Hyakuto Kyoko and Achichi Mela Name Their Duo Dekamander, Then Take On Phasmophobia

HOLOLIVE — Hyakuto Kyoko and Achichi Mela, fellow members of Hololive’s ASOBI★MAWARI-TAI, spent Friday evening investigating haunted houses together in Phasmophobia, a co-op horror game in which players gather evidence to work out what kind of ghost is in a house. Early in the stream they announced a name for the pairing: Dekamander, a blend of “deka” (detective, written in katakana) and the “mander” of salamander. They asked viewers to post about the stream under the hashtag #デカマンダー.

Kyoko had played Phasmophobia with a senior colleague before and took the guide’s role; Mela said it was her first horror collab. The first house went badly. Kyoko could not get her camera to work, Mela was killed while exploring (Kyoko joked that she died with a scream), and the answer they submitted was wrong.

“Wow, we’re amazing. We got most of them right, didn’t we?” — Hyakuto Kyoko and Achichi Mela, after another correct ghost

From there the pair settled into a routine: set up equipment in the likeliest room, watch the thermometer, the EMF reader and the cameras, then consult the game’s ghost list. Their second answer, a banshee, came after chat told them a shadow had crossed the camera that neither could see, and it was correct. The win raised their level and unlocked new houses and a photo camera. They kept going with Mela often walking dark rooms without turning on the lights, and joked about selling the fingerprints and ghost photos they collected to a “members-only” audience. In one later house Kyoko’s guess was right while Mela’s was not, and in the next the two reached a verdict together.

Kyoko said she was less scared than expected because she approached it like a field report, and that having Mela along helped. Mela said the jump scares never landed. Kyoko said she would like to see Mela try a horror game with another colleague as an experiment, and the two floated Phasmophobia with all four ASOBI★MAWARI-TAI members. Kyoko also said a separate Phasmophobia collab with two senior Hololive colleagues is planned. She read Super Chats in the final stretch and suggested a harder run in which one wrong identification ends the game.

Mela said the four-member group would collaborate the next day, on her channel.