- CEO
- Motoaki Tanigo
- Full Time Employees
- 735
- Sector
- Consumer services
- Industry
- Movies/Entertainment
- Address
- Tokyo Mita Garden Tower Tokyo TY Japan 108-0073
- IPO Date
- Mar 27, 2023
- Business
- COVER Corporation (TSE:5253) operates as a Japan-based entertainment company focused on virtual YouTuber (VTuber) production, virtual platforms, and media mix strategies; it develops and manages VTuber intellectual property through motion capture technology and anime-style avatars, primarily via its hololive production agency. The company offers core services including VTuber talent management and content distribution through video and music streaming platforms; media mix initiatives encompassing merchandise planning and sales, licensing, tie-ins, comics, animation, and other derivative content; and metaverse development centered on Holoearth, a sandbox game enabling user interactions in virtual spaces. Additional products feature brand-specific VTuber groups such as hololive (female), HOLOSTARS (male), hololive Indonesia, hololive English, and HOLOSTARS English; a music label INNK Music; an official online shop hololive production OFFICIAL SHOP; and media projects like hololive Alternative. Founded on June 13, 2016 by Motoaki Tanigo and headquartered at Tokyo Mita Garden Tower in Minato-ku, Tokyo, COVER Corporation employs 679 people and targets global audiences in the digital entertainment sector with operations spanning Japan, Indonesia, English-speaking countries, and Korea through collaborations. Recent developments include the launch of a new logistics hub center in June 2025 to enhance distribution; the establishment of its first overseas subsidiary COVER USA for global expansion and localization; the opening of COVERedge, an official owned media platform; a collaboration cafe with ANIPLUS in Korea in April 2024; and ongoing investments in anti-defamation measures, studio enhancements, and responses to talent graduations such as Gawr Gura, Nanashi Mumei, and others in 2025.