Late-Night “Ojarumaru” Watch-Along Thread Keeps Derailing — 5ch Dubs It the “Blade of Jumping to Conclusions” (a Demon Slayer pun)

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The story

A thread titled “Let’s All Watch-Along to Ojarumaru” popped up on 5ch’s “Anything Goes Live” board — in theory it was for anime commentary, but given the late-night hour, the conversation went off the rails again and again. From a Gunpla-building stream, to a “Donjara” tabletop game riding on Demon Slayer’s coattails, to a mix-up between a PHS service outage and PHP server maintenance that snowballed into its own mini-panic, to VTuber chit-chat — the thread’s 41 replies splintered into 17 separate side conversations. Nothing ever converged into one topic, but that scattered, anything-goes energy is exactly the vibe these watch-along threads are known for.

What people said

7AnonymousOct 21, 2026 23:55
Yo, someone's streaming a Turn A Gundam build right now
https://www.youtube.com/live/p6gozBm1ivg
96AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:06
Re: #7
How many hours are you sinking into that Gunpla?
Are you painting it or what?
9AnonymousOct 21, 2026 23:55
There's this guy going "chei chei" in here all day long — what does he even do for a living?
12AnonymousOct 21, 2026 23:56
Re: #9
Apparently he tried a part-time job once but couldn't hack it
13AnonymousOct 21, 2026 23:56
Re: #9
His job is punishing evildoers, obviously?
10AnonymousOct 21, 2026 23:55
Would've been more fun if all the VTubers' real faces got revealed at once
17AnonymousOct 21, 2026 23:57
Re: #10
15AnonymousOct 21, 2026 23:56
Re: #13
You get punished every single day though
So doesn't that make you the evildoer?
18AnonymousOct 21, 2026 23:57
Re: #15
Yep, that's right
Good catch
67AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:01
Re: #15
That's probably his rage button right there
19AnonymousOct 21, 2026 23:57
Dammit, I'm supposed to be sleeping but I really want chocolate flakes and cola!!
25AnonymousOct 21, 2026 23:58
Re: #19
I'm over here with Bonchi Age chips and Sprite ☺ (a Japanese fried snack brand)
23AnonymousOct 21, 2026 23:58
[Sad News] Turns out Shōwa-era folks were playing "Donjara," a knockoff mahjong game
https://nova.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/livegalileo/1792593611/

16: Anonymous But Still Kicking 2026/10/21 (Wed) 23:51:09.94 ID:s0dtq3xe0
They still make it in the Reiwa era too, you know
There's even a Demon Slayer Donjara

38AnonymousOct 21, 2026 23:59
Re: #23
The "Blade of Jumping to Conclusions"? (a Demon Slayer pun)
53AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:00
Re: #23
Looked it up, turns out there's a Hololive one too
64AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:00
There's this guy going "hono-ji hono-ji" in here all day too — what does he even do for a living?
68AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:01
Re: #64
👴🏿 Nope (unemployed)
75AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:01
Re: #64
Lol, he's getting clowned on by the hono-ji guy
70AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:01
Any influencers in here?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HUKFWcua0AACUzm.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HUKDiOPbcAAyxKQ.jpg
79AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:02
Re: #53
Hmm… 😓
https://bandai-a.akamaihd.net/bc/images/shop_top_b-toys-shop/240313_holo_donjaraneo_hololive_01.jpg
82AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:03
It's funny that the "shio-min" crowd thinks everyone in here is the hono-ji guy (5ch slang, roughly "the salty/critical posters")
83AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:03
Re: #82
So you're self-aware about it, huh
86AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:04
Heard PHS was in serious trouble and rushed over
123AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:13
Re: #86
Wonder if my Doccimo's okay 😨 (Willcom's old PHS/cellphone hybrid service)
92AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:05
Am I right that the sites NOT currently under maintenance are the ones actually in trouble?
98AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:06
Re: #92
They probably haven't even noticed yet… well, it was an emergency that hit after dark
104AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:07
Re: #94
Uh, this is supposed to be the Ojarumaru watch-along thread though
110AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:08
Re: #104
It's not even airing again for another eight and a half hours though
108AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:08
My wording was off
I meant sites running PHP that haven't done maintenance are the ones in trouble
115AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:10
117AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:11
Re: #115
There's a troublesome one lurking right at the back

Background and Key Points of This Thread

This thread ran on 5ch’s “Anything Goes Live” board, known for letting several topics run side-by-side rather than sticking to one subject — and true to form, the thread’s original purpose, commentary on “Ojarumaru,” got buried almost immediately. One exchange worth flagging follows the post “Heard PHS was in serious trouble and rushed over,” which leads into talk of “sites running PHP that haven’t done maintenance being the ones in trouble” — two similarly-sounding abbreviations, PHS and PHP, got tangled together, and it’s never actually clarified within the thread which service’s outage was being discussed. This is a common pattern in casual one-off threads, where a mishearing or typo spreads unchecked, and there’s no way to confirm from the thread alone what was really happening with which service. Readers should treat posts in threads like this not as verified fact, but simply as a snapshot of what got people talking in the moment.

*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (“Anything Goes Live”) thread “Let’s All Watch-Along to Ojarumaru 🏡.”

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