Kagami Hayato Wins an Everything Is Crab Run Without Attacking, Then Clears One as a Pigeon

NIJISANJI — Kagami Hayato, a Nijisanji streamer, won a run of the evolution roguelite Everything Is Crab on Saturday without once pressing the attack button, then followed it with a second clear as a pigeon. The stream was the third in his “selection pressure 10” series and ran about two and a half hours, with the game portion lasting until roughly the 1 hour 36 minute mark.

Kagami said this was his third attempt at refusing to become a crab at that difficulty. After a rough opening ten minutes, he settled on a plan of never attacking. Enemies with more hit points, he reasoned, would be stronger once they became allies. He ran from early threats, ate whatever fruit he could find, and charmed nearby creatures, then set them against one another. “Fight anyone but me,” he told them.

“I was able to win without hitting even once.” — Kagami Hayato, after the first clear

Midway through, he narrated the run as a revenge drama, vowing never to forgive a certain creature’s family and saying he had used the rivalry that was stirred up among its children. Chat answered with jokes about a love-and-hatred melodrama and a detective story. Late in the run, meteors began striking the map, and Kagami said they had become frightening. He kept going with allies still at his side and won. “It was the strongest,” he said, adding that the creature’s final form was the most monstrous-looking he had had.

He then went through the game’s challenge list to pick his next goal. Deciding between a pigeon and a crab, he said he would take the pigeon, and he told an invented backstory for his creature as it played, beginning with a first friend eaten in front of it. The second run ended in a clear at about 1 hour 34 minutes, which chat greeted as a pigeon clear. Kagami said the day had gone unusually smoothly. For future streams, he said, a jump to difficulty 20 might come much later, or he might go to 15 if he took it in steps.

He closed the game portion with his usual sign-off and spent the rest of the evening reading out the Super Chats sent during his earlier new-outfit stream, thanking viewers one by one until the stream ended.