Amari Mahiru Gets Fellow Member’s Go-Ahead for Co-Watch; Agency Reply Pending

ULTRALMTM — Amari Mahiru of UltraLMTM (1st Generation) used a Thursday afternoon *zatsudan*, or chat stream, to start work on a co-watch stream she has wanted to do. About 80 minutes in, she wrote to her manager on air to ask whether a co-watch of a work tied to fellow member Yuiyui would be allowed, and sent a separate request to Yuiyui at the same time. Mahiru said the content was heavy on spoilers, so any co-watch would carry strict warnings. Her reasoning for acting at once: ideas that sit untouched tend to fade, so “whatever it is, the key is to start right away.”

Yuiyui’s reply came first. Later in the stream Mahiru read it out: Yuiyui had written back that it was fine. The decision now rests with the agency, and the manager had not answered when the stream closed. Mahiru said she would post an update once she heard back. She also said she wants a members-only co-watch in any case and is weighing a trial run on a regular stream, so that people unsure about joining can see what watching with her is like.

“Whatever it is, the key is to start right away.” — Amari Mahiru, while sending her request to her manager

To pick titles, she ran a viewer poll on whether people use Amazon Prime Video or Netflix. About 70 percent chose Amazon Prime Video, and she said that is where she would look first, with a preference for films that can be finished in one sitting. She also said she leans toward comedy and fantasy or horror, and asked chat for suggestions.

The stream opened with Mahiru eating a frozen shrimp gratin. Later she admitted she knows few of the memes streamers trade in chat and said she would like to hold a meme study session. The one she had picked up recently was “sugu B,” a League of Legends term for pressing the B key to return to base. She also chased a chat message from fellow member Alpha, saying she was glad he had stopped by. Later she floated a singing stream, saying she was about 3 mm closer to the idea, and joked about doing it as humming. Two Super Chats came in, one of them a nudge toward a singing stream.

Mahiru closed by pointing viewers to an official program at 7 p.m. that day on the producer’s Twitch channel, with Yuiyui and Rina joining, covering the group’s expansion from version 1.0 to 1.1. She said she planned to watch it live, and that she would be off the following day.