Sorashina Sopia Brings Camouflage Research to a Nine-Talent Meccha Chameleon Collab

HOLOLIVE — Sorashina Sopia and eight other Hololive talents played the hide-and-seek game Meccha Chameleon (めっちゃカメレオン) together on Friday. Sopia came prepared with a research paper on camouflage, said partway through that it had not helped her hide, and then spent the end of her stream giving a lecture on what she had read.

The group also included Mori Calliope, Kureiji Ollie, Anya Melfissa, Tsunomaki Watame, Natsuiro Matsuri, Mizumiya Su, Otonose Kanade and Tokoyami Towa. They opened by introducing themselves one by one to check audio levels. Watame introduced herself as a beginner “from every angle,” and Su thanked everyone for gathering and said she intended to catch every player.

“I read a paper today, but it’s no use at all.” — Sorashina Sopia, midway through the session

In the game, players paint their characters and strike a pose to blend into a map, then hunters search for them, with a whistling taunt that gives hiders away by sound. Several hiders went unnoticed for long stretches, and the participants kept marveling at where people had been standing. One hider turned up as a plate of sushi. Calliope’s game crashed several times; other participants talked her through verifying the game files on Steam, reassured her, and she rejoined. Later the group switched to a mode where hiders’ spots can be viewed and two players can make a joint piece.

Sopia said she had heard that hiding a body’s outline is what matters most, and she tried bold paint and tricks with light and dark. They did not always work, and she was found quickly in several rounds. In her closing lecture, which she called Sopi Zemi (a seminar), she walked through three techniques from the paper: background matching, where a busy background makes hiding easier; countershading, where dark paint goes on lit surfaces and light paint on shaded ones, as in sharks; and disruptive coloration, where high-contrast patterns break up an outline. She said the last had worked when she hid among leaves, that she had failed to produce a dark color when hiding on dirt, and that her drawing skills held her back. She added that she would like to add all three to her skill set if there is another round, and that she might read about mimicry next.

The nine signed off together with “Otsu Holo-Chameleon,” a play on the Japanese sign-off “otsukare,” or thanks for your work. In her own stream’s close, Watame said it was her first time playing, that she had barely found anyone but that everyone was good, and that she needed more experience. She said she expected to skip streams on the 14th and 15th, with a radio appearance on the 16th and a chat stream planned afterward.