Houshou Marine Talks Through Her Throat Break and an Unexplained Illness in a Return Stream

HOLOLIVE — Houshou Marine returned to her own channel on Tuesday for a 79-minute zatsudan, or chat stream, her first solo stream in some time, and explained what had kept her away. She said she had damaged her throat and had been told to avoid singing and straining her voice, so she was trying not to hurt it again. Work scheduled for the stretch was canceled, she said, and the break left her low for a while before she resolved to be more careful.

With time on her hands, she said, she went back to Attack on Titan, which she had only half followed when it first aired. She watched it over about three days, often late into the night and in tears, and said she wept hardest over Erwin, whose dream she wished she could help come true. She called Erwin her favorite and ranked him first, with Levi third, and said she would like to send him the whole manga.

“You held out well through the captain’s absence. Marine is with you from here on.” — Houshou Marine, closing the stream

The binge was followed by an illness she could not name. She described body aches, a headache, stomach pain and chills, a fever that came mostly at night, and a hospital visit where flu and COVID tests came back negative. The headache, fever and aches passed, she said, but the stomach pain stayed and the cause was still unknown. Her father and sister visited while she was unwell: she had booked an unusually expensive hotel for her father and told him not to cancel, and both arrived in poor shape. They visited a Sakura Wars shop and a haunted house, and she bought her sister games on Nintendo Switch, which her father ended up playing most.

She also talked about Goddess of Victory: NIKKE, which she had tried in a sponsored stream. She said the tutorial and the fourth-anniversary event story had left her wanting to know what became of one character, and that she might carry on with it with some adjustments. She ended by saying she planned to rest her voice, move to a collab with Pekora and Vivi at 9 p.m., and keep a slower pace. The stream drew 71 Super Chats.

Before signing off, she showed new movements in her model and thanked viewers for waiting.