Nekono Yukino Nods Off Mid-Reading on Tarot Stream, Then Confirms Saturday Outfit Reveal
The ReAcT streamer repeatedly dozed off while reading viewers’ weekly fortunes and ended the broadcast early.
REACT — Nekono Yukino, a cat-maid virtual streamer with the agency ReAcT, fought off sleep through much of a Monday morning tarot stream, dozing for moments between cards before cutting the broadcast short. At one point she said she had briefly dreamed of standing at the mouth of a cave, and she later said she could not remember how the stream had ended.
She opened by explaining that she was still running on the previous night’s drinking stream, a collaboration with other streamers. She said she had passed out for about two hours afterward, then ordered a late-night meal that arrived with a mentaiko (spicy cod roe) rice bowl she had not ordered. She ate it, and said she felt like she was in the high spirits of someone still drunk. Chat answered with jokes about what might have been in the food.
“I’m so sleepy all of a sudden. My battery just died.” — Nekono Yukino, partway through the tarot reading
Midway through, Yukino announced that her stream the coming Saturday, Oct. 24, at 8 p.m. would be a reveal of a new outfit. She also said she was expecting her sister’s baby, a boy due early next year, and that her sister had asked for a Pooh-themed crib mobile as a gift. She said she had been looking at children’s toys online and called herself the baby’s “onee-san” (big sister) after viewers joked she would be called “auntie.”
Around 40 minutes in she began the tarot segment in an “onee-san” voice, reading a week’s fortune and advice for two groups of viewers, whom she calls her *kainushi*, or owners. She read a reversed Sun for the first group and a reversed Four of Cups for the second, with lucky colors, numbers and foods for each. Sleepiness overtook her partway through the second reading, and she said she could not make out the cards, set the rest aside and closed the stream.
She said she would stream again on Thursday in VRChat and on Saturday for the outfit reveal, three streams this week. Even after saying goodbye, she accidentally played the opening video, and chat spent the final minutes sending sign-off messages in a loop. Four paid messages came in during the broadcast.
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.