Achichi Mela Rates Slightly Above Average in a Room-Reading Game, but Calls Real Life Harder

HOLOLIVE — Achichi Mela of Hololive’s ASOBI★MAWARI-TAI! played Kuuki Yomi 3 (空気読み。3), a game that tests whether the player can read the room, on Thursday and finished with a result she called only so-so. The salamander VTuber said she had already played the first two games in the series and still does not feel she has a grip on human society, so she treated this one as a test of whether a salamander can fit in with people.

The game puts the player in short everyday scenes, such as giving up a seat on a train, queuing at a convenience store, serving tea to a guest and sharing earphones on a date, and asks what the socially right move is. Mela said she felt on track early on, even declaring a round possibly perfect, before missing points she had not noticed, such as a line on the floor in a queue scene. Several scenes depended on references she did not recognize, among them the film The Matrix, and she concluded that reading the air is largely a matter of shared knowledge. She also said she had never thought of diluting a guest’s hot tea with water so it could be drunk right away.

“Not knowing makes me really anxious. My heart gets restless. That’s why I want to know.” — Achichi Mela, on why she keeps looking for the right answer

The final screen put her slightly above average for common sense, with spatial awareness rated good and insight slightly above average as well. Mela said the balance was unremarkable, with no standout strength. She added that the game labels social situations clearly and lets the player watch from a third-party view, so she expected real life to be harder.

Afterward she talked about why. She said she is good at putting her own thoughts into words but finds it very hard to take another person’s point of view, and that moral education was a subject she could not get a handle on even when she studied the textbook before her debut. She said she memorizes individual cases of what upsets people but cannot apply them more widely. She once made a spreadsheet of what pleases and what bothers her, meant as a manual for dealing with her, and tried to give it to a close friend, but was told not to do that with people she is not close to. She said she still wants such manuals from others, and that she joined Hololive because she wanted a place among companions and wanted to practice joining in.

Mela said the game has further installments, which she wants to take up later, and that she will keep gaining experience in communication little by little. She said she expected to play a horror game the next day. Chat answered her self-assessment with messages such as a call to watch over her patiently, and viewers sent 76 Super Chats and Stickers during the stream, many of them playful thanks around a sneeze she let out while playing.