YOSHIKA⁂Ch. Sings Past the Two-Hour Mark Without a Sip of Water, Voice Intact

SQUARELIVE — YOSHIKA⁂Ch. told viewers well into a singing stream that she had not taken a drink of water in more than two hours of singing, and her voice had not given out. “I haven’t had even a drop of water. And I’ve been singing for two hours,” she said, and she wondered aloud why her throat never failed her.

The stream was a *utawaku*, or singing stream, that ran about two hours and 45 minutes and was billed as welcoming first-time viewers. She greeted newcomers by name as they arrived and checked more than once that no first-timer had been missed. Her set mixed requests and her own picks, among them “Sakuranbo,” “Odoru Ponpokorin,” “Sora mo Toberu Hazu,” “Queen’s Bluff,” “Melissa,” “Ikenai Border Line,” “Sakura Skip” and “Sayonara Elegy.” She said “Sakuranbo” was pitched too high to be a third song and swapped in “Odoru Ponpokorin” first.

“I haven’t had even a drop of water. And I’ve been singing for two hours.” — YOSHIKA⁂Ch., on her voice holding up

Her voice became the running joke of the night’s later stretch. She put on a mock alien voice to declare that “we are a people with super-strong throats,” and said that in 13 years of activity, beginning on Niconico, she had never once damaged her throat. She credited part of it to singing in choirs from childhood. Talking through games, she added, tires her voice much faster than singing does.

Chat joined in from the first songs, answering with call-and-response chants during the opening numbers and filling the screen with applause and glow-stick emotes. Near the end, she announced that she would take part in a live show in Taipei on Nov. 14, and said flyers would be placed at the venue, one per person.

She closed shortly after 2 a.m. on Monday, with a short ending roll. She said she planned to tidy up, eat instant noodles and go to bed around 5 a.m., because friends were coming over for a Japanese-sweets party.