Hayase Sou Reunites With Sukoya Kana, First ‘Sashinomi’ Guest, for a Six-Year Redo

NIJISANJI — Hayase Sou brought back the first guest of the *sashinomi*, or one-on-one drinking talk, series on Sunday, welcoming Sukoya Kana for a redo of their original session. Hayase said the series had reached about 90 episodes, and that Sukoya Kana was the guest on the very first. That session was on April 11, 2020, six years earlier, a gap both of them first insisted was closer to three years.

November’s episodes revisit guests from the earlier run, and the pair opened with a toast and a snack of anchovy butter. They built the evening’s topics together, and the first to land was the biggest mistake each had made on stream. One participant described oversleeping and arriving four hours late on the day of a 3D debut; another told of a phone that had silently muted its notifications, leading to a two-hour delay and a bare-faced dash on the bullet train.

“That was a story you can’t tell unless you’re drunk.” — Hayase Sou and Sukoya Kana, near the end of the stream

From there the talk moved to travel. One participant described a trip to Belgium and the Netherlands to retrace the places where their parents had lived, a journey that began with a downpour on the highway in a rental car whose wipers no one could work. Others recalled childhood years in Singapore, where a Friday curry udon lunch became a school-wide rumor, and the end of a two-and-a-half-year run with a character on a role-playing server in Grand Theft Auto, which closed with an in-game wedding.

Romance took up much of the second half. The two went through engagement ring brands, how hard it is to meet someone while streaming, and what each looks for in a partner: clear diction, a willingness to tidy up, and no habit of reading the anonymous message board 好き嫌い.com. One participant told of a date during a marriage-matchmaking period who recognized them as a streamer, and they traded ideas for proposals, including one set in a planetarium.

In the final stretch they turned to work. One participant laid out a weekly schedule of streams meant to run through the end of the year, said they had begun checking channel analytics for the first time after a seventh anniversary, and named a goal of 750,000 subscribers next year. Both said they wanted to keep streaming for the long term. The stream closed with thanks to each other and a mention of a song. In chat, the opening drew comments such as “It’s already been six years...”