Ruri Enma Plans a Death Game Everyone Survives, Then Struggles to Invite Juniors to Lunch
The RK Music streamer also sang several songs and confirmed a special stream at 6 p.m. the next day.
RK MUSIC — Ruri Enma of RK Music spent an early-morning stream on Wednesday working out how everyone could survive a death game, a topic that wandered into robot fights, her trouble inviting juniors to meals and, finally, cake. The stream, billed as an *asakatsu*, or morning activity, with singing and chatting, ran about two hours.
The death-game discussion began about 25 minutes in, when Enma asked how a group could actually get out alive. She went through the usual setups: a bomb collar, a poison taken in advance, a traitor among the players, armed guards. Her conclusion was that the organizer would have to be dealt with before the game began. Chat suggested a hacker, and she joked that a hacker would need to have their body mechanized in advance because all belongings are confiscated.
“Enma wants to become a cake, too.” — Ruri Enma, on Christmas cakes
From there she turned to a story of her own. She said she had felt uneasy watching a robot battle held in a cage at an event, and traced the feeling to a film she saw as a child, in which robots were made to fight and the losers were melted down. She added that there is no right or wrong answer on the subject, and that she expected such contests to become more common.
Singing broke up the talk. Enma performed a song around the 52-minute mark, said chat’s applause was a pleasure, and returned to the microphone several more times. She later said she had recently started singing standing up, which she called enjoyable, and that she wants to do more cover songs alongside short videos.
At about 1:02 she said she is increasingly called “senpai” because more juniors have joined RK Music, and that she is terrible at inviting them to lunch or tea. Chat offered ideas, such as settling a collab game with a loser’s meal or saying she has a restaurant she cannot visit alone. She decided that one of her own ideas was “definitely out” and went back to singing.
The stream closed with a long talk about cake, including red velvet, Christmas cakes and anime-themed cakes, along with the dream of selling cakes in Akihabara. Enma reminded viewers of a special stream at 6 p.m. on Thursday, earlier than her usual time, saying she must visit the agency beforehand. She also said she hoped to stream again later on Wednesday, possibly with little notice.
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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.