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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.

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

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

115AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:10

117AnonymousOct 22, 2026 00:11

Re: #115
There's a troublesome one lurking right at the back

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

A post asking “Is there really a way to avoid catching colds?” drew a flood of personal experiences on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyo G” board. Alongside standard measures like hand-washing, gargling, wearing masks, and managing humidity with a humidifier, posters shared their own tricks: drinking cheap vitamin C (ascorbic acid) every day, using saline solution for nasal rinses, and wearing a neck warmer to bed. Some said they stopped catching colds after picking up the gargling habit during the pandemic, while others leaned into sheer willpower, insisting “it’s all luck in the end” or “I just refuse to lose.” The thread split between those who swore by scientific measures and those who swore by mindset.

※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “Is there really a way to avoid catching colds?“

A highly critical vulnerability has been discovered in PHP, the programming language widely used in web development, prompting a string of prominent services — including the childcare-facility SaaS “Kodomon,” the card game “Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond,” the online shop-building service “BASE,” and Sakura Internet’s rental servers — to go into emergency maintenance one after another on October 21, 2026. On 5ch, reactions split over what ordinary users should do right now, and over which companies got it “right”: the ones that moved fast, or the ones that were slow to react.

Prominent IT services rush into emergency maintenance one after another — Kodomon, Shadowverse, BASE, Sakura’s rental servers, and more — likely due to a “PHP” vulnerability

Prominent services including the childcare SaaS “Kodomon,” the game “Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond,” and “Sakura’s Rental Server” have gone into emergency maintenance one after another, or announced maintenance starting around 11pm that same night. This appears to stem from a highly critical vulnerability found in PHP, the programming language widely used in web development.

Other services expected to take similar action include the online shop-building service “BASE,” the rental server “X Server,” the online sales-event platform “pictSQUARE,” the official site of recycle shop “Kimble,” and the crowdsourcing site “Tsunagu.” Among these, Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond, Kimble, pictSQUARE, and BASE have confirmed — via their own announcements or reporting by ITmedia NEWS — that PHP is the cause.

Source: itmedia.co.jp / Original article here

*This article is excerpted and summarized from a 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread titled “PHP vulnerability looking seriously bad. Sites that can’t respond by 11pm tonight are at risk of being taken over.”