Humboldt Penguin Raps Her Way Past a Drunk Final Boss to Clear The Dandelion Endures

KEMONO FRIENDS — Humboldt Penguin, who goes by Furuuru on stream, cleared the final boss of the indie game The Dandelion Endures (タンポポは耐える。) on Thursday evening by rapping through the fight. Playing a dandelion that survives a series of trials, she beat the game’s last opponent, a drunk man who breaks into hip-hop dancing, about 80 minutes into a stream of roughly two hours.

In the game the player grows a dandelion by collecting carbon dioxide, water and light, then holds a button to endure attacks and times the release to parry them. Humboldt Penguin said she had set the stream for 8 p.m. so she could finish before another streamer’s 10 p.m. broadcast that she wanted to watch. Early on she learned the controls against a crying baby, and she got through that first fight at about the 35-minute mark. A black cat she met later gave her a harder time, and she called it merciless.

“I sold my soul to rap, and when I noticed, I had endured.” — Humboldt Penguin, right after beating the final boss

The drunk man, who first appeared as a bubble-blowing bystander, returned a decade into the plant’s story and went after the dandelion with a hip-hop routine. Humboldt Penguin lost to him repeatedly, then began answering in rap and found the beat helped her timing. When the clear came she said she had sold her soul to rap and noticed afterward that she had endured. The win unlocked a boss rush in which the bosses come back to back and lost health carries over. She failed it again before the end of the stream, losing to the drunk man on her last try.

Chat cheered the first survival and the clear with long strings of applause emoji, and viewers sent eight Super Chats and Stickers, which she read at the end. She said she would run a boss-rush endurance stream the next day and would keep going until she cleared it, even if that took until morning.

She said the game had taught her about dandelions along the way, including that the plant can live for years and that its fluff can be carried by the wind for a long distance, and she said she would now brush any fluff off herself and let it fly.