Ookami Mio Reads Year-End Prep Letters, Then Runs Through Hololive News on a Sleepy Monday

HOLOLIVE — Ookami Mio opened her Monday morning stream, “Asa-Mio,” by saying she had barely made it out of bed. Her alarm went off around 7:15 a.m., she dozed off again, and she dragged herself to her soundproof booth about seven minutes later after getting roughly five hours of sleep. She said she still remembered enjoying the previous day’s collaboration, including a fortune-telling game she described as the kind of irresponsible divination she had always wanted to do.

She also said she had a recording session after the stream, and that a busy week meant she was not sure when she could stream on her own channel again. She explained how she decides whether to go live after a day of voice work: how much energy she has left, how tired her throat is and what the next day holds.

“Next year is the Year of the Sheep. It’d be nice if there were a Year of the Wolf too.” — Ookami Mio, on next year’s zodiac sign

The main segment was the “Asa-Mio Otayori,” her weekly mailbag, whose theme was preparing for the end of the year. She read letters about resetting a medaka fish tank, moving houseplants into a small greenhouse for the winter, testing a heater, rearranging a room of merchandise, vacuum-packing home-smoked bacon and cheese, sorting belongings, buying horse sashimi, maximizing hometown-tax donations and making New Year’s *kadomatsu* pine decorations to order. A letter about humidifiers sent her on a tangent about her booth’s air conditioner, a Daikin model with a humidifying function, which she said made a loud gurgling noise when she tried the feature for the first time in a while. She said she did not think it was broken.

In the “Asa-Mio News” segment that followed, she ran through Hololive items: Tokino Sora’s ninth-anniversary event and her Yokohama Arena concert planned for December next year, Hoshimachi Suisei’s arena tour stop in Nagoya, Zeta’s birthday live, new outfits for Inugami Korone and Nekomata Okayu, and a Hololive mahjong game due Nov. 25. She also covered a finger-wrestling tournament hosted by Okayu two days later, which she said she could not enter because of work. Noting that next year is the Year of the Sheep, she joked about a Year of the Wolf, and she and chat spent several minutes on the dog and cat families of Hololive and why cats are missing from the Chinese zodiac.

Chat answered the news items with applause, and the stream drew eight Super Chats, several wishing her luck at the recording. She closed by announcing next week’s mailbag theme, “what you want to eat before this year ends,” and said she wanted breakfast and a short nap before heading out.