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Aikyan’s 25th Birthday Stream Roundup: Tons of new content!

Over 70,000 unique viewers joined Aikyan this morning in counting down to her 25th birthday! It was just an hour, but it was jam packed with all sorts of fun surprises. In case you missed it, here’s a rundown of everything we got:

1. A special birthday slideshow

While Aikyan was reading letters and answering questions, a slideshow of pictures of her growing up played on the side of the screen. These photos were selected and sent in by her mom, and cover almost all of her life, up to when she was in vocational school. Here’s a few of them:

2. A huge cake

The production staff surprised her with a Aikyan-themed birthday cake!

Holy moly it’s huge. All the pictures are from her magazine specials and photo shoots. She had a taste of both the cake and the pictures of her that were printed out on some edible substance. Apparently, she was delicious.

3. Special guests

Three surprise guests appeared on stream to wish Aikyan a happy birthday!

Serizawa Yuu!

Kinchan’s best friend is also apparently good friends with Aikyan! She appeared in this special video that was played for the first time for on stream, and talked about her fond memories with Aikyan and what she likes about her.

Komori Misae!

Another video recording. These two also met through Kinchan, and although they were a little shy at first, they became good friends over time.

And just after the clock hit midnight, the final guest appeared in person!

MARiA from GARNiDELiA!

As many of you might know, these two have been friends since 2011 when they first did the OP/ED for Freezing. MARiA even brought a present for Aikyan, and she also tasted some of the cake decorations. She agrees that Aikyan is delicious.

And last but not least, the reason why everyone was watching the stream in the first place:

4. Three huge announcements!

To close out the stream, we got three major announcements for Aikyan’s career. Today was truly a blessed day.

Aikyan’s first photobook will be released on Tuesday, December 11th!

My prediction was right and the meme has finally come true. As with most photobooks, expect this one to cost around 4000-5000 yen before shipping, and for it to have special pre-order bonuses (bromides, posters or tapestries) depending on the store you buy it from.

A release event will also be held on December 16th! Details on location and how to enter the chuusen for tickets will announced by My Girl at a later date.

A small preview of the book will also be in the November issue of My Girl, volume 25. My Girl tweeted out a teaser pic:

My hopes are high and my wallet is ready.

Aikyan’s personal fan club, “AND”, will open on December 5th!

This was definitely a huge surprise. No details on cost or whether foreigners will be able to join, but we’ll keep you updated when that information becomes available.

Aikyan will be hosting the mini-corner for My Girl meets A-Koe throughout November and December!

These are weekly thirty minute radio segments hosted on abema.tv, so if you want to tune in, grab a VPN that doesn’t suck and tune in. She’ll be on the program for eight weeks! Now I have stuff to sub that isn’t paywalled.

And that was it for the birthday stream. If you want to watch the VOD for yourself, head over to Abema’s site where you can watch a timeshifted version of it.