Sorashina Sopia Restarts Her Way to a First Song, 44 Minutes Into Her hololive Dreams Debut

HOLOLIVE — Sorashina Sopia, a virtual science idol with Hololive’s gpASOBI MAWARI-TAI! unit, spent the first 44 minutes of her first hololive Dreams stream on Sunday getting past loading screens before she could play a single song. She said she had played only the opening animation before, having uninstalled the game earlier so she could start it with viewers.

The game asked her to choose one Hololive talent as her starter. She chose Raden, a senior, saying she greatly respected the way Raden carries art and traditional crafts to wider audiences, a nod to her own science-minded persona. Almost at once a spinning Hololive logo froze the screen. Sopia restarted the app, then the iPad, and checked her Wi-Fi, counting prime numbers to stay calm. The same stall came back several times, and she called it “spinning time,” saying she should have downloaded everything beforehand.

“Could this be a great game? That felt good.” — Sorashina Sopia, after her first rhythm-game song

The game moved on once she reached the story scenes, where she voiced the senior talents’ lines in impressions and joked about their delivery. Her gacha pulls, the game’s random draws, turned up Raden twice in a row, which she called destiny. At 44 minutes in, she began her first rhythm-game song on difficulty 10, cleared it and said it felt good to play along with music. Later she found a setting that muted the game’s sound for streaming and played another song by sight alone, which she called difficult.

Late in the stream, as another stall hit, she said the delay was deliberate, meant to let viewers enjoy the game’s calm background music. After dressing her character in Raden’s costume and taking photos in the game’s photo mode, she ended the evening by saying she would download everything before the next session.

She also ran through the coming week’s schedule, including Jump King practice on Wednesday ahead of a beginners’ race on Friday.