The Bonkurasu Brigade

Well, May’n didn’t duet with Makkun 輪舞-revolution, but I’m comparing the 3 biggest things in Anison that duet with Makkun and her songs, and Miracle Upper WL is a great song. I like all three ladies as anison singers, but I’m a fan of only two out of the three. =P

Let’s begin with Nana’s duet first:

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I’ll be updating my impressions on each song soon, while I prepare to wash up and ready myself for the Sapporo trip to watch Perfume =D

1 『DISCOTHEQUE』～『MonStAR』/Mizuki Nana+Hirano Aya
2 『Super Driver』/Hirano Aya
3 『Set me free』/Hirano Aya
4 『Yakusoku no Basho e』/Yonekura Chihiro
5 『10 YEARS AFTER』/Yonekura Chihiro
6 『Soshite boku ha…』/Sakakibara Yui
7 『Koi no Honoo』/Sakakibara Yui
8 『Tamakui』/Youkai Teikoku
9 『last Moment』/Youkai Teikoku
10 『Hitotoshite Jiku Ga Bureteiru』/Ootsuki Kenji to Zetsubou Shoujo Tachi
11 『Kuusou Runba』/Ootsuki Kenji to Zetsubou Shoujo Tachi
12 『Ringo mogire Beam!』/Ootsuki Kenji to Zetsubou Shoujo Tachi
13 『CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA』/Kageyama Hironobu
14 『聖闘士神話-SOLDIER DREAM-』/Kageyama Hironobu
15 『Parallel Hearts』/FictionJunction
16 『Akatsuki no Kuruma』/FictionJunction
17 『nowhere』/FictionJunction
18 『Return to Love』/Oumi Tomoe
19 『Maze』/savage genius feat.Oumi Tomoe
20 『Watashi wo mitsukete。』/savage genius
21 『Dark Side of the Light』/Faylan
22 『mind as Judgment』/Faylan
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My 2nd day in Japan, and feeling so damn tired as I didn’t manage to get any sleep during my flight. Animelo right after the flight was torture to my sleep. Nevertheless, I had my fun, and will continue to do so later when I leave for day 2.

First, I present to you yesterday’s song list (from 2ch thread, sourced by ume)

01 Zankoku na Tenshi no Thesis / angela + Ishikawa Chiaki
- The opening song was awesome, belted by 2 anison powerhouses. Love their rendition of an all-time favourite anime song.

02 Spiral / angela
- Atsuko took over, and she was almost bouncing off the virtual walls.

03 Shangri-La / angela
- Towel otagei, anyone? Practically the same as the anison SP at Music Japan, as expected.

04 F.D.D. / Itou Kanako
- No impression. Despite ume constantly singing this song.

05 Tsuisou bo Despair / Itou Kanako
- Still no impression.

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…for the lack of a better title.

Come this Friday, or otherwise 21st of August, I’ll be flying off to Japan to attend Animelo 2009. And Perfume’s Sapporo Citizens’ Hall Live.

Take a Night Flight! Yes, my flight’s at night, 10+pm. I have my stash of pino still in the fridge too.

Funny, that only up till now that I have a chance to travel overseas to Japan, considering that I’ve been involved with everything anime-related, or in short, Japan pop culture; from the humble beginnings on watching anime on TV back when I was in Primary School, then branched onto Gunpla and anime on VCDs, and liking L`arc~en~Ciel on a surface level. After which everything expanded when I started cosplay, touching a bit on J-rock, doujin, and arcade gaming communities as well. I dabbled on pretty much on many areas.

I’d always be envious on those who can afford to spend thousands on multiple trips to Japan back then, and in some sense, jealous. But as I grew older, I felt the need to travel abroad lesser, because it’s an unwanted expense; I can pretty much get the same thing locally for roughly the same price, except for live events and concerts and fanclub-only events…. you get the drift.

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So yeah, my plan to whack some concert merchandise while I’m in Japan slogging with fellow otakus for shirts and whatnot.

Yup, I’ll get both shirts.

And below is the limited to 1619 shirts version.

I’ll only get both colors; I don’t really care if my orange colored shirt is the limited version or not.

Besides those, I have lightsticks to buy, and Perfume’s concert merchandise. Pity nothing and no news regarding that.

Also, I’m on very tight budget, so woe is me. Concerts, travel and concert merchandise form 70% of my expenditure (the remaining 20% on lodging and 10%, food)

The following are my favorite performances from their respective concerts that I have watched recently.

「Animelo Summer Live 2008」

Yamani Girls (savage Genius + 茅原実里 + yozuca*) – nowhere

May’n☆Act

突撃ラブハート feat. Fukuyama Yoshiki + May’n

I’ll just make this quick, because I just had a marathon session at NK-DS’s dodgethis’ place. Approximately 10 hours straight of Animelo goodness. In full HD.

Point form preview after the cut.

(DISCLAMER : Arika fans may leave from this post, because I’ll delete non-constructive comments)

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shia informed me about the conference earlier this morning. Unfortunately I was about 15 minutes late for the conference that was broadcasted ‘live’ on nico. Here are some highlights that the conference touched on:

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Well, today, the concert started five minutes off the stated time.

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The weather on day two was much better. There wasn’t much rain as it had mainly fallen overnight but it was still quite cloudy.

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