Togawa Nonoha and Hanabatake Chaika Settle on “Green Maids” as Their Duo Name
The two Nijisanji talents, on their third collab in about a year, had been told in chat that their pairing had no name.
NIJISANJI — Nijisanji’s Togawa Nonoha and Hanabatake Chaika picked a name for their pairing on Monday, ending a collab stream on Nonoha’s channel by settling on “Midori no Maid-san,” or “Green Maids.” The two had been asked about a group name in chat and had no answer ready, noting that neither of them had one. After trying the idea out, they said they would use it and put the name on screen.
The stream, titled as a night of looking at the sky with Chaika, opened with a burst of ocarina playing that sent chat straight to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. One of the participants said the instrument sounded like a voice and that the playing had improved. Soon after, the host thanked Chaika for agreeing to a second invitation about a year after their first collab, and they worked out that, counting that night, they had collaborated three times.
“It really was the best cookie I’ve ever had.” — Togawa Nonoha and Hanabatake Chaika, on a cookie from Yomi
Much of the first hour was chat about phones. One participant said the back button on a new Android phone sat on the opposite side from the old one and called himself a “high-tech elf”; the other defended the iPhone, and the argument ran on to cables, charging and the move from Lightning to USB-C. Between topics they played a game in which clouds are matched to shapes, calling out a ship, an insect and a ballerina. They also covered snow in the forecast, a Yu-Gi-Oh! exhibition tournament they had played together and who each had become friendly with over the past year.
The longest running thread was a cookie. One of the two said a cookie from Yomi, a senior Nijisanji talent, at last year’s Halloween was the best thing they had ever eaten and could not be forgotten, and the pair joked about asking for the recipe. They settled on getting some of Yomi’s cookies as a goal, with the stated aim of becoming friends with Yomi first.
Chat answered the naming with its own suggestions, and one viewer wondered whether more “green maids” might join. The stream carried five Super Chats, one of which congratulated them on the new duo name. One participant asked for a gentle fade-out to close, and the pair signed off after about two hours, suggesting they would meet again in about a year.
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This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.