Tokiwa Aino Uses Singing Relay Slot to Push for a Sellout at January Solo Live

INDEPENDENT — Independent virtual singer Tokiwa Aino used her 31-minute slot in the Hoshiatsume singing relay on Sunday to announce that she is aiming to sell out her second one-person live on Jan. 23, her first solo show at a live house. She said A-tier seats were nearly gone, that standing tickets remained, and that she wanted “over 200 people, for sure” to come. A special gift for every attendee has also been confirmed, with details to come.

Tokiwa said she planned to perform with a 3D model, dancing, singing and hyping up the crowd. She also promoted an in-person event about eight days away featuring some of the relay’s other performers, where she said she would perform her newly released original song live for the first time.

“Going to the live show in person is the best.” — Tokiwa Aino, promoting the Jan. 23 solo live

The set was built around band-style anime songs. Tokiwa opened with “Seishun Complex,” then told viewers she had fallen hard for 1980s and 1990s anime songs this year and asked them to shout along to “Rewrite.” “I want you to say ‘erase it, rewrite it,’” Tokiwa said. She followed with Girls Dead Monster’s “Alchemy” from Angel Beats, and closed with a cover of the relay host Hoshiatsume’s first single, “Yoru wo Terasu,” which she said she was singing for the first time.

Chat logged 4,020 messages and no Super Chats. The busiest minute, with 238 messages, came during “Rewrite,” as viewers typed “Rewrite it!” along with the chorus. After “Alchemy,” one viewer wrote “So cool!” A brief mix-up, in which a bot posted outdated information about a previous event before Tokiwa stopped it, drew a run of the channel’s “ponkotsu,” or klutz, stamps.

Tokiwa said she often holds late-night singing streams on Tuesdays or weekends, and ended the slot by sending viewers on to the relay’s closing segment.