Sonny Brisko Hosts More Than a Dozen Nijisanji Talents in Backrooms He Built in Minecraft

NIJISANJI — Sonny Brisko opened a Backrooms-style maze he built in Minecraft to a crowd of Nijisanji talents on Monday, leading them through an escape, a game of tag and a guided tour. Thirteen talents, Sonny among them, streamed the event from their own channels, and Claude Clawmark and Luca Kaneshiro were among the others in the server.

Sonny played a police officer with the VSF. He told the group that people had been disappearing in the area, that he had sent a junior officer to investigate and had not heard back, and that he needed everyone’s help. He then led them down into a train station that served as the way in. From there the guests split up and worked through yellow offices, pools and aquariums, hunting for ways out and for hidden items called fugu. Several said they were lost, and at one point the guests raced one another back to the entrance.

“I’m glad I made it nice and confusing and everyone got very lost.” — Sonny Brisko, after the tour

Later Sonny set up a tag game. Anyone who was hit would become “Sunny” by putting on a Sonny head, and the round would run until one player was left. Guests crouched in corners and behind blocks to stay hidden, and by the end the room was full of Sonny heads.

About two hours in, Sonny offered a tour to anyone who wanted to stay. He said the train station that serves as the spawn point was about three years old and that the Backrooms had grown out of another build, his VSF police station. He pointed out a corner modeled on Exit 8, halls drawn from Kane Parsons’ Backrooms found-footage videos, an office area based on the TV series Severance, a bathroom inspired by the film The Shining and a room taken from the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks. He said the last room had been finished that morning, before the collab began. Asked how long the project took, he said he started about two months ago and worked on it a few hours at a time.

When the guests had left, Sonny said some rooms had gone unseen even after several rounds and the tour, and he was pleased to have made the place confusing. Later in the stream he said he did not think so many people had ever been on the EN server at once, even during big collabs. Chat thanked him for building the maze.

Sonny kept streaming for several hours after the tour.