Shirazuna Iwo Returns From a Weekend Off With a Two-Hour Karaoke Stream

REACT — Shirazuna Iwo, a virtual streamer with the agency ReAcT, returned from a weekend off on Monday with a karaoke stream that ran about two hours and 11 minutes, most of it given over to singing.

Iwo opened by saying that viewers had been worried about the days away. They said they had been feeling low, but that a long conversation with another virtual streamer the night before had lifted their mood. They said they planned to talk little and sing as much as possible, calling the opening chat “the only talking segment of the day.”

“May everyone’s path stay peaceful today.” — Shirazuna Iwo, signing off

The setlist included songs by RADWIMPS, Royal Scandal and Mrs. GREEN APPLE, according to now-playing markers posted in chat. Iwo said at one point that a song was too high to sing as planned and restarted it, and later joked that the pace was closer to a one-hour guerrilla stream than a regular karaoke session, saying listeners who wanted a playlist might prefer fewer interruptions. Iwo also said a mouth sore was improving with medication and was not bothering their singing.

Between songs, Iwo told viewers the channel was approaching 9,000 subscribers and said the goal was 10,000 by the end of the year. They asked listeners to share the channel. Iwo also said they would play a game with their debut-class peers at 9 p.m. the same day, with an announcement planned for that stream, and ran through the rest of the week’s schedule: Tuesday off, a stream with an agency senior on Wednesday, and a likely day off on Thursday.

Chat answered most songs with streams of applause emoji and glow-stick emoji. In the final minutes, viewers repeated Iwo’s sign-off wish for a peaceful week in chat.