Ookami Mio Announces One-Week Break Starting Oct. 20 After a Hoarse Morning Stream

HOLOLIVE — Ookami Mio of Hololive said on Monday that she will take a one-week refresh leave, from Tuesday, Oct. 20, through Monday, Oct. 26. She made the announcement during her weekly morning stream, Asa Mio, which ran 79 minutes.

Mio said she had been telling her manager since around September that she was nearing her limit and that a break might be needed, but had insisted on waiting until the Hololive Koshien finals were over. She said the two days of finals had just ended. During the leave she said she would make no collaboration appearances and would stay home for much of it, partly because she felt she had been away too much from her cat. She also said she had scheduled some plans to meet friends.

“I’ll be taking a proper, solid week off, so don’t worry.” — Ookami Mio, announcing her break

Mio opened the stream with a raspy voice and spent stretches speaking in falsetto. She said she had shouted and laughed a great deal over the previous two days, and that it was throat fatigue rather than a cold. She said she still planned to join a collaboration on another Hololive channel that night, and that she would try to hold a short chat before her break if her voice held up.

The stream’s mailbag segment, on the theme of favorite ramen, drew a long run of letters, including dried-sardine, miso and soy sauce bowls from around Japan. Mio also read through a news segment that included an anime guest appearance she will make as herself and a fellow talent oversleeping for the first time in six years. She set the next mailbag theme as cold-weather countermeasures. She said Asa Mio will skip next week and return on Nov. 2.

Chat filled with messages urging her to rest, and the stream drew 39 Super Chats and stickers. Viewers closed the stream with the usual sign-off, otsu-Mio.