Kaburaki Roco, Sophia Valentine and Koshimizu Toru Take On a Drawing-Song Game

NIJISANJI — Kaburaki Roco, Sophia Valentine and Koshimizu Toru, all of Nijisanji, played an *ekakiuta*, or drawing-song, game together on Thursday. A song sings out instructions for a picture, the players draw what they hear, and the others try to work out what the result is meant to be. All three streamed the 80-minute collab from their own channels.

After a sound check and introductions, they opened with a practice round at easy difficulty, limited to creature prompts, then added harder prompts. Roco said the confidence came from having watched plenty of children’s programs on Etele as a kid, while one of the participants said it was their first time playing and hoped for beginner’s luck. In the first hard round, several of them heard the sung word for ‘soap’ as ‘bib’ and drew number bibs instead, which set off laughter once the model drawing was shown. One participant protested that they had drawn exactly what the song said.

“I think I’d like all kinds of people to play this.” — Kaburaki Roco, closing the stream

By the end of the second round, one participant had concluded that taking the lyrics literally would not work and that some deduction was needed. Later they found a mode in which one player is the guesser and the others draw the prompt, with the answer kept secret until the end, and played it for most of the rest of the evening. A round that ended in a pelican produced drawings one participant said looked closer to a turtle. A robot prompt was guessed by all three, and after another correct guess a participant said beginner’s luck might be real.

Pleased with that, they set the game to its hardest prompts only, and a round built around a small shield went unanswered. They then chose the ‘unreasonable’ setting, where the song hides what is being drawn. One participant guessed a bat from the others’ drawings, remarking that none of them could really be called a bat but that nothing else came to mind. The final answer, Santa Claus, left the participants stumped, and one said they would go back and study drawing songs.

The three closed by telling viewers that the game works without drawing skill and urging them to try it. Roco, finishing on the main channel, said everyone should play, that the game could take a fourth player, and hoped viewers would sing and draw drawing songs of their own.