[August 24, 2026] VRChat Trending Snapshot — This Week's Fastest-Rising on Booth

Every week, this "Trending Snapshot" captures the newest Booth releases pulling in likes the fastest, ranked by how quickly those likes pile up. When something climbs this fast, there's always a reason behind it — and reading that reason from both the work itself and the way it was released is what this weekly report is for. It's written for creators, to send you home with a hint for your next project.

The August 24, 2026 issue (measured August 23) is led by an avatar with a gold crown and black horns on a small dragon body. Five days after release it had gathered 6,810 likes. Let's start there.

🔎 About this article　This is a quick digest of the new releases a lot of people are watching right now. It lists items released on Booth within the last three months with 300+ likes, ordered by how fast those likes accumulate (likes ÷ days since release; measured 2026-08-23). Rankings shift a lot depending on when VRCFinder collects data, so treat them as a rough guide. Like counts, giveaways, and sales are all snapshots from the measurement date — use this as a window onto what's new and talked-about.

This Week's Top 10

This is a momentum ranking — likes at measurement time, divided by days since release. It's not ordered by total likes, so even brand-new releases climb to the top if they're gaining fast.

#1: Evil Dragon Melvii / Narikiri Honpo

6,810 likes five days after release. An avatar with a gold crown and black horns on a small dragon body, released by Narikiri Honpo. The hands are black beast paws with purple pads.

The oversized black tee carries printed kanji, and the wording changes: alongside "worst in the world" you get "world conquest" and "supreme ego," then "grilled meat king," "praying to pass the exam," and even "tax return." A black coat with a raised white fur collar, thick-soled boots wrapped in gold chain, and bandaged arms round out the set.

The number that stands out is the expression count. The avatar carries 775+ facial shape keys, plus 28 preconfigured expressions, and 120+ shape keys on the base body. Polygons run to 74,971 for the base body and 237,287 for all parts combined, with a Performance Rank of Very Poor.

Purchase options are split four ways. List price is ¥5,500 for the standard edition and ¥7,500 for the "OVERDRIVE Edition," which adds gimmicks like a flame breath and a claw slash; at measurement time a launch sale running to September 20 had them at ¥4,500 and ¥6,500. Beyond those, a gimmicks-only pack containing just the OVERDRIVE effects sells for ¥3,500, and a tail gimmick for ¥100.

#2: Danzai Bunny Boy / EXTENSION CLOTHING

5,125 likes four days after release. A masculine-build outfit: a black shirt strapped with leather harnesses and paired with black-and-white vertical striped trousers. A new release from EXTENSION CLOTHING — the creator behind the popular outfit "Danzai Bunny" — reworking that design for a male body.

A black rabbit-ear headband, a monocle at the eye, and a round white tail at the small of the back. A cane and a necktie pin come with it.

What stands out in the build is the range of body adjustment. Each of the nine supported avatars gets its own set of physique shape keys. Kanata lists separate entries to bulk up or flatten the arms, chest, back, thighs, shoulders, and neck; Hanka has one that thickens the whole body; Minase has weight up and down. The same outfit can be pushed slim or heavy.

The harness and corset are modelled biting right into the shirt and trousers. Polygons come to 97,955 for the clothing and 12,172 for the cane, monocle and other props, 110,127 in total. Supported avatars are Minase, Komano, Kanata, Hanka, Alué, Nakiya, Zev, Suzuya, and Baku — nine in all — at a list price of ¥1,800 single / ¥3,600 full pack. At measurement time a limited-time price ran until August 30.

#3: Messy Side Pony Hair / Chocolate rice

3,263 likes two days after release. A side ponytail gathered low, with fine loose strands scattered around it. A new release from Chocolate rice — the creator behind the popular hairstyle "Layered hush cut Hair."

The gathered length falls in front of the chest and flicks outward at the tips. An orchid-shaped flower sits beside the ear, and its colour is chosen separately from the hair.

The range of looks comes from shape keys. The tail can be switched between short and long, and the volume at the parting is adjusted from a separate entry. The flower can also be swapped for a white ribbon, so the same hairstyle shifts in mood without changing shape.

Colours are spread across three sheets, running from silver-white to black and through pink, blue, green, and red. The flower has the same range. The package contains a UnityPackage and a PSD, and supported avatars are Airi, Chocolat, Kumaly, Lumina, Manuka, Milfy, Milltina, Rurune, Shinano, Sio, Mayo, Misaki, Kaguya, and Mao — fourteen in all. At measurement time it was 30% off at ¥690.

#4: Bero Ugokashi / Masakaniya

5,934 likes six days after release. A tool that inserts bones into an avatar's tongue automatically and makes it movable from the menu. A new release from Masakaniya — the creator behind the popular gimmick "Ashi Ugokashi."

Most VRChat avatars have a shape key that sticks the tongue out, but nothing that moves the tongue once it's out. Making it move normally means opening an external tool like Blender, adding bones to the tongue, and assigning vertices to bones — painting weights, in other words.

This tool keeps that whole process inside Unity. Pick the avatar and its tongue-out shape key, and it locates the tongue, embeds three bones, and finishes the weighting for you.

Once it's in, three animations — vertical, horizontal, and rotating — are available from the menu. Speed runs on a radial, jiggle makes the tongue sway with head movement, and grab lets you or someone else pinch and pull it.

Settings preview in place and the animations play back inside Unity, so there's no upload-and-check round trip. Of the fifteen verified avatars, one is Melvii, this issue's #1. List price is ¥500, and at measurement time it was being given away free until August 25.

#5: Live Sync Tool / StudioCats

2,722 likes three days after release. A tool that mirrors the texture you're still painting in CLIP STUDIO or Photoshop straight onto your avatar in Unity.

Painting an avatar's face, makeup, or outfit texture usually runs in a loop: paint, export a PNG, import into Unity, check how it looks, go back and paint again. How something reads once it's wrapped around a curved surface isn't visible on a flat canvas, so that loop has been hard to avoid.

What this tool removes is the export and the import. The Photoshop version sends the current composite canvas to Unity before you even save; the CLIP STUDIO version refreshes the Unity preview the moment you hit Ctrl+S on a .clip file. There's also an option to fire Ctrl+S automatically when you lift the pen, so it updates while you draw.

Original 4K resolution and transparent alpha are both preserved, and the original Texture and Material assets are never rewritten. All communication stays inside the one PC, and it runs on Windows 10/11 with Unity and the art app on the same machine.

The CLIP STUDIO and Photoshop versions are each listed free, with a ¥300 support edition carrying identical contents as a third option.

#6: Nokan! / meitea shop

2,612 likes three days after release. A Unity tool that curbs hair and tails clipping through the body by generating body-side colliders automatically.

In VRChat, anything you swing with PhysBones — hair, accessories — can sink into the body at the far end of the swing. Raise an arm and the hair passes through the shoulder; crouch and the tail spears the thigh. Preventing that means laying colliders along the body and assigning them to each swinging PhysBone one by one — done by hand, positioning alone burns the time.

This tool detects the avatar's size and generates a full set of colliders matched to its build. Fifteen locations — head, shoulders, arms, chest, spine, legs, hips — appear at once, and all that's left is picking which PhysBones to guard. Generated colliders can be tuned for position, size, and rotation while you watch the Scene view, with symmetry mirroring supported. Short avatars, or an avatar whose scale you've already changed, get colliders rebuilt to that size.

The careful part of the build is that it never adds colliders directly to your original avatar. What it generates is collected into a dedicated setup that follows the avatar through Modular Avatar, and tuned colliders can be carried to other projects. List price is ¥1,000, and at measurement time a launch sale ran until August 25.

#7: Cigarette & Butt-Pickup Gimmick / marumaru

2,188 likes two days after release. A gimmick that reproduces the whole sequence — taking one out, smoking it, tapping off the ash, and dropping the butt.

Grab the top edge of the case and the lid opens; tap the case or shake it and one slides out. Grab it to hold it, then bring it to your mouth. Lighting works from the lighter, from VRChat's own flame items, or by touching a lit one to an unlit one. Hold the lighter and make a Fist and it catches about 70% of the time; cup your other hand as a windbreak first and it catches every time.

Smoking shortens the tip, grows the ash, and eventually leaves a butt. Press it against a collider with a Fist to put it out; hold a RockNRoll sign for a while to drop it on the ground, where you can then step on it. A lighter, canned coffee, and beer come out alongside it, in a choice of four colourways.

What's interesting in the release is that the free and paid versions do different things. The free version exists so you can pick up and smoke what a paid-version user has dropped, and the page states plainly that "the free version is not a trial of the paid version." The free version can't light anything on its own, so you either borrow an official campfire or get a light from someone on the paid version.

The paid version is ¥580 and the free version ¥0. Twelve avatars have pre-adjusted positioning, though the page notes it's designed to work on humanoid avatars beyond that list.

#8: Neru / Meidollia-Dolls

3,832 likes five days after release. An avatar with a pale blue bob and large round glasses, cast as a genius inventor. At measurement time sales hadn't opened yet — only the product page was live, and it had already gathered over 3,800 likes. According to the page, sales begin on August 28.

The number that stands out is the expression count. The face alone carries 280 blend shapes, with 17 preconfigured expressions. There are 25 more on the base body, 2 on the outfit, 4 on the hair, and 39 for MMD. Polygons come to 110,876 across 9 materials, using lilToon. Lip sync and PhysBones are configured, and an in-VRChat menu switches outfit and expression.

The page explains that this is a model built some years ago, brought out with the missing pieces filled in. List price is ¥350, dropping to ¥298 from launch through September 4. Mochifitter support is listed as planned.

#9: KYOEN Bunny / Kuroneko

3,731 likes five days after release. A bunny outfit that builds four different looks out of one set. A new release from Kuroneko — the creator behind the popular outfit "Kyro Neko Hoodie."

Jacket, vest, shirt, necktie, cuffs, heels, rabbit ears, and a wine glass to hold. Taking the jacket and vest on or off rebuilds the set into BUTLER, BASIC, CLEAR, and REVERSE BUNNY.

Colours run to ten in the front-and-back sheet, built around black and white and reaching red, sky blue, blue, green, and silver. Polygons come to 62,206 for the set, excluding gloves and stockings.

Nineteen avatars are supported, and each gets its own chest and waist shape keys assigned individually: chest and corset for Airi; chest, corset, and hip for Shinano; a dedicated chest form for Milltina — the entry names are written out per base body.

Three fix updates landed in the four days after release, each naming the specific avatar and symptom. List price is ¥890 single / ¥1,780 full pack, and at measurement time a launch sale ran until August 30.

#10: Mucho / IWANUGA

16,494 likes 26 days after release. The pet that only learns the words you say to it and answers through an overhead letter board and its own noises — #2 in the August 3 issue, #4 in the August 10 issue, and #9 in the August 17 issue.

Four issues in the Top 10 now, and past 16,000 likes. ¥1,480.

Category Picks (#11–#30)

With the Top 10 leaning toward tools, this section works through #11–#30 by category. Gimmicks and tools sit this one out — all five landed in the Top 10. The four hairstyles are Kitsune-Miko at #12, Rabby Long Hair at #14, Antique Braid at #21, and TulleTwin at #27, all covered in earlier issues, and the one remaining avatar is Kaguya at #22, also covered before.

Outfits

Outfits account for 15 of the rising 30 — down from 20 last issue, but still the largest category. Here are four that think about delivery in four different ways.

First, one that lets you choose how it sits from three prefabs.

SHOP HEILON's "quartz" is #13 (1,684 likes one day after release). A classical maid outfit: a black dress falling to the ankle under a generous apron.

Three included prefabs are the core of it. The standard one is tuned to resist clipping, "Open" is tuned so the skirt flares as you move, and "Ver.2" hides the inner layer of the double skirt so the lining doesn't show through. You pick before you dress, depending on whether you want movement in a photo or stability while you walk around.

The outfit is built as a pair with "Lutile" — described as a refined mistress and the maid at her side. Polygons come to 155,760, and supported avatars are Manuka, Shinano, Milfy, Eku, Mayo, Rurune, Kaguya, Fyuett, and Mumus — nine in all. List price is ¥1,800 single / ¥3,500 full set, and at measurement time a launch sale ran until August 31.

Next, an outfit-and-hair set that narrows support to a single avatar.

PINK♡PUDDING's "Barchiel" is #17 (1,410 likes two days after release). A relaxing-at-home look: a green checked overshirt with black shorts and leg warmers.

Support goes to Kipfel and Kipfel alone. In exchange, a hair model comes in the same product: low twin tails with cat ears and hair clips (the clips ship with the hair, not the outfit — the page makes a point of it). A rabbit appliqué sits on the chest of the overshirt, a large black bow at the small of the back, and a mobile of clouds, stars, a moon, and rabbits floats above the head.

There are three purchase options — outfit alone, hair alone, and both together — at list prices of ¥1,000 and ¥1,500. At measurement time a sale running to September 27 had them at ¥790 and ¥1,000, and the page announces in advance that prices return to list on September 28.

Third, a release that puts the dress, the hair, and the wings out together.

Omochiyasan's "FlowerCakePrincess & FlowerPrincessLong" is #20 (1,363 likes two days after release). A princess dress with roses scattered across tier upon tier of frills, built to read like a sugar confection.

The dress comes in 16 colours and the matching "FlowerPrincessLong" hair in 10. The fairy wings that ship with it carry gimmicks, and the menu switches between a slow flap, sparkles timed to that flap, and a hovering motion that drifts you along.

Polygons run to 147,619 for the dress, 61,426 for the hair, and 1,206 for the wings. The hair ships with head and chest anti-clipping colliders already in place, and the bangs and side hair toggle on and off. Twenty-two avatars are supported, at list prices of ¥2,300 for a single-avatar dress, ¥3,500 for the all-avatar dress set, ¥3,800 with the hair, and ¥900 for the hair alone. At measurement time a launch sale ran until August 30. The dress and hair were designed by Shirosaki London.

Fourth, a street set that changes character between white and black.

EDEN Oasis's "CHAINSAINT" is #28 (1,671 likes four days after release). A rib-cage-patterned knit under a jacket layered with chains and buckles, paired with a mini skirt.

Goggles and a mask at the eyes, a chain necklace, gartered stockings, boots, and a bag round it out. Materials are grouped into five: jacket / boots and shirt / goggles and skirt / innerwear and stockings / bag, harness, and necklace. Switch to a white base and the same silhouette reads completely differently.

Polygons come to 154,721 across 20 supported avatars. The page even documents what to do if the body clips through — use the shrink shape key, and switch PhysBones off when going with a smaller chest. List price is ¥1,700 single / ¥3,500 full set, and at measurement time a sale ran until August 28. The page notes in advance that the full set may go up in price as more avatars are added.

Accessories

Accessories account for two of the rising 30. Both are new entries this issue, and both were free.

The first sits on the head, the shoulders, and the back at once.

Kurakura's "Seiren Set" is #19 (1,366 likes two days after release). A prop set combining a red ornament worn on the head, two small white companions floating at either shoulder, and a red tail curling around the back.

At 4,124 polygons it's light, and Modular Avatar drops it under the avatar as-is. The rounded shapes don't compete with whatever you're wearing, so it works as a single focal point in a photo. The page notes it's published in line with Nagano's fan-work guidelines.

The second is a halo that uses no polygons at all.

Harukaze Hisui's "Shooting Star Halo" is #23 (1,238 likes one day after release). A ring of light circling above the head, each point trailing a tail and flickering like a shooting star.

The ring is built purely from particles, so it costs no polygons at all. Colour is changed from Unity's Inspector by editing the particle system's Start Color. In a world with Bloom configured, the light blooms out and the trail reads clearly. PhysBones are configured and Modular Avatar drops it under the avatar. At measurement time it was being given away free until 22:00 on August 26.

Reading the Rising Set

The population here is the rising Top 30 — items published within three months of the measurement date, ordered by momentum (the same 30 shown on the site's rising page). Here's what's inside them.

Metric	Value
Scope	Rising Top 30 (measured 2026-08-23)
Category split	Outfits 15 / Hair 5 / Gimmicks & Tools 5 / Avatars 3 / Accessories 2
Median likes	3,781
Median price	¥1,100
Median days since release	4
Free giveaways	4
Released within a week	19 of 30
Turnover from last issue	19 new / 11 carried over

Nineteen of the 30 are new entries this issue, and 19 were released within the past week. Within the Top 10, nine are new — the only holdover from last issue's top ten is Mucho at #10.

Keywords: tools that shorten editing work, clustered at the top

In the keyword tally across the rising 30, PSD included leads with 9. Gimmick and Free follow at 5 each, then MMD compatible, editor extension, glow, and braided at 3 apiece.

The striking thing this issue is that only five gimmicks and tools made the set at all — and all five landed in the Top 10. Outfits take 15 of the 30, half the population, yet only two of them reached the top ten.

Three of those five aren't toys, either. They're tools that shorten the editing work itself. #4 automates inserting bones into the tongue and painting weights; #6 automates laying colliders along the body and assigning them to PhysBones; #5 removes the export-and-import loop between the art app and Unity.

What all three share is that they let you see the result inside Unity before you ship it. #4 previews settings and animations on the spot, #6 lets you tune collider positions while watching the Scene view, and #5 puts the artwork you're currently painting onto the avatar. Upload, check, come back — that round trip is exactly what all three are cutting.

Supported models: a group that overlaps the top ten not at all

The most-declared avatars were Shinano on 19, Mayo on 18, Manuka on 18, Milltina on 17, and Milfy on 17, followed by Rurune on 16, Airi on 16, and Chocolat on 15, with Kumaly ninth and Eku tenth on 14 each. Shinano was on 25 last issue and dropped to 19 here — outfits fell from 20 to 15, and five gimmicks and tools with no supported-model list took slots, so the whole tally sits lower.

Against that, what stands out is that Danzai Bunny Boy at #2 contains none of those ten. Its nine supported avatars — Minase, Komano, Kanata, Hanka, Alué, Nakiya, Zev, Suzuya, Baku — are all masculine builds, an entirely separate group from the names in the tally. And each of the nine gets its own entries to bulk up or flatten the arms, chest, and back.

The supported-model tally shows which avatars a week's releases were built for. What this one item shows is that there's an independent market on the side of the names that don't appear in it.

Price: two free items landed at #4 and #5

The ¥1,000–1,999 band holds 14 items, followed by ¥500–999 with 6, free with 4, and ¥5,000+ with 2. The median is ¥1,100, up from ¥975 in the August 17 issue.

The four free items are Bero Ugokashi at #4, the Live Sync Tool at #5, and the Seiren Set and Shooting Star Halo covered under Accessories. Two of them placed at #4 and #5. Last issue also had four free items, but the highest of those sat at #8.

And both of the free items that climbed are tools rather than things to wear. One is a ¥500 product opened up free for a fixed window; the other is free from the start, with a ¥300 support edition of identical contents beside it. This was the week the free entry point moved from clothing to tooling.

The two items above ¥5,000 are Melvii at #1 (¥5,500) and Kaguya at #22 (¥6,000), both avatars. Neru at #8 lists at ¥350, so prices inside that one category spread very wide. All prices and sales here are as of the measurement date, and most are time-limited.

A creator's-eye view of "how it's released"

The rising ranking is where the way something reached the market shows up most clearly, alongside the appeal of the work itself. Here are four repeatable moves from this issue's Top 30.

Creator takeaways:

The Full Top 30

Here is the complete rising set for this issue. Product names link to their Booth pages. Like counts and days since release are as of the measurement date (2026-08-23).

#	Product	Creator	Category	Likes (age)
1	Evil Dragon Melvii	Narikiri Honpo	Avatar	6,810 (5d)
2	Danzai Bunny Boy	EXTENSION CLOTHING	Outfit	5,125 (4d)
3	Messy Side Pony Hair	Chocolate rice	Hair	3,263 (2d)
4	Bero Ugokashi	Masakaniya	Gimmick & Tool	5,934 (6d)
5	ClipStudio/Photoshop Live Sync Tool	StudioCats	Gimmick & Tool	2,722 (3d)
6	Nokan! — Jiggle Clipping Guard	meitea shop	Gimmick & Tool	2,612 (3d)
7	Cigarette & Butt-Pickup Gimmick	marumaru	Gimmick & Tool	2,188 (2d)
8	Neru	Meidollia-Dolls	Avatar	3,832 (5d)
9	KYOEN Bunny	Kuroneko	Outfit	3,731 (5d)
10	Mucho — A Pet That Kind of Talks	IWANUGA	Gimmick & Tool	16,494 (26d)
11	Urban Utility	ssugana	Outfit	9,428 (15d)
12	Kitsune-Miko	MOMORI	Hair	6,817 (11d)
13	quartz	SHOP HEILON	Outfit	1,684 (1d)
14	Rabby Long Hair	GLAY Unknown	Hair	4,624 (9d)
15	Mono Blanco	Ene Collection	Outfit	6,124 (12d)
16	Angelic Day	Ballistic Hearts	Outfit	2,029 (4d)
17	Barchiel	PINK♡PUDDING	Outfit	1,410 (2d)
18	Nova N1	Eliya Workshop	Outfit	1,374 (1d)
19	Seiren Set	Kurakura	Accessory	1,366 (2d)
20	FlowerCakePrincess & FlowerPrincessLong	Omochiyasan	Outfit	1,363 (2d)
21	Antique Braid	Nanaha	Hair	4,101 (9d)
22	Kaguya	IKUSIA	Avatar	18,753 (44d)
23	Shooting Star Halo	Harukaze Hisui	Accessory	1,238 (1d)
24	Rosemary	velvetsky	Outfit	4,226 (10d)
25	YURAGI	Potaya	Outfit	1,436 (4d)
26	Breeze Day	ParfaIt	Outfit	1,214 (2d)
27	TulleTwin	Pirouette	Hair	4,049 (10d)
28	CHAINSAINT	EDEN Oasis	Outfit	1,671 (4d)
29	Devi Chord	TiramisU	Outfit	6,228 (16d)
30	Red Shift	MINUÉL	Outfit	4,056 (11d)

Wrap-up

What stood out across these 30 was that the items at the top weren't things to wear — they were tools. Only five gimmicks and tools made the rising set at all, and those five took #4, #5, #6, #7, and #10: half the Top 10. Outfits, the largest category at 15 of 30, put only two items in the top ten.

The part specific to this issue is that three of those five exist to shorten the editing work itself. Inserting bones into a tongue, laying colliders along a body, checking how a texture you've painted actually reads — all of them used to live inside the upload-and-come-back loop. These three shut that loop inside Unity and go after the waiting time instead. Products that show you what someone made, and products that hand you back the time to make something: they sit in the same list, and they climbed the same way. This was a week where what the people doing the work were struggling with showed up directly in the rankings.

Always-Updated Version and Monthly Reports

This article is a snapshot as of the August 23, 2026 measurement. The live rising ranking is always available on the site.

• VRChat New Releases — Trending Now: the fastest-rising new items on Booth (always updated)
• [August 17, 2026] VRChat Trending Snapshot — This Week's Fastest-Rising on Booth

For months that have had time to settle, the category-by-category monthly reports carry the final version.

• [June 2026] Top 10 Popular VRChat Gimmicks & Tools on Booth — Ranking and Trend Analysis
• [June 2026] Top 10 Popular VRChat Avatars on Booth — Ranking and Trend Analysis
• [June 2026] Top 10 Popular VRChat Outfits on Booth — Ranking and Trend Analysis

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About the Data

• Measurement date: 2026-08-23
• Scope: items published on Booth between 2026-05-23 and 2026-08-23 (2,457 items)
• Ranking basis: likes ÷ days since release (items under three days old are counted as three), in descending order. This ranks how fast likes accumulate, not total likes, and uses the same calculation as the site's rising page
• What "N days" means: days since release are calculated from VRCFinder's data collection point (the measurement date), not from what the Booth page displays
• Rankings are a rough guide: this tally shifts a lot depending on collection timing. Read it as a way to find the new releases people are watching, not as a competition
• Listing condition: VRCFinder's database only collects items with 300 or more likes, so anything that hadn't reached 300 by the measurement date isn't included here
• Prices in the body text are the regular (list) prices confirmed on the Booth product page. Items on sale are noted as "at measurement time it was on sale"
• Note: the figures and rankings in this article are a snapshot from the measurement date and don't reflect later changes, so they may differ from current values. "Released" refers to when the Booth product page went live
• Giveaway formats, prices, and sales are as of the measurement date. Time-limited giveaways and sales may have ended by the time you read this — please check the latest information on the Booth product page before purchasing