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Collabs, Apex Legends, translated from Japanese

Mitsuba Eni, Fresh From 100,000 Subscribers, Takes an Apex Win With Reid and Met

The trio won the last match of their Saturday session, and Eni then thanked viewers and announced a free wallpaper for everyone.

Mitsuba Eni during “【 APEX 】お久しぶりエニめとレイドくん!w/レイドくん、めと【ネオポルテ / 光葉エニ】,” a broadcast that ran 3h 56m. Press to play from YouTube

Mitsuba Eni of Neo-Porte thanked her audience for 100,000 subscribers at the close of a nearly four-hour Apex Legends stream on Saturday, after her squad with fellow Neo-Porte member Shirayuki Reid and VSpo’s Komori Met won a Champion round in its final match of the night. Eni said she had reached the mark during an earlier stream that day.

The three had not played together for a while, and one of them joked that it felt like a year. They opened by all picking assault-class legends, with one saying it was the first time all three had done so, and swapped views on weapons, including the Wingman pistol used in pairs. Eni tried the legend Alter, saying Met’s encouragement to try new characters had given her the nerve, and later said that after a night of Wingman she felt she was getting her old feel back.

“Reaching 100,000 was thanks to everyone.” — Mitsuba Eni, after the Apex session

Between fights the talk wandered. Met described a trip to the ramen chain Yamaokaya the day before, where she finished a bowl and several rice dishes, and chat joked about a “Met set.” The group asked an AI chatbot for conversation topics and spent a while on what to call themselves if they formed a YouTube group, settling on the idea of a name ending in “Fighters.” Later they traded photos of hamnigiri, a hamster plush that is hard to find in stores, and after the Champion finish one of them credited the plush for the win.

Reid and Met signed off once the match ended, and Eni stayed on to talk about the milestone. She said she cried when it happened, and that when she debuted she had no special voice or talent but had promised to show that effort could get somewhere, a promise she felt she had now kept. She said the 100,000 was thanks to everyone who supported her, not only her viewers, and offered a wallpaper to everyone as thanks, based on a photo from the moment she passed the mark and available in high resolution from the channel’s community tab.

Eni said she would not take a day off to celebrate. She bought a Zelda game on the Nintendo eShop during the stream and planned to begin it at noon the next day, and she said she would keep Apex for collab invitations to stay sharp. She named a steady climb toward 110,000 as her next aim, with 200,000 as a longer-term goal.

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.

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