Yashiro Kizuku, Uzuki Kou and Milan Kestrel Present Onkyo Collab Earbuds on Stream

NIJISANJI — Yashiro Kizuku, Uzuki Kou and Milan Kestrel, three Nijisanji talents, spent a 74-minute stream on Wednesday evening in Japan presenting the collaboration earbuds, wireless chargers and clear files they made with Onkyo. The products, which went on sale to order the previous Friday, can be ordered until 3 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29.

The talents began with the new artwork drawn for each of them: a figure eating a beef bowl with a phone in a notebook-style case, a room lit by nixie tubes, and a commuter on a late train. The train scene drew comments about overtime from chat. They then showed their earbud designs, which share one base model. One carries a full-moon motif, chosen so the case looks fully charged. One uses hand-lettered text and butterflies that stand for the talent’s fans. One has science-fiction lettering and a clock face fixed at 8:46.

“The connection has been cut. He’s the smallest fry of them all.” — Yashiro Kizuku, in one of his earbud voice lines

On features, the talents described a gentle noise-canceling mode, an ambient mode meant to cut down on missed train stops, a low-latency game mode and splash resistance for the earbuds. They noted the earbuds are not fully waterproof. After they put on the earbuds and played a song through them, they said vocals came through clearly and the sound was flat and easy on the ears.

Each pair also carries recorded voice lines. The talents said some were proposed by Onkyo’s staff, including a pairing-failure line, and some were rewritten by themselves. They tied one to a habit of ending ASMR streams with an “otsukaresama,” or thanks for your hard work. In a guessing game, Kizuku wrote answers while Kou and Milan tried to match them. The earbud catchphrase Kizuku wrote was about the future of sound, and for music in one kanji, he wrote “color,” saying it adds color to daily life. Asked which ear he puts an earbud in first, he answered that it does not matter. After that question, the three played three lines each from their earbuds.

The talents closed by drawing digital signs to be shown at an Onkyo store that has been displaying the collaboration items. Chat followed along throughout, and many viewers wrote that they had ordered or visited the store.