Shu Yamino, Yang Nari and Murakumo Kagetsu Finish BOMBANANA! Session With a Clean Defusal

NIJISANJI — Shu Yamino, Yang Nari and Murakumo Kagetsu spent more than two hours defusing bombs together in BOMBANANA! on Sunday, and ended the night with a clean run on the last bomb they attempted. Each talent streamed the collab from their own channel.

The game splits a team into limited roles in the spirit of the three wise monkeys: one player cannot speak, one cannot hear and one cannot see, so everything about the bomb has to be passed along by description and in-game emotes. The three had not played together in more than a year, and Shu Yamino opened by saying the aim was to enjoy it, explosions included. The first bomb ended with a wire cut at the last moment, and the group swapped roles after the early rounds, later settling on random assignments.

“It took all three of us.” — Shu Yamino, Yang Nari and Murakumo Kagetsu, after the final bomb

Early on, one bomb blew up without warning because of a module that detonates the whole bomb if a step is skipped, a rule the group learned from the manual afterward. As the game added modules, including a piano, mazes and a four-color, pizza-shaped memory sequence, the difficulty climbed. A piano bomb failed with about five seconds left, another bomb was lost with three seconds on the clock, and the four-color module took several tries. The group also had its share of clean rounds, including a maze they cleared on the second attempt and a bomb they finished in one pass.

The last bomb, a panel of lamps, levers, a number and an enter button, went through with no mistakes at about 2:15 into the stream. The three then said the result showed they needed all three of them, and agreed to play again. Chat answered with “Nice teamwork” and praise for how well the group had played, and Shu Yamino was singled out by one viewer for carrying the final stretch.

Shu Yamino said a Halloween live is set for the 31st, and that a Japanese-language stream is planned for early Saturday before it, with the timing not yet fixed.