Ryushen Talks Bakugan Relapse, Sentai Dreams and a School of Rock Spot in Morning Chat

NIJISANJI — Ryushen, a Nijisanji streamer, spent a Monday-morning *zatsudan*, or chat stream, in Japan talking about the toys he has started buying as an adult, and he also said he has been invited to appear on a radio show he grew up listening to.

He said he had bought Bakugan, the magnetic ball toys, but had found no one to play against. Fiddling with them had aggravated a finger he had already slightly sprained, and the Bakugan were now stuck to his refrigerator. He said one of them cost around 5,000 yen and described his interest as admiring the object itself, a sphere that opens and clings to magnets, rather than mastering the rules. He said he had watched the anime as a child without ever learning how the game worked.

“I was banned from basically all toys as a kid, so I’ve turned into a monster out of the backlash.” — Ryushen, explaining his toy buying to newer viewers

He tied the habit to his upbringing. Newer viewers might not understand, he said, but toys were largely forbidden when he was a child, and he is now making up for it. The talk moved on to Beyblade, Bead-Man and Crash Gear, then to Super Sentai and Kamen Rider. He said he preferred Sentai, which can be watched without following a plot, and that he found Rider belts so appealing he could picture a wall of them in his room, the way some people display sneakers. Asked what role he would take if Nijisanji became a Sentai team, he picked black, after joking that green was the obvious choice.

He also floated two ideas: a shared hobby center where Nijisanji members could display the toys they buy, preferably in an out-of-the-way tourist town, and a hashtag reserved for fans aged 35 and over. Late in the stream he said that he has been called to appear as a teacher on the radio program School of Rock, and that he had long said he was its most devoted listener. He said he planned to end the stream around 10 a.m. and head out, and that a karaoke stream was scheduled for the following day.

Chat greeted the Bakugan talk with memories of the toys and the anime. When he mentioned the radio appearance, viewers sent congratulations. The stream had one paid message.