Igarashi Rika Follows a Toe-Injury Story With an Hour of Couples’ Either-Or Questions

NIJISANJI — Igarashi Rika, a Nijisanji streamer, opened a morning *zatsudan*, or chat stream, on Thursday by telling viewers how she had hurt her foot earlier that day. She said she woke up groggy, took a step toward the open door of her cat’s cage beside the bed and caught her right toes on the bars. She said the toe felt as if it had been pulled off, and that she spent five to ten minutes groaning in pain.

Igarashi quizzed viewers on which toe took the worst of it, then revealed that it was the ring toe. She said her nail was not damaged and that the cat had been asleep elsewhere and was unharmed. About an hour later she reported that it still stung, but that she expected it to be gone after a night’s sleep.

“My toe still hurts, same as ever. But it’s the kind that heals after you sleep, so I’m fine.” — Igarashi Rika, midway through the stream

She had gone to sleep soon after finishing practice for an upcoming idol festival, woken about an hour and a half before the stream and been kept up by the cat nuzzling and licking her hair. Igarashi said she decided on the stream at short notice, announced it in a post and made the thumbnail in a hurry. Along the way she talked about her rehearsals with the other performers, eating together afterward, and asking viewers to apply for tickets to the Kansai-only event.

From about the one-hour-eight-minute mark, she worked through a list of “ultimate either-or” questions about romantic partners that she said she had been sent. She picked a partner who sends 100 messages a day over one who writes every three days, chose time alone over constant company, and preferred a jealous but affectionate partner to a cool one. Asked whether she would give up a dream for a partner or leave a partner for a dream, she said she would put her dream first. She also said she would hand over her phone but not her finances. Several questions split her opinion, and she changed one answer after talking it over.

The stream ran two and a half hours. Igarashi read out messages from viewers heading to work, thanked those who joined her channel membership and said she would be back at 8 p.m. that evening after taking care of chores at home.