Ishikari Akari, Seo Kazari and Nawa Tsumugu Run a Ramen Shop Until a Spilled Beer Closes It
The trio spent two hours in Japanese Ramen Simulator, switched to hard difficulty late and slipped off to the game’s gambling machine between orders.
AOGIRI HIGHSCHOOL — Ishikari Akari, Seo Kazari and Nawa Tsumugu ran a ramen shop together in Japanese Ramen Simulator, a restaurant-management game, on a two-hour stream Friday. They moved the game to its hard difficulty late in the session, and the night ended when a beer was spilled and they decided to close the stream.
They began by naming the shop and painting the sign with a red background and black lettering, then set about stocking it. The kitchen was chaotic from the first orders: sheets of nori were thrown across the room, and one participant, who had been working steadily, announced that he would do nothing more and sulked while the others joked about sleeping in the corner. Chat cast Nawa Tsumugu as the unlucky one of the trio. Early on, Ishikari also said a listener had drawn the stream’s thumbnail illustration, the first time anyone had done that for a stream of theirs.
“Maybe normal difficulty is just right after all. I can’t fool around anymore.” — Ishikari Akari, Seo Kazari and Nawa Tsumugu, after the switch to hard difficulty
About 40 minutes in, they hired a part-timer, named him Sakamoto and handed over the dishwashing and prep. Soon after, they discovered the game’s gambling machine and kept returning to it between orders, winning back losses and losing again while whoever stayed at the counter ran the shop alone. Chat called it a gambling simulator.
After the switch to hard difficulty, the shop filled with orders for tonkotsu ramen, toppings and beer, and a thief broke in and was driven off. One participant threw a shuriken that sent a customer out the door. The three agreed that hard mode left little room for fooling around, but they stayed on it. They bought a dishwashing machine and a beer server, and signed a sign for the front of the shop.
Before closing, they staked their remaining money on one last bet, lost it, and posed for a group photo in front of the shop. They signed off saying they would meet again next time. Viewers sent three paid messages during the stream.
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This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.