Scarle Yonaguni Sings 12 Halloween Songs, Then Talks About Her Nerves Over Spooky Stories

NIJISANJI — Scarle Yonaguni of Nijisanji EN sang 12 Halloween-themed songs on a karaoke stream on Halloween night, then carried on in a second stream where she spoke about the social anxiety that keeps her out of large group collabs and read spooky stories submitted by viewers. Together the two streams ran for more than six hours, and the broadcast drew 53 paid messages.

The night opened with a long chat while viewers arrived. She said she had just come back from family errands, where a pizza order took far longer than the shop had promised, and she opened a hard cider, saying she does not like regular beer. Chat teased her about being drunk from the first minutes, which she denied. About half an hour in she sang her first song, “Calling All the Monsters,” a Disney Channel tune, and followed it with Monster High’s “Fright Song” and Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition.” She sang the Hex Girls’ “I’m a Hex Girl” twice in the first hour and said one of the band’s characters was an inspiration when she wanted a VTuber model. A song from the film Coco, the Oogie Boogie song, “Ghostbusters,” “Somebody’s Watching Me” and “This Is Halloween” came later. She sang on a 3D stage she built herself, switching between her full-body and chibi models and changing the lighting and backdrop for each song.

“I’m scared to sound bad. But I’m trying to just not care as much.” — Scarle Yonaguni, after the last song

She noted that her earlier karaoke streams had topped out at six or seven songs and that this one reached 12. After the set she took requests for repeats, singing “Calling All the Monsters,” the “Fright Song,” the Hex Girls, “Friends on the Other Side,” “Ghostbusters” and “This Is Halloween” again, and ended on the Hex Girls’ “Earth, Wind, Fire and Air” with a scratchy voice. Viewers asked for a rap karaoke after she recited rap battle lyrics from memory. She said she would first need to learn more songs, and that she wants to hold a karaoke once a month, leaning toward a rock or emo night.

In the second stream, titled as a karaoke afterparty with spooky stories, she was asked whether she would join a large roleplay server crowded with streamers. She said no, explaining that she goes quiet in a group and prefers to know a person well before collaborating. She said she has always been that way, since she was a child, and thanked viewers for being understanding. “I’ve just always been like this,” she said. She added that she plans to watch clips of the server instead.

She then turned to stories viewers had sent in, with a text-to-speech voice reading the longer ones. They included a woman seen standing at a hospital door while she was on the phone elsewhere, a child who woke to a figure with a cracked mannequin face, a mother who pretended to be possessed to keep her teenage son in line, a dorm fire alarm set off by marshmallows, and a Walgreens that seemed to be haunted. She traded a story of her own about fabric flying across the aisles of a craft store where she once worked. By the end, chat was trying to spook her with talk of noises, and she answered in mock panic before saying goodnight at about half past one in the morning, just before the clocks went back.