Sayaka Hanazono Marks 200,000 Holo Jan Pre-Registrations on Midday Hololive News Show

HOLOLIVE — Pre-registrations for Holo Jan, Hololive’s upcoming mahjong game, passed 200,000, and Sayaka Hanazono of the holoAN room channel announced the milestone on her midday news show on Friday. She said the figure was reached earlier than expected and thanked viewers for signing up.

To mark the number, she said, SNS icons of the third- through fifth-generation talents will be given out through the game’s official X account, along with in-game mahjong skins of the same talents. A quiz on the game’s special site asks five questions and matches players with a Hololive talent. Players who share their result on X with the Holo Jan style-diagnosis tag can enter a drawing for an art board, and the campaign runs through 11:59 p.m. on Nov. 30.

“Buy the tickets, buy the merch. If anything, I want my oshi to lean on me.” — holoAN’s announcers, debating what they want from a favorite

The show opened with a loose chat about the turn in the weather, which drifted from laundry by the river into an improvised retelling of the folktale Momotaro. In the sketch, the peach produced a character who set out to fight demons, and the elder who raised the child refused to hand over millet dumplings and told the child to fend for itself. Chat joked that the demon was in the room.

Later in the show Hanazono and fellow announcers watched Holo Jan’s promotional shorts, including one that sends up a curse that leaves people speaking only in mahjong terms. She then took the style quiz live. A question on whether she preferred a composed, dependable partner or a heavier, more possessive one split the group, and a poll of viewers came out 63 percent for the heavier affection and 37 percent for composure. Her result was the all-rounder type, built for switching between offense and defense.

The program also covered a week of Hololive announcements, among them the release of a new song by Ayunda Risu. Hanazono said she would host a co-watching stream at 6:45 p.m. the same day for the first of three Campus Horizon videos, which were to premiere on Hololive’s official channel on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.