Usada Pekora Tames a Level 145 Giganotosaurus on ARK, Then Misses on the Kikuka Sho

HOLOLIVE — Usada Pekora tamed a level 145 Giganotosaurus on the Hololive ARK server on Sunday, in a surprise stream she opened after spotting the creature on her way to a cave for an artifact. Hours later, in a second stream, she lost a 410,000-yen wager on the Kikuka Sho, the 3,000-meter classic at Kyoto.

The Giganotosaurus did not go quietly. Pekora worked at it with a crossbow and a shotgun, and said it was smarter than other dinosaurs: it slipped around her shots and nearly killed one of her mounts. She built a trap of metal foundations to lure it, and she had it knocked out about 40 minutes in.

“This time was a lesson. I bought the iPhone Duo for 800,000 yen. It’s fine, really.” — Usada Pekora, after the race

Before the taming was finished, the animal killed two of her creatures, Pi-chan and Kafun-chan. She named the new tame Pigano, in a nod to the first, and later brought it back to her base to stand beside a Carcharodontosaurus.

The rest of the stream was errands. Choco-sensei dropped in by voice and asked for wood for a railway she and others were building, and Pekora promised a load and hauled one over. She then went artifact hunting and, at 2:25, got through a stretch she said she had not expected to clear. She closed the first stream just past three hours, telling viewers a horse-racing stream would follow at 2:30 p.m.

That stream opened as promised. Pekora came in on a four-race winning streak in her bets and set a target of 400,000 yen in profit, to cover the iPhone Duo she had just bought. She settled on a wide bet pairing her favorite with Danon History, the horse her Mommy had picked by LINE, and added a 10,000-yen place bet on King Glory after liking its walk in the paddock. The wide bet was 400,000 yen.

King Glory took the early lead and had chat roaring, but Going to Sky, ridden by Take Yutaka, won. Danon History finished third and Pekora’s favorite ran well back. She had left the winner out of her bets. “This time was a lesson,” she said, and turned to next week’s Tenno Sho (Autumn) and the Arima Kinen at year’s end. Viewers sent 19 Super Chats and Stickers across the two streams.