[February 2026] VRChat Avatar Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis

A data-driven look back at the new VRChat avatars published on Booth in February 2026, ranked by the likes they gathered. The thread running through this month is a range of character types that goes well beyond the "kawaii" mainstream.

First place went to a cool-style avatar with black animal-eared short hair, sharp golden eyes, and a custom AFK that sleeps on a crystal throne (8,541 likes). Let's start there and work down the list.

📊 About the data　Compiled: 2026-07-13 / Scope: 40 avatars with 300+ likes published on Booth between 2026-02-01 and 2026-02-28

The 10 avatars that stood out

Ranked by like count as of the compilation date (July 2026), with a look at the craft behind each one.

#1: Luchika / こよりLabo

Black short hair, sharp golden eyes, animal ears — a cool, sporty-leaning avatar in a yellow top with a black hoodie, a gold eye motif marking the hoodie's back. February's outright number one at 8,541 likes, more than 3,000 clear of second place. ¥5,500.

The expression stack leaves no gaps: 700 expression shape keys (MMD included) plus 30 for the base body and 21 pre-set expressions. Shrink shape keys prevent outfit clipping, and the action menu ships with expression lock, outfit on/off, and even a brightness dial. The AFK is a custom crystal throne she sits on with eyes closed (the AFK object alone is △24,602). The body is △121,966 with 6 materials, Performance Rank Very Poor.

The quietly important part: she uses こよりLabo's shared base body (the same as Cielly and Minami), so outfits and edit assets from the creator's earlier models carry straight over — exactly what "I collect this creator's avatars" users want.

#2: Caprilina / Midoya

Silver short hair, pale purple eyes, and a fallen-angel motif: a white dress with a chain belt, white wings, and a randoseru-style backpack. True to the "maturity and innocence coexist" concept, she can read as impish or wide-eyed depending on the expression. Second place at 5,282 likes. ¥6,000.

The expression shape keys run thick — 476 for the face plus 141 for the body, covering lip sync, eye tracking, and MMD. It's a PCVR model with full-body tracking support, at △173,485 polygons (with a △70,955 lightweight prefab for editing), Performance Rank Very Poor. The AFK is a playful looping burger-eating animation, and textures ship as editable PSDs.

Post-release momentum is strong too: v1.0.5 added body shape keys and even a reverse Mochifitter profile (fitting Caprilina outfits onto other avatars), and July brought a free yukata DLC. The credits list PV production and a full roster of testers — you can feel the production scale behind it.

#3: Baku / AugmentedDolls

Black hair, blue eyes, tall proportions — a male avatar with a dark, fashion-forward air, from AugmentedDolls, creator of the popular KALNE. Third place at 4,334 likes. ¥6,500.

The facial craft is off the charts: 1,000 shape keys for the face alone (plus 74 body, 11 front hair, 9 back hair). It uses lilToon's SDF feature for natural face shadows with adjustable strength, and a special blink animation where the irises and lashes tremble. Hand gestures combine 7 eye animations (right hand) with 7 mouth animations (left hand), and the menu holds 30+ fixed expressions — including swaps to spiral, all-black, and all-white eyes for horror-leaning moods. Polygons: △144,930 body + △1,714 weapon, 15 materials.

That "weapon" is a Modular Avatar-ready nail hammer — an unsettling prop that tightens the whole look, worn against two monotone outfits (coat and striped shirt) with a barbed-wire necklace. The setup is current-standard (VCC / VRCSDK 3.10.1+ / lilToon 2.3.2), the Mochifitter profile (by エカケイソ) had its shoulder conversion accuracy improved post-release, and the PolygonLoading try-on gimmick is supported. A male avatar in third place is very February — a point I'll come back to in the creator section.

#4: EPBOPO / かなﾘぁさんち

A chibi robot avatar with two orange-glowing light bulbs on its head, long droopy ears, and a long, expressive tail. It's the newest from かなﾘぁさんち, creator of the popular HAOLAN, and part of the Mamefriends shared-base-body series. Fourth at 2,267 likes, ¥5,000. かめ山 provided the base body, Ani-kun the Avatars 3.0 setup, and メメロランド the design work.

The tail is the star. Pull the tail and let go, and it thrashes angrily for a while — and pressing the belly-button switch fires a crackling electric particle effect. The menu calls up 9 tail animations, an original AFK motion is included, and hand signs carry 7 expressions per hand.

Technically it ships both PC (△56,672, Poor) and Mobile (△14,215, Medium) versions — a rare option you can show to Quest-only friends as-is. The Mamefriends shared base (Body_Base and Hair_Base compatible) means the series' outfit catalog carries over, while the page carefully notes that faces, ears, and tails aren't compatibility-guaranteed — honest, reader-first documentation.

#5: Komoe / VRMirage

Fluffy platinum twin-tails, a black bunny-ear headband, and a red randoseru-style bag on a white-and-black lolita dress dotted with card-suit motifs. Fifth at 1,881 likes — and at ¥1,999, the cheapest of the Top 10, the poster child of the "easy to try" bracket.

The support matrix is complete — Unity Humanoid / Modular Avatar / PhysBone / lip sync / eye tracking / full-body tracking / VRCSDK 3.0 — plus VRM support, so it slots straight into Warudo or VTuber workflows outside VRChat. Shape keys number 134 (ARKit included), and post-release updates strengthened MMD expressions and ARKit face capture.

The bundle is unusually generous: a Warudo pendulum-physics preset, a wallpaper video, and pose/photo files all ship in the box. It's complete as a "kit for playing this character," not just a base model. Polygons run △181,923 with 72 materials and 55 textures — users planning edits or optimization should budget some prep work.

#6: Niwatoriko / みどりの森°　MIDORI NO MORI°

A chicken-motif girl with long white hair and big blue eyes — a red comb on her head, hair and skirt that spread like plumage, and yellow leg warmers that read as chicken legs. The whole silhouette draws a chicken. Sixth at 1,828 likes, ¥6,500.

Expression blend shapes total 300+ (200 expression + 52 ARKit + 50 MMD + 20 body + 8 outfit). Hand signs come as 14 signs × 3 sets, switchable by whole facial personalities — "Comical," "Cocky," "Cool," and so on. Touch your own head for 2 seconds to lock an expression (Face Lock), and when a friend pats her head she melts into a soothed face.

The key spec: Quest support (PC △54,258 / Quest △13,625, both Medium) — with just one material on each build, a remarkably disciplined optimization. A characterful avatar that also ships Quest-ready is the kind you can recommend to any friend group. Verified on desktop, VR, 6-point full tracking, and Quest.

#7: Tigria / てぃむ屋

A tiger-boy kemono-shota avatar: black-and-grey stripes, a cross-shaped hairpin and a bell earring, paw pads on hands and feet, and a mischievous streak baked into the character. Seventh at 1,482 likes, ¥5,000.

It's the second collaboration between character designer けもらて and 3D modeler ティムアル (てぃむ屋). Expression shape keys run 85 plus 25 for the body, with 7 pre-set expressions (left hand), and outfit parts — jacket, harness, boots — toggle individually from the in-VRChat EX menu.

SDK3.0 only, PhysBone and full-tracking ready. No Quest version; △136,763 polygons, 9 materials, Performance Rank Very Poor. For anyone hunting a fresh option in the kemono-shota lane, this is the one.

#8: Obsession and Oblivion / 骨機構開発局

A white, bone-like body with a black dome head — and for a face, nothing but a sound waveform that moves with your voice. The product page opens in-universe: "Analysis indicates the subject is composed of uniform bone-mechanism cells." The Top 10's only non-human avatar, eighth at 1,474 likes. ¥3,000.

There are no expression shape keys and no lip sync. Instead, VoiceAnimation — the facial waveform reacting as you speak — plays the role of expression. Trigger the transform gimmick and it shifts into an eldritch form ringed by black-and-gold circuit-patterned arms, with a collider jump on transform, multi-arm behavior controls, and eye-tracking-responsive face patterns.

At △45,806 it's lighter than it looks, on lilToon with PhysBones configured. Updates have kept coming — a chest-volume gimmick optimization, then an on/off toggle for the voice animation. Amid a top tier crowded with cute, committing head-on to "something not human" is exactly what earned the likes — February's most distinctive newcomer.

#9: Dinah / yuufyu.booth.pm

Long brown hair, flower ornaments, and a white lace dress — an elegant, refined avatar. Ninth at 1,424 likes, ¥6,000. Two hairstyles ship in the box — straight long hair and a Gibson-tuck updo — which changes her impression completely against the dress.

The spec sheet is among the Top 10's most generous: 454 shape keys (MMD, VRChat lip sync, and ARKit-standard included), ARKit-standard (Perfect Sync) face tracking, Mochifitter support (forward conversion), Modular Avatar support, and 6-point tracking. △96,263 polygons, 20 material slots, 26 PhysBone components.

For anyone who wants face tracking to genuinely work, this hits hard. Standing/crouching/AFK animations are bundled, AvatarPoseSystem support arrived post-release, and the whole package leans well into streaming and photography.

#10: Mebashiba / MEBA-Fish

A round little mascot avatar that looks like a shiba inu walked straight out of real life — the kind of squishy cheeks you can't help poking. It comes dressed for winter in a knit cap, snowflake scarf, and down vest (Modular Avatar outfit), and rounds out the Top 10 at 1,285 likes. ¥3,000.

The gimmicks are all about affection: pat it and it melts, pinch its cheeks, and it wags its tail for you. There are 16 emotes — rolling around, throwing a snowball — 9 face patterns (28 expression shape keys), and an AFK motion. Color variations cover red shiba, black shiba, white shiba, and husky.

At △15,214 body + △6,048 outfit it lands Medium straight out of the box. It skips MMD, with Android support undecided — a deliberately PC-VRChat-focused build. The creator's note — "I want this to reach people who simply love shiba inu" — comes with an open welcome for outfit makers and fan works, and the つるぎ33D outfit-change gimmick is recommended for expanding the wardrobe.

Trends across February 2026

Stepping back from the ranking, here's what the full pool of 40 February avatars shows.

Metric	Value
Items in scope	40
Average likes	1,218
Median likes	720
Average price	¥4,205
Median price	¥4,000

Median 720 likes against an average of about 1,200: Luchika (8,541) and Caprilina (5,282) pull the average up, but unlike January there's no pair of 10,000-like monsters — one runaway leader plus a thick middle class. The pool grew from January's 32 to 40, and the surge in free releases (more below) pushed the median price down to ¥4,000.

Taste: Cool takes the lead, Dark and Cute follow

"Cool" leads at 11, with "Dark" at 8, "Cute" at 7, "Girly" at 6, and "Gothic" and "Mysterious" at 5 each. The baton passed from January's leader "Dark" to "Cool" — two straight months of dark, androgynous strength. The Top 10 tells the same story: Baku's fashion-forward monotone, the pitch-black non-human Obsession and Oblivion.

From outside the Top 10, the Cool lane's otokonoko entry:

MITUBAのクローバー's "Meteo" is an otokonoko avatar with black hair over the eyes and a deadpan gaze (¥5,000). Shape keys total 571 (425 face + 37 face-shape + 49 face tracking and more), with 21 pre-set expression animations. It uses the +Head shared base body with the neck tuned slimmer than standard, keeping the delicate line an otokonoko needs. As androgynous-cool goes, it's the piece that sums up February's taste chart.

And in the Girly lane, a release notable for who's selling it:

"Lucile" comes from the official avatar shop run by the Daimaru Matsuzakaya department store — a graceful girl designed around a Persian cat and roses (¥6,500, produced by 株式会社V). She carries 250+ expression blend shapes on the shared "Type KOB" base body. She launched the same day as her childhood-friend character "Hinami," and both made February's pool. You can even try her on in the department store's own VRChat world — a sign of how much wider the seller lineup is getting.

Appearance: short hair and tails on top

Short hair 10 / tails 9 / long hair 9 / animal ears and twin tails 5 each. January's leader was tails, but February's short-haired crowd — Luchika, Baku, Ashel — pushed short hair to the top. The tail contingent stayed thick too, with three in the Top 10: EPBOPO's expressive long tail, Tigria's striped one, and Mebashiba's wag.

For short hair × wings, there's also this boy-doll release:

烏有研究所's "Ashel" is a silver-short-haired boy avatar built on the concept of "herbarium × boy doll" (¥5,000). The large white wings come with two open/close animations, and skin, flowers, and clothes ship in color variants like hydrangea, osmanthus, and sakura. With 23 expressions plus 52 ARKit/face-tracking shapes at △69,663, it opens the "Calm Capsules Series" as a fully world-built first entry.

Body type: standard builds at 65%, chibi and mascots thick

The body-type split: standard 26 (65%) / chibi 6 / mascot 4 / petite and tall 2 each. The Top 10 itself seats a chibi robot (EPBOPO), a mascot (Mebashiba), and a non-human (Obsession and Oblivion) — there's a real home for non-standard builds, and the chibi/mascot side thickened slightly versus January (standard ~69%).

The mascot lane's eye-catcher is made of blocks:

CatPrincess's "CUBICO – Block Animals" is a mascot avatar that switches between a block-built dog, cat, and penguin in one body (¥500). The four-legged walking penguin is a rare sight, and it packs 8 original emotes (including a dance and a "wanna go?" step) plus a collider jump. At △3,028 it rates Good with a 0.48MB download — a genuinely tiny build with smartphone (Android/iOS) support, and in VR you can move the head and front paws.

Outfit type: jackets and long coats, spread thin

Bundled outfit types split into jacket, skirt, knee-highs, and long coat at 2 each — a month with no single dominant garment. The Top 10 scatters the same way: Baku's coat and jacket, Luchika's hoodie, Dinah's dress. There's no "school uniform spine" like January had; instead, layered outerwear that changes the silhouette did the talking.

Representing the jacket lane, an adult male avatar:

MetaverseCreatorsTYO's "Yomura" is an adult male avatar with neatly combed black hair (¥6,000). It bundles a full trad wardrobe (△42,580) — jacket, slacks, dress shirts, loafers — with layered swaps like rolled sleeves and a high-neck inner. The base body is shared with the shop's "Licht," and a "Hanka"-body version is bundled too, plugging it into two outfit ecosystems at once. 257 face shape keys.

Price: free releases surge to eight, median falls to ¥4,000

¥5,000+ covers 18 items (45%) and ¥3,000–4,999 another 11 — over 70% at ¥3,000 or more, the usual avatar heartland. February's real change is that eight releases (a fifth of the pool) were free — up from zero in January — and the median price slid from ¥5,000 to ¥4,000.

At the top end, a character brought to life series and all:

Maison ReSURGUM's public-security witch "Keika" is the protagonist of illustrator SWAV's SF-fantasy series "ReSURGUM," rendered as a full-kit avatar with her large staff, small staves, and mission sneakers at ¥24,000. Fully equipped she runs △210,889, with 208 face shape keys and ARKit-line face tracking. This is the price band of welcoming a character, series and all, and a Mochifitter (forward) beta was added post-release.

And from the free side, one that bundles VRM too:

Declab's "Mira" is a free avatar with silver twin tails and a black bodysuit. Both a VRChat UnityPackage and a VRM 0.0 model ship together, with expressions set up via FaceEmo. Free, and opening doors to both VRChat and VTuber use — the emblem of February's free wave.

February trends from a creator's view

From the Top 10 and the full pool, four takeaways for avatar creators — laid out against January so the month-over-month shift is visible.

Metric	January 2026	February 2026
Items in scope	32	40
Median price	¥5,000	¥4,000
Median likes	733	720
Free releases	0	8
Top 10's highest price	¥6,500 (Misumi)	¥6,500 (Baku, Niwatoriko)
Standard-build share	~69% (22/32)	65% (26/40)
Chibi / mascot / petite / tall total	10	14

Notes for avatar creators:

Wrap-up

February 2026's avatars were the month the top taste flipped to "Cool" and the character range blew wide open — male, otokonoko, kemono-shota, non-human, mascot, all in the Top 10. The emblem is Obsession and Oblivion at #8: no expressions, no lip sync, just a facial waveform that moves when you speak — a non-human design that carved out a seat among the cute. Meanwhile Luchika ran away with first place on the classic playbook of 700 expression keys and a shared-body ecosystem. The orthodox and the heretical sharing one Top 10 is what made February fun to read.

The other shift is the doorway: free releases went from zero to eight, the median price eased to ¥4,000, and a department store's official shop and a series-born full-kit model joined the shelf. Yet the winning craft stayed the same — share a base body, connect the outfit assets, keep updating after launch. The playbook individual creators built is now the standard even newcomers follow, and that's a testament to how sturdy this market's foundations have become.

Other categories from February 2026

New releases published on Booth in February 2026 are covered category by category in the monthly report series.

• [February 2026] VRChat Outfit Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
• [February 2026] VRChat Hairstyle Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
• [February 2026] VRChat Accessory Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
• [February 2026] VRChat Small Item Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
• [February 2026] VRChat Gimmick Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
• [February 2026] VRChat World Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis

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About the Data

• Compiled: 2026-07-13 (originally compiled 2026-04-18)
• Scope: Avatars released on Booth between 2026-02-01 and 2026-02-28 (40 items)
• Ranking basis: like_count (Booth's "like" count) at the time of compilation, descending
• Brush-up: this article was restructured to the current format on 2026-07-13, with the ranking and statistics replaced by a same-day re-tally
• Inclusion criterion: VRCFinder's database only collects items with 300 or more likes, so any item below that threshold at compilation time is not included
• Note: All numbers and rankings here are a snapshot from the compilation date and may differ from the current values. "Published" refers to when the Booth product page went public, which may differ from the actual sales start date
• Supported models, specs, and prices are based on each Booth product page at the time of writing. Sale prices and updates may change, so please check the Booth page before purchasing