Hakui Koyori Lands a 36,000-Point Hand After a Winless Start in Hololive Mahjong Preview

HOLOLIVE — Hakui Koyori of holoX won her first hand of the night with a 36,000-point sanbaiman, a triple mangan, on Sunday during an early-access stream of Holojan, Hololive’s upcoming mahjong game. She had gone without a win through the opening stretch of play. A kan, a declared set of four identical tiles, turned up extra dora, the bonus tiles that add to a hand’s value. She then declared riichi and drew the winning tile herself. “Right on plan, a flood of dora. This is Koyori’s mahjong,” she said.

Holojan was opened to Hololive members to try this week, and Koyori said she had not streamed mahjong in a long time. She began by going through the game’s character-select screen, where each Hololive member introduces herself, then moved to single mode: a four-player, east-wind-only match against CPU opponents, which she set to the strongest level. She explained the rules for beginners as she played, including how dora indicators work, and pointed to in-game aids such as markers for discards and a display of safe tiles against a riichi declaration. Her first match ended with no win, which she called yakitori, the mahjong term for finishing a game without one. A second match began the same way before the big hand arrived.

“Right on plan, a flood of dora. This is Koyori’s mahjong.” — Hakui Koyori, after her first winning hand

Afterward she browsed the game’s customization options: win animations, riichi sticks, table frames and background music, as well as a home-screen mode in which a character sways. She said the game also has story content and voices, and she noted that ranked matches exist. She then played a table of holoX characters, including Lui, and finished second to Lui’s character. She said that echoed the result of a past tournament in which she placed second.

Koyori said the game’s CPU opponents were more fun than she had expected, calling them strong and noting they would stay quiet about a ready hand. She said she hoped players would come to treat Holojan as their mahjong platform. She said she appears as the tutorial teacher for players who choose the “I don’t know mahjong” option, and that three beginner videos are out. An early-play period for streamers was due to start the following week and run about two weeks, she said, with a public release to follow. She is due to appear on the Holojan announcement broadcast on Nov. 4, and she said she would play a luck-based game with a newcomer in a collab at 8 p.m. the next day.

Viewers sent 28 Super Chats and Stickers. In chat, one wrote that the flow had suddenly come her way, and another remarked that the CPU was calmly sitting on a hidden winning hand.