After Two Years, Aisaka Siu Says Good Morning to Viewers, Still Awake From the Night Before

SPECIALITE — Aisaka Siu, a member of the agency Specialite’s first generation, held her first morning chat stream in about two years on Thursday, opening at 6:30 a.m. Japan time. She said it had been roughly two years since she last greeted viewers with “good morning,” and that she had asked her senpai beforehand what hour would be safe, and was told something between 6:30 and 8:30.

Siu said her previous stream had ended at 2 a.m. and that she had not slept in between, so she called the session a “fraud morning stream.” She kept it loose, in the style of a zatsudan, or chat stream. She talked about a recent trip to a public bathhouse, where she used the sauna and a massage chair, and about a doctor’s visit at which she was told her habit of bringing food back up after large meals could be reflux esophagitis. She said she had not been examined further. She also said the kotatsu, the heated table, had come out at home, with one in the living room and a foot-warming one in her room, and that she goes without heating in winter.

“I’m the one who’s most surprised that I’m saying good morning.” — Aisaka Siu, early in the stream

The theme of the stream was the send-off. The title asked viewers to drop out with an “itte kimasu” (“I’m heading out”), and as chat said they were leaving for work she answered each with “itterasshai.” She later floated a challenge of counting how many viewers say it, undecided between 10 and 30, and said leaving for a walk would count as well. Talking about people who stay indoors, she said she would go out and pick up litter herself first, since she did not want to ask others to do what she had not done.

She ended the stream after about 81 minutes, saying she was too sleepy to go on and would like to hold morning streams again, aiming to start at 6:30 for about two hours. She said her regular stream at 5 p.m. that day would be a zatsudan with Super Chat reading, and that she would read the Super Chats from the morning there. She asked viewers to bring topics for it.