A Restart Rescues Usami Rito and Meloco Kyoran’s Super Bunny Man Co-op After 16 Minutes

NIJISANJI — Usami Rito and Meloco Kyoran opened a planned co-op session of Super Bunny Man with only one of them able to play, then spent the next 16 minutes working out why. A restart of Kyoran’s PC finally fixed it, and the two went on to play together for about an hour and a half before closing with plans for a follow-up stream.

Kyoran’s copy of the game would not start; its text came up garbled on Steam even after several reinstalls. The stream began with Rito’s character moving on screen without a partner while the two tried one fix after another, including a change to a security setting that left both of them uneasy. As the time passed they turned to what they had meant to do with the evening, and to a name for the collab: “Kano sisters” was ruled out because the real duo already exists, and a “wind god, thunder god” brothers pairing that had been suggested online won some approval. The answer turned out to be a restart. The pair joked that they had put it off because they were too busy talking.

“We don’t know much about each other.” — Usami Rito and Meloco Kyoran, before turning to chat

Once both were in, the game proved as awkward as its reputation. They called each other “brother” (*kyodai*) at nearly every turn, tangled up on jumps and grabs, and disagreed over whether to share a controller or keyboard setup. They found the save started at level 10, then worked through a snow stage where the controls slid out from under them, hunting for carrots and short of coins for the next stage. By the 45-minute mark one of them was reaching for oxygen and an energy drink, and the pair reached level 17 around the one-hour-and-11-minute mark.

At about 1:15 they put the game down and talked. They said they had only ever met in this kind of banter and knew little about each other, and found their debuts were close enough that they counted as near contemporaries. One recalled being struck by the other drinking protein from a small shaker held in both hands. They agreed to hold a get-to-know-you stream, with a checklist of questions and ones from viewers, on Kyoran’s channel.

The collab name stayed open. Candidates included the wind-and-thunder brothers, “shy brothers” and a name built on the pair’s breathlessness, which viewers were also trading in chat. With no verdict, they decided to collect suggestions, settle the name and a hashtag next time, and signed off at about 1:39.