Ginjo Saine Returns From a Break With a Dawn Chat Stream From a Park

VSPO — Ginjo Saine, a streamer with the Japanese agency VSpo, came back from a break with a *zatsudan*, or chat stream, held outdoors in the early hours of Oct. 22 Japan time. She opened the broadcast as a video call from a park near where she was staying, telling viewers it was not a horror stream and that she had wanted to talk with everyone on a night walk.

She said she had been away in Fukuoka for family reasons, had returned only a few days earlier, and had eaten ramen just once on the trip, a bowl at the airport just before her flight. Later she described a visit with her grandmother, whose memory has begun to fail. Ginjo said that when the older woman kept thanking her for the same cake, which Ginjo had taken out of the refrigerator herself, it eased her worries about aging rather than adding to them.

“I’m edamame. Edamame is endless.” — Ginjo Saine, answering her own imagined eating-contest question

The longest running thread was a question she put to viewers: in a world where only the top eaters of a single food survive, which category would they enter? Chat offered pizza, takoyaki, bonito flakes and natto, among others, and Ginjo settled on edamame, saying she could dress it with any seasoning. When a VSpo colleague she addressed as a senior joined by call after chat urged her to come to the park, Ginjo put the same question to her, and the two ended up discussing a late-night ramen outing together once schedules allowed.

The rest of the stream wandered: a Chiikawa film she had seen with her mother, the anime *Air*, which she had just finished, a request for recommendations of celebrity men, and a round of viewers comparing heights. Her own is 164 centimeters, and she said she had always wanted to be shorter. A sound echo briefly doubled her voice about an hour in before clearing up.

She ended the stream at dawn with a morning-themed background track, said she would stream again, and told viewers to get home safely. The broadcast drew 19 Super Chats.