[Mega Roundup] What Will You Make This Summer? VRChat Summer Asset Archive 2024

This is a one-article archive of the VRChat "summer" items published on Booth across 2024 — 730 of them, as tagged by VRCFinder's own aggregation. From that pool I picked 70, sorted into swimsuits, yukata, summer casual, accessories, props, worlds, textures, gimmicks, hairstyles, avatars and sound. It isn't a straight ranking: the goal is to be a seedbed for your "what should I make this summer?", so each category covers the proven classics alongside the ideas that made me sit up.

The item at the top of it all is a festival-themed yukata that comes with paper fans, candy apples and pinwheels — and a version you'd wake up in (15,628 likes). Let's start with the shape of 2024 as a whole, then open the drawers one by one.

📊 About the data　Aggregated: 2026-07-30 / Scope: items published 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 carrying the "summer" tag with 300+ likes (730 items)

Summer 2024, the Big Picture

First, the numbers behind the 730 summer items of 2024.

Metric	Value
Total "summer" items	730 (596 of them outfits)
Swimsuit / bikini family	334 (about 46% of everything)
Yukata, kimono & jinbei	39
Median price	¥1,200
Free releases	44 (about 6%)
Published June–August	375 (about 50%)

By outfit type, swimsuits and bikinis dominate, followed by shorts, sandals and tank tops — the skin-showing side of summer. The taste chart adds a little more texture.

Below the big sexy/casual/girly clusters sit 64 Japanese-style items, 60 marine and 35 resort — the "directions" a summer can take. And here's the twist of 2024: swimsuits win the volume by a mile, but the single most-liked item of all 730 was a yukata. That tension — mass in the water, the peak on land — is the year in one line. Let's go category by category.

Swimsuits — the Main Battlefield

The swimsuit/bikini family counts 334 items — about 46% of all summer releases, and by far the most crowded arena. When the field is this deep, a merely pretty bikini gets buried. Line up the top performers of 2024 and the pattern is blunt: the ranking is decided by what you mixed into the swimsuit.

The winners are all mash-ups

Nurse, tracksuit, cyberpunk. The top three swimsuits are all crossovers with another genre.

Pinky Nurse / C.C.MATILDA

A nurse costume and a bikini, folded into one outfit. A piece by C.C.MATILDA, the creator behind the popular outfit "Grimoire". Sleeveless top, sleeved top, one-piece and bikini combine into four documented ways to wear it.

The clever part is how much room it leaves for the buyer. The chest name plate takes your own name or a photo, and the matcap on the blood pack you carry can be swapped for whatever you like. An IV stand and syringe used in the promo shots ship in a bonus folder, so the "photographed in a hospital room" scene arrives with the clothes.

The sales design has a hook too: the full pack gets more expensive every time an avatar is added, so buying early pays off. Two years on from release, support has grown to 15 avatars. ¥2,000 for a single avatar, ¥5,000 for the full pack.

BIKINI & TRACK REBOOT / EXTENSION CLOTHING

A bikini layered under a track jacket, built to be "a bikini set you can wear anywhere." A piece by EXTENSION CLOTHING, the creator behind the popular outfit "Danzai Sailor", and the sixth numbered release of their 2024 line — a from-scratch rebuild of their 2022 signature 'BIKINI and TRACK', two years on.

The off-the-shoulder track jacket is detailed down to its lining, with rigging tuned for the dropped-shoulder silhouette. Take the jacket off and it reads sportier still, and the top strips back in three stages so you decide how much skin shows.

The extras carry real weight: a clear-material waist pouch, a smart watch, a phone and platform sneakers. The jacket alone has 36 colorways. The full pack lets you download future avatar additions for free, and support covers 9 avatars including Lumina, Shinra and Manuka. ¥1,800 single, ¥4,200 full pack.

Neon Nova / Chocolate rice

Cyberpunk neon, wrapped around a bikini. A piece by Chocolate rice, the creator behind the popular outfit "Classical chic". The horns, the circuit pattern across the jacket's back and the soles of the boots all glow cyan, and AudioLink support makes them react to the music around you.

The product page is a delight: instead of a spec list it opens with three things to try — "pull the horn on the right!", "ask a friend to pull the short tail!", "go exploring in an AudioLink world!" Horns and a tail built to be pulled are, in effect, a conversation starter shipped inside a swimsuit.

The build splits finely into jacket, corset, choker, thigh belts, loose socks and a cybernetic device, each toggled separately. Supports 12 avatars including Sio, Shinra, Moe and Kikyo. ¥2,100 single, ¥5,500 full pack.

Resort staples, and a free front door

Behind the mash-ups came the royal-road resort look, and one release given away for free.

Summer Holiday / #Relee

The resort classic, done properly: a frilled off-shoulder bikini with a botanical-print pareo and a straw hat. A piece by #Relee, the creator behind the popular outfit "Common Days", bundled with a necklace, earrings, bracelet, waist chain, lace-up leg ribbons and heeled sandals. Eight colors, from blue and purple to orange and green.

The neat engineering touch: on every supported avatar except Manuka and Ichigo, the outfit's breast shape keys are wired to follow the avatar's own. Change the avatar's value and the clothes track it, so there's no re-tuning every time you swap bodies. Support kept growing after release and now covers 23 avatars including Kaguya, KUMALY, Plum and Ramune. ¥1,390 single, ¥3,490 full pack.

mini_Shirts_Bikini / kamony-land

A swimsuit given away to mark 1,000 shop followers. A micro bikini in a black-and-white geometric print, worn under a sleeved cropped jacket; the jacket alone appears in black, blue, purple and lavender across the promo shots.

Recoloring is refreshingly blunt — drag whichever material you want onto the object in the hierarchy. A PSD and FBX ship alongside the unitypackage, so anyone who wants to paint their own pattern can. Supports 10 avatars including Chiffon, Karin, Selestia and Zome. For free, that's a lot.

Seaside Sweet Bouquet / てんぱすおおもり

A one-piece swimsuit built around a bouquet motif. A piece by てんぱすおおもり, the creator behind the popular outfit "Honmei Knit". Off-shoulder puff sleeves, a frilled bust and a laced back make it read closer to a dress than a swimsuit, and it comes with a flower-loaded boater hat, flower wedge sandals and a pearl anklet.

Eleven swimsuit materials in all, running from bright pink and blue to monochrome florals and black stripes — the page frames the range as "everything from bright and cute to a chic, grown-up palette."

Post-launch care has been generous too: a frilled swim ring and a drink cup were added free in 2025, and a 2026 pass cut texture memory from 35MB to 11MB. Supports 23 avatars. ¥1,800 single, ¥3,300 full pack.

Depth of the bundle, breadth of support

Two outfits that competed on "how much do you get from one purchase."

Frill Marine Bikini / かぷちやのぶーす

A marine bikini in navy sailor collar and white frills. The smart move is in how it's divided: frilled and plain versions of both the top and the bottom are all included. Strip the frills away and you have a clean triangle bikini, so one purchase carries two faces. A hat, sandals and thigh ribbons round it out.

At roughly 53,367 triangles with one material and two textures, it's light. And the 45-avatar support is a team effort — 3D by しあ, textures and promo art by ぷも, four more people handling avatar fits, and a tester photo session behind it. The compatibility chart is published as a public Google spreadsheet, and unsupported avatars can be requested through the creator's FANTIA commission slot. ¥1,800 single, ¥3,500 full set.

PoolParty / BLUESTELLA

Swimsuit, hair, swim ring and particles in a single package. The swimsuit piles on frills and ribbons, and the original braided hair — with its own dedicated shape keys — comes in 17 colors. Butterflies and sparkles for the night sky are in there too, so a photo shoot is ready out of the box.

The swim ring is the showpiece: inside its holographic clear body, liquid and gemstones drift around via a dedicated shader. The top's frills toggle off with a Hide_Frill shape key, giving this one two faces as well.

It's BLUESTELLA's second original design, supporting 17 avatars including Manuka, Selestia, Kaguya and Ash. ¥2,200 single, ¥4,000 full set.

Into a mermaid sea

One outfit that left the beach entirely and became the sea.

Rippling Crown / CYCR

A mermaid dress under the banner "the symphony of the sea." A piece by CYCR, the creator behind the popular outfit "Midnight Fox 2.0", built entirely from underwater forms: a transparent crown shaped like a splash of water, strands of pearls, jellyfish earrings and a long frilled hood.

The headline inclusion is a mermaid tail that covers the whole lower body, available both as fins worn at the feet and as a full tail replacing the legs — which makes underwater world photography work straight away. Nine colorways, from mint and white and purple through gold, red and black.

There's care for modders too: the setup is documented so that exporting from Blender over the FBX doesn't cost you your PhysBones. Supports 7 avatars. ¥1,800 single, ¥3,500 full set.

Yukata & the Japanese Summer

The Japanese-wear family — yukata, kimono, jinbei — counts 39 items, barely a tenth of the swimsuit pool. And yet the single most-liked item of all 730 came from those 39. Festival classics, tie-ups with real clothing labels, a goldfish evening and the steam of a hot spring: a small category, densely worked.

Festival classics, dressed up and down

Four outfits that went straight at the summer festival.

YUKATA Matsuribayashi / EXTENSION CLOTHING

The number one item of all 730 summer releases in 2024. It's the fifth numbered release of EXTENSION CLOTHING's 2024 line — the same shop behind BIKINI & TRACK REBOOT above — and their first ever piece of Japanese wear. A black ground with large florals, plus a drawstring bag, a paper fan, a candy apple, a pinwheel, a hair ornament and geta, each toggled from the radial menu.

What pushed it to the top is that a loosely-worn "just woken up" version ships as a separate mesh. Switch from the neatly-dressed version to the open-collar one at any time from the menu, and a scene nobody could shoot before — the morning after a night spent in a yukata — is suddenly available.

Yukata and obi combine freely, giving 21 documented looks. Supports 10 avatars including Milltina, Shinano, Shinra and Manuka, and the full pack covers future avatar additions for free. ¥1,400 single, ¥3,400 full pack.

Yukata: Girly Style / Natelier

A yukata pushed in a girly direction — a pale blue floral with a large hair ribbon and a woven basket bag. It's by Natelier, the same shop as Summer Casual in the section below, and the ten colors run from that pale blue to navy hydrangea, a white teacup print and black with white lotus. The matching hair ribbon and geta change color along with the fabric.

The build makes one firm decision, stated plainly on the page: the chest is flattened identically across every avatar. Rather than following each body's smallest setting, it protects the silhouette a yukata is supposed to have. At 49,604 triangles and four materials it's light, and the head ribbon has a shape key for tilting it. Supports 11 avatars including Shinra, Manuka and Moe. ¥1,800 single, ¥5,000 full pack.

Hannari Haikara Yukata / #ichicoro_Plus

A Taisho-retro palette with frills, finished with a boater hat. It's by #ichicoro_Plus, the same shop as YO-SORO! Sailor Marin below; the yukata itself runs about 29,000 triangles, with geta, a kanzashi, a fan and the hat on top.

What I admire here is the honesty of the page: "because of how a yukata works, every size is built at the smallest chest setting and there is no jiggle support" is stated in large text twice — once at the top and again in the compatibility list. No unpleasant surprises after purchase. On top of that, a short modding manual covering how to wear the hat and handle the materials is published on FANBOX, heading off the usual stumbles. Supports 20 avatars including Manuka, Lime, Chiffon and Nagi. ¥1,800 single, ¥2,800 full pack.

Ordinary Yukata. V2 / フジヤマロマンス

"An ordinary yukata. For summer festivals and fireworks displays." The product description is that one line, and the outfit lives up to it: ankle-length, obi tied, thonged footwear, nothing showy. What isn't ordinary is the pattern range — sunflowers, lemons, goldfish, camellia and hemp leaf, plus fried eggs and pineapples.

V2 rebuilt the obi mesh for every supported avatar, reworking the sash, the obi cord and the bow at the back. The support list is unusual too, reaching 24 slots that include MARUBODY bodies, Yoru the dragon, LETHALFREET and Zome — bodies that Japanese wear usually never reaches. ¥1,500 single, ¥4,500 full set.

When a real clothing label becomes a yukata

The standout structural story of 2024's Japanese wear: two tie-ups with real-world clothing brands.

Furifu Yukata / BLUESTELLA

An official tie-up with "Furifu," the Japanese-wear brand of Sansho Co., Ltd., a company in its 94th year. The yukata collection sold in physical stores is recreated in 3D, and the print line-up is the brand's own — goldfish, cats, waves, seashells, sailing ships, temari balls. The heko obi and obi cords are modeled too.

The extras cover tasseled kanzashi, white lace gloves, a fan, cotton candy, a candy apple and geta. Most distinctive is how it's sold: a limited window each summer, with the edition revised every year to add avatars and prints. From the first edition in July 2024 it has been reissued each summer, and support now reaches 34 avatars. ¥1,980 single, ¥3,800 full pack.

Modern Yukata: Sanzenfuga / BLUESTELLA

The same shop's fourth tie-up with DEORART, a gothic and punk clothing label. It follows the line that produced the popular "Punk-Style Furisode Hoodie", and centres on a black ground with gold-thread floral brocade, joined by red florals, a red-and-white geometric and a pink-purple komon — four prints in all.

The footwear is where it stops being a yukata: studded platform sandals rather than traditional geta, in three designs — gold carp and waves, a gold dragon, and red spider lilies. Punk hardware meets Japanese motif head on. Support covers 9 avatars, four of them masculine bodies — Kuuta, Minase, Komano and Kanata — which makes it a rare option in a badly under-served corner. 98,924 triangles. ¥2,200 single, ¥4,000 full set.

A goldfish evening and an inn full of steam

Two releases that built a whole scene rather than an outfit.

Yurameki Natsukoi / 白猫通りのナギ亭

A Japanese-style set with goldfish and summer flowers across the skirt, finished with a fox mask. The top and skirt are separate pieces, with sleeves, cuffs and geta included. The showpiece is light: in dark places the pattern and the gold thread glow, which makes the skirt the main event at a night festival or under fireworks.

The fox mask ships with a gimmick that lets you take it into your hand on touch and release it with a peace sign, so lifting the mask off your face lands naturally.

The work is split three ways — modeling by なぎちゃん, texture and design by ろき, logo, gimmick and the fox mask by ゆづきあおい. And the way support expands is unusually open: the creator takes paid requests for unsupported avatars and publishes the rate for it (avatar cost plus ¥5,000, then ¥2,500 for repeats). Running that window has carried support to 36 avatars. Twelve colorways. ¥1,600 single, ¥2,800 full set.

Steaming Hot Spring Inn Set / せいりんのお宿

"Check into the inn, change into a yukata and relax. When the mood takes you, head for the bath and float a sake set in a wooden pail." A whole night at a hot spring inn, packaged. Two garments — a tube-sleeved inn yukata and a bath towel — plus a wooden pail, a sake flask and cups, a drawstring pouch, and a haori added later. Three patterns: arrow-feather, linked rings and tortoiseshell.

The gimmick work is remarkable. Grab the collar and pull, and it opens slightly. From the menu you can kick off the footwear and hitch the hem up into a footbath mode. The pail can be world-locked to float in the water, and tip the sake flask and a stream of particles pours out; bring a cup close and it fills; bring the cup to your head and you drink it. That stream even carries a contact, so it triggers other world gimmicks like beer glasses. The bath towel includes a guard you can toggle on or off.

The business side is honest too: when support passed ten avatars, the full-set price increase was written openly on the page. It now covers 19 avatars at ¥1,700 single and ¥3,400 full set, and a collaboration with another shop later added a ¥500 item-set-only tier.

Summer Casual

The "everyday summer clothes" zone — neither swimsuit nor kimono. 2024's version fanned out in four clear directions: a full everyday set with all the accessories, a single bottom you add to what you own, menswear and event uniforms, and outfits that turn getting wet into play.

A whole everyday summer, in one set

Three releases that deliver the whole "going out in summer" look.

Summer Casual / Natelier

The correct answer to an everyday summer — a white tee and jeans — assembled as a complete set. Sandals, a beret, hoop earrings, sunglasses, a watch, hand and foot nails: nine items, with six watch colors, and nail colors you set freely in Unity. A logo-free plain tee material is bundled too, so it works as raw material for other looks.

The detail that gives it away as carefully built: the jeans carry a dedicated shape key that fills the waist gap when you swap the top for a different outfit. Combining with clothes you already own was designed in from the start. Supports 11 avatars including Shinra, Manuka and Moe. ¥1,800.

#CitrusWhite / #あいかわらぼ

A white off-shoulder top with short denim, kept crisp. A piece by #あいかわらぼ, the creator behind the popular outfit "strayKingCat", with a black-ribboned boater hat and lace-up leg ribbons giving it a girlier outline. The top comes in two lengths, a black camisole is included, and colors run through florals, pale blue, lavender and black.

Its real strength is reach: 44 avatars, covering bodies like Mamehinata, Kipfel and clonka that outfits rarely get to. ¥1,400 for a single avatar, ¥4,500 for the full set.

ASK_ME / Chapter.2

A white shirt slipped off the shoulder over a grey tank top — "the looseness of the morning," turned into an outfit. "It would be very good if a friend was wearing this when I woke up in the morning" — the creator's one line says everything about the world it's after.

The build is deliberately simple, four meshes and two materials, with everything invested in texture. The shirt comes in white, a pastel marble print, black and pale blue. The chest shape keys were tuned so small, normal and large each read naturally. Supports 9 avatars including Selestia, Manuka and Shinra. ¥1,500 single.

Marine formalwear, and a bottom you add on its own

The sea built as a full coordinate, and the sea added one piece at a time.

YO-SORO! Sailor Marin / #ichicoro_Plus

Something like a uniform for the sea — a white and pale blue sailor dress with a red neckerchief and a marine cap. A gold ship's wheel charm hangs at the waist, and the sandals carry a screw propeller that actually spins. Nautical signage scattered through every corner of the coordinate.

On compatibility, it covers the MARUBODY shared-body avatars in a batch — Mellotron, Munkki, Lucifer and others — using a standardised body to widen reach in one move. Four colorways beyond the standard red scarf: purple, black-and-red, and white. ¥1,800, with a matching seagull announced for FANBOX distribution alongside it.

Hot Pants -Stern- / seele

Not a coordinate but a single denim bottom, sold on its own. Black denim with white fur at the hem and cyan glowing stitching and logo, meant to be paired with the swimsuits and tops you already own. 17,656 triangles.

The pricing follows the concept: ¥500 per avatar, ¥1,000 for the full set, across 27 avatar slots including Shinano, Manuka, Lumina and KUMALY. It even handles body-shape keys individually — Lumina's slim and fat sliders, KUMALY's chubby settings — which is a lot of care for a piece designed to just slot into a wardrobe you already have.

Menswear, and the summer of events

Two releases that widened the question of who summer clothes are for.

GRUNGE HOODIE SET FOR MEN / MAISONDARC.

A menswear grunge set — a black zip hoodie, a sleeveless top and a chain necklace with a cross pendant. A piece by MAISONDARC., the creator behind the popular "C1 EXPANSION BIG SILHOUETTE MA1 & HOODIE SET", released as Vol.1 of their STREET GRUNGE COLLECTION.

It supports the masculine body Minase. In a summer-menswear field with very little supply, building street summer out of layered black rather than exposed skin landed hard — 4,784 likes is an unusual figure for a men's piece. ¥1,200.

VRC BOXING Official Uniform / VRCボクシング公式

The official uniform of "VRC BOXING," a VRChat boxing event. Trunks, wristbands for gloves, lace-up boots, a towel over the shoulder for the men's version and a sports bra top for the women's — everything you need to step into the ring, cut for both. Three belt colors (white, blue, red), and textures can be modified.

Free, covering 15 slots from masculine bodies like Minase, Anri and Komano through Shinra, Manuka and MARUBODY. 3D modeling by 3bon. The very existence of "competition wear for an event" as a product category is the interesting part here — community sport turning into a Booth release.

Getting wet on purpose

You can't discuss 2024's summer casual without these two.

Untying Bath Towel / EnergyBird

A bath towel that comes undone when you pull at the chest. The classic post-bath look, made into an outfit: grab the towel at the chest and tug, and it comes undone, falls, and the fallen towel disappears. The page's follow-up note — "since it will come undone, we recommend wearing something underneath. Recommend." — sets the tone nicely.

Later updates added a button that locks the towel against falling plus sync improvements, and removing the components leaves you an ordinary bath towel. Released in January 2024 and still adding avatars since, now at 19 including Shinano, Airi, Milltina, Lumina and KUMALY. From ¥900.

Wet Boyfriend Shirt / marumaru

An oversized white shirt worn on its own, carrying a wet/dry switch. Flip it from the menu and the dry "default" turns into "soaked," the fabric going semi-transparent so skin shows through — a cloudburst or a poolside moment, recreated from the wardrobe alone.

It supports chest shape keys and covers 9 avatars including Moe, Manuka and Kikyo, from ¥1,200. It's by marumaru, the same creator as "Sweat Flowing Down the Cleavage" in the gimmick section — digging at wetness from both the clothing and the gimmick side is a body of work that fit this particular summer.

Accessories

Accessories count 39 items. Mostly a few hundred yen apiece, this is the zone for adding one piece of summer to the avatar you already have. Lay out 2024's top accessories and the motifs sort themselves cleanly: water, goldfish, jellyfish, fruit. You don't need a new outfit — one thing at the head, the ear or the fingertip changes the season.

Wearing water

Wearing water itself was the strongest direction in 2024's accessories.

Water Wing / だまこや

The top accessory of the year is a pair of wings made of water. A piece by だまこや, the creator behind the popular "Beginner's Customization Set", with rippling water-textured wings on the back that scatter droplets as you move. A transparent halo is thrown in, all for ¥500.

Two years later a free update added demon wings, three kinds of horns and a tail, so angel and demon now exist as a matched pair in the same water material. The wings run 3,592 triangles, and the shop's showroom world lets you see them in person before buying. The quickest possible way to wear "cool" on your back in a summer photo.

Fragment of the Sea / Rirmor

An earring shaped like a jigsaw piece with the sea cut out inside it. A small piece hangs from a gold chain, and looking into it opens onto water — carrying one fragment of the ocean around with you. Three color families: blue, purple and blue-green.

The compatibility approach is equally clean: drop it into the avatar's Head bone and it works on anything. It uses lilToon and Poiyomi together to render the sea inside the piece — quietly elaborate for such a small item. ¥800.

Jellyfish Chignon / はるさめ雑貨店

A hair piece that replaces the round chignon buns of Chinese dress with jellyfish. The semi-transparent bell glows from inside, wobbles on PhysBones, and trailing tentacles drift below. The pairing of a Chinese silhouette with something cooling is a smart bit of matchmaking, and it comes in five colors.

At 5,898 triangles it's light, and the page states the shop's design policy outright — earrings, wings and the like are split left and right so that beginners can adjust them. Very much a はるさめ雑貨店 touch. ¥600.

Goldfish, and Japanese fingertips

The Japanese accessories that pair with a yukata were all about goldfish in 2024.

Kingyo Tail / だまこや

A goldfish tail that streams from your back. The long, translucent fin sways gently and makes the back view of a yukata the main event. Two colors, red and black, with a goldfish-tail hair ornament thrown in. 4,032 triangles, MA-ready — drop it under the avatar and adjust the position.

It's from the same だまこや behind Water Wing, the top accessory of the year — two different directions on summer, water and Japanese, from one shop. A ¥500 part that transforms how you look from behind, and a staple finish for Japanese wear.

KingyoNail / An-Labo

Nail tips where goldfish swim through bleeding ink and watercolor. A piece by An-Labo, the creator behind the popular "HoroNail". White grounds carry flowing ink lines, with red goldfish rendered as watercolor bleed and black ones as ink silhouettes — a small suibokuga on each fingertip. Three colors named Inkry, Watery and Nightry, in four tip shapes plus a foot set.

The foundation is interesting: it's built on "MDollnail," Minuet_Doll's shareable general-purpose nail tip base. Painting personality onto a shared base widens the compatible-avatar pool enormously, and a dedicated tool plus a searchable "NailLab" page let you look up whether your avatar is covered. ¥400.

Straw hats and fruit

Two head pieces: the classic against the sun, and summer you want to eat.

Daisy StrawHat / ALICE

A wide-brimmed straw hat that opens with "the white daisy means innocence." White lace edges the brim and a long-tailed ribbon ties at the back, in four ribbon colors: black, white, pink and pale blue. Both ribbon and lace can be removed with shape keys, leaving a plain straw hat.

At 616 triangles for the hat and 2,224 for the ribbon it's light, and it ships with a generous set of customisation shape keys for fitting around different hairstyles. Set up for Manuka out of the box; other avatars need positioning by hand. ¥700.

Fruit Halo / ふわふわすの～

A fruit-punch halo — fizzing bubbles with strawberries and kiwi floating above your head. It's a funny idea, dunking your head into a drink, and it comes with a bubbles-only halo, a watermelon hair pin and fruit hair ties.

Built for Kipfel with a Mamehinata prefab included. This is the same ふわふわすの～ who would later release hair that turns into water; the fizz came first. ¥600.

Bottling a season, and making a sound

Two releases that stretched what an accessory can be.

Seasonal Drop / ことしょっぷ

Earrings with the scenery of all four seasons sealed inside slim transparent columns. Cherry petals, autumn leaves, a snowflake — each season's motif glows and drifts inside its pillar, and the page's line "designed so you can use them all year round" is the whole point: a summer item that stays in rotation by changing seasons.

The fitting rotates on a bone for the angle and morphs on a shape key for the shape, so odd ear geometries are workable. The clearest example of a seasonal accessory built not to be thrown away. ¥600.

Mermaid Nail / おもちやさん

Nails you can hear the sea from. Tips painted with a shoreline and breaking waves, decorated with gold shells, starfish and pearls — and when you bring your hand near your ear, wave sounds arrive. Left and right toggle independently, the volume adjusts, and the audible radius is capped at 0.5m from the nails, so you can share the sound with whoever is standing close to you and nobody else. That restraint is the whole trick.

Seven sea colors named for times of day — Noon, Twilight, Sunset, Midnight and more — with shape keys per nail for curve, width and length. Supports 13 avatars including Manuka, Moe, Kikyo and Shinra. From ¥800, and the accessory-side flagship from a shop that also shows up in the props section.

Props — Festival Stalls & Water Play

Props count 22 items — hold one, or set one down, and a summer scene assembles itself around it. In 2024 the category split into festival food you can play with and swim rings and water guns, with a striking share of them given away free as an entry point to summer.

Festival food you can play with

Summer food doesn't stop at being eaten. A prize, or a swing of a stick, turns it into something shared.

11-Type Ice Pop Set / おもちやさん

The most-liked prop of the year is an ice pop that tells you whether you won. Eleven flavors — two watermelons, blue hawaii, choco mint, matcha, soda and more — and after five bites, the stick reveals a branded "win" or "lose" at random. Each pop is 308 triangles, and you can hold several, or one in each hand.

A later update added a world-placeable version (world gimmick work by さたにあ), with a sample world published so you can see them placed. Turning food that ends when you eat it into a lottery is exactly what turns it into a conversation. ¥500.

Edible Watermelon Set / おもちやさん

From the same shop, suikawari — the summer watermelon-smashing game — built as a world gimmick. Hit it with the stick and it splits in two stages with sound and effects, then the cut slices sit on a plate and can be picked up and eaten one at a time. Each bite shrinks it through four stages, and a green reset button restores the whole melon — smash, eat, reset, repeat as a complete loop of party entertainment.

A "just eat it" prefab with the slices already plated is included, along with a half-eaten piece you can hide on an avatar. Everything placed together runs about 5,800 triangles. ¥800.

Fun Summer Festival / meron-farm

A goldfish in a water bag, and cotton candy — two things from a festival stall, given away free. Goldfish swim inside a clear bag with a carrying string, and with a stick of pale pink cotton candy in your other hand, a yukata photo turns into a festival night.

The nice part is the goldfish itself: it's borrowed from 青猫堂's free model Goldfish-chan VR. A free release made possible by another free release — very much how this community works. meron-farm would go on to put out a ¥150 fireworks accessory the following year, an early example of "small, cheap, summer, given away."

Swim rings and water guns

Water-play staples stayed the free-and-cheap battleground in 2024.

BECKENZI Pool-Ring / BECKENZI

A swim ring in flat black with the brand logo knocked out in white. Two grips on the upper surface widen the poses considerably — hold it with both hands, hook an arm over it while sitting, or step through it and let it rest at the waist. Among the frills and pastels that fill this category, the black points squarely the other way — a dependable pick for a goth or street coordinate at the water's edge.

Distributed free under a [GIFT] label with the texture PSD included. The page threads through to the shop's gothic swimsuit, cropped top and free sandals from the same period — a free small item working as the door into the brand.

PWA PWA Float / PetiDoll

A frilled, unapologetically cute swim ring. Three designs — "BLACKcat" with cat ears and a heart tail, "LOVEcherry" with cherry charms, and "CUTIEribbon" with ribbons and hearts — each in twelve colors, including polka dot and gingham prints. With that much volume, there is a ring for whatever your swimsuit is doing.

It's also sold as a set with PetiDoll's own "BabyTulle" swimsuit, pairing outfit and prop within one world. Works held by an avatar or placed in a beach or pool world. ¥600.

Water Pistol / CooGee

Make a fist and water bursts out. A toy-styled water gun — white body, red accents, an iridescent tank on top — that installs by dropping it under the avatar. Sound effects included.

The smart engineering is that the shot syncs so other players see it, and the audio is 3D so only nearby people hear it. Designed from the start to become an exchange rather than a solo fidget. Released in February 2024, well ahead of the season, and a water-play staple by the time summer arrived. ¥500.

Holding up the Okinawan sea

One striking release from a regional official shop.

Chura-Umi Umbrella / バーチャル沖縄公式

An umbrella whose canopy is the Okinawan sea. The outside is the turquoise surface seen from above; the inside is the same water seen from below, so opening it flips your point of view. Droplet-shaped forms hang from the rim mid-fall, and the surface catches the light as it turns.

It comes from the official shop of "Virtual Okinawa" (Ashibi Company), which promotes Okinawan culture in the metaverse. Two extra colorways read like strawberry and melon syrup. FBX and textures are included for use outside Unity. Translating a regional tourism asset into a VR prop is an unusual position to occupy. ¥600.

Worlds & Environments

Worlds count 21 items, and 2024's upper ranks are dominated by places to spend the summer. Seaside villas, a Japanese garden, poolsides — what took the upper ranks were not skyboxes and planting sets but complete, move-in-ready worlds.

Living in a seaside villa

First and third place went to two seaside houses from the same creator.

Cozy Nest / VirtualWhaleStudio

The top world of the year: a seaside bedroom mixing Mediterranean and bohemian. White plastered walls, wooden beams, arched niches, rattan lamps and pampas grass, with the horizon visible through sheer curtains — the stated aim of "a world where you can comfortably catch the breeze from the sea" is right there in the render.

A finished world with a video screen in the living area and a night mode, and there's a demo world to walk through first. The skybox is deliberately not included, so you choose your own sky. At ¥1,200 it became the default first seaside home world.

Ocean Villa / VirtualWhaleStudio

The same studio's follow-up: a private island villa you can only reach by boat. A glass-walled living space sits among sand and palms, with a canopied boat moored at the jetty and a sunken lounge reaching out over the water under a fabric shade. "From the moment you step off the yacht, your own special summer story begins" — and the renders deliver exactly that.

Post-launch updates added a TV and a hammock, and there's a demo world here too. A seaside bedroom and an island villa — two houses with different personalities, from one studio, holding the upper ranks together. ¥1,600.

A Japanese house, and a night at the hot spring

The Japanese summer starts in a garden and ends in steam.

MHouse_RE / モサンゴ屋

A modern Japanese house with a garden, ringed by sea. Cherry blossom and hydrangea bloom at once in that garden, with a lit pond at night — "seasons colliding is exactly where the virtual flavour lives," as the page frames it, embracing a coexistence that couldn't happen in reality. Inside there's a living room with a large aquarium, a tea room, a loft study and a wooden bath; outside, a simple beach with a fire pit. The page even suggests converting it into a tropical resort "in preparation for summer."

Its origin is worth telling: the remake of the shop's first world, MHouse, was sold as an update to the old version rather than as a new product, with the price kept low as a thank-you to long-time supporters. PC and Quest compatible with measured Quest frame rates published openly, and Day, Night and Sunset sample worlds are all live. ¥1,200.

Villa with Bonfire and Hot Spring / hirameki-hakaba

A glass-walled cabin built for a bonfire and a hot spring at night. Flames move in the fire bowl in front of the black-clad cabin, and steam rises from the rock-lined open-air bath. Both fire and steam are animated particles, and together with the warm interior light through the glass, the sequence of "cool off in the evening air, then soak" builds itself.

Both a unitypackage and FBX are included, with modification allowed and public uploads permitted in two clear lines. Pair it with the Steaming Hot Spring Inn Set from the clothing section and you have the whole evening, from what you wear to where you are. ¥1,000.

Stages for the pool party

Venues for gathering in numbers also filled out in 2024.

Resort in Bali / Mella

A world selected for VRChat's official Summer Jam 2024, sold as an asset. White arches and domes wrap a curved pool lined with parasols and sun loungers — Bali, transcribed. A glass-partitioned bedroom and a lounge with a DJ booth are in there too.

The description reads as an invitation to rebuild it: "add photos, set it to night mode, include party lights or games... make it whatever you want." Customisation is assumed from the outset. Cross-platform for PC, PCVR and Android, ¥3,200. A space born at an official event, turned into your own venue.

Moroccan Pool House / La Fille

A Moroccan pool house in cooling mint and blue mosaic tile. Arched niches, geometric floors, a hanging daybed and a roof terrace hold the atmosphere of a foreign resort. A later update added a warm night scene lit by lanterns, so blue daylight and amber evening read as two different places.

Light baking, colliders and light probes are set, with switches in place, and the furniture and plant sets are included. The skybox and water shader are deliberately omitted so sky and water stay your choice. It's the previous year's flagship from La Fille, who would later give away a tropical plant set. ¥3,000.

Materials to paste, place and launch

You don't have to build a house. One material can turn a space into summer.

Fireworks Particles & Sound Effects / 西風楽団

Launch fireworks to hand the night sky of a festival world. Pale grains open in overlapping bursts, and crucially it's built to look like it glows without using Bloom, keeping it light. Installation is "just place the prefab."

And then: "since I imagine many people struggle with the audio," pre-configured original sound effects ship with it. Anyone can build a firework visual; getting stuck on sound licensing and mixing is where projects stall, and this covers that step for ¥700. Both the particles and the SE are 西風楽団's own work.

Coral Tile Material Texture / MaLu's Materials

A seamless coral-pink teardrop mosaic tile, taken from Turkish tilework. Five 2048px maps — albedo, normal, height, AO and roughness — so pasting it onto a wall or floor drops summer colour into a space. Free, with generous terms covering commercial use and inclusion in products you sell.

It comes from MaLu's Materials, who would go on to release a Santorini-style villa the following year. Building a relationship with world creators by giving materials away — this is where that started.

Textures & Materials

Textures count 17 items — the zone where you build a summer body without buying a single new outfit. 2024 was the year wet, tanned and watery got carved off one by one as a few-hundred-yen texture. Skin, eyes, tail: let's go by where it's applied.

Wet skin and tan lines

Summer skin is either wet or tanned. Two releases that each perfected one.

Wet Body / NEVER STOP DREAMING

"Get soaking wet right now!" — a texture that makes skin look drenched, and its contents are refreshingly minimal: a normal map, nothing else. Add it to the matcap's custom normal and you get droplet beads, streaks running down the skin and a sheen across the surface, all adjustable in strength and matcap opacity, and it reads on darker skin too.

The decisive factor was the price: ¥100 for a single avatar. From its February 2024 release it spent about a year accumulating support, now 13 avatars including Shinra, Manuka, Selestia, Shinano and Milltina. The top texture of the year was also its cheapest single sheet.

Summer Body Textures Pack for Manuka / liselotte-shop

This one builds tan lines — a skin texture pack for Manuka. Six variations in all: a full tan, the pale shapes left by a micro bikini, a bikini, underwear and a school swimsuit, plus an untanned original. The evidence of a summer spent outside, made swappable.

It's built entirely as mask layers, so it stacks onto whatever custom skin texture you already own, and the layer settings adjust how deep the tan goes. Versions for Chiffon and Lime, Lasyusha and Shinano followed, one dedicated pack per popular body — a useful model for how to grow a texture product. ¥600.

Eyes that hold water

Summer eyes compete on clarity and sparkle. Two releases that won on sheer volume.

Marine Delight Eye Texture / おちゃかなしょっぷ

Eyes with the clarity of the sea, from an unusual starting point: the creator names "a tropical, fresh feeling like a men's fragrance from the early 2000s" as the reference. Cross-shaped highlights and sparkling grains give it a clear, glossy read, across 14 colors. Every avatar ships with a brow-color mask already set up, and on some avatars the eyelash color can be changed too.

Beyond the 31-avatar count in the title, there's a standing commission window where unsupported avatars can be requested for ¥1,000. At ¥250 for a single avatar, it's an easy way in if you want to start summer at the eyes.

33 Iris Colors -Summer- / Saku39

Exactly what the title says: 33 iris colors in one set. Fifteen deep shades and eighteen light ones laid out like a paint box — green, grey, blue, red, purple — enough that nothing in a summer coordinate goes unmatched. Makeup is excluded on purpose; this swaps the eye and nothing else. From ¥400.

There's a walkthrough for making the irises glow via Emission, and support covers 15 avatars including Selestia, Moe, Shinano and Milltina. If you're choosing on color count, this is the one.

A shark's tail and ink from the sea

Two releases that stepped away from skin and eyes to play with an idea.

SHARK! Liquid SKIN / Яi-bon*2

A dedicated material that makes the shark avatar Rurune's tail transparent and pours moving liquid into it. You can see through the tail to whatever's behind, while iridescent liquid sloshes inside with an audible splash. Ten tail materials and ten liquid materials, plus prefabs that wobble and make the sound.

Narrowing to one part of one avatar to mine what only that character can do gives it the depth that only a dedicated product gets. Setup is walked through with a linked YouTube video. ¥500.

Whale Tattoo / halo-by

A watercolor-style tattoo texture of a whale and a compass rose across the back. Two tones, and smaller jellyfish, shell and starfish designs for the arms and the back of the hand. It works on skin or as decoration on clothing textures.

halo-by gives it away as a thank-you to people who use the shop, and it's PNG only — as lightweight as a release gets. One stroke of ink on skin, and a summer coordinate reads completely differently.

Gimmicks

Gimmicks and tools count 10 — a small group, but the one that builds the experience of summer. In 2024 this category read like school-holiday memories translated into mechanisms: water and wetness, fireworks in your hands, and catching bugs.

Making water and wetness

Carrying a pool, lounging in a swim ring, breaking a sweat.

Portable Private Pool / HHEAVENs

An avatar gimmick that opens a small pool around you. Drop it in with Modular Avatar and an interactive water surface appears. That alone would be fun, but the real work is underneath: whatever is below the waterline is marked as wet, and stays wet for a while afterwards.

Recreating water play right through to the damp skin and clothing you climb out with is what took it to the top of the category. A mesh-deforming version was added in a later update. PC only, ¥500.

RelaxFloatRing / もるラボ

"I made this because I hate how my avatar stops being cute when I slouch in full-body tracking." A gimmick that fits the swim ring to the sprawl, rather than the other way round. Slump back against a chair and a swim ring with its own water surface materialises beneath you, turning a collapsed sitting pose into a picture of lounging in a pool.

Four modes — hip-follow, right hand, left hand, avatar-follow — plus height and scale adjustment and world locking. The water fades out as you move away from the ring, and the creator's own note lands nicely: "at the largest scale it becomes a pool and people start gathering around it in public instances." ¥1,000.

Sweat Flowing Down the Cleavage / marumaru

A gimmick that adds streaks of sweat at the chest. The opacity adjusts from 0 to 100% in the expression menu, so you can add the flush of a hot day without touching the body's proportions, and it follows the chest shape keys.

Supports Manuka, Kikyo, Rindou, Moe, Selestia and Chiffon, from ¥400. Same creator as Wet Boyfriend Shirt, and released in January 2024 — putting "the feel of the heat" on sale months ahead of the season.

Fireworks in your hands

Not the shells in the sky — the hand-held kind. 2024's ideas gathered around that smallness.

Fireworks Set for Avatars / ぞうさん屋

A four-piece hand-held fireworks set — two colors of susuki fireworks, a senko hanabi and a spark firework — at a combined 696 triangles, with sound by くっしーEX. Shake the senko hanabi too hard and the burning ball drops off, which reproduces the exact held-breath tension of the real thing.

The ignition system is the clever bit: fireworks light each other, and anything else carrying a "Fire" contact — a cigarette, a lighter — will light them too. Gimmicks from entirely separate products interoperating through a shared contact is a very community thing to happen. ¥200.

Tiny Fireworks Festival / かるみゃ糖

Hold both palms up and small fireworks launch between them. Six types — color-shifting, rainbow, star grain, dome, planet and two-stage — firing with randomised colors, counts and directions for as long as you hold the pose. Drop your hands and it stops; close both into fists and it world-locks where it is. A fireworks display in your palms, watched from a veranda at night.

Later updates added size adjustment and fixed positions above the head or in front of you. Pair it with a yukata and any world becomes a firework night. ¥800.

Battling with summer bugs

The strangest and most impressive gimmick of 2024 was an insect.

Fierce Battle! Beetle Gimmick / TORINOSUKEの家

A battle gimmick that pits the beetle you carry against another player's. World-lock the cage, face two of them off, and the fight runs until one falls. Eight species — Hercules, Caucasus, Giraffe stag and more — each ship with a five-star stat card covering attack, speed, agility, defence and reach, so the play is designed as a game from the ground up.

The remarkable part is the operation around it. The creator's official VRChat group, "Fierce Battle! Beetle Fight Club," runs tournaments, a per-species "status book" is published, and the update log reads like the patch notes of a competitive title — buffs, nerfs, special moves added. Hand gestures for commanding forward movement and spins were added later. There's even a regulation line stating that one species below a certain version can't enter official events. Bug-catching, turned into a continuously operated esport. ¥1,000 for the gimmick plus two species, ¥2,000 for the full set.

Hairstyles

Only three hairstyles were classified as "summer" — by far the smallest group here. "Summer" in this context is VRCFinder's own judgement from keywords and subcategories; plenty of cool-looking short cuts and updos ship year-round without ever being labelled summer, so they don't enter this count. Which is another way of saying a hairstyle that reads as summer at a glance is still wide open.

Tie it up, cool down

All three went the same way: tie it up. Heat, solved by gathering the hair.

Pulse Wave Ponytail / ANKA

A high ponytail, born from the line "I made a ponytail with a cool summer feel." 21 hair colors, and the ahoge shape, the ponytail's length, the fringe and the presence of the side hair all swap as separate modules. Remove the side hair and everything from the nape to the ears opens up, changing the read completely.

The release itself is the interesting part: it went out as a same-day collaboration with the outfit brand Libero Boutique's new "Night_Kitty". Hair from ANKA, the accessories bundled with the outfit — two shops delivering one coordinate on the same day. Supports 7 avatars including Moe, Manuka, Selestia and Shinra, with a modding PSD, from ¥1,000.

Fuwari Summery Snake Half-Up / アトリエミオリ

A soft braided half-up in a medium length, finished with a rose headband and a ribbon at the back. Its origin is unusual: it's the summer-model hairstyle of the creator's own VTuber persona, Mioridzukuri Miori, turned directly into a product. The fact that the first of its seven hair colors is the original color says the rest.

Headbands and ribbons come in five each, with four metal parts. Fringe, side and back lengths adjust on shape keys, and the flower color changes from the material settings. Two months after release, a general-purpose "Flex-Hair" version arrived for unsupported avatars, with extra adjustment keys and a reference prefab fitted to Shinano. Five avatars plus the general version, ¥1,000.

SUNRISE_HAIR / AQUA LAILA

"A ponytail with a sun visor that can stand up to strong sunlight!" — and that's the entire product description. A long ponytail with curled ends under a logo'd sun visor, built for outdoors in high summer, and both the visor and the side hair toggle from the menu.

Both a Modular Avatar prefab and a conventional one are included, so you pick your install route. 26,254 triangles, with modding PSD and CLIP files. Supports Lime, Moe, Selestia, Manuka and Kikyo, from ¥800.

Avatars

Eighteen avatars were classified as "summer." As with hairstyles, that's VRCFinder's own judgement rather than every avatar usable in summer. What's in here are characters who arrive already in a swimsuit or a yukata — avatars with summer built into the moment they were born.

Born already dressed for summer

Three characters whose default outfit is the season.

Vanilla / AVAKIN'

The first release of a collaboration with the illustrator Hazuki Neko, who handled character design and textures, with goLden takasan on the 3D modeling. A cat-eared girl with hair between white silver and milk tea, in maid wear by default, with a bikini, a China dress and a later-added pair of hot pants to change into.

Her strongest asset is expression: 285 face shape keys, plus 31 for MMD. There's a promo run titled "if you're going to pull faces, Vanilla" showing off the range, and 14 eye color patterns including three odd-eye options.

And the product page carries an open call: "looking for people to make and fit compatible outfits and accessories." Combined with AVAKIN using a single shared body across all their avatars, the intent to grow an ecosystem around one character is right there on the page. There's a fitting-room world, and the pocket tissues and champagne props are free. ¥5,000 for the base, ¥6,300 with the China dress set.

Cocotte / Fanatail

A harpy girl with white wings and black bird legs. The wings are joined to the arms and move like sleeves, opening and closing from the menu, and a flight mode ships as standard so they function rather than decorate. The toes can be curled to match how you grip your controllers, which keeps the taloned feet reading as alive.

Swimwear, underwear and the bare body are all included, with a dark skin texture thrown in as a bonus. Modding PSDs are split by part — head, body, hair, outfit, wings. A VRM is bundled, Quest works with caveats, and Mochi-Fitter support means outfits travel in. 69,708 triangles, ¥5,000. The swimsuit was later given away separately, which doubles as a way in.

Yuzuki / kyudong shop

A free avatar released in a sailor-collared swimsuit. Pale white hair with pink underneath and purple sunglasses pushed up on her head — dressed to walk straight onto a beach. Almost all the default outfit's accessories toggle off, and a shark costume plus a bubble particle effect are bundled.

Even the free version carries PhysBones, lip sync, full-body tracking support, the bare body, PSD files and an AFK animation, and the ¥1,000 support tier adds the Blender file, PSD and FBX. Only people who want the modding source pay — a clean two-stage way to build the front door.

Bringing a story's summer with them

One character who arrived with a whole fictional world attached.

Suzushiro / 桃色CODE

An avatar born from the VR project "A Summer Day at the Inn and an Ear Cleaning," part of the audio drama series Michikusaya. The product page opens not with specs but with scenery: "You get off at a humid wooden station, then half an hour on a bus. Through scenery you feel you've seen somewhere before, past rice fields rustling in the wind, down a road where nothing but cicadas ring out, the inn — Michikusaya — is waiting."

Flax-coloured wavy short hair, green eyes, a goldfish-print yukata, with casual clothes bundled as a second outfit. Expressions run to a dozen or more with FaceEmo support. The production line-up is substantial: original character concept by Momotori, design and turnarounds by Denchubou, with modeling and setup by Creep Inc., KNY, Hirune-ya and ForgeVision.

The framing is what stays with me: "note: this package is not the main work" up front, then "wander around wherever you like and take some photos" as it sends you off. Handed over not as a character in a story, but as somebody walking around VRChat. ¥4,000.

Sound

Last, the thing that looks like a supporting player and isn't: sound. Summer arrives through what fills a space, not only what you look at. In this year's aggregation, exactly one music asset was tagged summer.

At Summer's End / すみれのBGM

A loopable piano piece written around the ache of summer ending. It comes in two cuts — one layered with bubble, glass and wave effects, one with the piano alone — so you choose depending on whether it's filling a space or sitting under video.

The intended uses are broad: stream BGM, ambient sound in VRChat, tabletop RPG sessions. The standard edition permits commercial use with credit; the credit-free edition drops the requirement, at ¥300 and ¥600 respectively. The composer, Sumire Murasaki, also publishes one-hour loops on YouTube, so you can sit with the mood before buying.

Adding one piece of ambience or music to a finished summer world shifts the immersion a full step without touching a single visual. That 730 items produced exactly one music asset is, straightforwardly, how much room is left here.

Summer 2024 from a Creator's View

That's 70 picks. To close, here are the numbers worth having in hand when you think about what to make for the next summer.

Metric	2024
Total "summer" items	730
Release peak	142 in July; about half the year falls in June–August
Largest genre	Swimsuits and bikinis, 334
Number one of the year	The yukata "Matsuribayashi" (15,628 likes)
Free releases	44 (about 6%)
Median price	¥1,200

The keyword ranking leads with MA and lilToon support — the baseline tooling — followed by summer wear, swimsuits and bikinis. Worth noting is "photography-oriented" at 82, roughly one in every nine items. The framing of summer gear as equipment for photographing a summer memory is already clearly visible in this year's data.

On price, ¥1,000–1,999 holds 380 items — literally half the year in one band. Free to ¥499 accounts for another 100, with accessories and props doing the work of the entry tier.

Notes for creators:

Wrap-up

If I had to compress 2024's summer into one line: the volume was in the water, the peak was on land. In the biggest market, 334 swimsuits fought it out with nurse, tracksuit and cyberpunk crossovers — and right beside them, a category of only 39 Japanese-wear items produced the number one release of all 730. Festival nights, a glowing goldfish hem, sake poured from a flask: the Japanese summer won on the resolution of individual pieces rather than on volume.

Underneath all of it, quietly, ¥100 wet skin, a portable pool that leaves you damp and nails you can hear waves from were beginning to sell the feel of summer as a component. Given that the same aggregation for 2025 reached 1,014 items, 2024 reads as the year that foundation was laid.

Every one of these 70 carries a proposal from its creator about how they'd like you to spend the season, and 730 of those proposals stacked up into this year. With three hairstyles and one music asset on the board, the ideas are nowhere near exhausted. I hope this doubles as your planning session — and helps you find your own answer to "what should I make this summer?"

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About the Data

• Aggregated: 2026-07-30
• Scope: items published between 2024-01-01 and 2024-12-31 carrying the "summer" tag in VRCFinder's aggregation (730 items)
• Ordering and selection: not a straight like-count ranking. Within each category I picked both the high-like staples and the items that stood out as ideas
• Inclusion: VRCFinder's database only collects items with 300+ likes, so anything below that threshold at the time of aggregation is not in this data
• Note: the figures and like counts here are a snapshot from the aggregation date and will differ from current values. "Published" refers to when the Booth product page went live, which may differ from when the item actually went on sale
• Specs and prices reflect the Booth product pages at the time of writing. Sale prices and updates change, so please check the Booth page before buying