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Ayase Yuu Closes a Roleplay Stream by Letting Pent-Up Japanese Pour Out

After a night of speaking mostly English on a Grand Theft Auto roleplay server, the Phase Connect streamer said she was sleepy and due back in the morning.

Ayase Yuu during “🔴 #DistrictV2 / DAY7 | I surely was not a good person【絢世ユウ / PhaseConnect】,” a broadcast that ran 5h 52m. Press to play from YouTube

Ayase Yuu ended her Tuesday stream on the District V2 roleplay server, a Grand Theft Auto server, by letting the Japanese she had held back all night come out in a long run. She compared the habit of suppressing it to a dam: the longer it holds, she said, the bigger the flood when it breaks, and she told viewers they were already downstream.

She then described her agency situation in the same breath. Ayase belongs to Phase Connect, a VTuber agency based in Canada, and to its Japan branch, which she said has no staff in Japan. She joked that a hand-drawn goods order would cross the ocean about three times, with her signature added in Japan before shipping worldwide from Canada. She added that she cannot speak English fluently, which is why roleplay in English makes her think before she talks. Then she said she was sleepy, would finish her melted parfait and go to bed because she had to start early the next morning.

“A whole village has already been swallowed: Union Village.” — Ayase Yuu, joking about her dammed-up Japanese at the end of the stream

The stream had opened with Ayase greeting viewers as an ultra super genius detective, apologizing that she had again forgotten to fix her screen image, and saying she was very sleepy. She thanked someone for making her a PDF cheat sheet of English phrases for the server.

In character later in the evening, she told others she could not remember the group’s base, and a car turned up in the garage. Another scene had a French-accented voice singing a lullaby in her ear; she reacted by saying it was worth the money and then tripped over something from excitement. In a later stretch she worked through outfits in the character creator, calling an all-black look with a mask suspicious but cute, and noticed she had only 141 yen.

Near the end of the roleplay she practiced running from the police, shouting “nigeron,” Japanese for “run away.” She apologized for not talking more because of the English-language rules of the server, and said regular streaming would resume next week.

Chat answered the lullaby scene with laughing emotes and one viewer wrote “great ASMR.” Her outfit drew “criminally cute” and, from Japanese-speaking viewers, a reference to the fictional master thief and detective-story villain Fiend with Twenty Faces. Chat said goodnight in a flood of fan emotes as she signed off.

This broadcast has no captions. This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from speech recognition of the stretches where chat was busiest, plus the opening and the close, and from the chat in those stretches; it covers only those stretches. Quotations may contain recognition errors.

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