Yukinoshita Oriyuki Tucks Viewers In With a Late-Night Chat as Her Cold Eases

AKUTAGAWA — Yukinoshita Oriyuki, a virtual streamer with the Akutagawa group, opened a late-night chat stream by telling viewers her cold was much better and her fever had gone. She had seen a doctor the day before and had not needed an injection, she said, but was told to stay away from sweets for now or risk losing her voice. The cake she had planned to share with viewers was put off until next week.

She then turned to a meal she had eaten out and showed photos of the dishes to chat. She said the opening puff pastry was a pleasant surprise, salty and sweet at once, but that she could not make sense of much of the rest, including a goose liver dish that did not taste the way she remembered it. Chat guessed at the dishes and teased her about the one that looked like an insect. Later she talked about a fried chicken rice bowl she had for dinner, and about the approach of November and the work she still had to catch up on after a run of illness.

“Rest hard, sleep hard, live hard.” — Yukinoshita Oriyuki, as she told viewers to go to bed

The stream’s centerpiece was a stretch of whispered, close-to-the-ear talk in the manner of a sleep-aid stream. Asked how much she should trust her viewers, she settled on 99 out of 100 and said she was holding back the last point so as not to give too much. She welcomed viewers home, asked for a hug in return, and said it had been a long time since she had spoken to them this closely. In a later segment she told viewers they should thank themselves, not the stream, for reaching the end of a hard stretch, since the effort was theirs. She asked whether she came across as cute, sexy or something else, and when chat answered that it wanted all of them, she said nobody would be sleeping that night.

To close, she told viewers to pull up their blankets and settle in, and said they had worked hard that day. She said the next stream would be late on Sunday night, and reminded everyone to keep warm and look after their lips in the winter air before signing off.

Chat greeted her with hearts and hugs throughout and asked repeatedly after her health. The stream drew two Super Chats.