Kazama Iroha Says Getting to Know Hololive’s Rookies Is Going Five Times Faster Than Usual

HOLOLIVE — Kazama Iroha of holoX said on a Thursday-morning chat stream that her effort to get to know Hololive’s newest talents is moving about five times faster than in a typical year. She called the effort her “newcomer research” and said it was going better than she had expected.

She credited a Valorant session with one of the newcomers, along with conversation away from the stream, for making that talent easier to talk to. By her account, the newcomer usually plays ranked matches alone and was glad to have company, so Iroha told her to call whenever she wanted a game. The newcomer also likes cute farming games, which Iroha said suits her own tastes. She said she would leave Valorant installed, and that she has never touched Overwatch.

“The research on the newcomers is far from over.” — Kazama Iroha, on getting to know Hololive’s newest talents

Iroha said the day before, she had left snacks, including Pocky, at a studio for another newcomer and asked AZKi, who was doing an off-collab with that newcomer, to find out what she likes. AZKi reported back that night by LINE, and Iroha said she now had a few topics in common to bring up. She said she tends to freeze up around new juniors, and that the Pocky appeared to have been eaten.

Talk turned to a third newcomer after Iroha heard the phrase “conservation of energy” from a Hololive member, then learned that the same talent had mentioned gravitational acceleration on a Jump King stream. Iroha said she took more physics than most in school and had once measured jump distances in pixels herself. She said her best subject was physical education and her worst was arts and crafts, recalling a wooden ocarina she built that leaked air. Chat said the physics talk was over their heads.

She opened the stream with the cold, saying she had gone out in a jacket after wearing a track suit the week before, and bought cup soup at a convenience store. She closed by saying she would join Fubuki that evening, tentatively at 8 p.m., for a Final Fantasy XIV session, with any change in time to be announced on X, before going to work.