Rikumu Talks Genshin Impact Story, Picks a Tea Advent Calendar and Previews a Moon-Viewing Party

.LIVE — Rikumu of .LIVE spent much of a 136-minute *zatsudan*, or chat stream, early Tuesday Japan time on Genshin Impact, saying the story had them hooked. Rikumu said they were finishing the eighth act of a long side story and wanted to keep going, saying it had been a while since they followed a game’s plot this closely. Rikumu said this was their third attempt at the game after two earlier drop-offs, and that the story had become much richer from the Sumeru region onward.

After checking with viewers that spoilers were fine, Rikumu compared the game’s recurring villain to a character from Kingdom Hearts and guessed that more copies of him would turn up. Rikumu also said they had raised a bow-wielding favorite to level 90, had skipped weapon pulls entirely, and was holding off on newer characters while saving for the story’s next region.

“絶望っていいスパイスだよね。” — Rikumu, on the story of Genshin Impact

About an hour in, Rikumu opened a page of 2026 advent calendars to pick one that viewers could buy as a matching set, as in past years. After looking at chocolate, hand cream and tea options, many of them expensive, Rikumu settled on a tea calendar, noting that last year’s pick was coffee and that a past edition had sold out by the second week of November. Rikumu chose a gold design and said they would buy it once the stream ended.

Rikumu also announced that the tavern-style event Izakaya Rikumu would hold its first moon-viewing session on Friday, Oct. 23, at 11 p.m., with sweets as the main theme. Rikumu said dango would suit it but that anything sweet was welcome, and that they planned to drink osmanthus liquor that had arrived. Rikumu closed the stream with a guessing game about a dinner they had bought, which chat narrowed to fried chicken from a well-known chain, and said the next stream would be at 10 p.m. Tuesday, either Overwatch or a tidying-puzzle game, with a poll to decide.