With Money From Fellow Players, Harusame Urame Buys a 400 Million Shinobi Bike on Day One

AOGIRI HIGH SCHOOL — Harusame Urame of Aogiri High School bought the Shinobi, a motorcycle priced at 400 million, on Friday during the first day of her Grand Theft Auto (GTA) session tagged #ガチグラ. About three hours into the stream she had gathered enough money from other players to pay for it, and after comparing several shades of blue she settled on one and bought the bike.

The stream had started without a goal. “It’s really laid-back this time. It’s a total stroll,” she said, and she set off on a rented moped as an unemployed citizen with no job picked. The first dealership she found sold novelty vehicles, including a carrot-shaped car and a caterpillar-like one, at prices beyond her cash. Another player pointed her to a regular car dealer, and she bought a phone. Later she asked a fellow player about the Shinobi and learned it cost 400 million.

“I collected 400 million on my first day and bought a bike.” — Harusame Urame, to another player after the purchase

Most of the money came from other players. A round of grave digging earned her about 3 million, which she called not worth the effort, and she won a round of chinchiro, a Japanese dice game, against another player. She also took part in a bank heist that another player talked her through, which she said paid about 20 million. A mechanic handed her 100 million, and money from a police player later took her to the amount she needed. She said she would repay everyone, either by joining the police or by earning it through crime.

Chat reacted to the price when she first heard it, and again when the bike arrived. After the purchase she shopped for new clothes, had the bike repaired and said she wanted to try running from the police on it. She said she had no stream planned for Saturday, and that her next one would be a new-outfit reveal at 8 p.m. on the 15th. She said she might return to GTA after that but had settled nothing.