And Uge Finally Uncorks a Stubborn Wine Bottle, Then Announces a Break Until Next Week

774INC — And Uge, a VTuber with 774inc (Nanashiinku), told viewers on Tuesday night that she will not stream from the next day until next week. She said it was the longest break she could remember taking in seven years of streaming, and that she had travel plans with her pets, Tony and Elizabeth. She made the announcement partway through a nearly four-hour *zatsudan*, or chat stream, titled roughly “Oh No, There’s So Much Booze at Home.”

The stream’s running thread was a bottle of wine she could not open. Uge said she had seven or eight bottles at home, all corked and none of them yielding, and that she had tried again about 15 minutes before going live. She started instead on a canned beer, joking that with no wine to drink the stream might end early. Around the 90-minute mark she tried once more, and the cork came out with a pop. She poured a white wine made entirely from Yamanashi-grown Chardonnay grapes, paired it with pork jerky, and said it tasted a little of cork. She said she would pour what was left into a thermos to take with her the next day.

“I’m just alive. I’m just breathing.” — And Uge, on why she does not see streaming as a gamble

A Super Chat prompted the evening’s longest tangent. Viewers sent a dozen Super Chats over the night, and as they came in Uge floated the idea that her fans buy lottery tickets together and split any 100 million yen prize. She said she would not buy tickets herself, because she cannot bring herself to do anything that might leave her with nothing, including blind-draw merchandise lotteries. She added that she does not think of being a VTuber as a gamble: “I’m just alive. I’m just breathing,” she said.

She also described a buffet dinner with friends, wondered aloud how host clubs make their money work, and looked up the Seven Lucky Gods, learning that only one of the seven is Japanese in origin. She read out the prices of luxury pet accessories, talked through a friend’s quick climb in the strategy game Teamfight Tactics (TFT), and noted how much easier renewing a passport has become. On TFT, she said her own rank may slip back to Master while she is away.

Uge signed off just short of the four-hour mark, saying she would see everyone next week. Viewers answered with goodbyes and wishes for her health.