Akairo Mia Returns After a Week Off With a Fever and Catches Up on a Dream Come True
The streamer, whose temperature had dropped to 36.9 degrees Celsius, spent 97 minutes on a chat stream that took in a support ad, piercings and a debate over whether she is an idol.
BRAVE GROUP — Akairo Mia returned to streaming on Sunday after about a week away with a fever, opening a 97-minute *zatsudan*, or chat stream, by saying her temperature was down to 36.9 degrees Celsius. She said the fever peaked at 38.7 degrees but was an odd one: she felt lively through it, even walking her dog, Bob, on days when it dipped, while staying off stream and resting.
Her main piece of news was a trip to Akihabara to see the support ad that went up for her. She went on the 19th, and the fever came that night. She said the ad was bigger than she expected and that seeing it in person felt nothing like seeing a picture of it. She said it fulfilled a long-held dream, and named 200,000 subscribers as her next goal on the channel and a soundproof room as her next personal one.
“An idol, obviously. Look at this cuteness, this coolness, this face.” — Akairo Mia, when chat suggested she was a comedian
From there the stream wandered. Prompted by chat, she talked through her own piercings, which she counted live, and how she opened her first ones with a safety pin after numbing her ear with ice. A comment about young children wearing makeup and having hair removal led to a longer discussion of appearance pressure on kids, which she called a sign of the times, ending with a message to viewers that each of them is a princess.
Chat’s insistence that she is not an idol, a running joke that began when she said she was one, turned into a question she took seriously. Scrolling through her own channel, she saw mostly chat streams, Minecraft and singing, and wondered aloud how she would describe what she does. She said she plans to stay solo for now, with no collabs scheduled, though she wants to team up with Suzu at some point. She also floated horror games, a ramen-shop simulator and a Halloween stream whose format is undecided, and said she intends to start producing horizontal clip videos with an editor next year.
She closed by saying she would go eat, take Bob out for a walk and stream again the next day.
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This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.