Kawasaki Sui Says Daily Motorcycle Shorts Are Bringing in New Viewers
During a four-hour chat stream, the independent VTuber said videos are queued through Nov. 6 and about 90 script ideas are waiting.
INDEPENDENT — Kawasaki Sui, an independent VTuber, said on a Sunday-night *zatsudan*, or chat stream, that a push into motorcycle YouTube Shorts has started to look promising. After a year or two of relying on live streams alone, which she described as hard going, she said she can now see a path to growth.
She has posted one motorcycle short a day for the past four days, she said, uploading at 6 p.m. each day, and posts are already scheduled through Nov. 6. Her script notebook holds about 90 ideas. The next video covers the history of the Kawasaki Eliminator motorcycle. She said she once outsourced scripts but now writes them herself and works with a new editor. That day’s short stood at 1,435 views when she checked during the stream, and she said she wants each one to reach about 10,000. A figure she read out put new viewers from Shorts at around 16,000 over a month.
“I struggled for the last year or two trying to fight with streams alone, so from here, it’s the counterattack.” — Kawasaki Sui, on moving beyond live streams alone
The plan, she said, is to bring motorcycle fans in through Shorts, talk bikes with them on chat streams, and hope they follow her to game streams. She noted that the stream’s peak concurrent viewers reached 79, just short of 80, and said that since she started posting Shorts, low live numbers bother her much less.
Earlier in the stream, she said she had been eating mixed nuts, about 1.5 kilograms of which she received as birthday gifts, at such a pace that her stomach had been upset for two days, and she urged viewers not to overdo it. She also described getting hooked on the card-based game Balatro again. Later she corrected something she had told viewers before: the voice in her Shorts comes from synthesized-voice software, not AI, and she apologized for saying otherwise.
Chat logged 1,975 messages, 28 of them paid. The conversation ranged from shopping for a portable monitor to childhood Famicom and Super Famicom games, and Kawasaki said it was her grandparents buying a PlayStation that made her a Sony loyalist. She closed the stream by wishing viewers luck with work on Monday.
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.