MIKOTO Opens Her Monday Morning Stream With a Song, a Fortune Game and a Mailbag

KAMITSUBAKI — MIKOTO, a virtual singer with KAMITSUBAKI’s 1nPHENOMENON RECORD, started her Monday morning stream on Oct. 26 by singing, then spent the next hour and a half on a fortune game, a run of viewer letters and open chat. She said she had woken with a stuffy nose and sang through it.

The song came about eight minutes in, after a round of greetings. She said she had first heard the composer’s music in a contemporary dance class and still found it so pure that it brought her close to tears. Chat answered with a long run of applause emoji and comments such as “I felt gentle all of a sudden this morning.”

“Let’s skip food talk and chat about something else. It’ll make us hungry.” — MIKOTO, midway through the chat segment

After the song, viewers and MIKOTO traded notes on the weather: rain at her place from a typhoon that had just weakened, the first snow forecast for Sapporo, and a talk about hot pots and convenience-store oden that she said she had never ordered herself. Around the 33-minute mark she ran a fortune game. Viewers picked one of four numbers in chat: number 1 drew “floaty luck,” number 2 “super-great luck,” number 3 “great luck,” and number 4 “soap-bubble luck.” She followed it with a round of rock-paper-scissors against chat, throwing rock, and many viewers reported losing.

She then read letters from viewers. To one asking how to get out of bed when the futon seems unwilling to let go, she suggested long sleeves, a closed window, an alarm placed across the room, a small heater and a light blanket to throw on. Another reader asked about her favorite number; she said she tends to pick the digits of her birthday, and that she had been reading a novel about a mathematician that made numbers feel gentle. In reply to a reader who felt worn out by slow progress on an electronic piano, she advised picking up small, simple enjoyments, such as a favorite phrase or sound, rather than keeping the finished goal always in view.

The last letter asked about Halloween plans. MIKOTO said she would make sweets again this year, as she did last year. In open chat afterward she said she was trying to avoid talking about food, and the stream closed with her wishing viewers a gentle week. One Super Chat arrived during the broadcast.