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A data-backed look at the new small items published on Booth in July 2025, ranked by the likes they gathered. What stood out this month was props that don't finish with the owner — they need someone else in the room.
First place went to a cigarette-shaped artifact you light, draw on, and hold out to someone else's lips (7,283 likes). Let's start there and work down.
📊 About the data Aggregated: 2026-07-26 / Scope: small items published 2025-07-01 to 2025-07-31 with 300+ likes (107 items)
Top 10 Small Items
Ranked by like count as of July 2026, with a look at how each one works.
#1: Illusionist / TRISTA
A magical artifact called a "Tactical Burning Core," shaped like a cigarette. It's a three-piece set — box, lighter and cigarette — in black and silver, with a rose-and-baroque pattern on the box and a cross emblem on the lighter (which can be toggled off). Solo #1 among July small items (7,283 likes). It's a new release from TRISTA, the creator behind the popular small item "Seeker [Magic Gun]," bringing a gunsmith's level of detail to a photo prop.
The appeal is the sheer volume of gimmicks. Just the everyday motions — pulling out and putting away the box and lighter, opening and igniting the lighter, lighting the cigarette and smoking it down over a few minutes, flicking ash, throwing it, holding it in your mouth and passing it hand to hand — add up to over a dozen actions. On top of that, an attack form unlocks a "fire gun" that shoots flame from the lighter, a fireball from exhaling and igniting combustible smoke, an exploding thrown cigarette, a smokescreen, and a full-volley cigarette launch.
The one to watch is Global Mode. Turn it on and players who both own the item can pass cigarettes from the box to each other's mouth, or light each other's cigarettes — interactive gimmicks between users. Quietly lighting someone else's cigarette has long been a familiar bit of VRChat communication, and what's praised here is how the piece layers the flashy attack-form effects on top of that classic exchange to widen the play a notch further.
It's △14,379 polygons with 30 parameters, and comes with 7 box colors, 4 lighter colors, 2 cigarette colors and a PSD. It assumes lilToon + Modular Avatar (MA 1.9.13+), is not Quest-compatible, and is built for serious PCVR play. ¥2,100.
#2: MoguMogu Delivery / PetiDoll
A retro-cute set item built around a "delivery" concept. It's made up of 6 colorful donuts, 4 softly animated ribbons, a retro coiled-cord handset (mosimosiPhone), and 6 pull-and-eat "mogumogu" donuts, with the menu card listing donut types like Flour / Heart / Normal / Star / Rabbit. #2 with 4,585 likes.
The donuts double as world assets, so they work as accents in cafe or photo scenes — a nice two-sided appeal. The handset comes with position data fit to 20-plus avatars including Manuka, Shinano, Airi and Shinra, while the ribbons and mogumogu donuts are positioned to your head yourself. The price is a choice between "All Menu ¥600" and "All Menu + Delivery Fee ¥900" (identical contents) — a playful bit of pricing that lets you add a "tip" for the creator.
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#3: mechanic shark / marumaru
A navy-and-cyan glowing mechanical shark with a segmented, jointed body. Normally it follows your avatar like a pet, and if you get too far away it catches up with a jet burst from its tail fin — a charming bit of behavior. It cuts power as if turned off while you're AFK, and issues a warning if held too long; situation-aware motions are woven in throughout. #3 with 4,289 likes.
The highlight is the transformation gimmick. Transform it from the EX menu and its mouth opens into a muzzle, and in that state it can fire a beam. While transformed it world-anchors and returns to its initial position, and the back fin shifts to reveal a sit point a friend can ride on. It's a greedy little piece that's pet, vehicle and weapon in one body. Assumes Unity 2022 + lilToon + Modular Avatar, ¥800.
#4: Kip-Boy / ととの玩具箱
A gimmick-equipped 3D model that recreates the wrist-mounted information terminal from a certain post-apocalyptic game. It carefully captures that terminal's vibe — STAT / INV / DATA / MAP / RADIO tabs on a green CRT-style screen, HP / LEVEL / AP stats, and a character silhouette. #4 with 3,190 likes. It's built for Mochiyama Kingyo's Kipfel (Mamefriends), and fits other avatars with size adjustment.
The gimmicks lean into the terminal feel too: it packs a powering-on screen, a knob to switch screens, two lights, a two-stage Geiger counter (with sound), playback of up to three music tracks, and a PhysBone-equipped extendable rear connector. It launched on 2025/7/25, but was updated to v2.0 just six days later on 7/31, adding a cassette-tape slot on top (open/close by tapping with a closed right hand) and a simple pen function on the rear connector. A piece you can sink into for retro-futuristic roleplay. ¥800.
#5: Swaying NEKO / sooool
A small, squishy, cat-shaped plush that wobbles. With simple dot eyes and pink cheeks in white, black and grey-eared variants, it's a soothing little item you can set anywhere — on your head, on a shoulder, wherever you like. #5 with 2,935 likes, free.
The contents are minimal — just FBX, prefab and textures — and because the PhysBone is already set up, the wobble works the moment you install it. In a month where weapons and gimmicks crowded the upper ranks, this collected its support with sheer "no positioning needed, free, and just plain cute" decisiveness — a piece that's simply soothing to have around.
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#6: Fluffy Airplane / KBのおもちゃ箱
A vehicle gimmick: climb into a classic red-and-white propeller plane and float through the air. Its biggest selling point is that players who both have the airplane can dogfight (air battle) each other, complete with shooting, taking hits, and managing HP and ammo. #6 with 2,235 likes.
What stands out is how the creator kept working on it after release — continuing to add auto-reload on firing, a posture-lock function, an operation guide display, and stronger position adjustment. The parameter count was even trimmed from the original 110 bits in later updates: ongoing tuning aimed at keeping it usable long-term. There's confirmed-working info for a dozen-plus avatars including Mamehinata, Shinano, Manuka and Nemesis, and with Modular Avatar a supported avatar installs just by dropping in the prefab. ¥1,000.
#7: Circuit Breaker / おぎにり
An electric bow where the voltage (charge) builds with how far you draw the string. With a look of blue-white discharge forming the string and arrow, the draw amount changes the power and effect across three stages: Volt Arrow (10–50% draw) → Charge Volt (50–90%) → High Charge Volt (full draw). #7 with 1,926 likes.
Operation completes via hand signs — bring both hands together and open to ready the bow, close to return it to your back, grip the string, draw and release — an archery-like sequence. The particles have hit detection set up, so they interact with colliders in compatible worlds. There's careful attention to the current workflow too, with both WriteDefaults on and off supported. At an easy-to-reach ¥700, it's a weapon gimmick where how far you draw the string maps straight to power and spectacle — the satisfying feel of charging up before you let go.
#8: Nuei-nu kf / ウェルニッケ原野
A palm-sized Takopi with a round body, small wings and a single flower — fan work based on the manga Takopi's Original Sin. It has an animation so it moves a little, and squeeze it hard and it cries. A free release that also throws in a make-up ribbon and a dokudami flower. #8 with 1,766 likes.
The product page adds a note asking those uncomfortable with violent depictions to take care. Positioning is fitted to Lapwing, though adjustment lets it attach to other avatars. As the creator puts it, this was "made for myself, as a one-off joke" — something thought up and handed out just as it was.
#9: Sabakoori Ice Pillar / うさぎ屋VR
A large ice pillar standing in a metal washtub — a prop for cooling off. In the product page's own words, an "ice pillar that looks like it would brute-force a room cold," built as material to place in a summer world. #9 with 1,677 likes, free (with a ¥200 support tier). An ice pillar in a washtub calls straight back to the late scene in the film Summer Wars, where the family scrapes together every bit of ice in the house to cool an overheating computer.
It's light at △1,476 polygons with two materials. The placement advice is unusually concrete: the tub uses a metal finish, so a reflection probe improves how it reads; the transparency and refraction make heavy placement costly; and depending on render queue settings, clothing can disappear when seen through the ice — all three noted up front.
Less a prop than a piece of world decoration. It sits within reach of anyone building a summer world who needs something that reads as "cool" at a glance.
#10: Nekopen Plush / nekopenshop
A plush of a "nekopengin" — a penguin with cat ears. Black back, white belly, an orange beak, and two little triangular ears poking up from its head. Grab the round, swollen body and pull, and it stretches right along with you. #10 with 1,623 likes, free.
nekopenshop released it with the note that it was "made for myself, but it came out cute so I'm sharing it," and the contents are minimal — just a unitypackage. Attach it wherever you like, grab it, stretch it. Nothing more is asked of you, and that plainness is the appeal. Later updates fixed the texture and lightened the model, then added a "mouth-held nekopen" prefab you can stretch with your teeth, along with a bone-free model.
It's fan work modeled on an avatar edited from Chinpantei's Bird, and the product page states that permission to distribute it was obtained from that creator. Alongside the cat mascot at #5, two free pieces you perch on a head or shoulder and jiggle landed in the upper ranks together — one of the quietly interesting things about this month.
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July 2025 Trends
Beyond the ranking, here's what the data says about all 107 small items published on Booth in July 2025.
| Metric | Value |
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| Items in scope | 107 |
| Average likes | 881 |
| Median likes | 584 |
| Median price | ¥500 |
| Share that are free | 28% (30 / 107) |
| Share under ¥1,000 | 84% (90 / 107) |
| Items tagged "weapon" | 26 |
| Free items in the Top 10 | 4 (#5, #8, #9, #10) |
Average likes of 881 against a median of 584, with first place at 7,283 and a gentle slope beneath it. Median price is ¥500, and 84% of the field sits under ¥1,000.
Features: lilToon and MA as the base, particles next
Top 10 Features
Distribution of product features, capabilities, and gimmick types.
Feature tags run lilToon 75 and MA compatible 64 as the foundation, then particles 24, world-fixed 16 and PhysBone 12. Install through Modular Avatar, present through particles — that's the category standard.
One release built around its particles.
IRREGULARS STUDIO's "Gouki Bokutotsu" is a weapon model with a blunt, heavy build. The swing effects are part of the design, so the weight reads on screen when you hold it. ¥1,500.
One release goes all in on the scale of the particles.
ミル工房's "In the Name of Love and Justice! Arcana Slave" is a magical-girl effect gimmick: a heart-shaped magic circle and several fantastical circles unfold in a chain, with a beam extending from them. Set both hands to an open sign and the circles deploy and begin a chant, then a beam fires in two stages. Free, with a normal attack added the day after release — and the particles are large enough that the creator asks you to avoid crowded public instances.
From the world-anchor side, one built for summer.
ないさいサイト's "Portable Float Ring" is a swim ring in blue and red-and-white. You can carry it around your waist, and it also anchors to the world, so it works as a prop left in place at a waterside world. Free.
Type: weapons stand out at 26
Top 10 Accessory Types
Distribution of accessory and decoration types.
Type counts put weapons at 26, well clear of guns 7, swords 6, katana 5 and bags 4. Close to a quarter of the category is weaponry. Yet the weapons that made the Top 10 number two: a shark that becomes a cannon and an electric bow. Sheer volume doesn't translate straight into rank, which is part of what made this month interesting.
From the sword side, one free release.
モアイ工房's "Tiant Sword" is a sword model based on a game title. Released free — fan-work weapon models like this hold a steady share of the category.
From the gun side, one release that ships as a pair.
WEAPONSHOP〘 Rebellions 〙's "White Tiger & Black Wolf" is a matched pair of magnum revolvers in silver and black. The inscription along each barrel and the emblem set into each grip are modeled separately, so they hold up as a dual-wield set. Free.
Taste: cute and cool tie for first
Top 10 Taste Tags
Which taste/aesthetic tags appeared most in this theme.
Taste tags tie cute and cool at 16 each, followed by joke 15, Japanese 14 and military 13. Sweet, hard and outright silly sit level with each other — and the Top 10 puts a donut delivery set next to an electric bow.
From the joke side, one built on food.
トラ's Kitchen's "Watermelon Saber" is a joke weapon where a single slice of watermelon stretches straight into a greatsword. Released free as a thank-you for 400 followers. Small items are small to build, which makes them natural material for turning a passing idea into something you can hand out.
On the military side, one scaled down.
七時工廠's "KV Mame Tank" is a palm-sized deformed tank — released as No.5 and No.6 in the Mame Tank series, numbering upward to build out a line. ¥1,000.
Price: ¥500–999 holds 43 items, 30 are free
Price Distribution
Price bucket distribution for products in this theme during the period.
The distribution runs free 30, ¥1–499 at 17, ¥500–999 at 43, ¥1,000–1,999 at 15 and ¥2,000–2,999 at 2. 84% of the field falls under ¥1,000, with a median of ¥500. Even in the Top 10, only first place passes ¥1,000.
From the free side, a milestone release.
Lawdamassy's "Jihi Naki Danshou" is a weapon model given away free to mark 1,000 followers. Handing out one piece at a follower milestone is well established in this category.
From the ¥1–499 band, one for summer.
ねこパン屋's "Uchiwa Gimmick" is a Japanese fan painted with hydrangeas. Fan yourself and an actual wind effect appears, and the fan itself can be scaled up to an absurd size. It works as an accessory to a yukata and as a joke at once, at ¥300.
July trends from a creator's view
Four things worth noting from the Top 10 and from July as a whole, read from a creator's side of the table.
| Metric | July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Items in scope | 107 |
| Median price | ¥500 |
| Median likes | 584 |
| Share that are free | 28% (30 / 107) |
| Top 10 price range | Free (#5, #8, #9, #10) – ¥2,100 (#1) |
| Top 10 usable with another person | 3 (#1, #3, #6) |
| Top 10 with a PV | 5 (#1, #3, #4, #6, #7) |
Notes for small item creators:
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Props built for two took the top — first place passes a cigarette to another owner and lights it, third seats another player on its back, sixth dogfights against the same model. Tying a prop to an action with someone else in the room shows up directly in the ranking. VRChat is a place people meet, and a prop that needs two to complete gets talked about.
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Build gimmicks in degrees — how far you pull, how hard you touch — the seventh-place bow shifts across three stages with the draw, the eighth-place Takopi cries when squeezed too hard, the fourth-place terminal responds to a thumbs-up or a knock. Not on/off, but a result that changes with the force or shape of the motion — that's what the fun ones have in common.
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Free arrives by four different routes — all four free entries in the Top 10 got there differently. Eighth is a one-off joke handed out as-is, ninth is material for a summer world (with a ¥200 support tier), tenth was made for the creator's own use and shared because it turned out cute. The trend section adds a 1,000-follower and a 400-follower giveaway. Milestone releases, shared whims, and free-plus-support tiers all sit on the same shelf — a range the category's small build size makes possible.
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Disclosing install costs earns trust — sixth states its 110 bits and three sit points, third notes the six-sit-point ceiling, ninth warns about reflection and render queue. Vehicles and large gimmicks eat avatar budget, so letting a buyer judge whether it fits before purchase is itself part of the product.
Summary
July 2025 in small items was a month where props that need someone else in the room took the top. The cigarette artifact at first place passes one to another owner and lights it. The mecha shark at third seats a player on its back. The plane at sixth dogfights against the same model. None of them complete with the owner alone — the action needs a second person.
The other thread was gimmicks built in degrees: a bow that shifts across three stages with the draw, a Takopi that cries when squeezed, a terminal that answers a hand shape. Not on and off, but a result that comes back scaled to the motion. Within a field with a ¥500 median and 28% free, being small to build is exactly what lets an idea become an object right away — and that speed is what this month's ranking made visible.
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Other categories from July 2025
New releases published on Booth in July 2025 are covered by category in these monthly reports.
- [July 2025] VRChat Avatar Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
- [July 2025] VRChat Outfit Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
- [July 2025] VRChat Hairstyle Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
- [July 2025] VRChat Accessory Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
- [July 2025] VRChat Gimmick & Tool Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
- [July 2025] VRChat World Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
About the data
- Aggregated: 2026-07-26 (original publication aggregated: 2026-05-29)
- Scope: small items published on Booth between 2025-07-01 and 2025-07-31 (107 items)
- Ranking basis:
like_countin descending order at the time of aggregation. Both the ranking and the statistics in this article have been re-aggregated - Inclusion: the VRCFinder database only collects items with 300 or more likes, so anything below that threshold at the time of aggregation is not part of this set
- Note: the figures and ranking here are a snapshot from the aggregation date and may differ from current values. "Published" refers to when the Booth product page went live, which can differ from when sales actually began
- Specifications and prices reflect the Booth product pages at the time of writing. Sale prices and updates can change, so please check the Booth page before purchasing
