Ryugasaki Rene Explains Four-Song, No-Talk Set at 774inc Online Concert
In a late-night chat stream, the singer said she packed in as many of her own songs as the time allowed, and that it was her first four-song block at an agency live.
774INC — Ryugasaki Rene, a singer-streamer with 774inc, spent the first hours of a late-night chat stream early Tuesday, Japan time, looking back on the agency’s weekend online concert, where she performed four of her own songs in a row without speaking between them.
Rene said the show’s format, in which each talent took a solo stage and the stages were strung together, was unusual for an agency live. She said the format came from the agency’s staff. Her own set was a seamless remix of four songs prepared with a DJ she works with often, and she chose the order herself. She said she rarely talks during concerts, and that she wanted the fans who bought tickets for her to get their money’s worth. “I was thinking I’d go for five or six songs if I could, but, well, time’s up,” she said.
“I was thinking I’d go for five or six songs if I could, but, well, time’s up.” — Ryugasaki Rene, on her four-song set
She added that she realized only during the stream that singing four originals in one block was a first for her at an agency concert. She said her first official single came out in 2023, after she debuted in 2020, and that picking songs for a short set was now a pleasant problem. She said she hopes to release a second album or an EP within a year or two and is working on new material.
The talk then moved to other topics. She said she had handed one of the agency’s newer talents the ASMR microphone she used to use, and she described an after-concert night of talking until morning with a fellow performer, followed by a homemade pizza. She also said she would like to team up with a public bathhouse, or *sento*, and imagined a collaboration with a rose bath and in-house announcements recorded in her voice, while adding that nothing of the kind is planned.
Later she described riding her bicycle home from the bathhouse with a bright yellow face pack on and a green bath towel wound high on her head, then drew the scene live. Chat answered with jokes that someone would call the police. Four Super Chats arrived during the stream. Rene said she was considering a Final Fantasy IX stream for later in the week but had not settled on one.
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.