ChroNoiR Tries to Name Six Hooded, Voice-Changed Guests in New Guessing Show

NIJISANJI — ChroNoiR’s Kuzuha and Kanae spent a little over an hour on Monday trying to work out who was behind six guests dressed as kuroko, the black-clad stagehands of Japanese theater, with their voices altered. The stream, titled as a possible new program and tagged #くろなん, asked the pair to identify each guest from their behavior alone.

Kuzuha and Kanae introduced the format as a spin on Kuronan, the duo’s own show. Each trio took on three Kuronan-style tasks: an opening chat, a dance attempt and a meal eaten while talking. The hosts watched recordings and called out guesses as they went. The first trio ate a yakiniku bento, and one of its members drew shocked reactions from the hosts by eating hunched over the dish. The second trio shared a 20,000-yen melon, and the guests joked about how it tasted, with one saying it would be better after ripening a little longer.

When the first trio was unmasked, the guests were Elu, Rion Takamiya and Kaida Haru. The hosts had expected the guest who turned out to be Elu to be a man. Afterward, they said Kaida’s willingness to commit to the bit had changed how they saw him. Rion Takamiya had given the hosts plenty of hints, they said. For the second trio, the hosts settled on Milan Kestrel for one slot before the reveal, and that pick was right. The guests also included Matsukai Mao, whose small stature next to the others drew comment when the hoods came off.

The hosts said they were frustrated at not naming everyone but that the guesses had been close. They said stripping away a liver’s usual presentation had made the guests’ personalities easier to see. They asked viewers to say in the comments whom they would like to see in a next round, and told them to watch again the following week.