Mizumiya Su Tries Hololive’s Holojan Mahjong Game Early, Learning the Rules as She Plays

HOLOLIVE — Mizumiya Su of Hololive’s DEV_IS FLOW GLOW played an early build of hololive Majong -holojan-, the agency’s mahjong game, on Wednesday night, starting with next to no knowledge of mahjong and ending with a hand worth 8,000 points.

She opened on the character-select screen, reacting to each member’s illustration and voice line, and laughed when her own character’s voice came up. The game’s tutorial, a mahjong classroom run by Koyori, walked her through the tiles, the sets that complete a hand, and declaring riichi, the call that announces a hand is one tile from winning. Before it began, she said all she knew was the name of one mahjong hand, kokushi musou.

“I was such a total beginner that it was hard. But the one thing I did learn is that you shouldn’t call.” — Mizumiya Su, after the game

In single-player mode, the game’s assist marked suggested discards and showed which tiles she was waiting on. What she wanted most was to call, claiming other players’ discards to build sets. Chat told her beginners were better off not calling, but she called anyway, and soon found that a hand without a yaku, a scoring combination, cannot win. “What is a yaku?” she asked. Viewers were quick to explain, and chat teased her as the “pon god,” a nickname tied to the call. Her first win of the match was a cheap one, which chat welcomed as better than no win. Later, calls helped her to the 8,000-point hand, and she said, “I called and it won.” Viewers congratulated her on finishing first.

The game also has a story mode in which her character enters a mahjong tournament that grants the winner a wish, and the wish she picks is to grow taller. When in-game lines teased her about a chair too high for her feet and a tile wall she could not reach, she protested on stream that she is 3 meters tall.

Near the end, she told viewers that FLOW GLOW’s second anniversary is coming, with a live segment in the second half of the program the following week. She said she planned a segment during the anniversary countdown on how far she can tolerate a partner’s infidelity. Her next stream was set for 8 p.m. the following evening, she said, but could slip to 9 p.m. if work ran long. The stream drew 31 Super Chats.