Inuyama Tamaki Invites Concept-Café Regular to Watch His Streams Instead

NORI PRO — Inuyama Tamaki closed the main part of a long letter-answering stream on Tuesday by asking one of his recurring letter writers, a man who spends heavily at a concept café (a café where staff play characters), to come and watch his streams instead. Tamaki said the writer seemed to rely on the café as his only community, and that joining the stream was free and a healthier way to spend his evenings. “Listen, letter writer, why not come to my place?” he said. He joked that his audience was a zoo, with birds, turtles, goats and wolves among it, and that newcomers could take an animal role.

The broadcast was an episode of Sakigake Tamaki Juku (魁たまき塾), a show on the Tamaki Ch. channel in which he reads anonymous letters sent through the Marshmallow message service. It ran on Culture Day, a national holiday. He opened by answering a question about ads: he said he sets the ad frequency for live broadcasts to the lowest level, to reward people who show up in real time, while the ads in archives are now inserted automatically by YouTube.

“When you haven’t done anything wrong, hold your head up.” — Inuyama Tamaki, advising a letter writer whose commissioned illustration arrived late

The letters that followed ranged widely. On a question about costumes fans call unfashionable, he said the client holds the strongest position in a commission and that he would not criticize a design from the outside. For a fan caught in the middle of another fan’s unwanted messages, he advised blocking and not letting the sender push her out of the chat. He also read follow-ups to letters from earlier episodes, telling a man who had pursued a hobby streamer to stop contacting her. A writer who runs a creator’s official clip channel alone got a long answer: Tamaki described how his own official clip channel is run by a team, with revenue split in half, and said its earnings are now about five and a half times what they were before it became official. He told the writer to renegotiate the workload and pay rather than try to hold out.

Tamaki was most forceful on a letter from a client whose prepaid Halloween illustration was delivered after Halloween. He said the artist was at fault, and urged the writer to confirm the new delivery date, ask for a refund if it was missed and keep records of the exchange. He also took on a letter from a cosplayer who envies other creators, suggesting that she talk with her husband about working or taking up another hobby, and rebuked a listener who had pressed a pregnant streamer to stream daily, saying he would not engage with the letter further and asking the listener to leave her alone.

At the close he read a letter addressed to Tsukudani Norio asking whether letters could be handed over at Norio’s live event on Nov. 7 in Shimokitazawa, and said a present box would accept letters only. Tamaki said he would leave for Korea the next day and that his next live stream would probably be on Sunday, after Norio’s event.