On Halloween night, a casual chat thread popped up on 5ch’s “News VIP” board for live-blogging a night of solo drinking. Regular tripcode posters — “Demerit Papa,” “Kurowa,” “Nao,” and “Misokasu” (lit. “miso dregs,” a self-deprecating handle) — took turns dropping in, swapping notes on pumpkin shochu, highballs, and apple brandy along with whatever small talk came up. There was no set topic: Russian-bear-cub jokes, Gundam trivia, and an ASCII-art “goodnight” skit all got mixed in as the loose chatter rolled on late into the night.
What people said
1Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 19:13
If nobody hands me a drink I'm just gonna toast by myself!
6Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 19:21
There's actually pumpkin shochu too, you know
7Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 19:21
So yeah, that's legit
8Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 19:22
Wait, pumpkin shochu is a thing?! (^q^)
35Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 19:45
You showed up again today too — thanks for always catching the thread, saves me
47Demerit Papa ◆GENTENHG.UOct 31, 2026 19:53
彡⌒ミ
ヽ(｀･ω･´)ﾉ oysters, maybe?
cheers!
48Demerit Papa ◆GENTENHG.UOct 31, 2026 19:54
Fujiiya's momiji manju are so good (*´ω｀*) [Fujiiya is a Hiroshima/Miyajima confectioner famous for maple-leaf-shaped manju]
52Demerit Papa ◆GENTENHG.UOct 31, 2026 19:57
Guess starch is the key ingredient — never seen a potato shochu though
My buddy Ussu-tan is on a trip around the universe right now
74Demerit Papa ◆GENTENHG.UOct 31, 2026 20:19
On last week's Shōten [a long-running TV comedy variety show] the host, Shōta, said 'a greeting for everyone who still can't keep up with Halloween' — well, Papa can't keep up with it either (´・ω・｀)
75Demerit Papa ◆GENTENHG.UOct 31, 2026 20:20
Turns out it's a trip around the 'universe' — i.e., the Kii Peninsula [a pun: 宇宙/'universe' being a jokey stand-in reading]. Going with his son Taka (who goes by 'Hawk') and his wife, three of them.
81Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 20:28
Gonna head out to the Lawson Wakayama Tōno store
83Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 20:31
Something pissed me off so I'm drinking a strong highball right now
85Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 20:32
At times like that nothing beats drinking hard and passing out cold ヽ（*ﾟдﾟ ）ﾉ日
92Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 20:40
A not-very-tasty highball
93Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 20:40
When the pro team I root for in my area loses, the whole region gets down, so I end up thinking 'come on, pull it together!'
95Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 20:43
shuld i have a hyboll too?
98Nao (lol, too much)Oct 31, 2026 20:51
(´･ω･`)nen-nen, okorori yo~ [lyrics from a traditional Japanese lullaby]
っ🎤と
Re: #105
Night-night!! Go to sleep!! Clang clang clang clang!! Clang clang clang clang clang!!
It's nighttime!! Dark outside!! Hey hey!! Look look!! Amazing!! Outside!! Is dark!!!!
Clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang!! Clang clang clang clang!! Go to sleep!! Clang clang clang!!
108Nao (lol, too much)Oct 31, 2026 21:11
Re: #105
Night, Papa!
112Kurowa ◆ygTCAuxf06Oct 31, 2026 21:16
It's Halloween, after all 🎃🦇👻
116Kurowa ◆ygTCAuxf06Oct 31, 2026 21:30
Lately it's been nothing but mugi [barley-shochu] soda
121Kurowa ◆ygTCAuxf06Oct 31, 2026 21:48
Re: #117
Yep, this is Kurowa
122Nao (lol, too much)Oct 31, 2026 21:48
Re: #121
Good evening!
126Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 22:02
I love that the little Russian bear cub is a soldier in the Federation Forces
127Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 22:06
BRAVE IS HEEEERE━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━!! [classic 2ch/5ch 'it's here!' exclamation]
135Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 22:35
Lately it's been nothing but tea and 'Nao-chan Man,' so this is a rare one
139Nao (lol, too much)Oct 31, 2026 22:38
Once everyone's here I'll just stay quiet
141Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 22:39
Sorry, but I'm keeping my drinking light these days
146Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 22:51
Wondered what 'Sogaini' was — turns out it's Sakurao [a Hiroshima distillery known for whisky and gin]
150Misokasu ◆misokasuosOct 31, 2026 23:01
Re: #146
For the ¥2,000 range it's seriously top-tier tasty, jakee [Hiroshima dialect for 'y'know/I tell ya']
147Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 22:52
CELVICE'S SELF-DESTRUCT TRANS-AM IS HEEEERE━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━!! [Gundam references]
148Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 22:53
THE SOL BRAVES SQUAD IS HEEEERE━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━!!
149Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 22:56
HIGHBALL NUMBER TWO IS HEEEERE━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━!!
155Misokasu ◆misokasuosOct 31, 2026 23:09
What was it called again…
that apple-brandy thing
156Misokasu ◆misokasuosOct 31, 2026 23:10
The one with a name like 'Barbatos'
[a joke: Calvados, the apple brandy, sounds like 'Barbatos,' a Gundam mobile suit]
The chocolate version of that is good too
157Anonymous (5ch VIP)Oct 31, 2026 23:16
Wish I'd lived a life where I turned into a strong man like Andrei Smirnov…
Background and Talking Points
“Solo drinking” threads are a staple chat genre on 5ch’s VIP board — rather than debating a specific topic, they have a “live-blog” feel, with regular anonymous posters and tripcode handles (Demerit Papa, Kurowa, Nao, Misokasu, and others) rotating in and out to chat about what they’re drinking, what they’re snacking on, and whatever trivial life update comes to mind. This time, likely because it fell on Halloween night, the chat drifted toward naming things like pumpkin shochu and cassis-flavored spirits, but it never built toward any real conclusion or point of disagreement. The easiest thing to misread here is the cast of names — they look like real individuals, but they’re longtime fixture handles (“kotehan”) on the board, unconnected to anyone’s actual identity. There’s no news value or incident to speak of; it’s best read as a light slice of the board’s late-night atmosphere.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News VIP) thread “Trick or Drinking Alone” [a pun on “trick or treat”].
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