Otohane Lara Earns Three Gym Badges in One Pokémon Violet Stream
Playing the game blind, the SheerMusicV singer took her fourth, fifth and sixth badges over a stream of just over three and a half hours.
SHEERMUSICV — Otohane Lara, a virtual singer with SheerMusicV, won her fourth, fifth and sixth gym badges in a single Pokémon Violet stream on Tuesday. She is playing the game for the first time, and the broadcast ran 211 minutes.
She opened by explaining that equipment trouble had disrupted her week. Pokémon is normally her Sunday stream, and she moved it to Tuesday afternoon. She said replacement gear for her audio problem was due to arrive on the 11th and invited viewers to celebrate with her if it worked.
“I’m the type of person who can’t tell whether I came from the right or the left.” — Otohane Lara, after losing her way in Alfornada
The first badge of the night came in Alfornada. After an exercise-themed gym test built around a rhythm minigame, she faced the Psychic-type gym leader Tulip. The fight was close, and she leaned on a bug-type Pokémon she had said she added mainly to fill out her party’s types. Along the way Miraidon regained the ability to swim, and later to glide, which opened up more of the map.
In Cascarrafa she delivered a lost wallet for the gym staff, then won an auction for the gym leader, Kofu, whose water-type team she beat for her fifth badge, followed by a commemorative photo pose. She then cleared a Team Star hideout and defeated the boss of its Dark crew, Ortega, collecting his badge.
The sixth badge came in Medali. The gym test sent her around town collecting hints about a secret menu order, and she spent a long stretch wandering the town and, by her own account, wasted a crepe before working out the answer: two servings of grilled rice balls with lemon. She then beat the gym leader Larry in a battle that she said was easier than the test.
Lara closed by saying the next Pokémon stream would be at 2 p.m. on Sunday, and that she planned to sing on Niconico at 7 p.m. the next day, depending on whether the new equipment fixed her audio. Her camera switched off as she signed off, which she took as a sign that everything was lining up.
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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.