Nonono Nono Streams Through a Laundry Cycle and Sings Happy Birthday to a Super Chat Sender
The 72-minute phone stream ran from a washing machine’s first spin to a late-night wrap-up before a recording session.
MILLIONPRODUCTION — Nonono Nono (音ノ乃のの) of MillionProduction (SONA) opened a late-night *zatsudan*, or chat stream, on Wednesday by announcing she was about to do housework: put a load of laundry in, run it, and talk to viewers while it washed. She streamed from her phone, and the washing machine’s hum ran under most of the 72 minutes. Her plan, she said, was to hang the clothes, press the button on the stream’s wrap-up and go to bed, since she had a recording session the next day.
The machine became a running topic. Viewers asked whether the sound was her washing machine, and one joked about a washing machine as the next piece of merchandise. She said the phone was picking up more noise than the machine really made, and chat teased her about singing in the bath, which she said she sometimes does at full voice. She told viewers the machine was the older one, brought from her parents’ home when she moved to Tokyo, because her mother had taken a liking to the newer one. She added that her mother had asked to use her expensive hair iron as well and she had handed that over too, saying it was for her own peace of mind.
“These silly conversations are the most fun.” — Nonono Nono, during a tangent about underwear and highway rest stops
The talk drifted widely. She noted how suddenly cold it had turned, objected when chat compared her stomach noises to a gorilla and then apologized to the gorilla fans, and sang a stretch of a Pink Lady song, which chat answered by naming more of the group’s hits. She described laundry habits she is particular about, including a second dose of fabric softener and a mesh bag for each load, and said she gets stuck with earworm memes. A tangent on underwear and diapers led chat to joke that a baby was in the audience, and she said she had watched *The Boss Baby*.
Near the end she hung up the wash and read several of the five Super Chats. One viewer said it was their birthday, and she sang Happy Birthday to them. In answer to another, she named the body milk she uses on her hands and a white lily hand cream, saying she plays guitar and her hands dry out in winter. She closed by telling viewers to get enough sleep and said she planned to sleep well herself before the recording.
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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.
