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Here is a list of Johnny's performances I have attended, and their corresponding posts (a mix of reports and random notes)

( Johnny's Concerts and Stage Plays )

The day has come, where I feel as though I must finally try to accept that yes, I am an ( Otaku )

I just read the CUTEST thing on a Miyata supporter's blog.
She herself didn't go to the SAPPORO shows today, but she wrote this:

"Toshiya, job well done! I got a mail saying that you danced well, sparkling like usual...
Tomorrow is the Shounen Club taping. I want to see your energetic figure really soon!
Sleep well tonight.

When my friend, who is a Miyata supporter, showed you an uchiwa that said "is your leg alright?",
Toshiya, with a super happy smile, did this:
Yay!!
Good job with the uchiwa, how beautiful!"


And that puts my mind at ease.

I'm sick at home on the weekend of my school's cultural festival. A kind soul bought me the most recent Myojo, and so since I've got nothing to do n (and since it was a relatively simple feature), I translated it. (By the way, the layout of the article was done so that the questions were in one section, and then each member's answers in separate sections next to their image. For ease of reading, I posted all the answers under their corresponding question, in group name order)

( Kis-My-Ft2 Super Maniac PROFILE Reference Book )
My thoughts: it was interesting to read some more "random" facts about the boys. I'm a bit miffed as to what the 48% of Tama's brain is ACTUALLY thinking about, and I love how Senga would really re-name himself "Gaga-Sama" (based on Lady Gaga). And... Lol at how Senga cuts his hair once every two weeks, yet Miyata doesn't quite make one haircut per month. Anyway, hope it was an interesting read for others too, and if you find any mistakes in my translation, let me know!! ^_^

So I just posted random notes of changes to the show format.

But now time for a personal moment or two.

So damn glad I chose Kobe cons... picture an arena-style con, then shrink the venue down ALOT ALOT ALOT and thats what you get. I was in A8 block, like 9 rows from main stage. Carts on both sides of me, people like Senga WALKING through those gaps too. Was kinda hard to see stuff on the other side of the venue, coz all the skating ramps and poles were in the way.

Tomorrow first show sitting higher up but still close to where carts go through (and they dont just go through once like in the concert halls, they go through ALL THE TIME!!!) Will be great to see the show from higher up and actually understand the stage layout, and be able to focus on the members better from a distance.

Then... for the second show.. sitting A10 block. Seats #3 and #4. As in... front row infront of the main stage. (get why I wrote that we're ending our Kobe experience with a bang?) And believe it or not, I did not pay a cent over ticket price. I just found a beautiful fan who was looking for tickets for the Yokohama last show (the ones I hit for but wanted to get rid of) and we agreed to swap tickets without knowing seats and... those were the tickets she sent me. I really hope my Yokohama tickets are good so I can repay her for this.

The boys were...really gorgeous today. Nika gets prettier the more I see him. Wataru just makes me smile. Actually didnt focus on Miyacchi the whole time coz too much going on around me at once...

anyway this is totally not reflecting the high of the concert but Im tired and lets save spazzing on LJ for tomorrow. Good night.

Just got back to hotel. These are rushed notes, of what I can think of that was DIFFERENT or NEW compared to all the previous concerts, which were held in concert halls as opposed to a larger venue. Kobe World Kinen Hall is still small, but arena-style, so they use the entire venue and all the space... no seat in the house is bad, even the highest stands seats because they use carts all throughout the show up there.

Anyway have a read if you want. Appologies for lack of coherence, spelling errors, some lack of detail and also lack of talking about specifics like member interaction.

( rushed notes )

No, not really.
But I was just watching (a repeat of ?) that Hexagon II quiz show and at the end of the show, there was a girl singing a song called "I Believe", with 6 guys, all of them... on wheels. But wait, there's more...Each member was in a different color, and the most alarming of all, THEY WERE DANCING. Akira Shock! But don't worry, they have NOTHING on Kisumai talent-wise (and appearance wise, might I add... especially considering one of the guys is comedian Kojima Yoshio!). However, unfortunately it didn't stop one girl in my dorm (who'd watched Kisumai's "Tension" performance on Music Station with me) from exclaiming "It's those guys!!" and immediately assuming it was Kisumai. Sorry, dear, but no. 

 on the latest SC, when Yody gets his like... 4th garland, someone (and it sounded ALOT like Taipi) calls him "Jani Ota"?? Hahaha (I laugh because I've been called it a billion times by Japanese friends, but its funny to here someone within JE use the term)

Speaking of Taipi and teasing, despite saying I'd stop buying magazines, I gave in once I saw the Kisumai shoots and bought Duet, Potato, Wink Up today. I'm hopeless. Anyway reading them all, I had a good laugh. The Duet crosstalk especially...poor Miyacchi... even his pink "宮T" T-shirts get teased... 「"キモT" だっけ？」but I guess thats Taipi's way of showing him love? :P And love how "SUPER MANAGER YOKOO" knows everyone's schedules on their days off... AND Taipi's "So you fell into the audience so you could check on our performance?" Hahaha. (regarding Yokoo's fall off the stage in Oita) 

And to butt in with something totally random... Wink Up's solo thing for Ebi this time is Goseki-sama and man, he's living up to the name.... 

Hmm anyway I should get back to my homework, God knows I have enough of it. Too bad I've spent all afternoon watching Tsubasa's D&R DVD again in preparation for the Nagoya show, which I accidentally on purpose applied for through J-ticket and ended up getting a ticket for so am now going to.... oops??

Err and speaking of Nagoya... I called the navi-dial last night and....!!!! オーラス取れた!!!! there is a God! 

PS: am I odd for thinking that Okamoto Keito is a total イケメン now?? (Oh gosh I can't believe I said that here, but I've been itching to say it for a while....) But seriously, like, when did that happen? 

These are some very rushed notes from all four Hiroshima shows I attended. Very scattered and out-of-order (and may also have mistakes, I'm only human), will be edited into proper concert reports later. Please be warned, notes are quite Miyata-biased, because I was mostly watching him. If you want to know what happened at the concerts, please have a read!!


Notes from Hiroshima:

Day One (31st Oct) Show 1:

★Miyacchi tripped during the very start of the show, while he was skating.

( Miyata the pumpkin, Senga's naked Grandma and many, many spills on the skates! )

 am suffering in pain now. 
just lugged three huge boxes from my dorm of last semester, to my dorm of this semester. boxes i'd forgotten about, containing all the JE stuff i bought last semester... including so many magazines. i love magazines, and i'm finding it so hard to throw them away, but alas, i cannot take them home coz they weigh so much. i'll try and sell some of the ones that are in good condition, and the others i'll just rip out stuff. right now, i've limited it to: sakurai sho, nishikido ryo, kisumai and tottsu pics, as well as any Arashi anniversary-related stuff. oh, this is hard.... i'm even trying to give stuff away to friends here, but they're all like "nah, i don't wanna take magazines home".... >.< then.. all the clothes i brought with me. i cant possibly take them all back, and its too expensive to send everything home, so i've gradually gotta pick and choose what to keep and what to get rid of. not fun

I hit for Hiroshima, Kobe and Yokohama concerts with my fanclub. One of each, so far (still gotta make more phone calls to the hotline though). Nothing through J-ticket, but that was predictable, especially with the announcement of the extra 9 shows. Right now, am planning to try and swap Yokohama with Nagoya if I can find someone who'll exchange with me. Although I've never been to Yokohama Arena before... could be fun?? 

Anyway, massively excited for Hiroshima, the smallest of the venues I'll be attending. 2001 seats, according to the website. 

Miyacchi, see you in 3 weeks!! 

PS: Get well soon, Senga. And congratulations Kisumai on ANOTHER spot on Music Station!!! So proud of you!
PPS: Aiba.... aww you make me so emotional. The drama is just 100% cuter because of you (and that little girl of course!)

 What woke me up this morning? My keitai buzzing with a message from Jr FC.
9 new shows added to Kisumai's tour!! *_______*
INCLUDING Nagoya shows on the 27th December. Looks like I won't have to drag Mum all the way to Yokohama Arena from Kansai if she doesn't want to go on the 20th... its FAR easier to jump on the shinkansen for a 30min trip to Nagoya instead. And its after Christmas, so if she's being inflexible, I'll just ask for her to join me as a Christmas present!! But I'm sure she won't take much convincing anyway!!

But isnt this news just epic? The demand for tickets musta been crazy!! 9 extra shows!! Heck, they haven't even debuted (yet), but the public response was so strong!! Ahh and an extra Hiroshima date thrown in... looks like I'll be in for an early morning (rather than midday) Shinkansen ride. AHHHH this is just awesome happy news though. (Only thing that'd make me even happier was if they decided to add solo goods to the lineup!!) 

And... finally, tonight, I'll be able to check ticket results for the second batch of shows when the phone line opens!! Fingers crossed.

Oh and good luck to the boys for the sendai shows today and tomorrow! ^_^ can't wait for reports!!

( bad bad BAD news (;_;) )

Arashi. 
Before you ask, it was awesome, my favorite concert experience of the year, and yes, I bawled my eyes out. Proper report will come soon, EDIT: IT IS HALF WRITTEN BUT NOW I ALREADY HAVE TO GO TO THE NEXT CONCERT SO I WONT BE ABLE TO POST IT UNTIL MAYBE TONIGHT OR TOMORROW... sorry ^_^ Lets just say I am so happy and grateful that I got to be at an Arashi live. 
PS: guests were Maru (K8), Akito and Junta (BAD),  Kikuoka (Veteran) and Senzaki Ryota. Each of them had a different members uchiwa and wore the towel around them. 
PPS: I added photos. My phone's camera is crap, sorry about that
 

For a series of unrelated reasons, I've decided to F-Lock a lot of my old posts, as well as attempt to clean up my F-List. I know my F-List isn't even that big, however there are people on it who I don't really know, people who never comment and people who I'm not sure even read my journal at all. The other main reason is that I realized I've been far too trusting of LJ and what I write on my journal. I've not yet had many bad experiences, in fact I've been able to make many friends through LJ HOWEVER the internet is the internet, and for reasons I won't disclose, I've made the decision to be far more restrictive with whom I choose to share my posts with.

So, I'm going to ask for anyone who would like to remain on my F-List to please comment here, and tell me why you'd like to be able to read my posts. To be honest, I don't think anything I post is really that interesting, and my minimal contributions to fandom (such as concert reports, photos and such) will stay unlocked anyway. I don't tend to write that much about my real life and I'm not sure how many people who aren't actually my friends in real life actually care anyway. BUT if you would still like access, please let me know. I'll be deleting THIS post and replacing it with an eternal "Friends Only" post in 3 days. ANYONE WHO DOES NOT COMMENT WILL THEREFORE BE DELETED. Oh, but don't worry, if you are someone I know well (in other words, have met in real life and can trust enough) I will most likely keep you on my list anyway. I think you will know who you are!

And for those who I don't communicate with much, don't be afraid to ask to stay on my F-list, I'm not trying to be exclusive or anything, but I would appreciate if you are someone who wants to stay on the list, that you at least comment more often so I know that you actually read what I write... I'd like to know who I'm writing to, because I'm past the days of freely writing stuff that anyone in the public can read. I think I'm a relatively friendly person and I won't knock you back or anything, but just drop me a line from time to time, and I'll try harder to comment on your posts too.

Love Anna

Show: Kansai Johnny's Jr Summer Special Performance "TOUGH WEEDS + SHOW TIME"
Location: Shochikuza Theatre, Osaka
Date: 8th August, 2009
Time: 13:00

( Photos )

( The Beginning of the Show )

( TOUGH WEEDS )

( SHOW TIME )

 

Show: PLAYZONE2009 太陽からの手紙 (Johnny's Jr.)
Location: Aoyama Theatre, Tokyo
Date: 5th August 2009
Time: 17:00 (2nd performance of the day)


( 太陽からの手紙 )

( SHOWTIME! )