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I ended up writing up all of it today, after all because I probably wouldn't have time in the next couple of days. There were a lot of questions, and almost all of them were interesting, so it took me quite a long time, until 2 am, in fact, so forgive me for any errors I might have missed. I hope these summaries are useful for you friends!
Q: Which manga are you into lately?
She said she usually mostly reads horror manga in general. She then listed a bunch of already finished manga she likes, including Beastars, Boku ga Shinu dake no Hyakumonogatari, Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu, Made in Abyss. She then also listed Gogogo Go Go Ghost and Kujima Utaeba Ie Hororo as ongoing Mangas and later also mentioned Heroaka, Jujutsu Kaisen, Mother Parasite and Zeikin De Katta Hon. If I recall correctly, the last one was recommended by Mane-chan and she talked about the plot a little more and seemed particular interested in that one.
Q: My daughter is in elementary school and she really liked the Shirokitsune tea last year. She is watching the stream together with me and trying the new tea this year. Did you also already like tea when you were a kid?
She said she did, she started really liking it in elementary school. When her family was meeting at her grandmother's place to visit the graveyard to pay their respects (Japanese custom Hakamairi), her grandmother made loose leaf tea in a kyusu for them and she thought it was incredibly delicious. She already liked PET bottle tea, but obviously that's something entirely different. She begged her family to also get a kyusu and loose leaf tea and she started drinking it at home from then on. She even learned a little tea ceremony around that time. She said drinking tea this way and being serious about it made her feel grown up because that's something only adults are usually interested in. Instead of drinking fruit juice juice like other kids, she was drinking tea and really loved it.
Q: I can't watch live today so I will watch the archive and try the tea later. I want to ask your opinion on something. I'm so busy at work that I'm sacrificing my private time. What do think I should prioritize, work or my private life?
She thought it was a pretty tough question. Of course work is important because you need it to live and falling behind on work might give you a lot of trouble in the long run, but working so much that you don't have a private life anymore is also not the way to go. It's important to find a good balance. She knows it's not always that easy, but says you should at least make an attempt to make sure you get some time for yourself and not just sacrifice everything, even during busy periods. Always try to plan ahead so that you can get at least get some time to relax every couple of days and have a break to look forward to. If you end up sacrificing all your private time, you will just end up breaking yourself. It's not a bad thing to be dedicated to your work, but you need to find a balance in which you can still have some private time for yourself as well. She was mostly talking from the perspective of an adult working a job, but the same also applies to students and studying too much.
Q: Be honest, which kind of skills and qualifications do you think a Vtuber needs?
She feels like she doesn't really know how to answer this question. At first, she thinks it's important to figure out if you want to do this as a hobby for fun, or if you actually want this to be your job. If it's supposed to be a job, then you need to have a good understanding of yourself and be honest with yourself about what you can and cannot do. You need to be able to plan ahead and be proactive about a lot of things. You need to figure out how you want to present yourself, how you want to produce your own image. It's very important to be very clear about your own goals so you have something to work towards and plan ahead. Once you have defined your goals, you can then figure out what kind of character you are going to be and how to really bring it out. You need the self-awareness to know how to make a stream fun for the viewer even if you aren't necessarily good at the games you are playing and stuff like that. It's very important to figure out what exactly you want to do it and how to go about it and what you want to become. She once again stresses that it's really important to look ahead and figure out what comes next and define a path for yourself, because without goals you can work towards it's very easy to get lost of give up.
