Inuyama Tamaki Announces Kumagai Takuma as Added Guest for Nov. 7 Event

NORI PRO — Inuyama Tamaki announced near the end of a four-hour advice stream on Saturday that Kumagai Takuma, whom he calls his older brother, will join an in-person event on Nov. 7 as an added guest. The event is the real-life gathering of Tsukudani Norio, the creator Tamaki calls his mama.

Tamaki said Kumagai will appear in both the first and second sessions, carrying the microphone to the audience while Norio reads *kusomaro*, the junk marshmallow letters that are a staple of the show. Audience members will be asked whether each letter qualifies, and the room will then shout the verdict together. Kumagai will also join Norio in the high-five send-off at the end, so attendees can greet both. Tamaki described the pairing as a parent-and-child collab.

“Isn’t someone who failed cool? They took the challenge, didn’t they?” — Inuyama Tamaki, answering a letter from an aspiring VTuber

The stream itself ran as a two-part advice show, with Tamaki answering letters sent through the Marshmallow message service. The first letter came from a fan who wanted to support him more but had mixed up basic facts about Norio. Tamaki thanked the writer, noted that his streams, archives and licensed clip channels are all free to watch, and said no one is faulted for starting as a newcomer. He added that a quick search before writing is a way of showing respect to the person you like.

The longest answer was a follow-up to a letter he first read in June, from a writer who wanted to join a company as a VTuber but had done little to begin. The new letter said she had failed a second document screening and was preparing to debut independently, and that another person in the same position had started streaming after hearing Tamaki’s earlier answer. Tamaki said the difference was that one of them acted and the other did not. He urged the writer to begin right away, saying that today is the youngest anyone will ever be. Failure, he added, is part of trying, and he said those who try deserve respect.

Other letters covered a dispute inside a university club, a long exchange about a streamer’s fan community, and a writer who wanted to stop disliking a popular streamer. For the last, Tamaki prescribed a full schedule of part-time work and, half joking, a “mission” to show up at his solo streams, including one on the Nov. 3 holiday. He said another stream is planned for the next day at 4 p.m., voice permitting.