Shishido Akari, Three Teammates Drill Splatoon 3 on Eve of Nijisanji Squid Festival

NIJISANJI — Shishido Akari and three fellow Nijisanji talents, Aizono Manami, Kokonami Iruka and Yang Nari, spent more than four hours drilling Splatoon 3 together on Friday night, the eve of the Nijisanji Ika Matsuri 2026 (“Squid Festival”) team tournament. Each of the four streamed the session from their own channel, and Iruka opened with the reminder that the tournament was the next day.

The group began with open matches while waiting on a scheduled practice match, then moved into private-room scrimmages. The early going was rough. After a narrow loss, Akari, playing the Hydra Splatling, said the opposing team’s steady stream of bombs had left them with nowhere to go. Over the next hours the four traded advice on calling out enemy positions, charging specials in safe spots instead of diving in, and pressing forward right after a kill.

“I’m happiest when the people around me look like they’re having fun.” — Shishido Akari, signing off

The work paid off in a win in which Nari held a position while the team was outnumbered, and the group later sat down with replays, one point being that keeping the camera higher while painting fills the special gauge faster. At one stage Akari told viewers who kept urging more bomb throwing that nobody was at fault. Later matches were against a side built around a player named Nagao, and the four agreed to call out his position each round. They took a close one from that side, with Akari praising the team for building a lead on the count.

Iruka switched to a weapon new to her partway through. Akari said it was a good first showing, and said she wished there had been a few more days to coach her. Her own plan, she said, had centered on making Nari as strong as possible. The four wrapped up after a strong final match, agreeing to stop because of an early start the next day.

Akari kept going after the others left. She picked up the same new weapon to see what Iruka had been wrestling with, then opened custom-match rooms to viewers, asking them to put their ranks in their names. She signed off a little after six and a half hours in with a “see you tomorrow”.