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[revbrandon]

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[anonymous]

Hello. I am very happy that you enjoyed the Momoi concert. Did you fly over just to see her?

The US fan club had many members who came over as well and teamed up with Japan fan club to host the call workshop on Saturday and provide glowsticks. Maybe you already met us. You seem like a big fan of Momoi so I hope we can meet again to support Momoi together next time! Please visit us on the message board (linked from the call website) if you like.

-paranda

[revbrandon]

Yes, I did. When I saw the announcement that she would be playing Anime North, I was cursing to myself "Why does it have to be so far away?! I can't get to Toronto!" But it just tore at me for the next several days, and I resolved that I had to do it or I would hate myself forever. So I tempted some fellow Momoist friends of mine with the news, they decided they wanted to come up as well, and we all journeyed to Toronto from different parts of the continent to experience The Momoi

It's all good

[tentontim]

I can understand where you're coming from; really, it's all about experience. The Japanese fans go to so many events that they have a better idea what's going on, just on sheer experience (of course, that's not all they do). The rest of us have to follow them a lot of the times; there always seems to be at least a song or two (or three) that some of us don't really know the calls to. I know I had a similar experience at AX '07 (first time I saw her live

Re: It's all good

[revbrandon]

I'm used to connecting with other fans in a very different way, so it was a unique and very strange, interesting experience for me. I'm playing it up a bit for the sake of humour, of course.

I certainly do hope I get to experience it again.

[robot_stampede]

I ejoyed reading that. I am a colossal nerd, and as such, I'm almost ashamed to admit that I have never heard of Momoi. She sounds wonderful

[revbrandon]

I did post some links to her doing some songs in the previous post. If you've ever seen Soultaker, Nurse Witch Komugi, Popotan, Magikano or Seto no Hanayome, you've probably heard her voice. It's pretty distinctive. If you haven't, well... Komugi is the only one of those I'd recommend at all. And if you've watched the first episode of Genshiken, which I WOULD recommend, you've heard her old band Under17. It's uh, something that requires a love for cutesy, high pitched Japanese vocals, bright, cheerful, speed-addled electronic music, and the occasional guitar solo. It's a very, uh, specific taste. Halko has one of those one-in-a-million voices that I could see as fingers-on-a-chalkboard to many, but absolutely intoxicating to me. ALTHOUGH ACTUALLY in her lower registers, she's actually a pretty damn good singer conventionally, you just hear her upper registers a lot more

[alexmagusaka]

I am still kicking myself a little for not joining in with you guys. :(

[revbrandon]

If there's one thing I learned from this, it's that when life brings you an opportunity to do something you have always wanted to do, you should try to make it happen. If I hadn't told myself "I will make this happen", I would have just stayed at home, depressed that I was missing something amazing.

But uh, I guess everyone's circumstances are different. It helps that it was within my own national boundaries here.