio is already known for, even if the storytelling format ends up being something closer to a conventional TV anime structure.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Odeholo?

Odeholo is the codename for hololive's first-ever TV anime, announced by Cover Corporation and Kadokawa on September 7, 2026, as part of the agency's 10th anniversary celebrations. Full details have not been revealed yet.

Who is animating Odeholo?

Studio KAI, the animation house behind a number of official hololive music videos and shorts, is producing the anime.

When will more details be revealed?

A dedicated reveal stream is scheduled for September 23, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. JST on the official Odeholo YouTube channel, featuring Momosuzu Nene, Omaru Polka, Yukihana Lamy, and Shishiro Botan.

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