Mirine Shionari Writes ‘Hakanai,’ the Fleeting, as Her Kanji of the Day on Morning Stream
After a viral clip inspired her to fade from the screen, the 774inc streamer closed by asking viewers to look for the character out in the streets.
774INC — Mirine Shionari of 774inc (Nanashiinku) chose the kanji 儚, read hakanai and meaning fleeting, as her character of the day on Monday morning, closing out the 22nd edition of her regular morning stream. Writing the character out stroke by stroke from memory, she got it right on the first try, and chat cheered.
The stream opened on the turn of the season. Mirine greeted viewers, noted that it was already November and introduced herself as the one in charge of the demure persona for now, remarking that the role rotates by shift. She then brought up a viral short clip, in which a person’s body goes see-through as they are told they could hardly be called anything but fleeting, and tried a version of it herself. Her avatar thinned and vanished from the screen for a few seconds before she announced that she was back. Chat’s replies ranged from “it looks like it would disappear if you blew on it” to a string of “welcome back” messages.
“Everyone is fleeting, each and every one, so it really matters, I thought.” — Mirine Shionari, on the people in her life
Mirine spent a long stretch on family. She showed a photo of a tekka-don, a bowl of tuna over rice, that she ate at her grandparents’ house the day before, where she also played mahjong and took her grandmother on a walk to a nearby park. She said the visit left her thinking about how much every moment with the people around her, listeners included, is worth, and she credited her younger sister for pushing the family to get together.
Later she turned to lighter subjects: a four-leaf clover search she said she had run with her father, her three great skills (never missing a train, always waking to an alarm, and eating rice and side dishes in even proportions), and her growing squishy-toy collection, which she said can now be bought through TikTok. She also went over the week’s schedule, with several slots still undecided.
She signed off by asking everyone to look for the character around town during the day and be happy if they found it, and said the next stream would be on Tuesday at 11 p.m.
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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.