Otonose Kanade Sings in Pairs on a Relaxed Karaoke Stream, Then Lifts Her Own Rule

HOLOLIVE — Otonose Kanade of Hololive’s ReGLOSS spent a relaxed evening on a karaoke stream, singing in pairs of songs until she lifted the pattern about 57 minutes in and let herself sing freely for the rest of the night.

She opened by saying she would keep things loose. A Korean singer she likes had recently put out a collaboration music video that she found amazing, she said, but she could not sing that song, so she picked laid-back numbers in a similar spirit. The pattern took shape early: two songs by one artist, then a move to the next. Midway through she noted that it had become a rule of the night, and when she finally broke it she described the “two-song curse” as lifted.

“What a good singing stream, that was.” — Otonose Kanade, before her last song

Between songs she told the story of a dream from the night before. In it she was in Korea and ran into a Korean rapper she admires, who spotted her and offered to take a photo together. She then went to buy doughnuts and found a box of about eight priced at around 100,000. She woke up thinking it was far too expensive.

The set included a song she had trouble finding in the search results and one that, to her surprise, she did not know as well as she had assumed, which she laughed off. Later she worked through viewer requests, and she closed with a requested song before thanking the audience.

Before signing off, she said that although the stream was not meant for her own songs, she wanted viewers to listen to her third single, whose music video was out, and mentioned that she had changed the thumbnail to get attention for it.

Chat, which logged eight Super Chats, filled with penlight and clapping emotes through the singing, and the messages turned to cheers for the closing.