Stream Summary: 2021-04-13, Snack Usada

Summarized from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rElt6ANBrtM

>New manager(17:55)
In accordance with the coming of the spring season Pekora starts thinking about if there has been anything new for her and eventually lands on the topic of her having gotten a new manager* and that she introduced herself to her the other day, so far only over Discord. During that conversation a baby's voice could be heard in the background, prompting Pekora to politely ask if that is a baby in the background, the manager apologizes but Pekora just found it cute and as they were talking they also talked about her baby which was apparently pretty much a newborn.
The manager also said that if Pekora ever needs a baby for any of her stream ideas then she can borrow her baby which made Pekora think that she a very cooperative manager to suggest something like that and Pekora responded that if there comes a time where she needs a baby's voice she'll ask her manager. She laughs at the thought of giving permission to use one's child as material for a stream and wonders in what situation she'd even be able to make use of that offer.

Someone in chat tells her that she can just use her own voice to mimic a baby and Pekora says that she definitely can't mimic a baby's voice, then smugly says that it is expected that this sex appeal carrying Usada Pekora wouldn't be able to do it. The chat erupts in question marks and え?'s while a few asks her to try it out and she does, after her performance she asks if it would be useable and if they think it sounds like a real baby, while also claiming she wouldn't lose to the real deal.
Having said that she comes up with an idea. A video where the viewers is to guess which baby voice is the real one, one being the manager's baby and the other being an imitation received from someone suitable for the task, something like that sounds alright with her so it is something she might do. Although she thinks it'd be pretty easy to know which is the real baby and someone in chat agrees with that by saying it would be found out, Pekora then says that if it were her voice for example then people would definitely be able to tell.

Diverging from that conversation someone asks her if her "Stranger anxiety" flared up when speaking with her new manager and she thinks for a bit and says that she isn't exactly sure why but it didn't really flare up with her, perhaps because she was a very kind person. She breaks off from that question quickly when she remembers that her new manager had said during their conversation that; "Pekora-san, I really love your laugh!". Pekora wasn't entirely sure how to react to that compliment and wondered to herself if that really is a compliment or not, but for the time being she thanked her for it. The chat is in complete agreement with the manager and someone tells her that he also really loves her laugh and she reflects on that there are plenty of people who've said that.

*This is her third manager for those curious

>Anything else new for her?(23:00)
She starts thinking some more if there is anything else that is new for her this year and she is having trouble coming up with an example and says that in her case things don't really change. Chat suggests video editing and she agrees that, that is something she has taken up recently but that nothing grand has really changed. From that she starts talking about how she has recently been thinking that going outside is something important, like, she understands the notion of feeling down from being inside every day, and thus she is thinking of something small scale like walking to the supermarket, or the convenience store, or any area that is close by. Even something small as this is something she thinks is important to do, and will make you feel better.

Someone jabs at her and asks her if she has stopped being a NEET. She snaps back saying she'll beat him up for that since she isn't a NEET, she works at an idol company so she can't be one. Sure she admits that every day she is confined to her home but she is still working as an idol so she can't be a NEET. She gets the retort; "That is what a NEET is" and she quickly counters that by asking him if he knows what the definition of NEET is, then she shamefully says she doesn't know either so she'll investigate it as well.
As she finishes reading out the definition of NEET* she smugly asks if she can just say something, that being that Pekora is actually employed and working thus it doesn't apply to her, she finishes with her "PekoPekoPeko"-laugh to drive home her victory.
Someone else says that NEET was a mistake and that a shut-in is what she is. In regards to being a shut-in she won't deny it, since she is one.

*I'm sure I don't need to define this but on the off-chance; NEET stands for Not in Education, Employment, or Training.

>NG Marshmallow topics(27:32)
As she opens up the Marshmallow page to start reading some marshmallows she suddenly laughs and says that while she realizes that she asked for blunt questions, she asks that they don't ask her questions that she can't talk about on stream, although she apologizes and says that she didn't make it very clear so she is in the wrong and she'll forgive the current ones but for the ones making Marshmallows now they should pay attention and not ask something she obviously can't put on stream.
The chat obviously gets curious as to what kind of question made her react like that and she says that stuff like her final tax report, roughly how much she has to tax, and her annual income. Of course they are blunt questions but it is obviously not something she wants to talk about and even if it is something the chat might be interested in it'll just make her depressed, like for example just looking at her final tax report would make her depressed so she asks for a different type of topic instead.

>First Marshmallow - "Peko-chan, have you and mom ever quarreled before?"(29:30)
She says they have and for an instant wonders if there even are families that don't end up quarreling sometime, but then takes it back and says that there probably might be such families, but for her family there has been quarrels, although not as of late. But she says that during her rebellious age they used to fight a lot because when she was young she was the type to snap from even something trivial. She reassures the viewers that these days she is ladylike so she doesn't get angry like that anymore but during those times it was really bad how easily she'd snap.
From that she says that while she doesn't know what kind of image the nousagi have of her mother but when she really wanted to say something, she would, and when she'd get angry, she'd get really angry. And she says this because she thinks there might be people thinking that her mother is always gentle and calm but Pekora reiterates that when she lost her patience she spoke her mind without holding back and since Pekora was also pissed at the time she'd respond back with similar fury.

However with that in mind there is one thing that makes her really glad she was born into the Usada family and that is that both her and her mother is the type to forget after they've slept, and since they are the type to forget say they fight at night, then Pekora would... She trails off trying to think about something they have fought over and eventually continues and states that generally when they were quarreling it was Pekora who would have done something bad. Her memory seems hazy as she loosely describes a situation where she had broken one of her brother's things or something along those lines, which caused him to get angry at her whereupon she'd defend herself saying it wasn't on purpose and as they were fighting she expected her mother to defend her but instead she'd take her brother's side, which would further anger her and she'd ask her mother why she never took Pekora's side and accuse her of favoritism.

She reiterates that last point by saying that while there were incidents where her mother would punish both sides as was her usual method, there were also incidents where she'd take her brother's side to the point of making Pekora feel like she favorited her brother and that she never takes Pekora's side, and that would boil up into a quarrel between them. Then with that heat in the air Pekora would return to her room, yell that she doesn't care anymore and that maybe she'll run away from home, and her mother would respond with something similar like; "I don't care about a child that says stuff like that!"
Then when morning comes they'd both just say good morning to each other as if nothing happened the other night, their family really is the type to no longer hold any grudges after a night's sleep.
Someone in chat brings up that she still holds a grudge for her mother calling her a gorilla that one time. And Pekora laughs and says that it isn't like she brings up it up out of the blue every day, it is only when something makes her remember it that she berates her mother for it.

>Third Marshmallow - "At what times do you get irritated with the listeners?"(36:01)
She thinks for quite a while and asks if this is related to during stream or otherwise outside as well and figures that both are fine to take examples from. As she continues to ponder on an appropriate example the chat is in complete disarray, apologies and panicking peko emotes are thrown everywhere until she reads a comment that says; "None, there are none right?". She laughs hard at it and returns with a sharp voice that says; "Eh? You think there aren't such occasions? You thought I haven't gotten irritated before?" until she dispels the pressure with another laugh.
Then she says that there aren't really any time like that, at least not to the point where she can say it happens all the time. But for a rather close example she brings up Monster Hunter and how when she is playing that she might see a comment like; "Oi, this guy is just running away from the monster, so bad", during those times she does get irritated because the reason she runs away is because she doesn't want to die clearly. But even if she gets irritated at that it doesn't get her so angry that she blocks anyone or anything.

She tries to think about some more examples and quickly reflects on that when she started out there were a lot of things that irritated her* but as for recently, well there are things she has to deal with now as well. Instead of something that irritates her but more something she dislikes that she doesn't really mention as often is stuff like spoilers, and especially pigeons**.
And she gets it, when Pekora decides to target someone with a prank in Minecraft it will excite some people who will go to that person's stream to tell them that Pekora is planning on doing something to them, and Pekora understands that even if she says not to do it, it will still happen so she figures it can't be helped, but it really is something she doesn't want to happen as she wants the person's natural reaction to her prank rather than them being on guard from the words carried by the pigeons. But even so it isn't something that makes her irritated but rather just something she wants people to stop doing.

To go back to something that irritates her she brings up that when she ego-searches and find comments along the lines of; "Pekora, I liked you better before". Something like that annoys her because if he is going to say something then isn't it fine to leave out the "Ego-search" word as well, since it just gives her the feeling that they purposefully put it there to make her see it. Another example being something like; "Pekora , you've changed recently", each and everyone of these people attach an ego-search word to their tweets and she feels like there is no need to do that if they are just going to make tweets like that, and to at least make it so she doesn't see them. But after the initial anger she just thinks that; "That's Twitter". She especially dislike this because she hates the notion of being compared

*No further details are given, but judging from the chat and some of my own rather loose knowledge of that time she had quite a few anti's after her when she started out which is what she is probably referring to
**You are probably already familiar with the term(鳩飛ぶ) but in case not, she is referring to the act of going to another stream to tell that person that "Pekora is going to do XYZ"

>Fourth Marshmallow - "After having become a vtuber, what has been your happiest and most painful moment?"(40:21)
She thinks for a long time before saying that, for example when she is playing a game she likes and receives thanks from people involved with the game, saying how they are happy she played it and that they watched her and so on, that sort of stuff makes her really happy. She hams it up and says but of course, the fact that she met the nousagi is the number one thing, after all if she hadn't become a vtuber then she'd never meet all of the nousagi so the fact that she did makes her very happy. After that appeal she confidently says that this answer should suffice, but to be serious for a change she honestly thinks that hearing people be happy about her lives, and coming to her streams and so on, makes her very happy.

As for most painful she says that more than she thought it would be, thinking about what she should do for each stream is tough for her. She thinks that if she didn't stream every day she'd probably be able to be more carefree about it, but since she streams practically every day she will always be thinking about what she should do for the next stream. If she is playing a long game then continuing that is an easy pick, but if she finishes one then what should she do for next stream? Playing her own favorite game is fine and all but she also wants to do the stuff that the chat has said they want to see. Thinking about these things was more difficult for her than she expected since she isn't the type of person to think about these things in a carefree manner.
Something else is that since they need permission to play games that means that she won't be able to play something immediately as she gets the interest to do it which makes thinking about a schedule more difficult.

>Fifth Marshmallow(48:46)
This marshmallow comes from an utawaku loving nousagi that is impressed by her knowing so many songs from various genres and generations and is curious as to where she came to learn about them.
She explains that the reason for that is that, when she was young, on top of going to karaoke a lot with her family she also really loved music programs. Programs like Mステ* and she thinks that Mステ was primarily the one for her since that program would often have songs played from ranking lists from various generations, and from that she often got interested and investigated the songs herself.
There were also special type of broadcasts that were focused on people doing cover songs of popular songs which she also watched a lot and similarly got introduced to songs from there. Another program that she really loved and got a lot of songs from was ハモネプ**. While there were new songs performed there as well, there were a lot of teams that would perform old songs.
All in all, because of her family's influence as well as the TV programs she watched and the fact that she liked both the melodies and the voices of the singers of the Showa era, those types of old songs became a hit with her.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Station
**A variety show corner that focused on having groups of people perform songs in acapella

>Sixth Marshmallow(52:08)
This marshmallow comes from a nousagi who gets the shakes if Pekora doesn't stream for a day and he wants a 草 emote since he finds it tiresome to use the keyboard and would rather use the mouse since it is easier.
The very first thing she says is that she doesn't want to and says that it is only 4 letters to type Kusa so surely that is alright, she thanks him for becoming a member but the reason she doesn't want to make such an emote is because there are people out there that like her and aren't members and because of that she doesn't want to make commonly used words into emotes. She again asks him to bare with it since it is merely 4 letters, although she finishes off by saying that she has thought about adding more emotes and for everyone to look forward to that.

>Seventh Marshmallow - "Peko-chan, you are good a recitation, did you aspire to become a voice actor before?"(53:40)
Her immediate answer is that she didn't and then laughs a bit and says that she hasn't been told that she is good at recitation, do people really say that? In that case she thinks people should go check out her first Hologra appearances and rethink that. The chat says they didn't mean it like that but rather the "Reading dialogue from games" sort of recitation and that drives Pekora onto revealing that she actually has qualifications for something, that isn't related to voice acting. She asks the chat to guess what it is and asks them not to say stuff like Kanji proficiency or English proficiency.
Some people get it right and she reveals it to be qualifications to be a childcare worker, for example being a kindergarten teacher, aside from kids being a piece of cake to handle for her, she can also play the piano while singing. She loves kids and says that there are a lot of kids over at Pekoland.
She says that the qualifications are not related to whatever she did before becoming a vtuber and that she only got the license but hasn't used it, it was taken so that she would have options should the time come where she needs to make a living.
Someone later on says that he thinks she wouldn't be able to talk to the parents of the kids, like during parental meetings, and Pekora says that when in a situation where she has to talk then she will talk even if she gets stressed out from it, so they don't have to worry about that.*

*This is said a couple of minutes after the last point but it was related to this section so I crammed it in.

>Lewd Marshmallows(57:57)
While searching for the next marshmallow she suddenly laughs and reads out a marshmallow saying; "When you enter the bath...". She calls him a pervert and says that she isn't going to answer questions like; "Where do you wash yourself?". She won't be saying anything that gives the chat any perverted delusions.

 >Eight Marshmallow(59:56)
This marshmallow asks her to honestly answer how messy her room is and he wants an applicable example as well. He then asks if she properly sorts it out herself because he himself is someone who can't so he was curious how it is for Pekora.
She complains and asks why he pre-emptively decided on that her room must be messy since there is a chance it could be clean as well, and feels that the particular; "Just how messy is it?" is a rude assumption. But then she begins talking about a real example, and says that right now her room is full of all the gifts she's gotten and that the only space she has left is where her computer and her bed is, other than that there isn't even space enough to stand. She brings up that recently that even when she opens up the door there are too much stuff in the way so she can only open it halfway and the other day she even hit her elbow so hard she felt like it broke while forcing herself through the half open door.

>Ninth Marshmallow(1:02:54)
This marshmallow says that despite being called a Sniffling Monster before, the guy feels like Pekora hasn't been sniffing at all lately and wonders if she has gotten some kind of treatment for it or something.
She is shocked by that nickname, finding it to be a real insult but continues to say that she hasn't done any treatment but that when she wrecked her throat she went to the hospital for that and got medicine for her allergies as well, and that it is probably from that, she also mentions that she has been prone to nasal inflammations since far back. So she summarizes and says that from destroying her throat, to going to the hospital and getting medicine, as well as nose drops, her sniffing has also gone away.

This brings her back to saying how that "Sniffling Monster" nickname was really rude, it is even something she has never heard before and that it isn't a name you should attach to an idol. She wonders where he even heard her be called that, at what place would someone say something like that?
She reads one the many comments stating that it was from her that they first heard about it and she finds it pitiful that she'd call herself that, then thinks about it some more and denies it again, saying that she definitely would use such words to refer to herself and that it was definitely a comment from the chat instead.
Someone then brings up that she said it at her 1 million celebration stream and she strongly denies it*, saying that she'd have no reason to call herself that during such an important stream. Someone else says it was at the point where she reached 1 million and she calls him an idiot and says that something like; "Thank you for the 1 million subscribers but I've become a sniffing monster" is something she'd never say at such a critical moment, and that this is clearly a fabrication. She finishes off by calling the nousagi mean.

*https://youtu.be/D9mQf56453I?t=3079 Well kind of, she doesn't call herself that but she does say that she used to be called that all the time.

>Tenth Marshmallow(1:06:49)
This marshmallow says that lately he hasn't been able to hear Pekora as anyone other than Doraemon and he wonders where the old Pekora's voice went.
She firstly berates him for making the marshmallow about him since this is supposed to be Pekora speaking frankly not him, and then secondly says that she doesn't sound like Doraemon at all. She cuts off, clears her throat, and forces her cute voice and says that her voice isn't like Doraemon's at all and then asks him if doing this "Teasing the girl you like" thing is fun? Is it?
She decides to attempt a mimicry and after she asks if it matches and someone says it does and she gets very excited and asks if this means she can put Doraemon into her list of possible mimicry. Until now she has been told that she sounds like Tara-chan, and she clears her throat and does a mimicry of that character, and after it says that she is only able to mimic something of that kind so to hear she sounds like Doraemon makes her happy, with this she has conquered two voices from a national anime.
The majority responses are that she is very good at mimicking Tara-chan and she is happy about that since she the type to have never been able to do voice mimicry since she isn't able to change her voice. She gets the request to try out another character and she does, then laughs hard and says it wasn't alike at all but a couple of nousagi tell her it was good and she gets happy at that until the chat tells her not to get carried away, she laughs and apologizes, then someone tells her that the previous imitation wasn't alike, which brings her down further, and then the final blow from a nousagi saying; "Huh? Being frank, that didn't sound a bit like Doraemon", to which she calls him mean.

>Twelfth Marshmallow - "Do you watch any Vtubers other than Hololive ones?"(1:14:42)
She says that in general she does watch various Hololive vtubers while doing work and starts thinking about which ones she watches that aren't Hololive. Eventually she says that while she hasn't done so recently because she has been so busy, she used to watch Himawari-chan*. She tries to think about someone else but is having trouble doing so because lately she really hasn't been watching anyone all that much, but eventually lands on Hinata** as well, saying she has watched her.
Someone says that they want to see another collab with Hinata and Pekora likes the idea and says that they've actually spoken over Discord from time to time so it might happen again some day. She reflects on that since she herself streams so long that means she doesn't watch anything at evening, and then after that she eats and does work, so from that she doesn't really have any chance to watch others.

*https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0g1AE0DOjBYnLhkgoRWN1w
**https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCevD0wKzJFpfIkvHOiQsfLQ/videos

>Fifteenth Marshmallow - "Are there chatters you remember even though they aren't members?"*(2:32:55)
She says there absolutely are, plenty of them, and says that memorizing is her specialty. She continues on and says that if it is someone who leaves comments then she'll remember, most likely, but if they are someone who doesn't, well then it would be difficult of course.
After a while she mentions that there are white names that send her superchats and that confuses her and she'd like for them to tell her why. It goes a little while before she gets a superchat saying he prefers being a white commenter and she responds that she thinks that's fine.

*They are referring to "White comments" as in people posting in the chat without being members.