Nekomata Okayu Takes 76 Minutes to Reach the Table in Hololive’s Mahjong Game

HOLOLIVE — Nekomata Okayu of Hololive’s GAMERS group spent the first hour and 16 minutes of a 108-minute stream on Friday browsing the character screens of Holo-Jan (ホロじゃん), Hololive’s mahjong game, before she played a match. The game had not yet been released. She said the stream was not sponsored and that she would give her opinions without holding back.

She told viewers she knew little of the rules: she had seen all of the mahjong anime Akagi and tried a mahjong game a little. In the game, viewers are cast as supporters who back a Hololive member through a mahjong tournament, and each member has a profile screen with two visuals that can be switched. Okayu went through them one by one, reading the blurbs aloud. She remarked that the order looked like the members’ debut order. Her own entry describes her as a people-charming cat who lies around, and she switched her screen to match. Chat sent about 800 messages in the minute it appeared. She also recalled that when she once played mahjong by hand at Mio’s home with three other Hololive members, she gripped her tiles so hard that she knocked down the wall in front of her.

“It felt like Oozora Subaru was really right there in front of me.” — Nekomata Okayu, after the match

Noticing the clock at 1:16, she apologized to anyone who had come for mahjong and chose herself as the character to support. Koyori’s in-game mahjong class walked her through the tile types, the marker that suggests which tile to discard, riichi and ron, and Okayu won her practice hand on a tile discarded by Laplus Darkness. Chat welcomed the fully voiced lessons. She then tried the game’s solo mode against Hololive members, where Oozora Subaru’s character announced that she had a plan as she discarded a bonus tile on her first turn.

The stream stopped at about 1:40, when an earthquake began to shake. Chat messages reported tremors in several places, and one viewer asked after her. She came back about two and a half minutes later, said her cats had slept through it and asked viewers to put their own safety first. She played on briefly, then ended the match before it was finished, saying she would sign off there. Of the game’s voice acting, she said Subaru’s lines were so natural that it felt like Oozora Subaru was in front of her. She said she would be back on stream the next day.