The nonprofit organization ReverV will hold “Metaverse Welfare Gathering” (メタバース福祉会), a free event that combines VTuber performances with talks on welfare, on Sunday, November 1, 2026. It runs from 13:00 to 17:00 JST on the metaverse platform Cluster. ReverV announced it by press release on October 24.
At a glance
- Date and time: Sunday, November 1, 2026, 13:00 to 17:00 JST (04:00 to 08:00 UTC)
- Platform: Cluster (an account and the app are required); VRChat is not mentioned
- Admission: free
- Organizer: ReverV, a nonprofit based in Nishinomiya, Hyogo
- Special collaboration: Higashi-Hiroshima Well-being Festa (Mirai no Ibasho Network)
- Language: the release is in Japanese, and the event language is not stated
What was announced
The organizer’s representative director, Daiki Nakajima, performs as the VTuber Hiiro Shina. The event is designed as an entry point to the topic of welfare through entertainment, and it is aimed at people with and without prior knowledge. Attendees enter through the event page on Cluster when the event starts, and the organizer also lists an application form on the event site.
The schedule below is subject to change, according to the release:
- 13:00 Opening greeting by Hiiro Shina
- 13:10 Theme song by Naraku Yui
- 13:20 A talk show titled “Traveling Korosh-aberi,” with Koharu Nako and Hiiro Shina and a guest, Yugiri
- 14:10 A guided tour of exhibitor booths
- 15:00 A universal design fashion show with children from Hiroshima
- 15:30 A lecture on changing views of disability and support, covering the ICF and social justice approaches
- 16:30 A closing song by Utami Rai
- 16:40 Closing greeting by Cyan CAT
- 17:00 End
The tentative exhibitors include Yuki Cafe Maids, Recovery College Polyphony, the Toshima ward social welfare council, RP LLC, the nonprofit Wish Project, ReverV itself and Shitame Information Office. The event site also asks visitors to post welfare-themed images on X with the hashtag #メタふく出展作品, and selected images may be shown at the venue or shared on X.
Background
ReverV was founded on October 1, 2025. It operates a Type B employment support facility, ReverV Works, which opened in April 2026. Type B facilities are a category of Japanese welfare service in which people with disabilities who find regular employment difficult can work under support. The event is part of the organization’s effort to introduce welfare topics to a wider audience through virtual spaces, and the release describes VTubers as the performers and hosts.
Cluster is a Japanese metaverse platform that can be used from smartphones, PCs and VR devices, and it hosts live music events, presentations and an always-open virtual world.
What it means for overseas viewers
The event is free and takes place in a virtual space, so people outside Japan can join if they create a Cluster account and install the app. The time zone is the main barrier. The event starts at 04:00 UTC on November 1, which is the middle of the night in the Americas (midnight in US Eastern time, noting that US clocks change on the same date) and morning in Europe, and it ends at 08:00 UTC. The release and the event site are in Japanese, and no translation or interpretation has been announced.
For readers interested in how VTubers are used outside entertainment, the event is a small example of VTuber performers working with a nonprofit to cover a social topic.
What we don’t know yet
- Whether the event will be recorded or streamed outside Cluster
- Whether any English support will be offered
- Final confirmation of the schedule and exhibitors, which the organizer lists as tentative
Sources
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Reviewed by WVR Inoue on October 30, 2026. See our editorial standards.
