Four Nijisanji Talents Team Up for a Halloween Morning in the Splatoon 3 Splatfest

NIJISANJI — Four Nijisanji talents played Splatoon 3 together on Halloween morning, each streaming from their own channel, and stayed with the game’s Halloween Splatfest for about two hours after it opened at 9 a.m. Shiga Riko, Kirara Tamako, Nekoyashiki Miku and Senri Ayumu opened their *asakatsu*, or morning-routine stream, with Halloween greetings and a pun on the holiday: instead of candy, they said, they would eat squid.

Voting came first, in the game’s plaza, and the group treated it as high stakes. One of them said they would check the ballot three times; another pointed out that a wrong pick would keep them from playing together. All four chose the green Wizard side. With the Splatfest still half an hour from opening, they set up a friends-only Rainmaker match. By the group’s custom the junior member, Ayumu, picks the mode, and after being told not to overthink it, they settled on Rainmaker to build teamwork, saving Turf War for later. They won the first match by holding a lead through the final seconds. The others were impressed by Ayumu’s 11 kills; Ayumu, who had not touched the Rainmaker once, said Miku had done the carrying.

“It’s the first time I’ve run a Splatfest this far, and it was a total blast.” — Shiga Riko and three others, after the final battle

When the Splatfest opened, the four played battle after battle as Team Wizard. Falls into the stage’s water drew groans and laughter, and a win in a 10x Match brought cheers from the group and a wave of congratulations in chat. About an hour and a half in, the opposing room seemed to fall apart: three of the four opponents dropped out, leaving a lone player against the four, and the group stopped to say how unlucky that was for them. Chat felt the same way, one message saying the roller player was genuinely in despair.

Between rounds the game supplied its own Halloween touches. Shooting ink at a wall in the lobby made ghost and fish figures appear, and the four spent a few minutes helping each other find the spot. After one battle the stage’s ink, orange against green, looked like a pair of clasped hands, and they declared it a sign of friendship. Late in the session Ayumu, who had never used one, bought a charger, a long-range sniper-style weapon, and tried it in battle. At one point a line of garbled text flickered in a corner of the screen, which set off ghost jokes: one voice insisted it was a haunting rather than Halloween, and another teased that Riko might be standing behind each of them. Someone also noticed that Riko’s stream title could be read as four Shiga Rikos, and the group traded cries of “Shigariko will win.” Chat, meanwhile, had opened the morning with a flood of Halloween greetings.

The last battle slipped away at the finish, but the four talked happily about a first Splatfest run this long and agreed to play again, possibly as opponents in a private match. Ayumu said Turf War had left some questions despite studying Tower Control and Splat Zones, and said the practice would continue. Riko, who had worried about waking up and said the morning went well anyway, announced that a cover song would premiere at 7 p.m. that day with a music video she called amazing; she planned to watch it live and said there would be no stream that day. Miku said a song of hers would also come out at 7 p.m., and Tamako said she would be at a Halloween party on another talent’s stream that evening. Riko added that in the coming week, solo Splatoon streams might see others dropping in, and asked viewers not to be surprised.