Chisaka Airi Returns to Solo Streaming, Then Opens an Azur Lane Event and Pulls a Full Set

PHASE CONNECT — Chisaka Airi of Phase Connect returned to solo streaming on Sunday, her first since her birthday broadcast more than a month earlier, and spent the evening catching up with viewers before starting Azur Lane for the first time on her channel.

“I’m alive,” she said at the start, explaining that work trips had kept her away and that she had been at home only temporarily. She said she had no trip planned for the coming week and would stream again next weekend, and she hinted that something she had been working on during her absence would appear next week. She also recapped her recent collabs, including a Starcraft 2 match and a long chat stream with Sinon and BB Biscuit, and said she had not yet started Maple Story Classic.

“I see the sprites and it feels like I’m playing a whole different game because, oh my god, they’re so cute.” — Chisaka Airi, on Azur Lane’s character art versus its sprites

About an hour and a quarter in, she turned to Azur Lane. She first showed the trailer for a new in-game event, narrating each character’s outfit and joking that chat’s alerts kept covering the screen for her. She spent a long stretch explaining how the costumes might stay in place and which Phase Connect colleagues each character reminded her of. Later she said the game’s chibi sprites looked nothing like its main art.

Near the two-hour mark she began pulling for event characters. She went through a run of draws, said “That’s crazy. I got all three of them,” and spent the rest of the stream on the new characters’ home-screen voice lines, which she said she was fine keeping to herself.

Chat greeted her with “KonAiri!” and “Long time no see,” and sent 119 Super Chats and Stickers over the stream, many of them welcoming her back or asking about her recent collabs.