Harusame Urame Spends 40 Minutes Raising an Imagined Daughter to Adulthood on Stream

AOGIRI HIGHSCHOOL — Harusame Urame of Aogiri Highschool told listeners on Tuesday that she had just raised an imagined daughter from birth to her wedding announcement in about 40 minutes, an improvised story that took up much of a nearly two-hour *zatsudan*, or chat stream.

The stream opened with a change she said she had spent the afternoon on, which is why it started at 6 p.m.: a new audio setup built around a free mixing app made by an individual developer. Chat noticed the difference within a minute, calling her voice clearer. Urame said it felt like buying headphones ten times as expensive, and that a friend had walked her through the settings on a call. She said she had sung with no effects at all for three years, “fighting with starter equipment,” and told viewers a singing stream would come in a day or two.

“In 40 minutes, I raised my daughter to age 20.” — Harusame Urame, after the improvised story ended

She then turned to a tweet about adding canned mackerel to miso soup, which she said she had seen and tried, and which went viral after she posted that it tasted good. Some replies suggested variations, which she welcomed. Others, she said, asked whether she had thought of people with allergies, demanded an exact recipe, or accused her of copying. A second tweet about her cat setting off the air conditioner drew similar replies. She said she dislikes going viral on Twitter, and that she had cried out loud over the reaction. Talk then moved to the idea of social media lessons in school, the early social networks viewers used, and the risks of open online chat rooms for children.

From there she began the story: a wife, a baby girl, and years of night crying, then a light blue school backpack the girl chose because light blue was Urame’s color, a nervous first day of elementary school, a middle school for girls, and a scare in her last year of middle school after strangers commented on a dance video the girl had posted. Urame, in the role of the parent, decided against banning social media so her daughter would keep telling her things. She followed with a late night when the daughter came home with a boy, then university acceptance and a coming-of-age ceremony in a light blue kimono. She ended it with the daughter announcing she would marry.

Coming out of the story, Urame said she had nearly lost her way back to the present, and said she was moved by it. Chat joked about missing the daughter and about gifts for a future grandchild. When chat suggested the daughter might one day join viviON, Urame said she would stop her and keep her away from VTuber work. She closed by saying she had a call for work at 8 p.m., that she would stream the next day and the day after, and that she would announce the topic later.