Amane Amu Returns From a Week Off for Two and a Half Hours of Chat and Gacha Pulls

NEO-PORTE — Amane Amu of Neo-Porte’s sixth generation returned to streaming on Friday night after a week away, opening a two-and-a-half-hour chat stream, or *zatsudan*, titled “Tadaima” (“I’m home”). She apologized for the gap, said personal circumstances had kept her from going live, and added that she did not want to go into details.

She said she spent the week working rather than resting. By her account, that meant two illustrations and some recording, and she said she had also been glad to see the cover illustration for a song cover published without trouble. She read out messages from viewers welcoming her back and marking membership milestones, and thanked them for watching her archives while she was away.

“It’s been a while, and after talking, yelling and goofing around with everyone, teasing and getting teased, I’m in a really good mood.” — Amane Amu, near the end of the stream

The talk wandered from there. Amu slammed her desk on a microphone she said costs about 50,000 yen, to show off the sound, and described the avatar’s raised hand, which she said she made herself in VRoid Studio and which drew praise from staff. She also fielded viewers’ marriage jokes in her persona as a death god sent to the human world, saying she would wait seven years for any takers, and spent a long stretch recommending manga and anime, among them Heavenly Delusion, Medalist and Mob Psycho 100. She urged viewers to read Medalist as a manga before watching the anime.

Near the two-hour mark she said she had been trying to hold off, then bought in-game currency for Gakuen Idolmaster, the idol-raising mobile game, and spent several minutes sorting out her capture setup before showing the pulls on screen. She pulled the support cards she was after, then showed an in-game costume, going through the ribbon, corset, shirring and long boots. Afterward she said the shop’s anniversary ticket would have been the better buy and urged viewers not to repeat her mistake.

Amu said she planned to turn in early because she had a family lunch the next day, and that she might sing, chat or drink with viewers once she was back in the evening. She said she would post on X if a stream was on. She signed off with thanks to those who had waited for her.