Hololive's Botan and Pekora Join Seibu Lions Taiwan Series at Taipei Dome

A baseball weekend with a limited hololive fan section

Shishiro Botan and Usada Pekora will support the Saitama Seibu Lions at Taipei Dome on February 27 and 28, 2027, in a collaboration that combines Japanese professional baseball, Taiwanese opponents and exclusive hololive merchandise. The dedicated fan section costs NT$2,680 per ticket and comes with a collaboration happi coat, with Taiwan ticketing details listing just 55 coats for each day's designated seats.

COVER Corporation's November 4, 2026, hololive event announcement names the two VTubers as special event supporters for the Kintone Presents SEIBU LIONS TAIWAN SERIES – LEGENDS GAME. Illustrator LOIZA will create original artwork for promotions, the coats and additional exclusive merchandise.

The most important instruction for fans collecting the coat comes before they reach their seats: redemption must happen at the event service counter near Gate 4 before their ticket is scanned for entry. COVER says visitors who have already entered cannot claim the gift, and unclaimed coats will not be sent out later.

The weekend also offers two different baseball and entertainment packages. Seibu will play the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions on February 27, followed by a concert. On February 28, Seibu will face the CTBC Brothers before former players from Japan and Taiwan take the field for the legends game. Gates open at noon on both days, with the main games starting at 3:05 p.m. and the evening programs scheduled for 7 p.m.

What Botan, Pekora and LOIZA bring to the event

Botan and Pekora are VTubers, performers who appear through animated digital characters. Their role in Taipei includes special cheering content and an opening video, giving hololive fans a reason to follow an event built around baseball rather than a conventional virtual entertainment program.

LOIZA's new illustrations will give the collaboration its own visual identity. The artwork will appear in event promotion, on the exclusive fan coats and on a planned range of merchandise. A happi is a short Japanese festival coat, often worn at celebrations or while supporting a team.

The announcement describes digital and stadium content involving the two performers; it gives no schedule for a personal appearance or fan meeting. Prices and release dates for the additional merchandise have not been announced. For now, the clearly defined purchase benefit is the coat attached to the designated hololive seats.

Which seats include the exclusive coat?

The hololive Fan Zone occupies rows 1 through 9 of Section 119 in the B1 infield B seating area. Each ticket costs NT$2,680 and allows its holder to redeem one collaboration coat. The allocation of 55 coats per game makes the benefit much more limited than the general admission gifts.

Other buyers in eligible B1 infield A and B seats receive a Seibu Lions cheering coat. Fans in the designated hololive section receive the collaboration version instead. The distinction matters when choosing a seat: an infield ticket elsewhere does not carry the same hololive benefit.

The wider infield price range runs from NT$580 to NT$2,880, while outfield seats cost NT$1,080. The hololive ticket is NT$200 below the highest listed infield price and NT$1,600 above an outfield ticket. Fans therefore need to weigh the particular seat and exclusive coat against cheaper ways to attend the same day's program.

Collect gifts before going through the gate

COVER instructs hololive ticket holders to present their ticket at the service counter near Gate 4 on the day of their game. Collection ends for each visitor once the ticket has been scanned and the visitor has entered the venue. Lost or damaged items will not be replaced.

Arriving before entry is especially useful because the coat and the general admission gift have different conditions. The coat is tied to the designated ticket, while the daily cheering gifts have a fixed quantity and are distributed while supplies last.

Organizers have allocated 20,000 cheering lights for February 27 and 20,000 flags for February 28. These are separate from the seat specific coats. With doors opening at noon and the first game beginning at 3:05 p.m., visitors have a scheduled window of three hours and five minutes before the opening pitch to complete collection and find their seats.

Two dates, two different evening programs

February 27 pairs Seibu with the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions, the former club of Seibu player An-Ko Lin. A concert is scheduled for 7 p.m. after the baseball game. The performing artists have yet to be announced.

February 28 brings the CTBC Brothers, winners of the 2026 second half league in Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League, or CPBL. The evening legends game will feature former Seibu players against a Chinese Taipei alumni team. An alumni game brings retired or former players back to compete, giving spectators a chance to see familiar names from earlier seasons.

The schedule and ticket announcements developed over several months:

• June 20, 2026: Organizers announced the series at the main stadium of the Asia-Pacific International Baseball Training Center. The February 28 opponent was still being arranged, and ticket sales were initially expected in September.
• November 2 and 3, 2026: Eligible Chunghwa Telecom customers could exchange Hami Point points for limited codes giving a 5% ticket discount and priority purchasing access.
• November 4, 2026, noon: Taiwan ticket sales opened through udn Ticket and Klook, alongside the hololive collaboration announcement.
• November 11, 2026: Ticket sales through Ticket Pia in Japan were scheduled to begin.
• February 27 and 28, 2027: Taipei Dome opens at noon, the main games begin at 3:05 p.m., and the evening programs are scheduled for 7 p.m.

Choose a ticket platform by seating area

Udn Ticket and Klook sell tickets in Taiwan, but their seating focus differs. Udn Ticket offers seats behind home plate, the visiting teams' third base side and wheelchair seating across the venue. Klook focuses on Seibu's cheering area along the first base side.

Seibu supporters will gather on the first base side, while Uni-President and CTBC supporters will be on the third base side on their respective game days. Choosing by team can matter as much as choosing by price, particularly for spectators who want to join organized cheering.

Ticket Pia's Japan sales also include the first base area, where spectators can experience the performers and coordinated cheering associated with Taiwanese professional baseball. Fans seeking the hololive coat should check the exact section and row rather than select a general Seibu cheering ticket.

An-Ko Lin gives the first game a personal connection

An-Ko Lin's move from Uni-President to Seibu was one of the developments that helped bring the series together. His return creates a direct connection between the Japanese visitors and the Taiwanese club they will face on February 27.

Lin attended the ticket announcement in Taipei alongside Kuo Tai-yuan and Hisanobu Watanabe, who will manage the teams in the legends game. He spoke about looking forward to seeing Pan Chieh-kai, his former club teammate, and Lu Yen-ching, a teammate from Taiwan's national team.

Lin, a Seibu player, described the reunion in these words:

Returning to Taiwan after a long time and reuniting with my former teammate Pan Chieh-kai and Lu Yen-ching, whom I fought alongside as a member of the Taiwan national team, has made me look forward to the exchange match even more.

The games are scheduled to be Seibu's first matches against outside opposition after its 2027 spring training. For current players, Taipei will therefore be an early opportunity to turn training work into competition before the regular season.

Former stars extend a relationship across generations

Takehiro Ishii, Hironori Ishige and Hatsuhiko Tsuji are among the additional names announced for the alumni event. Former Major League Baseball pitcher Chien-Ming Wang was also announced for the Chinese Taipei side.

The June launch had outlined plans to invite about 30 former stars from Japan and Taiwan. Kuo Tai-yuan, Watanabe and Tetsuya Shiozaki were among the prominent figures involved in that early announcement, with Watanabe and Shiozaki attending as senior advisers.

Seibu's Taiwan connections reach beyond this weekend's lineup. Kuo, Hsu Ming-chieh and Wu Nien-ting all played for the Japanese club. Seibu manager Fumiya Nishiguchi also joined Uni-President's coaching staff after retiring as a player. Those links give the legends game a shared history for fans on both sides.

Seibu returns to Taiwan after 29 years

Tsuyoshi Okumura, Seibu's president and chief executive, described the series as the club's first appearance in Taiwan in 29 years. It will also be Seibu's first time playing at Taipei Dome, placing an established relationship in a new venue.

Okumura said the club wanted to use the games to build a lasting connection with Taiwanese supporters:

With this exchange match as a new step, we will strive to let the people of Taiwan deeply know the charm of The Lions and to become a team that is loved for a long time.

COVER's club profile identifies Seibu as a Pacific League team in Nippon Professional Baseball, Japan's professional league, with 23 league championships and 13 Japan Series titles. The club has been based in Saitama since 1979 and plays its home games at Belluna Dome in Tokorozawa.

Cybozu Inc., the provider of the kintone business platform, is sponsoring the exchange series. The program brings together current competition, former stars, music and hololive content, allowing fans with different interests to attend the same event. For visitors, the practical choices remain specific: which day's evening program they prefer, which team they want to sit beside, and whether the limited collaboration coat justifies the designated ticket price.

Key Points

• Botan and Pekora will serve as special supporters at Taipei Dome on February 27 and 28, 2027, with new collaboration artwork by LOIZA.
• The hololive Fan Zone costs NT$2,680 in B1 infield B, Section 119, rows 1 through 9. The collaboration coat allocation is 55 per game.
• Coats must be collected near Gate 4 on the game day before ticket scanning and entry. Unclaimed items will not be distributed later.
• Seibu plays Uni-President on February 27 and CTBC on February 28. Both games start at 3:05 p.m., with doors opening at noon.
• A concert follows the first game; a legends game follows the second. Both evening programs are scheduled for 7 p.m.
• Daily admission gifts are limited to 20,000 cheering lights on February 27 and 20,000 flags on February 28.
• Taiwan ticket sales opened November 4 through udn Ticket and Klook, with Japan sales through Ticket Pia scheduled from November 11.