Kazama Iroha’s Keyboard Gives Out in the Middle of an Early-Morning Jump King Climb
After a 40-minute first ascent and a talk-through of the tower’s shortcuts, the keys stopped answering during a second, faster attempt.
HOLOLIVE — Kazama Iroha of Hololive’s holoX ended an early-morning Jump King stream early on Friday when her keyboard stopped registering inputs partway through a time-attack attempt. She said the keyboard had been with her for about four years, since around her debut.
Iroha opened by saying she had not touched the game in about nine months and asked viewers to go easy on her. She was practicing ahead of an evening Jump King event for beginners hosted by fellow Hololive members, in which she was not competing. She wanted to give viewers a look at the game first. Her first climb took 40 minutes. Along the way she came down from the tower on purpose at one point, which chat teased her about.
“I think that was the loudest I’ve screamed in Jump King lately.” — Kazama Iroha, after the keyboard failed
She then used the climb to walk viewers through spots where a maximum-power jump gets the king past an obstacle, from the forest through the sewer and kitchen to the snowy final stretch. She also pointed out the few places that still call for hand-timed jumps. She said the goal was to help newcomers who might want to climb to the top, and she asked viewers not to post “watch this” instructions in the chats of people playing in the evening event.
Around the 1 hour 34 minute mark she restarted for a quicker run, but a series of slips left her calling it a bad day. Rightward inputs began to fail, and the keys that did register came late. After she took off a keycap and tried pressing more gently, the keyboard still would not respond reliably, and she said she could not make fine adjustments with it. She said the T and Enter keys had already been acting up and that a replacement was due to arrive that day, though her work schedule might keep her from collecting it.
Iroha said she was heading to work and planned to try the time attack again on a morning stream next week, once the new keyboard was in hand. Chat saw her off with jokes about the keyboard’s “passing”.
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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.