Usada Pekora Watches a Month of Hololive Ark Server Clips, Mostly Noel’s

HOLOLIVE — Usada Pekora spent a little over two hours watching fan-made clips of the month she and other Hololive members played on the Hololive Ark server, and said at the end that almost all of what she had watched centered on Noel, a fellow third-generation member known to viewers as Otter Sensei (*Kawauso-sensei*).

Pekora opened by saying she had streamed so much of the game herself that she had missed what everyone else was doing, and that the clip she most wanted to see was Noel losing her temper. She also asked viewers not to send clips built on borrowed manga art or on hand-drawn work whose artists had not given permission to show it.

“I’m definitely going to win.” — Usada Pekora, on the next day’s tournament

The first big reaction came in a clip of Noel trying to tame a creature that Pekora called the hardest tame of her own run. Noel, normally calm and polite, snapped, shouting abuse at the sky. Pekora said she had never seen Noel do that, and that Noel’s personality seemed to switch from one moment to the next. A later clip showed Pekora using the game’s skill tree to turn into a cat and sneak up on other members, several of whom took her for a real wild cat and tried to tame her.

Noel’s clips took up most of the second half. One showed her arriving with a mock-genius entrance, shouting about her “IQ 3000,” then failing to make a jump on a course in the trial cave. Pekora said Noel’s movements and timing made her laugh each time and called her “unfair” for it. Another clip ended with Noel’s character in a gentler scene with a new friend. For the last clip she picked what she called her best of the day, a replay of the cave course, and said she had been proud of her generation-mate throughout. She thanked the clip makers, and said she expected Otter Sensei to return if another server event came along.

Pekora then turned to the next day. She said she would enter a finger-game tournament, yubisuma, hosted by Okayu on Nintendo Switch Sports Resort at 8 p.m. on the 11th, with Cecilia as her first-round opponent. She said she had not played the game yet, planned to download it after the stream and practice if she could, and was aiming for the title. The stream drew 16 Super Chats.