Memento Vanitas Spends a Sunday Chat Stream Handicapping the Kikuka Sho

RIOT MUSIC — Memento Vanitas, the Riot Music (aaMugensho Record) talent, spent a midday *zatsudan*, or chat stream, on Sunday working through picks for the Kikuka Sho horse race. A stream that began with talk of a mobile game had turned into race analysis by the halfway mark, and the talent herself noted late on that she had done nothing but talk about horse racing.

The opening stretch went to a gacha game she had been playing. She said she had spent a small amount the night before to chase a helper character she had wanted for a long time, and that it came up on the third pull. She described how steeply the odds of top-rarity characters fall in the game, and how a second round of draws for equipment, which she said she would have to repeat for every character, stood in front of her next.

“I’ve done nothing but talk about horse racing.” — Memento Vanitas, midway through the stream

That led to a lottery-prize draw she was debating, with viewers offering to pull on her behalf. From about the half-hour mark she turned to the Kikuka Sho, reading out the favorites, remarking on the rain and on the jockey Lemaire, and weighing whether a longshot drawn on the outside could win. She said a 100-yen stake on a long-shot combination could return about 70,000 yen, and said she would buy one for the thrill of it, adding that she would not blame viewers if their own tickets missed.

Late in the stream she asked viewers to put horns on, and the horn she had just put on came off. Her voice, she said, had been loud enough to knock it loose. After a Super Chat asked for it, she also tried a soft, cutesy voice, which drew a mixed response from chat. The stream drew 19 Super Chats.

The talk then moved to anime figures and acrylic stands, with viewers trading counts of how many they own. She ended the stream by saying she had to head out, and told viewers that although she was busy the following week, a stream was planned and she hoped they would return.