Utai Meika Plans Weekly Friday-Night Singing Streams After a Quick Trip Home to Osaka

INDEPENDENT — Utai Meika said she plans to hold a singing stream every week, aiming for Friday nights at 10 p.m., in a *zatsudan*, or chat stream, on her channel メイカちゃんねる. Her song streams have been irregular and often held in the morning. She said she wants to be seen as a streamer who is committed to singing, and that she would also start making short singing clips, ideally posting one on the day of a song stream.

She described the streams as one to two hours long, with a request-song stream once a month. Song streams she does alone may later be restricted to channel members, while those with other people in them would stay public. She said she would like viewers to come and comment live, that the plan could still change, and that Friday could shift if other commitments came up. She also said she wants to build toward a live show.

“I want to come across as someone who’s really working hard at singing.” — Utai Meika, on why she is adding song streams

Most of the stream was a recap of a three-day trip from Tokyo to Osaka, made because her father, who lives and works abroad on his own, was back in Japan for a short stay. Meika had lunch with him and went to see a Godzilla film after a colleague of his had called it a tearjerker. She enjoyed it as a monster film, praising the creature’s design and the way it charged its beam, but said it did not make her cry, and her father, who is not a Godzilla fan, took it differently. A visit to a massage parlor, where she had hoped to get a smaller face from lymphatic work, ended before the therapist reached her face, and she took a batting-center trip with a friend, where she said she connected with about 70 percent of the pitches.

The trip home produced the most eventful moment of the trip. Boarding a crowded green-car (first-class) coach at Shin-Osaka Station, she said, passengers blocked the aisle, one traveler with two suitcases pushed back through the car, and another person announced they were getting off just as the doors were closing. It took about ten minutes to reach her seat, she said.

Looking ahead, Meika said she would play in a mahjong league called the Gekokujo League (下剋上リーグ), with matches starting at 5 p.m. that day, and that the year-end event would be held again this year. Chat responded to the singing plan with messages of welcome, and the stream drew six Super Chats.