Achichi Mela Clears the Boss Rush in The Dandelion Endures and Gets Her Speech Back

HOLOLIVE — Achichi Mela of Hololive’s gpASOBI MAWARI-TAI! cleared the boss rush of The Dandelion Endures on Sunday, finishing the game on her first playthrough and, in the story of the stream, shaking off the dandelion that had taken over her speech.

The stream began with a premise. One month after her debut, Mela told viewers, a dandelion had “possessed” her and turned her usual sentence ending, “nojja,” into a “popo” tic. The game, a gift from her senior Okayu, was to be the cure: endure it, and the dandelion would let go. She had never played it before. It opens as a relaxed growing game, in which she collected carbon dioxide, water and light for a dandelion across the seasons, and then turns into a parry-timing rhythm game once the story proper starts.

“Achichi Mela has come back, nojja.” — Achichi Mela, after clearing the boss rush

She took to the parrying quickly. About 40 minutes in, after a first successful parry, she said she had practiced listening for rhythm on an earlier rhythm game stream. Trouble came on the later stages. A cat stage whose beat did not match the music ended her first attempt, and she learned to time by sight rather than by ear. Past the one-hour mark, a stage built around a street dancer in the 10th year of the dandelion’s life took several tries, and Mela stopped to rework her approach before going back in. She cleared the main story around the 1 hour 26 minute mark.

Then came the boss rush, which she had not expected. Her timing slipped as she retuned to each new stage, and the cat stage again took several attempts. She got through it near the 1 hour 39 minute mark, called herself good and strong, and announced that the time had come to free her dandelion. She told viewers the old Achichi Mela was back, thanking them for staying with her through every form.

Mela used the close of the stream to lay out the week ahead, including a Vocaloid-only karaoke stream on Wednesday, a one-on-one collab with a senior talent on Thursday and a Jump King beginners’ event on Friday, and then signed off with her “nojja” catchphrase.