Day After Her 2nd Solo Live, Sakura Miko Shows Off a New Outfit and Looks Back on the Show

HOLOLIVE — Sakura Miko showed the new outfit from her second solo live on a stream the day after the concert, then spent more than two hours looking back on the show with clips and behind-the-scenes stories. She opened with a ragged voice and said the show had been so intense that she was still, in her words, worn out from it.

She changed on stream to present the outfit in two forms. The first had glass-slipper-style shoes with a pair of diamonds on the heels, bare legs wrapped in a ribbon she said she loves, a corset, a large ribbon at the neck and a flower-bouquet underskirt that was her own idea. She wore her hair in buns, which she said a business partner had urged on her for years. The second form added a cape, red accents at the chest and puffed shoulders, so that it looked like a different outfit. She also showed a more sparkly tiara and finished with her usual “nyahallo” greeting.

“I’m glad I could finish singing it here. I’m glad I could sing all the way to this point, at the second one.” — Sakura Miko, on singing “Your Petal”

She then told the story of the flower stands sent for the concert. She had ordered one herself and, as the star of the show, ignored the size limits fans work within; she said she felt a little embarrassed about that. She also showed one sent by fellow Hololive members, which she had not known about and which moved her to tears. She went on to watch clips of the opening, which she said made her cry in rehearsal, and of the four songs in the teaser, and explained that she chose the setlist herself, mostly overriding her producer’s suggestions. She said she wanted to dance against her first-live self and followed “Baby Dance” with “Fashion Beat” to show how far she had come.

The longest stretch was given to the show’s emotional core. She said the two years since the first live had been the most painful of her career, and that “Your Petal,” a ballad written for the show, was her way of working through it. She said the “you” in the lyrics meant the people in the hall and watching online, but also friends who have left, her Hololive colleagues, family and staff. She also said she had long wanted to walk down the tall stage stairs while singing, and finally did. For the encore song “Our Bright Parade,” the flags carried the colors of Hololive members, graduated ones included. The show closed on a double encore of “Sakura Kaze” with fans riding past on a trolley. She said her throat had been in poor shape just before the show and that she had drunk water constantly to get through it.

Chat filled with reactions as she went, and 140 Super Chats and Stickers came in. She said the concert had given her a small first step toward a third solo live and that she would gather more such steps and pitch the idea to Cover again. She signed off to meet friends for dinner, hoping to stream again the next day if her throat allowed.