Margher Richa Names Kusatsu First Pick for a 2nd-Generation Group Trip

.LIVE — Margher Richa, a second-generation talent of the .LIVE group under Upland’s VPI project, spent a late-night chat stream on Monday recalling the six-hour relay in which all six members of her generation took turns on air, and settled on a hot-spring town as the destination for a trip the group has yet to plan.

Opening the stream with the greeting “Konchamu” and a nod to her entry into her third year, she said she had called the extra stream because her previous broadcast ended abruptly amid reports of ground shaking. She then turned to the relay, which she said had been organized in about a month. The order of the slots was decided by an amidakuji, a ladder-style draw, and she said a video of the draw was circulated to show it was fair. Members prepared separately without knowing what the others were doing, she said, and she estimated the generation had spent about two hours together on stream before the relay. She went through the other five members one by one, recalling first meetings, shared drinking habits and early impressions. She said that before hearing their voices she had expected two of them to do ASMR.

“It was a day when I was grateful for everything.” — Margher Richa, after reading anniversary messages

The conversation turned to a trip for all six. Cold places and complicated transport were ruled out, and glamping was vetoed. She suggested a hot-spring inn in Kusatsu reachable by JR train, with Okinawa or Ishigaki as a distant second choice, and noted that she does not drive and believed only one of the others holds a license.

Later she read congratulatory messages from viewers marking two years of activity, including a note about a reader’s own changes over the same period. She thanked viewers, her agency Upland and herself, calling it a day of gratitude for everything. She said an anniversary cover song would not appear this time but that a year-end cover and songs chosen in an earlier viewer survey were planned for release next year. She also said she would play mahjong-related streams this week and appear at a DJ event on the 14th.

In chat, viewers joked about the amidakuji draw and called the relay densely packed.