Virtual Idol is a monthly magazine focusing on pretty female characters from games and female seiyuu. The first 8 issues of Virtual Idol came out in an irregular schedule, but it became monthly with volume 9. Then it suddenly disappeared after issue 9 in 1997.

At the beginning there was more emphasis on the characters, but after a while there was more and more on the seiyuu. Then at volume 5, Kouda Mariko appeared on the cover, and the seiyuu were the cover girls until volume 6 of 1997. After that the cover girls were game characters.