Yubari Rei Announces 3D Debut After a Solo Horror Game When Her Partner Overslept

INDEPENDENT — Yubari Rei announced a 3D debut on Halloween, at the end of a stream that began as a different event altogether. The independent streamer had billed the broadcast as the biggest announcement of her career, to be made together with her partner Tomo. Tomo overslept, and Rei opened by turning the stream into a solo run of a horror game.

Rei said she and Tomo had planned to clear a co-op game online for the first time and make the announcement afterward as a show of their bond. Tomo, whom she described as a longtime supporter who had watched over her since before her debut, did not answer messages sent from around noon, and a call went unanswered. Rei said it was the most anxious she had been in half a year. Viewers had suggested options on X for that case, and with the game she had been working through not ready, she settled on a Halloween horror title, The Closing Shift, in which the player works a coffee shop shift alone. “It turned into a horror-game endurance stream,” she said.

“The 3D debut is set.” — Yubari Rei, announcing it after the game

She screamed her way through the apartment, the commute and the first customers, and struggled with the drink-making that makes up much of the game. When Tomo finally appeared in chat, about an hour and 46 minutes in, Rei read the message aloud and welcomed her. Tomo joined by voice call and explained that she had woken at five in the morning, slept again near 10:30 and set about five alarms. She watched Rei’s screen from then on, helped with orders and shared the scares.

Rei finished the game with a bad ending after more than three and a half hours of play. “Finally, I can make the announcement,” she said. The news came a few minutes later: a 3D debut, with original songs and a number of guests. She said she and Tomo had worked out the content themselves, rented a studio and brought in creators, and that Tomo would take part in some form without appearing in 3D. She asked viewers not to expect much dancing and said she planned to keep the movement loose so she could sing.

The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Rei said a teaser would go up later and that the guests would be named shortly before the event.

Chat opened with jokes about the missing partner, including a guess that the duo was splitting up, and ended in applause for the clear and the news. The stream drew 77 paid messages.