Lunlun’s First Morning Stream in Six Weeks Covers Stage Plays and Squid Rice
The Nijisanji talent led a radio calisthenics break at 6:30 a.m. and said two stage productions had moved them to tears.
NIJISANJI — Lunlun, a Nijisanji talent, returned to the morning slot with a 77-minute *zatsudan*, or chat stream, the first in about a month and 13 days by Lunlun’s own count. The stream opened with a greeting and an apology for running late: Lunlun said a tangle of cords had held things up while equipment was being pulled out for a radio calisthenics routine. Chat answered with a wave of good-mornings and remarks on Lunlun’s fluffy winter coat.
The longest stretch of talk concerned Touken Ranbu, a franchise in which swords tied to historical figures take human form. Lunlun said a colleague had recommended it, and that two stage productions rented online had brought on tears that would not stop. Lunlun described the swordsman characters as people who must watch the deaths of their former masters again and again, praised the actors’ fight choreography, and said the plays were easy to follow for anyone with a little knowledge of Japanese history. Several of the stream’s 19 Super Chats offered further titles to watch.
“I’ll definitely come to see you, so I’d be glad if you came again.” — Lunlun, signing off
At 6:30 a.m. Lunlun paused to lead the calisthenics, swaying side to side and front to back in a chair, opening and closing eyes and mouth, and finishing with slow breaths. Afterward Lunlun ate a Hokkaido-fair squid-stuffed rice ball, or *ikameshi*, for breakfast and called it chewy and sweetly seasoned, noting that the package said the rice was not glutinous.
The talk then drifted to food and habits. Lunlun said coriander was the one food they could not eat, but would not call it hated, leaving room to like it someday. Asked about routines, Lunlun first said there were none, then realized a diary had been kept for some time, often just a line about what was eaten that day, with negative thoughts left out so a future reader would not be troubled.
Lunlun closed at 7:15 a.m., thanking those who watched live and on the archive and promising to return between schedule commitments. Chat thanked Lunlun for the morning stream.
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.