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Kasukane Shino Reads Sweet Scripts Aloud to Shake Embarrassment Before Her ASMR Stream

She opened by saying she would stop when she hit her limit, then read lines from a free script collection and from viewers’ Super Chats for nearly an hour.

Kasukane Shino during “【恥ずかしさ克服】セリフを読んでみる。限界が来たらやめます!!!!【幽音しの:ななしいんく】 #shorts #vsinger,” a broadcast that ran 55m. Press to play from YouTube

Kasukane Shino of 774inc (Nanashiinku) spent a 55-minute stream reading affectionate scripted lines aloud, a drill meant to wear down her embarrassment ahead of an ASMR stream she said was coming soon. She read through to the last line a viewer asked for, one in which her character’s HP drops to zero and she collapses.

She opened by saying she would quit the moment she hit her limit. The lines came from a free script collection she had found, sorted by type: a gentle older sister, a cute type, an innocently affectionate younger sister, a sulky one, a clingy one. She said she hoped that doing embarrassing things would help her get over it. Her first line was “Hey, don’t go. Just a little longer, let me hold you like this,” and she moved on to the older-sister script, “Oh my, still asleep?”

“Thanks to you all, I’m getting less embarrassed. Bit by bit.” — Kasukane Shino, after reading a line as Bloodhound

Her resolve was tested repeatedly. Around the 11-minute mark she asked whether she could stop now, and chat answered no. Later she said she was well past her limit, and at one point joked that “even Buddha’s patience lasts only three times,” promising to try three more. Partway through, she paused to say she had broken into a sweat.

Once the collection ran low, viewers supplied more through the stream’s 30 Super Chats and chat, and she read many of them: a nurse, a jealous younger sister, a teasing one, a cat-voiced line. One request had her doing a Bloodhound impression, the Apex Legends character, and a line about a “mini right ear” tripped her up so badly she said she could not get it out. After the Bloodhound line she said her embarrassment was fading, and chat began treating the readings as a comedy game.

Around the 45-minute mark she warned that she might end the stream soon, and asked viewers to stop sending lines. She read the cat line anyway, then a stethoscope-themed line, and finally the viewer-requested one, “It was super effective. Shino’s HP hit zero. Shino collapsed.” She thanked viewers for the Super Chats, said she would see them again the next day, and signed off.

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.

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