Japan Report 2013: Entry 05: Idoling!!! Shibuhachi Live part 1

So on the 25th of December in Mt. Rainer was Shibuhachi Live. There were 2 sessions, the first one being 3rd gen specials and the 2nd one being the normal Shibuhachi. A friend of mine who is a C-ute fan decided to join us today as well for both Shibuhachi sessions and he has no real experience with Idoling!!! except for the 12th live concert that I gave him a day before. So we reached shibuya at around noon and waited for the show to start. I wasn't that hyped for the first session simply because it is a 3rd gen specials and although I like them, I am not really obsessed with them or anything.

So after getting into the place I went to my seat which is at the 2nd floor. I was kind of glad because the people on the 2nd floor isn't moving too much. So I could just stand and enjoy the show pretty well without further injuring my feet XD.

Japan Report 2013: Entry 04: Tokyo Girls' Style 2nd Budoukan Live

So after the Idoling!!! chekki, it is time to go to Budoukan! I was getting really excited for a few reason:

a) I'm now officially an astalight as well, I've been using all the fan-club privilege for a lot of things this year including for the ticket for this live.

b) Last year I had to have other people get me the Fan-club goods, this year I can flash my own card.

c) Meeting up again with other fans from Japan at the same spot we met the year 2012.

d) Bringing my Malaysian friends with me to see TGS at Budoukan.

So after arriving at Budoukan, I met with a_capybara from twitter. He's an awesome guy who sometimes translate news in English for other foreign fans to read. It was so good to finally meet him in person. After chatting for a while, I rushed for the goods store and got myself 2 Weekly Calendar (one for MYTGS and one for me~) 2 towels, wrist band and a t-shirt. Flashing your own fan-club card never felt so good. wahaha.

So here I am again

Japan Report 2013: Entry 03: Idoling!!! chekki

Picture Courtesy of my friend, Boey Whei Ping

With Babymetal concert done and over with, it was time for Tokyo Girls' Style next. With a pair of feet that is suffering from non-stop pain I moved on with the next event because this is exactly why I am here for anyways. First of all, in the morning there was Idoling!!! chekki session which I went with Tokosilent and Hatix. It was done in Minami Futou, it was like a jetty for ships or something and you could have an awesome view of the Rainbow Bridge and Odaiba from there.

Japan trip 2013 : Entry 02: Babymetal LEGEND "1997" SU-METAL聖誕祭

2nd Event day, is Babymetal live day.

So the day started of with meeting Tokosilent at Odaiba to pick up our tickets and goods. Grabbed all my Idoling!!! parker, T-shirts and 2 signed 2014 calendars and I was in cloud nine already~

Just missing one more calendar to complete the Ogipro girls collection

Once all the process of grabbing goods are over, we headed to the Odaiba Teleport Station and rushed to Makuhari Messe. The trip took quiet a while, but when we reached the venue it was still pretty early.

Picture Courtesy of Boey Whei Pin

Japan trip 2013 : Entry 01 : Idoling!!! Recording

So I arrived in Japan on the 18th and coincidentally there is an Idoling!!! recording on the 20th so I applied on the official website to gain entry as an audience. At first I thought that it would be pretty impossible to get and I idiotically just applied for the 1st recording session only. On the 19th of December an e-mail came when I was in Akihabara shopping for 2nd hand idol goods in TRIO saying that I can go into the recording on the next day and man was I excited! Since my friend Tokosilent and Hatix wasn't in Japan yet and I was a bit too excited, I just tried to follow the instruction given on the e-mail.

Blog revival : Japan trip 2013. Lives, Chekki and studio recordings!

So last December was the annual Japan trip that I normally take. Despite missing yet another Idoling!!!'s numbering live because I bought the plane ticket way back in June, it has been nothing short of extraordinary this year. Everything was miraculously amazing and despite coming back home to Malaysia as a seriously poor sod but I'm pretty much the happiest I have ever been compared to myself in the whole of 2013 combined.

So I'll be writing separate accounts of events that I have gone through, hoping to be able to pass the excitement that I experienced last month with everyone else.

They said 3rd times a charm, but my 4th Japan trip was a miracle~ <3

Signed Umeko 2014 Calendar in the room marks the beginning of the new year~

Tokyo Girls' Style in Thailand

On the 17th of March, Tokyo Girls' Style was schedule to appear at the J Series Festival and it was announced about 1 month before hand. It didn't take us fans from Malaysia very long to think about it and so  me and my friends decided to buy the ticket to Thailand for it.

Took a real early flight to get to Thailand

Sakura Gakuin - Wonderful Journey

Throughout last January and February I was pretty much bombed by Sakura Gakuin. A friend of mine passed to me their Graduation DVD live and it was more pleasing that I thought it would be. While I did buy their 1st Album before this but due to lack of discussion on Sakura Gakuin and my own lack of visit to torrent sites/info sites that discusses about various idol groups, I had no idea about their PVs and whatsoever. Now I'm a bit more alert since this group just proves to be really interesting and I'm starting to get attached to the members bit by bit.

Now, Wonderful Journey is AWESOME! Not only you get to hear the girls speak in various languages, the lyric and PV is drop dead cute! The scene where Moa+Yui played with the globe killed me billions of time and Raura's prideful look when introduced as a president are a win! It's really back to basic, childish fun. Which is actually really refreshing now because almost everyone is going for that Matured/Stylish image. Just look at Hello Project, I've totally lost for words in regards to H!P now. Even MCZ is going a bit matured now... Sigh.. I don''t want any of them to grow up (lol) Heck even Idoling!!!'s song is slowly going matured by their own standard.

Anyways, I''ve been repeating this PV for like... 50 Hours non-stop? It's a good song with a really good PV.  Hopefully Sakura Gakuin would keep going this way because I don't need all idols group to be all matured and sexy, otherwise I'll run to miniature bears.

Momoiro Clover Z - Neo Stargate PV

So a new MCZ PV is already out and the title is Neo Stargate. Here are a few of my thoughts on the PV

1. I find it interesting that KWKM is in the PV and he clearly mentions the about the next step after Kouhaku. Though the answer is just "Love", but it just sets up the group for their next big step. If there's anything about MCZ is that their goals are clear to the fans and not just some Oricon rank goal. Now that Kouhaku is cleared, next up is that Olympic stadium!

2. Music is cool, I absolutely love the bridge and the chorus part. However, what's with the thing about adding electronics to idol songs lately? Everyone wants to be a perfume wannabe now...

3. I don't really see any clear chanting parts for this song TT_TT its going to be another song that you're just standing there and enjoying it. Not so hyper on this one. In this department, it isn't very MCZ for me... If there's anything that I love about MCZ is the chanting because their chant are so much fun.

4. Momoka clearly gained weight lol. I guess a few months of rest adds a few pounds to that little frame of hers. But she's still adorable~ <3

5. I love the solo parts in this song,

End of a Hiatus

It has been a really long time since I last updated this blog. A lot of things has been happening and I'm kind of put on hold for quite some time but I'm going to scrape as much time as possible to write here again. So this is basically me saying "I'm back to write!"

Idoling!!! random sub #3

Japan Trip 2012 Report #5 : Final Day - Idoling!!! Shibuhachi Live

So, it has come to the 25th December 2012. My last day in Japan... I woke up pretty early because I have to do a lot of things today, being the last day and all. First thing was to pack everything up ASAP because I won't have time to do it later since I'm going to Shibuhachi live in the afternoon. Once done packing and stuff, I took a lot of the extra Malaysian cakes and postcards and gave them to the others who lived in the backpackers hostel (one of the China girl was pretty cute though.. Though she can't speak English at all =_= bummer) Once I got that done, I went ahead to check out from the hostel straight away and thus begins my last day event.

Idoling!!! Random Sub 2

It's tiring to time long episode so I do small subs lately, in between me subbing a full episode.

Japan Trip 2012 Report #4 : MCZ in Saitama Super Arena Da Z!!!

So now Day 3, Asakusa, Japan.

I woke up that day, with some serious sore at my feet.. For an instance I thought that I could never walk out of my hotel... but after some really good rest and massaging, I braved myself out.

So today's plan was pretty simple, go to Saitama and watch Momoiro Clover Z. Now I just have to say that me getting a ticket for this show is already pretty much a huge miracle by itself. MCZ is just so famous right now in Japan that tickets are getting sold out in less than a few hours nearly all the time. I got mine for about 16000yen.... 16 freaking thousand Yen... I can buy 16 handshake event ticket and see Umeko/Reia yesterday for that much of money. I thought that was pretty bad but apparently there are people who bought the ticket at 40000yen for the same show on auction. So yeah, I consider myself pretty lucky and just have to grab the chance to try and see and experience an MCZ live in Japan. They came over to Malaysia earlier in 2012 and the show was for free, so this time around its basically paying respect to them for coming over to Malaysia and I'm paying it this time because the show they did over in Malaysia was just worth the money.

Idoling!!! Clip : Sakuma Scandal

This is the episode that totally blew me away, after watching this episode, I automatically am sealed as a fan

TGS talking about the 2013 new year resolution~

Idoling!!! Random Subs~

TGS Ghost Dokkiri~!

TGS Tsubokko Part 2~!

Japan Trip 2012 Report #3 : Idoling!!! Handshake event!!!

So on the 22nd night I walked back to my hostel, feeling exhausted but extremely satisfied with the Budoukan live. I really wanted to take a nap straight away but I know that I can't because tomorrow, I have a bigger mission to be carried out. Today was fulfilling my promise I made at Singapore, that I'll be in Budoukan. Tomorrow, is meeting the idol whom I really like. This is someone who said that she'll be waiting for me in December, my head is all messed up just thinking about how excited I would be tomorrow.

So I did post at JPH!P that I'll be helping other fans to send their message to the girls because this year I plan to meet more than 3 girls just because it's a once in a year thing for me. While I understand why people in Japan would kind of stress on the idea of a DD (daredemo daisuki a.k.a you just like every idol out there) but being a foreigner idol fan, sometimes it all just doesn't matter as much. I mean like, I saved up my money the whole year for this one trip, of course you just have to make full use of it, no? I only have 5 days, didn't have the privilege of being sooooo picky about principles. Anyways, so I had trouble sleeping since my mind just keeps on racing and have no idea when to stop and when I did fall asleep I just remembered that I haven't pasted the picture of everyone's handwritten messages so I busied myself cutting all the pictures and pasting them. Since it is only my 3rd time waking up to winter this year, gosh I felt so damn lazy to wake up and by the time I'm ready to go out I was already really late. Hatix, Hellguard and another friend SA were already at the event hall.