Kay-roak
Today, I had what has to have been the most diverse karaoke session since being here topped only by those had in Chicago. Usually, what "kind" of karaoke it is depends on the people I'm with. If it's a a bunch of foreigners, they all usually just sing "lol retro" stuff and goof off the whole time. Back when I was at Gakugei, the manga club guys and I would go out for 5+ hours of nothing but anime and game songs. There have been a couple times that were nothing but Hello! Project stuff either with people I met at a concert or people I knew who were also going to one. On rare occasions, it was with "regular" Japanese people, who were just the Japanese equivalent of a foreigner group, and only thought to sing top 40 Jpop. I can fit in with any of these crowds, but it's rare when there's one in which pretty much anything goes. Today was one of those times.
I told this to my friend Shinobu a couple weeks ago, and she offered to call up a couple of her friends so we could all go, and so we did. The first time, they liked the idea of just doing anime stuff, because they had never thought to try and do only that, but we ended up singing for four hours straight before realizing it. It's not like they're a bunch of nerds either. They just knew a whole slew of stuff from having grown up here. They didn't know any wacky obscure stuff, but neither did I, so it was a good time where everyone pretty much knew everything.
Today, we just sang whatever, and this time, we sang for five hours before thinking to check the time. Literally everything worked. Everyone listens to both Japanese and US music, so pop music was covered. As with before, anime was no issue. The two that I thought would have been an issue, sentai and Hello! Project stuff, were anything but. All of the good H!P stuff was actually popular with real people back when it came out, so we were all queuing up stuff. Sentai stuff worked, oddly enough, because of the background videos if nothing else. Each theme had just a bunch of show clips in the back, but they picked only the cool action scenes, so each one just made the show seem really badass. The only time we didn't sing stuff was because it didn't have the actual music video or real clips in the back.
After we finished up, they offered to take me over to Uniqlo where I bought new Megaman and Parappa T-shirts.
The only downside was that being out meant I couldn't stay at home and talk with Devin, but as long as I was actually out having fun/being productive and not just wasting time, I'm OK with it.
Also, is Acen this weekend? Maybe I should make a token Pocky episode of JT's J-Treats to celebrate... and then just talk about how much better Flan and Topo are.
I told this to my friend Shinobu a couple weeks ago, and she offered to call up a couple of her friends so we could all go, and so we did. The first time, they liked the idea of just doing anime stuff, because they had never thought to try and do only that, but we ended up singing for four hours straight before realizing it. It's not like they're a bunch of nerds either. They just knew a whole slew of stuff from having grown up here. They didn't know any wacky obscure stuff, but neither did I, so it was a good time where everyone pretty much knew everything.
Today, we just sang whatever, and this time, we sang for five hours before thinking to check the time. Literally everything worked. Everyone listens to both Japanese and US music, so pop music was covered. As with before, anime was no issue. The two that I thought would have been an issue, sentai and Hello! Project stuff, were anything but. All of the good H!P stuff was actually popular with real people back when it came out, so we were all queuing up stuff. Sentai stuff worked, oddly enough, because of the background videos if nothing else. Each theme had just a bunch of show clips in the back, but they picked only the cool action scenes, so each one just made the show seem really badass. The only time we didn't sing stuff was because it didn't have the actual music video or real clips in the back.
After we finished up, they offered to take me over to Uniqlo where I bought new Megaman and Parappa T-shirts.
The only downside was that being out meant I couldn't stay at home and talk with Devin, but as long as I was actually out having fun/being productive and not just wasting time, I'm OK with it.
Also, is Acen this weekend? Maybe I should make a token Pocky episode of JT's J-Treats to celebrate... and then just talk about how much better Flan and Topo are.