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Genzuki Tojiro Unveils New Official Promotional Photo, Feet First

The Nijisanji streamer showed the portrait in stages, from his sandals up to his face, before presenting the full-body image.

Genzuki Tojiro during “⋙新宣材写真お披露目 ⋮❙⋮ 新しい僕を見てもろて ⋮❙⋮ 弦月藤士郎 / にじさんじ ⋘,” a broadcast that ran 56m. Press to play from YouTube

Genzuki Tojiro, a virtual streamer with Nijisanji’s VΔLZ, unveiled a new official promotional photo on Friday in a one-hour stream titled as an unveiling of the image. He began by saying the portrait had been taken by the artist he calls his “mama,” and thanked her again at the end.

Before the reveal he spent several minutes teasing viewers about what to expect, joking that his hair might turn out to be pink, rainbow or black, and put his current outfit on screen as a refresher, pointing out his red-painted toenails, shoes and the belt and emblem that hold the outfit together.

“Sorry for being cute.” — Genzuki Tojiro, as the new photo came into view

Then he brought the new image in piece by piece, starting at the bottom: sandals, legs, a draped cloth that makes up the skirt, shoulders, hands and finally his face. Along the way he explained that the jacket in his earlier full-body views had only been draped over his shoulders, which was why it had looked baggy. When the full-length photo appeared, he said “Sorry for being cute,” then joked that the event was already over.

Chat filled with comments on how slender his legs and hands looked, and he answered a few with mock offense. Viewers sent 34 Super Chats, many congratulating him on the new image. He also said a song would be released at 8 p.m. that evening, and spent a stretch guessing, with chat, what it might be.

Closing the stream, he said he would carry the new photo into whatever comes next and promised to read the Super Chats later.

This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.

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