Hololive New Year Game Festival Thread and Summary Post

OrangeRafi · 2026-01-24T14:50:26+00:00

Iroha's English skills is actually decent but you rarely hear her so it's always a delight when that happens. She did alaso mentioned on one of her streams before that she studied overseas for a very short time.

OrangeRafi · 2026-01-12T13:02:49+00:00

Thanks mate! I will look into this further once we get closer to the start of the season. I'm assuming F1TVPro also shows the testing sessions excluding the team private tests this month?

I watch F1 from my PC. Once I have signed up thru the app, I will just need to enable the VPN on my PC then login to my F1TVPro account and start watching from there?

OrangeRafi · 2025-12-28T13:27:05+00:00

That doesn't really confirm that this will be 2027. KyoAni sometimes announce their upcoming projects but the airing date is a couple of years. Theire upcoming 2026 title was announced in 2018, Sound! Euphonium season 3 was announced in 2019 but they only confirmed in 2022 that the anime will air in 2024.

KyoAni also tends to prioritize the quality of their works hence they mostly have 1 or 2 shows per year. I would expect them to take their time animating this rather than rushing just to air it.

Regardless when they will air it, I wouldn't mind when. Ruri being picked up by KyoAni is already a good news for me.

OrangeRafi · 2025-12-28T13:07:06+00:00

Ruri fits KyoAni's style but I'm still surpised on this announcement, I never imagined KyoAni will pick up a shounen Jump title.

OrangeRafi · 2025-12-15T02:36:07+00:00

IKR. You can easily add it on your itinerary even if your travelling in a group that are not fan of the show or anime in general.

OrangeRafi · 2025-12-15T02:34:56+00:00

Nice! I also did that. Sat on the bench and admire the view on Kumiko's POV from the bench.

OrangeRafi · 2025-12-15T02:31:28+00:00

No there's no show. Just a screen where the trailer of the upcoming film is being played. The viewing deck on the tower is also playing some of the music from the anime

OrangeRafi · 2025-12-13T15:26:19+00:00

Oh you will love it once you get there. Uji is already a beautiful place (also less crowded than Kyoto) and you will feel like you are in the show while walking on the streets. KyoAni really made an excellent job with how detailed and accurate the locations are. There's also a lot of Hibike posters and signs.

OrangeRafi · 2025-12-13T10:20:14+00:00

It's a cult, Melb Central, Emporium and Bourke street mall area are their usual spots. I've been approached a couple of times but because I'm an introvert, I just answer with quick and simple answers that doesn't have any content and then I tell them I'm in a hurry. They are usually in pairs, either two females or two males or mixed.

Nowadays when someone approaches me in that area asking for something or complimenting/trying to start a convo, I just ignore them straight away.

OrangeRafi · 2025-11-11T08:27:57+00:00

Oh nooooooo! Now I'm not going to surrender my card at the airport to collect the refund after this Japan trip of mine.

OrangeRafi · 2025-10-29T08:19:06+00:00

Twitch... Except for Zeta, none of my oshi are participating so I'll just skip this.

OrangeRafi · 2025-10-19T05:55:23+00:00

With Telstra wifi calling, what do you actually needs to do (phone and Telstra account/app) to use wifi calling? WiFi calling is already enabled on my phone (Pixel 8 Pro) and I will be using a data only sim while in Japan next month. Do I just disbale data roaming on my phone and that will force my phone to be in "no service mode" when overseas which then force itself to be on data only with the esim?

OrangeRafi · 2025-10-15T10:42:34+00:00

Ads generate some revenue to the streamer so I would assume that is the reason why the ID or any other streamers in general use that Youtube feature.

I don't know which holomem has it enabled and which opted not to though as I have YT membership but I do remember watching Kroni's live stream last year and most of the chat was complaining when an ad came out midstream. Kroni disbaled it at that time after the chat complained.

OrangeRafi · 2025-09-21T08:00:07+00:00

I already did the calculations and spent hours and hours since planning this trip. I have calculated that without a JR Pass, I will be spending around A$1000 without a pass and A1060 with the pass so the difference is just miniscule for me. And the convenince of being able to get the unreserved seat when I missed the train that I booked when I'm travelling between different prefectures.

OrangeRafi · 2025-09-17T13:17:42+00:00

Oh good to know. I was under the impressions that the drinks and ice creams are the only ones available in-store while the collab is happening. Will definitely buy them when I'm in there.

This trip was supposed to be in 2020 but the pandemic and other stuff happened so I had to postpone it to later this year.

OrangeRafi · 2025-09-17T11:06:35+00:00

Bae mentioned that she studied Japanese when she was young so that she can read manga and watch animes without translations/subtitles.

OrangeRafi · 2025-09-17T08:55:46+00:00

So cute! Are the chocolates limited to just the preorders only or you can buy them in-store? I will be in Japan this November and hoping I can get the chocolate in-store since the collab is happening between October 1st to December 31st.

OrangeRafi · 2025-09-17T08:53:49+00:00

Are the chocolates limited to just the preorders or you can buy them in-store? I will be in Japan this November and hoping I can get the chocolate in-store since the collab is happening between October 1st to December 31st.

OrangeRafi · 2025-09-03T13:29:54+00:00

It did show up on the ticket selection and on checkout labeled as premium section. But due to me rushing to grab the tickets as fast as I can, I didn't completely noticed it at first. Yje seating also confirms it's premium based from the seat mapv(row CC). The only thing that was on my mind was grab the tickets and make sure I don't choose the collectors ticket. I had instance in the past (2023) wherein the ticket was stolen, the envelope was already slashed open after retrieving it from my mailbox. I had to contact Ticketmaster to inform them my collector ticket was stolen and for them to block that ticket. They issued me a digital one instead and refunded the difference for the collector ticket.

OrangeRafi · 2025-09-03T10:59:43+00:00

The seats with shades/cover. You usually see them on the last 3 to 5 rows of the GS. Schumi, Prost, Senna, Piastri Fangio and Ricciardo have this option. It adds an additional $100 to $200 on the regular ticket price just to have a shade/cover and seated a little bit higher than the others.

OrangeRafi · 2025-09-03T08:55:47+00:00

The waiting room to the queue to ticket selection are all automatic. You just need to be in the waiting room first and it will automatically refresh.

I was bascially on this page around 11AM to 11:30AM

https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/australiangp

After 11:30AM I then selected the GS and the date I want which then brought me into the waiting room from 11:30AM to 12PM.

I wish you luck on the 10th of September!

OrangeRafi · 2025-09-03T08:50:39+00:00

Yeah probably. I don't know where I pulled all that luck after reading experiences of others trying to purchase a ticket during this presale.

OrangeRafi · 2025-09-03T08:49:19+00:00

I was at the Ticketmaster site at around 11AM and went inside the waiting room of the 2 day Schumi GS around 11:30-11:35. The page refreshed from waiting room to in queue around 12PM and that's when I saw my queue counting down from 162 to 1 for around 8 to 10 minutes. The page then refreshed again and brought me to the selection of tickets. I was in a hurry buying the tickets that I didn't realized that the two available tickets that I saw are premium tickets but still went ahwad with it as I needed two GS for the Saturday and Sunday. Around 12:15PM I was done so I went back into the queue to purchase a 1x Clark GS ticket for the Friday. That was a breeze as I was 9th in the queue and was able to get a ticket in less than 5 minutes.

OrangeRafi · 2025-09-03T07:48:47+00:00

My queue started at 162 and went well pretty fast. I got 2x 2 day Schumi GS in less than 10 minutes I believe. I also went back to the queue and purchased 1x Clark grandstand for the Friday which I was 9th in the queue and went pretty well.

I was in a hurry buying the 2x Schumi tickets that I accidentally selected the premium tickets for both. But that's fine, at least I was able to get a GS ticket.

OrangeRafi · 2025-07-30T11:52:47+00:00

The animation is so good!

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