Shiga Riko Goes Live Waiting on Work News, Then Spends Her Day Off on Splatoon 3

NIJISANJI — Nijisanji’s Shiga Riko, of the AYAKAKI unit, went live at midday Thursday with no plan beyond waiting for a message from her manager. Her evening work was likely to be cancelled, and once word came that she had the day off, she spent the rest of the broadcast, more than four hours in all, playing Splatoon 3 on her own.

She opened with a zatsudan, or chat stream. Her late-night radio show with Berigariko had been postponed, she said, and with the evening shift in doubt she decided to stream about five minutes beforehand. The title promised a look back at recent events, but she called it a stream for waiting on a message. Along the way she talked about dancing for short videos with Miran, her flu shot, and which school subjects she had been worst at.

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Shortly after the first hour she noticed that the message had arrived at 12:30 and had been sitting there unread: the shift was off. “It was a day off,” she said, before moving straight into Splatoon 3, wanting to see how far a week of practice for the recent tournament had taken her. She said she had played every day since the tournament ended on Sunday.

Early rounds of Anarchy Battle went badly, and she found that talking while playing was harder than it looked. She then tried the Dynamo Roller for the first time, lost with it, and went back to her usual weapon, whose special is the Booyah Bomb. Later she picked up a charger, a long-range weapon, and said the moment a shot connected was a thrill. Back on Splat Zones she logged eight kills in one match and nine in another, and said she hoped to reach 20 like the senior players she admires. She said she prefers Splat Zones and Tower Control, and that she still avoids Clam Blitz.

She said she would stop after one more win, and got it at about the four-hour mark, calling it the best way to end. By her count she was four or five wins from qualifying for the rank B Challenge. She also joked about showing up to the next tournament as a charger user. Nine Super Chats came in during the broadcast, and she read out the names of the senders near the end.

Looking ahead, she said she had something planned for 10 p.m. Friday, would appear on another channel Saturday, had a collab at 7 p.m. Sunday and a full day of work Monday, with her own next stream on Tuesday. The date of the postponed radio show is still to be announced.