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VTuber Botan Shishiro sets Guinness World Record™! Created giant letters with fans by lining up approximately 30,000 Cup Noodles!

Over 1.4 million YouTube subscribers and a ramen-loving VTuber, Botan Shishi Hakubutan

COVER Co. August 31, 2024, 6:44 p.m. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative: Motoaki Tanigo), has achieved a Guinness World Record™ with the success of its VTuber Lion White Botan’s Guinness Challenge™ event held on Saturday, August 31, 2024, at Sunshine City in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The event was held at Sunshine City in Ikebukuro, Tokyo on Saturday, March 31.

This event was a birthday event for Botan Shishi Shiro, a member of HOLOLOLIVE. The event was a Guinness World Record™ challenge in which 33,138 Cup Noodles were lined up to create a giant character in cooperation with fans.

Event Outline

  • Name of the event: Road to a New World Record for Noodle Shop Botan

  • Location: Sunshine City Exhibition Hall B Sunshine City Cultural Hall B, 4F, 3-1-4 Higashi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 174-0014, Japan

  • Sponsor: COVER Co.

  • Planned: “Largest packaged food sentence” (Largest sentence made with packaged food) Challenge: 33,138 sentences, exceeding the Guinness World Record™ of 10,005 sentences [TL: “sentences” here generically translates better to something like “units” or “pieces” - 個 just marks the count of discretely countable things]

  • Cooperation: NISSIN FOODS CO.

Preliminary Event Report

Despite the unfavorable weather conditions on the day of the event, Lion White Botan fans “SSRB” and holololive listeners gathered at the Ikebukuro Sunshine City Exhibition Hall B to help set a Guinness World Record™.

The venue was gorgeously decorated with photo spots and large billboards with the event’s key visuals, which lifted the spirits of the visitors.

After the official certifier explained the rules, Botan Shishiro, the organizer of the event, appeared over the monitor.

The event started with a cheering comment from Botan Shishiro to the participants and a shout of “Guinness World Record, let’s start the challenge! The event started with a cheering comment from Botan and a shout of “Let the Guinness World Record Challenge begin!

Each participant received a case or two of Cup Noodles (20 noodles per case) and placed them in a designated area, where Botan gave them a shout-out.

The many participants worked together and after about three hours, they had safely surpassed the 30,000-cup mark, and just as they were about to set the record, Cover President and CEO Motoaki Tanigo rushed to the venue to line up the last one and successfully set the Guinness World Record™.

The event ended with a commemorative photo of all the participants together to celebrate the Guinness World Record™ achievement.

Botan Shishiro, who had successfully set a Guinness World Record™ with SSRB and the holo-live listeners, was thrilled and said, “I can only say thank you and congratulations to all of you! I can only say thank you and congratulations to all of you!

The Guinness World Record™ is

The “Largest packaged food sentence” was officially recognized as a Guinness World Record™.

Record : 33,138 sentences [TL: “sentences” here generically translates better to something like “units” or “pieces” - 個 just marks the count of discretely countable things]

Record date: August 31, 2024 (Saturday)

Record setter: Shishiro Botan and hololive listeners (both Japan)

Pic from hololive’s Xitter