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

2026-05-08Updated: 2026-07-2631 min read · 6,028 words
[March 2026] VRChat Avatar Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis

A data-driven look back at the new VRChat avatars published on Booth in March 2026, ranked by the likes they gathered. What stands out this month is how much wider the character-type spread became: a mature gentleman, a skeleton robot, a wheelchair-riding fantasy girl, and a stingray motif all in one lineup.

First place went to a natural-style kemono-eared girl with long blonde hair, fox ears and a tail, and an EX menu slider that reshapes the ears themselves (15,915 likes). Let's start there and work down the list.

📊 About the data Compiled: 2026-07-13 / Scope: 38 avatars with 300+ likes published on Booth between 2026-03-01 and 2026-03-31

The 10 avatars that stood out

Ranked by like count as of July 2026. For each entry I pull notes from the creator's product page to highlight details beyond what the summary card already shows.

#1: Mayo / Chocolate rice

Long blonde hair with braids, fox ears and a tail, gold eyes — a natural-leaning kemono-eared girl with a soft, modest atmosphere. A new release from Chocolate rice — the creator behind the popular Sio avatar — billed as "The 2nd Avatar : MAYO," this is the creator's second original avatar after Sio. Took the solo #1 slot for March with 15,915 likes, roughly 2.5× second place. ¥6,000.

The default outfit pairs a white sleeveless frilly bib top with a small black ribbon tie + a pale-grey miniskirt + white thigh-highs strapped down + white Mary-Jane shoes — a clean / modest / natural look. The side braid lined up against straight long blonde hair sits well against the white-and-grey palette, and the fox ears can be reshaped via an EX menu "Ear_Type" slider to switch between sharply-pointed ears and a softer, cat-like form on the fly.

Spec depth is the headline: 749 face shape keys + 71 body shape keys, polygon count of 189,702 across 27 meshes / 31 materials, with AFK motion and MMD support included, and texture memory of 60.85MB. Post-release iteration kept going through April: Side Hair mirror version added, gap between neck and face refined, additional UpperLash shape keys added — exactly the kind of polish you'd expect from a creator's second avatar building on what they learned with the first.

The license documents are notably thorough: separate JA / KR / EN / ZH PDFs, VTuber commercial use requires prior contact + a credit line ("Avatar: Chocolate rice"), and modification commissions require both the requester and the worker to own a legitimate copy. License hygiene is strong here.

#2: Riru / ALPHA0

Long silver hair, wolf ears, red eyes, with a band-aid on the cheek and hairpins — a cute / girly-leaning kemono-eared avatar. 6,287 likes at ¥5,000 for second place.

The default outfit is a black long-sleeve sailor-collar mini one-piece with a magenta ribbon and a small white wolf-paw logo + a red choker + black-and-pink platform sneakers, paired with a black beret. The wolf-paw logo on the chest, paw-shape detailing on the shoes, and paw-print background pattern across the product page all reinforce a single "wolf accents scattered across small props" motif — keeping the character setup and the visual language tightly synchronized.

Shape keys are split granularly: 412 expression-creation + 3 eye tracking + 15 lip sync + 16 body customization + 14 hairstyle + 48 MMD, totaling roughly 500 keys. Polygon count is △77,559 — light enough to land around the Poor performance rank. The toolchain is current: Unity Humanoid + PhysBone + Modular Avatar 1.16.2 + lilToon 2.3.2, with full-body and eye tracking covered.

Credits split the work between character design and texturing: Riru and 3D modeling and Unity setup: Hamini — a two-person production where the product page tone, base body, and Unity setup are clearly divided between two roles. Post-release v1.01 added pupil-highlight adjustment shape keys and corrected sailor one-piece weights — the kind of iteration that says ongoing improvement is happening.

#3: Tenchill / Terai Country

Bluish-black twin tails and cat ears — a jirai-kei × yami-kawaii avatar. A new release from Terai Country — the creator who landed January's Torao in this report series — making this two top-10 entries in three months for the same creator. 4,893 likes at ¥5,000.

The default outfit is layered: a white oversized hoodie with front drawstrings, a black pleated miniskirt, black knee-high socks, white platform sneakers, set off by a white halo above the head + small white wings on the back + a cat tail matching the hair color + a white cloud-shaped hairpin + a black shoulder bag. The combination layers jirai-kei silhouettes over angel motifs (halo + wings) over cat accents (ears + tail) in a single coordination — and lines up directly with the cover image's "one eye covered + half-lidded" character expression.

Spec is built around a two-tier polygon construction: 104,999 triangles for the standard outfit, 62,385 for the dress-up base — designed so modifiers wanting a lighter base have one provided. MochiFitter forward-conversion profile included, on Unity 2022.3.22f1 / VRCSDK Avatar 3.0, with VRChat lip sync, hand-sign expressions, and arm-movement morphs all set up.

What's worth flagging is the continuity in Terai Country's voice across these picks: January's Torao (cat-eared short hair × purple eyes × boyish minor build × cute / boyish) → March's Tenchill (cat-eared long hair × twin tails × jirai-kei × yami-kawaii). The creator's signature — "cat ears + a slightly androgynous, dark direction" — is now visible to readers across consecutive monthly reports. Sample world is set up too.

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#4: Shidou / MetaverseCreatorsTYO

Silver hair and a beard — a mature gentleman avatar with gravitas. The single male × tall-build entry in March's top 10, and the product page even ships a separate sample avatar for a "younger version" (black hair, no beard) so the age axis itself is part of the design. 4,331 likes at ¥6,000.

The default outfit is a grey herringbone-fabric jacket + tapered slacks + black shirt + striped black necktie + brown leather loafers + brown leather belt — a properly formal business suit. The shirt's stand-up collar and cuff buttons are cleanly modeled, and the construction reads as an unusually well-built reference example for "male avatar × business suit" in the current marketplace.

The technical highlight is that this avatar shares a base body with StudioYONO's Hanka avatar. Setting Armature Scale to 1.06 + zeroing the Massive and Neck shape keys on BodyAll lets you wear Hanka-compatible outfits directly — a clear contemporary example of male × shared-base culture. On 3/30 the creator added a MochiFitter profile for the Hanka shared base as well.

Spec depth is robust: 827 face shape keys + 56 body shape keys, with polygons split across 34,670 (body) + 42,580 (TradWear outfit) + 2,657 (accessories). The EX menu includes outfit changes (top / bottom) and beard variants (mustache / chin beard / stubble), plus Avatar Dance Stage expression sync. Modeling: YONO / Outfit modeling: Takeru (airgreen) — a collaborative production. The arrival of this much craft on the male × adult side is one of March's more meaningful structural shifts.

#5: Rabi-senpai / QuQu

Long black hair with blunt bangs and sparkling star-shaped pupils — a modest / school-style "senpai" big-sister avatar. A new release from QuQu — the creator behind the popular NecoMaid avatar — at ¥1,800, the cheapest entry in March's top 10 by a wide margin. It gathered 3,493 likes while anchoring the lower price end of the lineup.

The default outfits ship as three prefab styles, with hair color and outfit combined to give three distinct character vibes to choose from. TYPE_1 (black hair × dark navy knit vest × black ribbon tie × black tights) is the cool, composed honor-student direction; TYPE_2 (pale pink hair × cream V-neck sweater × red necktie × navy plaid skirt) is the bright, lively, girly direction; TYPE_3 (platinum blonde × grey jacket × light blue tie × white socks) is the clear, modest direction. The packaging — "keep the school-uniform axis fixed and switch only the atmosphere worn" — pairs naturally with the ¥1,800 entry-price positioning.

Spec is on the lighter side: roughly 60,380 polygons + Performance Rank Medium, with materials cleanly split into Face / Hair / Skin / Wear (4 total). 40+ shape keys for VRC expressions and MMD, with EX menu allowing in-game switching to MMD-compatible mode. SDK 3.0 / PhysBone configured / full-body tracking / lip sync + eye tracking all there. Blink is mapped to the left trigger — even the input mapping is documented.

The creator has published a roadmap: a customizable base body planned for summer, with VRM and perfect-sync support listed as "under consideration" — meaning the ¥1,800 entry-price purchase opens a path of incremental expansion via later add-ons. A trial avatar is also distributed on VRChat to make the low-friction first contact even easier.

Creator's official PV by QuQu

#6: Skeletroid / nanontic

A skeleton-robot avatar with intricate mecha structure visible inside a transparent dome head. The product page describes it as "a skeleton robot themed on a ghost," and the cover image immediately reads as the glowing eyes + antenna inside the dome. 3,395 likes at ¥2,000 — the single mascot-shaped robot entry in March's top 10.

The "outfit" concept differs from the rest of the picks here: the body itself is the costume — a white cylindrical chassis + a transparent dome head + flying-fan elements behind + exposed blue wiring inside the mecha frame + a slim blue antenna. The "ACTIVE" indicator on the eye-area display, the small camera-like detail inside the dome, and the thruster-shaped contours at the rear are all modeled out, with color variants delivered as PNG texture sets. The mechanical detailing itself becomes the character's identity, in place of the human-figure outfit other picks rely on.

The lightweight construction is the standout: 31,574 polygons + Performance Rank Good — the lightest entry in March's top 10. While the rest of the top 10 sits in the standard / tall human-figure space at Poor or Very Poor rank, this build leverages the robot × drone-style silhouette to land squarely in Good rank from day one. 32 preset expressions, 106 shape keys (92 expression + 14 other), AFK animation set up.

The license is a modified VN3 license, published in JP / EN / KO / ZH, and texture data ships as PNG (per color variation) + PSD (default color only) — so a recolor route is built into the pipeline from the start.

Creator's official PV by nanontic

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#7: Rei / Protagonist

Black semi-long hair, an ahoge, a halo, and a shotgun — billed by the product page as "a sister figure who belongs to the upper echelon and looks out for her companions," a combat-themed senior-girl avatar. 3,128 likes, with the standard edition at ¥5,500, designed to cover both photoshoot and combat-roleplay use cases. The single entry in March's top 10 that bundles a Quest / iOS Mobile Prefab.

The default outfit reads less like "school uniform" and more like a paramilitary / agency uniform: a grey collared shirt + a white necktie + a black belt with an ID-card holder + suspenders + a black coat draped over the shoulders + black tight pants + a thigh-mounted gun holster + black combat boots with a thick sole + black fingerless gloves. Underwear-only, body-only, base for dress-up modification, and Kisekae prefabs are all bundled separately, so the outfit can also be stripped off and used as a starting point for full re-customization.

Spec range is unusual: Avatar Polygons: 151,184 + Weapon Polygons: 24,516, with Quest / iOS Mobile Prefab + Lite Prefab (low parameter use) + Bodysuit Only / Avatar Only / Kisekae Prefab — multiple build configurations bundled. Face BlendShape 500+ / Body BlendShape 61 / 28 preset expressions, with a face-tracking-friendly construction. MochiFitter forward conversion supported, with lilToon + Mochies Shader + Modular Avatar matching the current shader-environment defaults.

The shotgun gimmick is the part worth dwelling on: a collaboration between Akiharu (animation assets), MimikuWo, and Gewehr41, with PhysBone + Contact + VFX + SFX all attached. Three reload motions — Side Saddle, Match Saver, and Twin Load — are implemented, alongside a Crouch Pose, an AFK animation with photo customization, and a Weapon Spawn Particle Effect. The combination of combat roleplay × photo composition tooling is the clearest part of why this avatar landed where it did in March.

#8: ChloaGarden / Cloudz

Green hair with blunt bangs and orange eyes — described in the creator's text as "the original character of a human girl who came to ride a ghost train," a fantasy × mysterious avatar. 2,750 likes at ¥4,500. The defining mechanics are crystal-and-rose particle effects + a wheelchair movement gimmick — the creator's worldbuilding shows up in the avatar's actual movement system.

The default outfit layers a green sailor-collar long one-piece + a white off-shoulder mantle + a large red ribbon waist sash with a dangling red cord + a black headband + a red rose corsage + brown leather shoes + white ankle socks — sitting at the Taisho-retro × Japanese-fantasy intersection. Worldbuilding hooks like blue crystals materializing around the ankles and a long rectangular black hair ornament inserted at the crown are wired directly into the outfit itself, which is the design core that lets this avatar's worldbuilding land.

The polygon construction is two-layered: roughly 75,000 for the base character + roughly 20,000 for gimmick parts. Expression shape keys break down as roughly 380 (VRC expressions) + ~40 (VRC visemes / MMD / VRM) + ~80 (base body: left/right shrink, breast flat/big body adjustments). 28 preset expressions, dedicated motions for hover movement / AFK / crouch / chair, Performance Rank Very Poor with a feature-restricted Poor-rank prefab bundled as a two-tier setup. Cloudz uses different base bodies across different works, and ChloaGarden specifically uses the CLZType2 base — currently only this avatar uses it, and whether future characters will share the body is left undecided on the product page.

What's striking about the design is that "particles emitted by consuming flowers and life," "crystals appearing during status effects," and "wheelchair movement" are all set up so the avatar's actual motions trace the worldbuilding directly. For modders, lilToon color-correction mask data + modification PSD/clip files + a VRM file (bonus) + MochiFitter forward profile are all included, making this a viable modification base too. Released on 3/12, with a CACG_WearA_fix.PSD merge issue corrected on 3/13 — improvements landing the day after release.

Creator's gimmick demo by Cloudz

#9: Mio / Atelier Alca

Light blue short hair with a butterfly hair ornament, blue eyes, and a geometric sigil pattern across the collarbone — a cyber-meets-feminine big-sister avatar. 2,032 likes at ¥7,000.

The default outfit is an off-shoulder white frilly blouse + a deep navy long pencil skirt with a side slit + black ankle boots + a black choker with a small star pendant — a quiet, intelligent feminine silhouette that sits in soft lines, despite the cyber-leaning keywords on the page. Symmetrical geometric markings (cyber sigils) across the collarbone and chest + blue nail polish + small flowers scattered through the hair carry the cyber notes, layering it as "static, mature outfit + skin patterns and hair pieces handling the cyber elements."

The technically interesting part is how the heel-mode implementation was reworked post-release. The original v1.00 controlled heels via ankle rotation angle, but the v1.01 update on 3/25 switched to a shape-key implementation (standard outfit value: Heels:100), simultaneously removing the flat-foot FBX, adding a chest-size shape key for the outfit, and tidying up the EX menu's gaze-control toggle. The willingness to redesign foundational modification hooks within days of release is visible. On 3/28, a MochiFitter forward-conversion profile was added, alongside a fix for ankle rotation drift on the White Ver. prefab.

The toolchain is SDK 3.10.2 / lilToon 2.3.2 / Modular Avatar 1.11.0, with an Atelier Alca official Discord server set up for user-to-user discussion. "Modular Avatar–based assembly assumed from the start" is stated in the description — a clear signal that the modification-workflow integration is intentional.

#10: REI / AQU

Blue twin tails, yellow eyes, and a bunny-eared silhouette built on a stingray motif — a refreshing, marine-themed avatar. 1,932 likes at ¥5,000. The product page's concept line is "clear, sea-blue refreshing feel," and this is the single avatar in March's lineup that aimed squarely at the marine direction.

The default outfit pairs a square-neck white-and-black halter harness top + a thin light-blue necktie + a navy jacket with a scale-textured hem + black hot pants + a black belt-pouch on the thigh + black fingerless gloves + thick-soled boots — a sporty × marine combination. The ear shape is a long, curved fin-like extension: viewed head-on it reads as "rabbit ears," but viewed from the side it flows like a stingray fin, giving the silhouette two sides at once. With an electric guitar model and an original soundtrack added later to the package, photoshoot variants with held props are also easy to set up.

Spec breaks out as 135,187 polygons + 709 face shape keys + 48 body all + 50 MMD + 17 visemes, with SDK 3.0 / PhysBone / full-body tracking support. The base body is included, and the swing on the long twin tails is properly built out. MochiFitter compatibility data is published separately by EkaSilicon — a different creator handling the MochiFitter profile, which differs from the bundled-profile pattern seen elsewhere.

Post-release iteration is dense: v1.1 (3/13) launch → v1.15 (3/16, jacket sleeve weight fix) → v1.2 (3/27, Jacket Ver.2 added) → v1.25 (4/4, thumb-base weight + chest normal fixes) → v1.3 (4/13, original soundtrack added + illustration data + 2 new colors + electric guitar model added). Five updates in the first month, with a soundtrack and a guitar model added after release to extend the package over time — an avatar shipping with its own original soundtrack was a unique packaging choice in March's top 10.

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Stepping back from the ranking: here's what the full set of 38 avatars released in March reveals as a group.

MetricValue
Items in scope38
Average likes1,718.5
Median likes695
Average price¥3,321
Median price¥3,650

Median likes at 695, average at 1,718. The median sits slightly below January's 733 and February's 720, but the thick middle layer around 700 likes has held across all three months. The bigger movement is on the price side: the median price fell for a second straight month, ¥5,000 (January) → ¥4,000 (February) → ¥3,650 (March). ¥5,000+ entries still form the largest band at 39% (15 of 38), with ¥3,000–4,999 at seven, ¥2,000–2,999 at four, and four free releases — the entry-level end of the price range keeps widening.

Tastes: Cool leads alone, Dark follows

Top 10 Taste Tags

Which taste/aesthetic tags appeared most in this theme.

Cool takes first place with 10, repeating February's result. Dark follows at 7, then Girly at 5, with Yume Kawaii / Street / Yami Kawaii / Healing / Near-Future at 4 each. January leaned dark, February flipped to Cool, and March keeps Cool on top — the darker, androgynous direction has spent three months settling in as the mainstream, displacing the "cute above all" default.

A representative of the Cool cluster: a silver-bobbed avatar with a from-the-future backstory sits just outside the top 10.

REARV SHOP's "Liarve-chan" pairs a smooth silver bob with cat-ear headphones and crisp double fangs. It adopts FLASTORE's Bodyset2 shared base and bundles a mobile-compatible prefab, so the range of compatible outfits is one of its strengths.

On the Dark side, a lower-tier angel that reads dark through fragility rather than color also lined up.

もくもくねどこ's "Chenye_remake" is an ethereal lower-angel avatar with fluffy drooping ears and hollow black eyes. It carries roughly 350 expression shape keys, a pet you can summon from the Expression Menu, and even bundles MochiFitter forward and reverse conversion profiles.

For the Yume Kawaii axis, a child-build avatar with plush companions stands out.

eruemu's "MOCHINA" combines soft pastel long hair with a pastel street outfit on a child build. Four hand-held plush friends and a kitty cushion are included, with recolor textures to switch the mood — a package aimed straight at plushie lovers.

Appearance: tails take first, blunt bangs / short / long hair tied

Top 10 Appearance Traits

Distribution of appearance traits — hair, ears, eyes, etc.

Tails take first place at 8. Blunt bangs / short hair / long hair tie at 6 each, then twin tails at 5, cat ears at 4, and fox ears / beast ears / horns at 3 each. A month with a high kemono quotient, with tails alone at the top — and the top 3 in the ranking (#1 Mayo with fox ears and a tail, #2 Riru with wolf ears, #3 Tenchill with cat ears and a tail) are all animal-eared. Twin tails at five also placed two entries inside the top 10 (#3 Tenchill, #10 REI), showing the staying power of the format.

The representative of the tail axis is a motherly wolf kemono.

ココナッツショップ's "kamiya" is a soft, gentle wolf female-kemono avatar whose plump build and drooping wolf ears give it a motherly presence. Dedicated outfits and eye-texture support have grown around it, making it the mature kemono representative of March's appearance axis.

For blunt bangs, a girl with twin tails melting from black into pink also released.

へびーねこのキャラクター屋さん's "Nishino" pairs black-to-pink gradient twin tails and blunt bangs with plump lips on a curvy build. The oversized pink hoodie gives it a jirai-kei coordination, landing in the mid range at ¥3,000.

For short hair, a languid male avatar is the representative pick.

LAdeWork's "Elgha" is a tall, dark-toned male avatar with heavy-lidded eyes, beast ears, and horns. A base-body prefab is included with plenty of clipping-prevention shape keys, and at ¥1,000 it made its mark as an easy-entry, modification-first male option.

Body build: standard at ~55%, mascots become the second force

Top 10 Body Types

Distribution of body type and silhouette tags.

Body distribution: standard build 21 (about 55%) / mascot 8 / tall build 5 / petite 3 / chibi 1. Standard is still the largest group, but mascots stacked up to 8 entries — over a fifth of the pool — becoming the clear second force in March. In the top 10, #6 Skeletroid carries the mascot flag, and the non-humanoid layer's depth now shows up in the numbers themselves.

Tall-build representatives are headlined by #4 Shidou (mature gentleman), with another outside the top 10 — a mecha × prosthetic limb × weapon set SF avatar.

In the petite space, a fluffy dog-form kemono also lined up.

A dog-form kemono avatar offering three breed variations — Labrador / Border Collie / Shiba Inu — in a package aimed straight at dog lovers. It's emblematic of how much thicker the mascot-to-petite layer became in March.

Outfit types: full dispersion with no solo leader

Top 10 Outfit Types

Outfit types bundled with these products.

Outfit types: sailor uniform / knee-highs / hoodie / pleated skirt tied at 2 each, and everything below at 1 — a fully dispersed distribution where even the top spot stops at two entries. Compared to January's sailor-uniform lead and February's spread of outer layers, the peak is even lower this month, and no outfit-type trend formed. The rise of mascot builds — avatars that don't wear "human outfits" at all — reads as part of the background here.

A sailor-uniform representative outside the top 10 is a fox-eared school-style avatar.

Vault 6's "Shiraha" adds fox ears and a tail to silver hair, with a sailor uniform that lands cleanly on the modest side. Shape keys are plentiful — 520 for expressions alone — and bonus beachwear and glasses widen the outfit rotation out of the box.

Pricing: ¥5,000+ at ~40%, four free releases and a ¥1,800 entry

Price Distribution

Price bucket distribution for products in this theme during the period.

Pricing distribution: 4 free / 3 at ¥1–499 / 2 at ¥500–999 / 3 at ¥1,000–1,999 / 4 at ¥2,000–2,999 / 7 at ¥3,000–4,999 / 15 at ¥5,000+. The ¥5,000+ band holds the largest share at 39% (15/38), while the free-to-¥2,999 range gathered 12 entries (about 30%), thickening the entry-level end. Inside the top 10 itself, #5 Rabi-senpai (¥1,800) and #6 Skeletroid (¥2,000) both climbed in from the lower bands.

From the ¥5,000+ band, a full-scratch non-human kemono is worth picking out.

化ケノガワ-BAKENOGAWA-'s "ANISHTER-GR" is the grown form of a blue non-human beast that devours the light of dying stars. The star on its chest syncs with lip sync, and tail / ear transformations plus 18 switchable eye designs give it the kind of presence that carries into streaming.

In the ¥3,000–4,999 mid range, a faceless mannequin-style versatile body also appeared.

なでしこ屋's "Mannequin-chan" is a mannequin-style avatar with a wooden-sphere head and visible ball joints. Its simple two-material black-and-white construction makes it useful for outfit try-ons, world displays, and Booth thumbnail shoots — a base-body kind of versatility.

The free-release representative is an upbeat casual design.

BAMI BOOTH's "Bamiko" wears a red varsity jacket over heart-accented black twin tails. Expression shape keys are plentiful — including 49 MMD-compatible ones — and among March's four free releases it gathered the most likes.

Through a creator's lens: body build, polygon split, shared-base patterns

Pulling together four indicators worth flagging from an avatar creator's perspective, drawn from the Top 10 and the broader March pool. Three months are stacked together so the deltas against the January and February reports land clearly.

MetricJanuary 2026February 2026March 2026
Items in scope324038
Median price¥5,000¥4,000¥3,650
Median likes733720695
Free releases084
Top 10's highest price¥6,500 (Misumi)¥6,500 (Baku, Niwatoriko)¥7,000 (Mio)
Standard-build share~69% (22/32)65% (26/40)~55% (21/38)
Chibi / mascot / petite / tall total101417

Notes for avatar creators:

  1. Standard-build share keeps falling — roughly 69% → 65% → 55% over three months, with the non-standard total growing 10 → 14 → 17. March put mascots alone at 8 entries (over a fifth of the pool) and carried #6 Skeletroid into the top 10, while the mature male #4 Shidou, a dog-form kemono, and a mannequin-style base all coexisted in the same month. "My own non-standard direction has a path to the top ranks" is now clearly visible in the data for creators weighing where to build.

  2. Polygon × Performance Rank has split into three patterns — the top-10 distribution stretches from lightest at #6 Skeletroid (31,574 / Good) to heaviest at #1 Mayo (189,702), roughly a 6× spread. Between them sit #7 Rei bundling Mobile / Lite prefabs, #8 ChloaGarden shipping a feature-restricted Poor-rank prefab in parallel, and #5 Rabi-senpai holding ~60,380 / Medium. "Go light from the start / ship a heavy main prefab plus a lightweight variant in parallel / stay heavy and lean into the depth" — all three routes earned rankings in the same month.

  3. Several shared-base operating patterns ran in parallel — #4 Shidou adopts StudioYONO's Hanka shared base and even added a Hanka MochiFitter profile within the month; #8 ChloaGarden uses the CLZType2 base under Cloudz's per-work base-body policy; and outside the top 10, Liarve-chan rides the existing Bodyset2 shared base. "Adopt another creator's base / rotate your own bases per work / ride an existing shared base" — the widening menu of options continues the "shared bases drive series buying" thread that surfaced in February.

  4. Male × adult-direction craft is settling in — January had zero male avatars in the top 10, February had two, and March put #4 Shidou — a mature, silver-haired, bearded gentleman — at #4 alone, with the ¥1,000 dark-toned male Elgha lining up outside the top 10. #4's combination of Hanka shared-base adoption + an EX menu "beard change" toggle — a male-avatar-specific modification UI — reads as the male-avatar segment maturing one step further.

Wrap-up

To summarize March 2026 in one line: Chocolate rice's second avatar Mayo takes the solo #1 slot, with a male gentleman, a skeleton robot, a wheelchair-riding fantasy girl, and a stingray motif filling out a lineup where neither body build nor character type was uniform. Cool led the taste chart for a second straight month with Dark close behind, tails topped the appearance axis in a heavily kemono month, and outfit types dispersed so completely that even the leading tag stopped at two entries. Standard-build share fell for the third month running to about 55%, with mascots growing into the second force at 8 entries.

Polygon ranks ranged from the lightest Good build to heavyweight showcase constructions — roughly a 6× spread — and multiple top-10 entries shipped Mobile / Lite or feature-restricted prefabs in parallel with their main builds. Shared-base practice also split into visible patterns: adopting another creator's base, rotating your own bases per work, and riding an existing shared base. After January's shape-key craft race and February's character-type diversification, March extended the diversity into body build, polygon rank, and base-body strategy — a month where the creators pushing the boundaries of what a character can be saw that ambition show up directly in the numbers.

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Other categories for March 2026

The new Booth releases of March 2026 are covered category by category in my monthly reports.


About the data

  • Compiled: 2026-07-13 (originally compiled: 2026-05-08)
  • Scope: avatars published on Booth between 2026-03-01 and 2026-03-31 (38 items)
  • Ranking basis: like_count (likes) in descending order as of the compile date
  • Brush-up: this article was updated to the latest format on 2026-07-13, with the ranking and statistics replaced by figures re-aggregated on the same date
  • Inclusion criteria: the VRCFinder DB only collects products with 300+ likes, so products below 300 likes at compile time are not included
  • Note: figures and rankings are a snapshot as of the compile date and may differ from current values. "Published" refers to when the Booth product page went public, which may differ from the actual sales start
  • Supported models, specs and prices for each product are based on the Booth product pages at the time of writing. Sale prices and updates may change, so please check the Booth product page before purchasing
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