Hibachi Mana Runs a Four-Hour Sunday Chat, Then Turns to an Evening Splatoon Team Meet-Up

NIJISANJI — Hibachi Mana of Nijisanji ran his weekly Sunday-morning *zatsudan*, or chat stream, for more than four hours on Nov. 1, ending it with a plan for the evening: a first meeting with his team for a Splatoon tournament, which he said would begin at 6 p.m. at the earliest and by 9 p.m. at the latest.

The stream opened at 7 a.m. with the day’s chat topic, “Who ate one Pocky?”, a nod to Pocky Day, which he noted the date just missed. He joked that he had been so sleepy during the members-only stream the night before that he cut it short before he could say anything he shouldn’t. He also said Halloween had passed him by except for streaming, and that his weekly morning show helps him keep track of the days of the week.

“It feels like all my memories fly off for just a tenth of a second, and then I remember everything.” — Hibachi Mana, describing a sensation he says he has once or twice a year

Much of the talk was personal. He recommended the sci-fi film *Odyssey*, about an astronaut left behind on Mars who has to grow his own food, and said it opened up a genre he had barely watched. He then described a sensation he says has come once or twice a year since elementary school, lasting under ten seconds: everything he knows, from how his body works to what a microphone is, briefly goes blank, and he restores it by recalling his own name and then those of his friends. He said it tends to follow long stretches of doing nothing, such as waiting in a theme-park line or sitting through a school ceremony, and that he had not raised it with other Livers. Chat said many viewers knew the feeling, and he told them they were in good company. He then turned to the mobile puzzle game Block Blast, explaining how its combo rules reportedly differ between iPhone and Android. Chat called the shift a “digression”, a joke he took up himself.

From there the stream wandered through travel vlogs, school track-and-field memories, the pull of mobile-game ads and a long discussion of singing, vibrato and absolute pitch. When chat reported a tremor partway through, he said the floor of his booth absorbs vibration and asked viewers to look after their safety.

On the Splatoon event, he said he planned to use the Sharp Marker, the weapon he has long favored. Most of his teammates were people he had not met before, he said, and he would hold a private match with them if enough people gathered. He said he wanted to take it seriously for the first time in a while.

He closed after about four and a half hours with a rock-paper-scissors game, read out the names of Super Chat senders, and said he would nap before the evening. He noted the show airs every Sunday at 7 a.m.