BLOOM Femboy VRChat Avatar Review: PC-Only Customization and Features
Finding a VRChat avatar that combines expressive styling, extensive customization, and full-body movement can take time, especially if you want something ready to configure in Unity. BLOOM – FEMBOY B_SIDE by ARKHYPE is a PC-only male femboy/dancer avatar designed for VRChat, with numerous clothing options, color controls, PhysBones, and interaction features.
However, there is one important consideration before buying: BLOOM is officially deprecated and is no longer maintained by the creator, so compatibility with current or future VRChat updates is not guaranteed.
BLOOM is a customizable VRChat avatar built for PC users. The download includes two Unity packages—one configured for Poiyomi Pro and another for the free Poiyomi shader setup. It comes with an assembled Unity scene and has been tested for full-body tracking. Some familiarity with Unity is recommended for uploading and configuring the avatar.
The avatar is not currently Quest compatible, making this primarily an option for PC VRChat users.
Customization is one of BLOOM's strongest features. The avatar includes around 39 clothing and accessory toggles, covering items such as pants, hoodies, shirts, sleeves, gloves, glasses, masks, horns, ears, scarves, a flower crown, sword, and additional outfit components.
There are also 22 black-and-white theme toggles that allow users to change the appearance of various elements and mix different visual combinations.
This flexibility makes BLOOM appealing to users who enjoy changing their avatar's look without maintaining several completely separate avatars.
BLOOM provides multiple appearance controls, including hue and saturation adjustments, skin-tone controls, separate eye customization, hair emission settings, outline controls, and several hair-color choices.
PhysBones are included across elements such as the hair, ears, tail, veil, sword, and other moving components. The avatar also uses additional volume and twist bones intended to produce more natural-looking body movement.
GoGo Locomotion and Avatar Interactions
The package incorporates an older version of GoGo Locomotion, providing sitting and laying animations along with avatar scaling functionality. Users should note that the product specifically requires the compatible older GoGo version listed by the creator rather than simply installing the newest release.
Dynamic contacts can also trigger facial reactions from interactions such as head pats and boops, with individual reaction colliders that can be enabled or disabled.
Who Is This For?
BLOOM may suit PC VRChat users who enjoy highly customizable femboy-style avatars, full-body tracking, social VR, dancing, roleplay, or virtual photography. It is better suited to users comfortable working in Unity because setup requires specific SDK, shader, and locomotion dependencies.
Pros and Cons
Pros
Large selection of clothing and accessory toggles
Extensive color and appearance customization
PhysBones and full-body tracking support
Includes Poiyomi Free and Pro package options
GoGo Locomotion and avatar scaling features
Cons
Officially deprecated and no longer maintained
Not Quest compatible
Requires specific older dependencies
Listed with a very poor VRChat performance ranking
Future compatibility is not guaranteed
Conclusion
BLOOM – FEMBOY B_SIDE remains a feature-rich VRChat avatar with extensive outfit customization, appearance controls, movement features, and social interactions. Its biggest drawback is its deprecated status, so buyers should approach it as an older PC avatar that may require additional troubleshooting rather than a continuously supported product.
If its design and customization options match what you're looking for—and you're comfortable with the compatibility limitations—you can view BLOOM on Gumroad and review the current requirements before purchasing.
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