Inui Toko Recounts Radio Guest Spot and 30-Second Fan Talks While Draining Water in DrainSim

NIJISANJI — Inui Toko of Nijisanji took up DrainSim, a game in which the player sucks water out of a flooded scene with a vacuum, on Monday evening for a stream that ran 143 minutes and was mostly talk. It was her first time opening the game in a little over a month, and she noted the scene loaded sluggishly at first.

She opened by describing a radio appearance earlier the same day, made to promote her second mini album. Toko said the hosts had asked what time she would stream that night, and a suggested start of 9 p.m. became the schedule. She added that she had told the hosts she would come back even without a new release. From there the conversation moved through the foods she could eat without limit, with edamame her pick, and a staff member who insisted on doughnuts. She also covered her habit of collecting hobbies, including diamond art, which she files in binders, and cross-stitch.

“I think of it as a chat stream.” — Inui Toko, on the idea that the game is a punishment

Midway through, Toko addressed a comment she had seen on a clip of the game suggesting she was being made to play it as a punishment. “I think of it as a chat stream,” she said, adding that the game was easy to play while reading comments. Later she told stories from a recent series of 30-second one-on-one conversations with viewers, held in three rounds. By her account, many were nervous, some thanked her, and several hurried away mid-sentence when time ran short. The drain level dropped steadily throughout, and she remarked near the end that a large share of the water was gone.

Chat answered the punishment theory with jokes that she looked like she was enjoying herself, and a talk about favorite Kamen Rider series filled the comments for several minutes. Ten Super Chats came in. Toko closed by announcing the sixth “Tokosuzu Morning” session, a morning stream due at 7 a.m. the next day, with rice balls on the menu.