Mikage Keeps Singing Through a Dry, Dropping Voice in a Three-Hour Late-Night Karaoke Stream

RK MUSIC — Mikage, the ghost-themed singer from RK Music (GREY MYTH), worked through more than a dozen songs in a vertical-format karaoke stream in the early hours of Nov. 12, Japan time, while her speaking voice grew steadily lower and huskier.

She opened with “Hoshiai” by Lefty Monster P and followed with “Shura” before moving through a mix of ballads and vocaloid-era favorites, among them “Kawaranai Mono” by Hanako Oku, “Orion” and “Dry Flower”. “Summertime Record” came near the middle of the evening, and she closed the night with “Inochi no Namae” after announcing it would be her last song.

“My speaking voice has a bit of an edge, but I want my singing voice to be gentle.” — Mikage, before the next song

Between songs she kept returning to her voice. She said she had eaten *kakipi*, a snack mix of persimmon-seed-shaped crackers and peanuts, and felt a piece lodged in her throat; later she put the huskiness down to dry air and said it was not tiredness. Partway through she proposed seeing how high she could go and ran up and down her range, drawing laughter from chat, and then returned to singing in the lower voice, which she said she rarely uses. She also said she had come straight from a VRChat stream in which she cooked fried rice in a virtual kitchen.

She also mentioned that the previous day she had joined two others for a stream marking a 1.5-year anniversary, singing the group’s debut songs together. At the close she said speaking had become hard on her throat and that she expected to be better after sleep, adding that she needed to avoid catching a cold with a live performance coming up.

Chat answered the songs with applause and penlight emoji, and five Super Chats arrived during the stream. Viewers also teased her about the changing voice, which she took in good humor.