Ranze Tokiniwa Returns to Stream With a Cold, Keeps Talk to 30 Minutes

RIOT MUSIC — Ranze Tokiniwa, a virtual singer with Riot Music’s aaMugensho Record label, opened a short stream with a hoarse voice and the news that she had caught her first cold of 2026. She said she had come down with a fever, her first cold and fever of the year, and had spent the days since in bed.

The fever, she said, never ran high and lasted only a night or so, and her appetite stayed normal. She had no sore throat or stuffy nose and thought she had beaten the illness. Then her throat began to hurt on the day of the stream. She compared it to a poison-type attack, one that lands late. She said she could talk without trouble but that a long stream could push her voice past the point of recovery, so she planned to chat for about 30 minutes, see how it held up, and decide on the coming schedule from there.

“It felt like I’d been hit by a poison-type attack.” — Ranze Tokiniwa, on her cold’s delayed sore throat

While she was laid up, she said, she watched a lot of Netflix. She finished the second season of the anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, which she said felt lighter than the first and moved her at the ending, and began Banana Fish, a 24-episode series she had reached around episode four or five. She also described a Netflix drama starring Koji Yakusho as a famous actor who comes home from London to find that nobody remembers him, calling it comic and easy to watch. Viewers answered with recommendations of other Yakusho work, and she said she had not expected a Yakusho boom to arrive in her life. She added that Halloween had ended while she was ill and that she wanted to do a Halloween stream of dark songs someday.

Ranze said she had recorded a song before her throat went bad, a piece she loves, with harmonies she enjoyed singing and some spoken shouts in the arrangement. She said it would be released a little later and that she would like to premiere some songs she has memorized in a coming stream. For this week, she said, she might not set a schedule and would stream when she could.

Chat greeted her with the channel’s usual call-and-response and spent the closing minutes telling her to rest. Two Super Chats came in. She signed off by asking everyone to keep warm, since colds were going around, and told viewers to catch this look at her recovering while they could.