Six VSpo Members Run a Ramen Shop in Japanese Ramen Simulator, Fire Scare Included

VSPO — Six VSpo members spent more than three hours on Thursday evening running a ramen shop together in the simulation game Japanese Ramen Simulator. Hanabusa Lisa, Ichinose Uruha, Tachibana Hinano and Yakumo Beni each streamed it on their own channels, and Yumeno Akari and Nekota Tsuna worked the shop alongside them.

The shop’s sign was Lisa’s work. Akari took the role of manager, and Hinano picked a part-timer character who had to leave at 10 p.m. to pick up a child. The first service was a scramble: noodles and soup were prepared ahead of orders, toppings were mixed up, and customers complained that the soup was lukewarm. After closing, the staff bought counter seats, chopsticks, tissues and flyers, and the flyers soon brought people through the door.

“I wish I’d made it look more like a real shop’s sign, if there had been time.” — Hanabusa Lisa, on the shop’s sign

A thief snatched cash during one service and the money was recovered. A three-star “review” of the shop arrived as a Super Chat, and the members read it aloud and pointed out that it said nothing about the taste of the food. A trophy from a critic arrived, and they set it by the entrance. Once the shop reached the level needed for an expansion, they added outdoor seating, four-seat tables and a VIP corner, and later put gyoza dumplings on the menu.

As the group stocked up for the next day, a fire broke out in the kitchen. It was put out quickly, and the members joked that the news had not yet reached the game’s social media. A dinner rush with gyoza and a popular fried crab topping then left orders piling up, and some diners walked out. The members talked through the confusion afterward: two people had sometimes built the same bowl, and orders were not being worked in sequence. Beni took the soup, Akari the toppings. Hinano signed off partway through the evening for a scrimmage, or practice match.

With the remaining members, the shop hired part-timers to carry dishes and boil noodles, and the last service ran with few mistakes. Afterward each member made a bowl of ramen and a beer for themselves. The members also floated the idea of a VSpo event built around the game. They had installed a ticket machine and sold off the register, which left the day’s earnings out of reach and kept them from trying a gambling hall they found in the game. Lisa apologized to viewers who had asked about it. She said the Big Walk session continues at 8 p.m. Friday. One participant said Akari had organized the get-together a month earlier, after repeated schedule conflicts.