07112012 o(≧∀≦)o

I went to see An Cafe in London! o(≧∀≦)o スーパ楽しい！ I travelled to London on the day, and met my Friend Toni in the coach station before we headed to the venue. Already people were queuing, which was irritating as hell because the venue specifically said 'No early queueing' -- according to staff, early means 'over night'.Oh.. I met with a lot of people who I had not seen in over a year (yeah, people who claim they're anti-social when they see Friends weekly, stop now). It was shocking that I had not met Toni or Gigi in over a year almost. But I was truly glad to see everyone~!!

We headed to Picadilly after talking to people, I wanted to find my Boyfriend a present but I had no luck swimming through ignorant tourists and accidentally spoke Japanese in my struggle to say 'MOVE OUT MY WAY'. The Purikura place was such a failure too, I am kind of glad it was shut down, but please hire Staff that know how to work and load the machine because evidentially you are losing out on profit. Wow, so far to do nothing but whine. We ventured around China Town and honestly I had forgotten how dirty London is, in comparison to my stay in Yokohama. Anyway I took some photos while out, mainly to mail my Boyfriend to convince him I didn't get shot/murdered/abducted etc.

Well, I say 'No body got murdered' and found this. But it seemed to  be interesting art on the ground, I saw a couple of these actually, very clever!

This is a penlight they use during the live. Very cute! They should really consider selling cuter merchandise while on tour, but usually they get the Tour Promoters in Europe to produce and "manufacture" their goods, ie; a tacky £5 mug. But I still purchased it to store pens in. HAH

Here is the flag created. You cannot see it very well, because it was a quick sneaky snapshot I took. The artwork is by Keita, who is often the UK flag designer and will offer to draw for most flags. I do wish the font was a tiny bit bigger - because there was another banner floating around which got most signatures, but I cannot complain.

It was getting a little cold, and around 7:00PM they let non-vip inside. Already the crush-fest began and that REALLY pissed me off. I've decided now that An Cafe will be my last UK show, unless someone I truly like comes back (mainly Girugamesh, An Cafe) But I really enjoyed it, and got to take part with my Friends around me. Peter was close by, he told me that Toni and I wouldn't have a problem with people crushing us, it made me laugh -- I seem very violent during lives. (*σ´▽`)σ When An Cafe were introducing each other, Kanon was struggling to get his words out, and despite my admiration for him I had to shout "はやく！はやく！" which made him stutter more and I felt guilty so I shouted "がんばってね！" for a better reaction. The English words he chose were sweet (confusingly sweet) "I want to make you melt" (*'ω`★从)*:.。. .。.:*・

It was really fun, though at one point I couldn't help but laugh at people. Miku shouted "ただいま！" (tadaima) and everyone around me shouted 'tadaima' back to him -- but I was the only person around me to shout "おかえりなさい！" (okaerinasai) (οдО;) The tour is based on 'tadaima and okaerinasai' which is 'I am back - Welcome back/home' in Japanese. They only played a couple of the new releases, which I was a little thankful because Amazing Blue is not so amazing, that is coming from a fan of theirs for almost 10 years, (surprised how old they are?) They sang Bonds, and I am happy that steadily towels are becoming a recent theme here in Europe, though I only saw maybe 5 towels in total that night.

I cannot remember the entire setlist but I do remember them playing Escapism and Merry Making, which I hardcore danced to (lol), and I amazingly made people move away from me. At one point one girl DID try to jab into me but a few elbows later she backed down. Plus the guy beside me REFUSED to let her ass through too. Kudos.

After the encore etc, and getting smashed by IDIOTS and punching them, we went to fetch merch (more merch) I got the An Cafe note pad. It's cute, but I realised how I will never use it. OH WELL. Cute. (☆ω☆)
I'm going to miss out a LARGE chunk of the night because I am far too tired, and let's just say I enjoyed the night talking to a Friend, sitting on the floor getting piles because cold. The journey home felt so much quicker than going to London, mainly because I slept for an hour maybe. My Friend exchanged a couple messages to keep me entertained, he also seemed worried about me being in London so I insisted London is a nice place. (；´Д`A Please visit me~~

Now I am home, and dying with gig 'aids' as people call them. My everything feels broken and I don't think a bath will justify the pain. Now I am off to write a bunch of complaint emails.

( つﾟωﾟ)っ JRockers + Twitter

Coincidentally I am waiting for my Mother to get dressed so we can rush around like headless chickens claiming to 'shop' before I go to college! =≡Σ((( つﾟωﾟ)っ Which resulted in me being bored out my mind so I decided to blog. I did indeed rush out like a headless chicken, and ended up being a couple minutes late for college, but no one noticed me slip in oh so innocently! Anyway - - GOOD AFTERNOON!

I'm a proud tweeter, OCD with my tweet count so I obsessively tweet and delete tweets every day. If any of my followers have a twitter, please follow me! So the point in this blog? None. But like many people who own a twitter account will undoubtedly be following at least one famous tweeter! So you will understand the buzz of having that small string of connection with him or her in as simple as a little @. What makes the buzz even better is seeing you have a reply from him or her!

Though I see a lot of serious tweets directed at their idols, I'm such a sarcastic bitch, so much that it makes the replies I get even more comical and amusing!!

I couldn't resist teasing Nimo, usually at every chance he tweets in English I will take a dig at him or his day. Usually people will be serious, telling him to 'keep warm' or they too would say it's cold. However I pretty much jumped out the box of normalities.
Amusingly after Nimo responded, my Friend Nami cut  in which resulted in a conversation about my Japanese and she explained to Nimo I was learning and she wanted to learn English. Cute right?

Though the majority of people ended up clicking 'favourite' on Renji's 'Hey!!' tweet, I couldn't help but play a game with him. Cute right? Renji's tweets are occasionally in English, but not often. He also says 'Good Morning' at random times of the day.

Another interesting treat was with Makoto. He posted such a strange photo, so I responded with it being 'really scary' however in Japanese. I am still unable to understand what he said to me.

Any idea?
"@AkihabaraMoe 繧ｨ繝・ぅ繧ｿ縺後ヰ繧ｫ縺縺｣縺溘ｊ縲√ユ繧ｭ繧ｹ繝医・譁・ｭ励さ繝ｼ繝峨ｒ諢丞峙縺励"????"??"""!!!!!!"

I could picture dump so many twitter conversations I have with 'famous' people, though the majority would be between myself and some random Japanese musician. So do any of my followers tweet?

Keeping to the theme of 'Twitter' but digressing MAJORLY, I received a tweet from Sarah who mentioned the An Cafe concert in November - November? I was completely thrown off until she said An Cafe were doing a Nyappy Go Around the World III tour! I was so happy, I finally got the mail from Ganshin! Ahh, An Cafe know how to TRULY bankrupt me. I will see An Cafe a total of three times this year. Summer Dive II - both dates will be attended, and now in London! I cannot wait. If I get a job ASAP then I will travel further come November. Exciting news!!

♩(●・ω・●)ノ Update:

My computer yet again has failed me. ヾ(｀д´●)ノ We think the fan isn't working correctly - or at all, since the computer has always been eerily quiet when loaded and finally it died. I hope it isn't anything too bad, but the fix is free since it's not even a year old. (My previous desktop lasted me for ten years before retiring)

Ah anyway, these past few days have been very hectic. As many people on my Twitter and Facebook noticed, An Cafe have finally ended their Hiatus - which was pretty short in all honesty. They have been previously inactive (with Bou) for almost a year, though quietly worked on a new album. But! Yes, they finally announced their Summer Dive live for September -- so guess who is going back to Japan? ヾ(≧∀≦☆) Kyaa~ yes! Me! As always there is a strong fold of determination, although there is a planned group of us going, so I feel pressured to cater for us all, already. (゜д゜;) Which is something I do not really want to do.
There are two dates, and tickets are 5,500JPY, a little cheaper than Budokan, but that was a one day show, so Summer Dive is going to be expensive! However I do not care! ♩(●・ω・●)ノ

I also told my Boo I was returning to Japan again this year, since now I know 100% I will be there. So I need to ask him a couple questions and see if he will accept my offer. ･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･'(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)'･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･ I hope so! Since my trip may be cut short, due to money issues on various parties and I don't really want to blow £600+ on flights again for one week away from home. (A little greedy perhaps?) So I will see what he says! Fingers crossed for me! It all depends really on the people I may be travelling with. Early days, but I have 20 days to pull together ticket money! (=゜-゜)(=。_。) くそくそくそ

kanon×kanon : 18112011

Live review: kanon×kanon

Anyone who happens to follow my twitter/facebook quite possibly got a months stream of obsessive aggressive crap from me. But, it was worth it. It was one hell of an expensive concert, in a nut shell. The tickets (+VIP) ripped my purse of almost £90, lets not forget purchasing 2 extra VIP tickets.  


Arriving early to the venue was pretty much amusing (considering the fact I was so ill too), the queue consisted of less than 10 people up until around 5pm, when a few people started to show up. So the flag looked practically empty, I should have left the flag outside with Peter since he was one of the non-VIP to show up rather early. Oh well.


Inside the VIP party, it was pretty romantic and sweet. The table had candles and candy, chocolates and biscuits, we were offered the choice of, green tea, earl grey and fruit tea. I have a huge sweet tooth, knowing earl grey would be black, no sugar - I would have died. So I chose the healthy alternative.
We were allowed to help ourselves to the snacks - oh the joys of being sick, I decided not to eat, knowing nerves + sickness would end up a nice little disaster. 
Eventually both of them arrived, to which an awkward silence filled the room. We had to introduce ourselves, and since I was sat near Kanon, I had to go first, awkward. (I have waited 8 years to meet Kanon, alright?) After we did, kanon×kanon introduced themselves. I forgot what Wakeshima said, but Kanon was just as nerdy as I recalled. 'I am Kanon, from Japan, forever 17' how sweet? (●´ω｀●)ゞ
It was then that kanon×kanon gave us gifts. Kanon had come with rice crackers - apparently there were two kinds, a sweet kind and salt. I had salt, which was yummy. Being nervous, I didn't want to eat it loudly, however Kanon told us we had to eat loudly! Noo. After we were given signed candles from Wakeshima, which smell lovely. Kanon rubbed mine though. Idiot. Finally, we were allowed to give them gifts, and we got the chance to have our name written in Kanji and signed by them both before we went to have photos with kanon×kanon. After that we were able to purchase merchandise and wait for the show.

There are plenty actual live reviews which are a thousand times better than anything I could come up with! 
Here is one, with pictures. It was a very fun live! Kanon Wakeshima was very intimate with all of her fans, (that I was worried about, considering Kanon had been pulled off the stage in past shows) which involved holding our hands, singing directly to you which was rather captivating, she has such stunning eyes which stare right into your soul, seriously. She is a very beautiful woman. ( ´艸｀)
The set was very unlike most Japanese Lives I have been to. Wakeshima sang first, then we had Kanon's 'Otaku Dj' set of Anime openings and the An Cafe PV for DARKER THAN BLACK -黒の契約者-. Finally Kanon left the stage and we were given a short 2D version of kanon×kanon who introduced us to MR.Alien - he then taught us about 'OTAGEI' which is a dance in which otaku will do - a bit like 'furi' or 'parapara'. We were taught otagei to Koi no Doutei! I had been learning this for over a month, sadly. After this, kanon×kanon came out as a pair! I handed Wakeshima my flag, which she danced with and handed to Kanon finally, which he put on the mic stand, the only thing I could see of the flag at this point was 'FY!PENGUIN' Oh..

When Koi no Doutei was played, we were asked if we remembered it, then Kanon came out with his glowsticks -- that boy is vicious. I got hit so many times by them and his sleeves, but it was funny since no one around me was dancing either. How sad. We also got an encore! Wakeshima asked us if we new this person, which she held up a leek! Miku Hatsune! That was such a random song to end the show with! Oh, Kanon fell off the stage at least three times. Bless him. 


As they shook hands, I tried to ask Kanon for his MC, but eventually Wakeshima heard and passed them over, with much confusion since I couldn't address 'paper' at all to her in Japanese. At the end of the show, a random Japanese man handed me the leek too which Wakeshima had been dancing with! Which made me feel like a winner, since Peter gave the Cafekko behind me Kanon's roses. So I came out with two gets! 

After, we went back to the Hostel. Oh I never added we were dressed as Maids, Akihabara style. Yes, we had wonderful and weird comments - Europe, don't ever change!